Discovering Italy through its men and women by Roberta Colombo https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79 Ornago, 5th grade classes - 2016/2017 en-us 2016-09-06 09:51:59 UTC 2026-03-04 02:23:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Giacomo Puccini robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121719811
An Italian opera composer. His most famous operas are La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Puccini has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
]]> 2016-09-06 09:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121719811 Giuseppe Verdi robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121720314 He is an Italian opera composer. His operas remain extremely popular, especially Nabucco, Aida, Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata.]]> 2016-09-06 09:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121720314 Dante Alighieri robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121720783 He was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.]]> 2016-09-06 10:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121720783 Leonardo Da Vinci robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121721197 He was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy]]> 2016-09-06 10:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121721197 Michelangelo robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121721722  He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. Considered to be the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since also been described as one of the greatest artists of all time.]]> 2016-09-06 10:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121721722 Maria Montessori robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121722040 Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in some public and private schools throughout the world.]]> 2016-09-06 10:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121722040 Samantha Cristoforetti robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121722324 She is the first Italian woman in space. She is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds the records for longest single space flight by a woman (199 days 16 hours) and for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight of a European astronaut.]]> 2016-09-06 10:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121722324 Rita Levi Montalcini robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121722646 She was an Italian Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology. ]]> 2016-09-06 10:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121722646 Alessandro Manzoni robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121722925 He was an Italian poet and novelist. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I Promessi Sposi), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.]]> 2016-09-06 10:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121722925 Giacomo Leopardi robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121723185 He was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist and philologist. The extraordinarily lyrical quality of his poetry made him a central protagonist in the European and international literary and cultural landscape.]]> 2016-09-06 10:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121723185 Sergio Mattarella robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121723510 President of the Italian Republic]]> 2016-09-06 10:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121723510 Matteo Renzi robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121724123 The Italian Prime Minister]]> 2016-09-06 10:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121724123 Galileo Galilei robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121790866
He was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
He has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of scientific method" and the "father of science".

]]> 2016-09-06 14:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121790866 Fabiola Gianotti robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121792454 She is the Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Her mandate began on 1 January 2016 and runs for a period of five years. She is the first woman to hold the position of CERN Director-General.]]> 2016-09-06 14:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121792454 Roberto Maroni robicolombo72 https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121797415 He is the current president of Lombardia]]> 2016-09-06 14:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/robicolombo72/c573toxmuv79/wish/121797415