Famous People with Name Benedetto

Benedetto Bordone            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Benedetto Bordone: was an Italian manuscript editor, miniaturist and cartographer.His most famous work is the Isolario (The Book of Islands, "where we discuss about all islands of the world, with their ancient and modern names, histories, tales and way of living...") in which he describes all the islands of the known world with their lore, myths, cultures, climates, situations, and history. Printed in Venice in 1528, the work is an example of a cartographic genre popular in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is intended as an illustrated guide for sailors and attempts to include all the new transatlantic discoveries.

Benedetto Croce            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Benedetto Croce: was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade. His influence on Antonio Gramsci is quite

Benedetto Da Maiano            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Benedetto Da Maiano: was an Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance.Born in the village of Maiano, near Fiesole, he started his career as companion of his brother, the architect Giuliano da Maiano. When he reached the age of thirty he started training under the sculptor Ant

Benedetto (Bettino) Craxi            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Benedetto (Bettino) Craxi: was an Italian politician, head of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1993, the first socialist President of the Council of Ministers of Italy from 1983 to 1987.

Antonio Di Benedetto            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Antonio Di Benedetto: was an Argentine journalist and writer.Antonio di Benedetto wrote five novels, the most famous being the existential masterpiece Zama (1956). Los suicidas (The Suicides, 1969) is noteworthy for expressing his intense abhorrence of noise. Critics have comp