FAMOUS ITALIANS AND ITALIAN AMERICANS

1)  http://www.italian-american.com/famous.htm

      Famous Italians and Italian Americans from all walks of life.  (in English)

 2)  http://www.geocities.com/duronia/itfamosa.html

      Famous Italians of the present and the past  (in Italian)

EXPLORERS

 1) http://www.italiansrus.com/resources/explorers.htm

     Famous Italian explorers that helped shape today's world.

ARTISTS

1)  http://www.italiansrus.com/resources/painters.htm

     List of famous Italian artisits.

2) http://www.artpx.com/quat/quat.htm

    Fourteenth Century Italian Artists

3) http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/bio-index2.html

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

4) http://www.mos.org/leonardo/

AUTHORS/WRITERS

1) http://www.italiansrus.com/resources/authors.htm

    List of Italian authors from Dante Alighieri to Umberto Eco with links to         sites.

2) http://italian-mysteries.com/tItalAuthors.html

    Books by contemporary Italian authors

 3)  http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/

     Everything you ever wanted to know about Dante

4)  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/petrarca.htm

      Petrarca

5) http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/index.shtml

     Boccaccio

 COMPOSERS/SINGERS

1) http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Italian-composers

    Alphabetical list of Italian composers.

2) http://www.italiansrus.com/resources/singers.htm

    Italian and Italian American singers

SCIENTISTS/INVENTORS

1)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Italian_scientists

     Italian scientists from Galileo to DaVinci, to Fermi, to Volta.

2)  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/italy.shtml

     Italian inventors and their inventions