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Ugo Foscolo
Born: February 6, 1778
Lit.Westan Italian writer, revolutionary and a poet.more…Arnold Böcklin
Born: October 16, 1827
Art.Westa Swiss symbolist painter.more…Sigmund Freud
Born: May 6, 1856
Sciencean Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies in the psyche through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalystmore…Giorgio Morandi
Born: July 20, 1890
Art.Westan Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjectsmore…Petrarch
Born: July 20, 1304
Lit.Westa scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanistsmore…J. D. Bernal
Born: May 10, 1901
Sciencean Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biologymore…
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