Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist,
and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Cicero is generally
perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer,
inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the
archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi, 23 December 1967) is an Italian-born, naturalized French songwriter,
singer, and former model. She is the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy whom she married on 2 February 2008.
Raphael Sanzio, (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520) usually known by his first name alone, was an Italian painter
and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with
Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously
productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains.
Giorgio Moroder is a three-time Oscar winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work with synthesizers
during the 1970s and 1980s had a significant influence on new wave, house, techno and electronic music in general. Particularly
well known for his work with Donna Summer during the era of disco, Moroder is the founder of the former Musicland Studios
in Munich, which was used as a recording studio for artists including Led Zeppelin, Queen and Elton John.
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; March 1,
1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. Less than a hundred years
later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a
thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli.
