Peoples

Teresa Sensi was born on 27 December 1899 in Perugia. Her father, Torello, was an art professor; when he was widowed he married a widow with two daughters and from this new union Teresa was born, who grew up in a close and loving family.

Silvio Trentin (1885-1944) was born in San Donà di Piave on 11 November 1885 and, at only 24 years of age, became the youngest law teacher in Italy.

Visiting Austria, before the advent of the euro as currency, you will certainly have happened to hold one or more twenty-shilling banknotes in your hands. And being a small denomination banknote, it was easy to hold more than one in your hands.

Damiano Michieletto, a graduate in Modern Literature from Ca' Foscari University in Venice, specialised in directing at the Scuola d'Arte Drammatica 'Paolo Grassi' in Milan.He has staged operas by Rossini and Mozart 

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was born on 24 August 1899 at 8 p.m. in a house on Calle Tucumán, Buenos Aires. His father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, was a Spencerian lawyer and philosopher with literary aspirations.

She was born in Vigevano (Pavia), on 3 October 1858, into a family of wandering actors from Chioggia and, due to the nomadic nature of her parents' theatre company, received no education.

Moderata Fonte, whose real name was Modesta Pozzo or da Pozzo, was born in Venice on 15 June 1555 into a well-to-do family - her father was a lawyer - that belonged to the class of 'original citizens' of Venice, a second-rate nobility just after t

Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte was born in Brussels on 26 August 1914.

Gaetano Callido, son of Agostino Callido and Veneranda Tagliapietra, was born in Este - in the province of Padua - on 14 January 1727.

Giuseppe Canali, painter and poet, was born in Venice on 21 March 1885.

Daniel Nijs was born in 1572 in Wesel, Germany into an exiled Protestant family from what is now Belgium. He moved to Venice around 1590, employed by two of his cousins in their business, which had branches in several European countries.

Defined by Giorgio Vasari as the one who would give painting a turn towards the Venetian manner, Giorgione neither demonstrates in his works the use of colour alone characterised by the absence of the drawing stage.