(Viterbo, 1893 - Rome, 1951), painter and sculptor, inherited a natural disposition to art from his father Enrico, also an artist and painter, a member of Viterbo's enlightened middle class, where he founded the School of Arts and Crafts. This inclination was soon joined by a profound interest in antiquity and the Renaissance, influenced in [...]
(Modigliana, Forlì, 1885-Florence, 1968), poet, met at boarding school his peer Dino Campana, whose he was not a close relative but with whom he shared the same Marradese stock. Having moved to Florence where his father opened a trattoria, he continued his self-taught studies and it was at the tables of the trattoria that he [...]
(Rome, 1895 - there, 1959), politician, is among the founders of fascism. In fact, in 1919, already active in the Futurist movement, Bottai met Mussolini and collaborated in the founding of the Fasci di Combattimento; he took part in the March on Rome and from 1929 to 1932, as Minister of Corporations, he drafted the [...]