Telemaco Signorini (1835-1901) was one of the leading painters of the Florentine artistic group of the Macchiaioli, an important...

Cesare Pascarella (1858-1940) was an Italian painter and poet admired by Benedetto Croce and Giosuè Carducci. Pascarella studied in a...

Flora Priestley was an English painter and friend of Vernon Lee and Mary and John Singer Sargent. She was one of Sargent's favorite...

Gaetano Salvemini (1873-1957) was an Italian historian and anti-fascist politician. After graduating with a degree in Literature from...

Mario Praz (1896-1982) was an Italian writer, essayist, literary critic, translator and journalist. He graduated with a degree in...

Iris Origo (1902-1988) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philanthropist, and reformer who devoted her life to managing her estates in Tuscany,...