5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Italian politician who founded fascism, took power through the March on Rome, and ruled Italy as Il Duce from 1922 to 1943 — creating the first fascist state and the model that Hitler and Franco partially emulated — before his disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany and ignominious execution.
Italian theoretical physicist — developer of loop quantum gravity — author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Helgoland — the most widely read popular science writer in Italy and among the most widely read globally.
Italian Catholic mystic — born Caterina Fieschi — who experienced a sudden conversion, devoted herself to caring for the sick and poor of Genoa, and whose mystical theology of purgatory (Treatise on Purgatory) described purgatory as an experience of God's love burning away whatever resists it.
Carlo Rovelli's 2014 essay collection — 7 brief chapters on general relativity, quantum mechanics, the architecture of the cosmos, particles, time, and the nature of the mind — the most widely read popular physics book in Italian history.
Giorgio Vasari's 1550 (expanded 1568) collection of biographies of Italian Renaissance artists — from Cimabue to Michelangelo — the founding text of art history and the primary source for the lives of Renaissance masters.