Mitchy1nge
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:19:36
not so extremely famous that people could guess from a few lines about them (so, not Pavarotti or berlusconi or garibaldi or whatever) but famous enough that people should or definitely could have heard of - living, dead, real or fictional
thanks in advance for any suggestions, I have faith!
Mitchy1nge
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:20:31
it can't be il commissario Montalbano 
I always do him
RunnerHasbeen
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:22:59
Marco Polo
Carla Bruni
right ball park, too famous?
How about Dario Fo? Or Verdi? Or Da Vinci? Or Puccini? Or Mussolini (probably too well known though).
ladymalfoy
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:24:56
Dante Romeo and julliet Shylock Portia
PandaWatch
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:25:18
Ooo - Michael Corleone for a fictional one!
LineRunner
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:25:21
Lola Ferrari
Lucrezia Borgia
Enzo Ferrari. Tazio Nuvolari.
Paolo Maldini, Roberto Baggio? Sorry, the only famous Italians I can think of are footballers!
scaevola
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:27:54
A Pope (almost any Pope)?
Galileo, Fermi, Fibonacci?
Puccini, Verdi?
Machiavelli?
Trajan, Julius Caesar, Nero, Agrippa?
ladymalfoy
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:28:04
Caravaggio? Any of the deMedici's
Slainte
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:29:19
First one I thought of was Christopher Columbus.
ladymalfoy
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:30:07
Oooo! Roberto Mancini! For his hair and that shrug he does in interviews!
Dino Buzzati
Dante Alighieri
Pinocchio
Mussolini
crispsarenotoneofyour5aday
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:30:56
Who is to do the guessing - adults or children?
Galileo Galilei
Dante
Enrico Caruso
Fellini
Christopher Columbus
Maria Montessori
Antonio Stradivari
Fibonacci
God I'm such a pleb. I think Antonio Carluccio. Lots of juicy interesting facts about him.
Tintoretto
Rossini
Umberto Eco
Aldo Moro
issimma
Tue 05-Mar-13 15:33:03
Roberto Saviano
Eros ramazzotti 
Jovanotti
Italo Calvino
Miuccia Prada
