Italian Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a Jewish-Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, essays

Was a Jewish-Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, essays and novels.He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. If This Is a Man (published in the United States as Survival in Auschwitz) has been described as one of the most important works of the twentieth century.[1]In 1921 Anna Maria, Levi's sister was born; he was to remain close to her all of his life. In 1925 he entered the Felice Rignon primary school in Turin. A thin and delicate child, he was shy and thought of himself as being ugly, but he excelled academically. His school record includes long periods of absence during which time he was tutored at home at first by Emilia Glauda and then by Marisa Zini,

A former Italian football player and coach from Bomporto in the Province of Modena. He played club f

A former Italian football player and coach from Bomporto in the Province of Modena. He played club football for several clubs, most prominently Lazio with whom he played over 200 games.

Was an Italian bantamweight professional boxer who won silver in Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Was an Italian bantamweight professional boxer who won silver in Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He fought against and was defeated by Oleg Grigoryev who won gold.

Was an Italian prince, mountaineer and explorer who made the first ascent of Mount Saint Elias (Alas

Was an Italian prince, mountaineer and explorer who made the first ascent of Mount Saint Elias (Alaska-Yukon) in 1897. He also served as an Italian admiral during World War I.Luigi Amedeo was born in Madrid, Spain the youngest son of the reigning King of

Was an Italian physician and botanist.in the republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time i

Was an Italian physician and botanist.in the republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in the Milanese army, but in 1574 he went to study medicine at Padua. After taking his doctor's degree in 1578, he settled as a physician in Campo San Pietro, a small town in the Paduan territory. But his tastes were botanical, and to extend his knowledge of exotic plants he travelled to Egypt in 1580 as physician to George Emo or Hemi, the Venetian consul in Cairo.In Egypt he spent three years, and from a practice in the management of Date Palms, which he observed in that country, he seems to have deduced the doctrine of the sexual difference of plants, which was adopted as the foundation of the Linnaean taxonomy system. He says that "the female date-trees or palms do not bear fruit unless the branches of the male and female plants are mixed together;