List of Italian inventions and discoveries

• Aircraft with tractor configuration propeller: the world's first airplane having a "Tractor" configuration, propeller on the front, was the Goupy No.2 (first flight on 11 March 1909) designed by Mario Calderara and financed by Ambroise Goupy at the French firm Blériot Aéronautique.Mario Calderara, Commander Calderara Glances Backward and Ahead, U.S. Air Services, Volume 15, Air Service Publishing Company, September 1930, page 38 At the time, it was the fastest airplane in existence. Later, this solution became the most common type of biplane used in the First World War.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/mario-calderara_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|title=Calderara, Mario in Dizionario Biografico|website=www.treccani.it}}
• Amici prism: invented by Giovan Battista Amici
• Amici roof prism: invented by Giovan Battista AmiciRonchi, Vasco (1970). "Amici, Giovan Battista". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 135-137. {{ISBN|0-684-10114-9}}.
• Anatomical theatre: used for teaching anatomy in early modern universities; the first one being at the university of Padova (1595).{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipd.it/teatro-anatomico|title=Teatro Anatomico|last=Padova|first=Università di|date=2012-05-31|website=Università degli studi di Padova|language=it|access-date=2019-11-03}}
• Anemometer: developed by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450.Invention of the Meteorological Instruments, W.E. Knowles Middleton, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1969
• Arduino: an open source computer hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical world. It is now becoming an essential component for building AI Robots. It was created in 2003.
• Automatic rifle: the Cei-Rigotti is considered the first practical automatic rifle.

• Ballet: the earliest form of Ballet come from Renaissance Florence. It was Caterina De Medici who brought Ballet to France after her marriage.
• Bank: the Bank of San Giorgio opened for business in Genoa, Italy in 1149.Edward D."Banking During the Middle Ages" Encyclopedia of Medieval World, vol.1.Giuseppe Felloni and Guido Laura, "Genoa and the history of finance: A series of firsts?" 9 November 2004, {{ISBN|88-87822-16-6}}
• Barometer: invented by Evangelista Torricelli in 1644.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/earth-and-environment/atmosphere-and-weather/meteorological-instruments/barometers|title=Barometers {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-12-16}}
• Electrochemical battery: constructed by Alessandro Volta in 1800,Bellis, Mary. [https://archive.today/20120712220408/http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Alessandro_Volta.htm Alessandro Volta - Biography of Alessandro Volta - Stored Electricity and the First Battery]. About.com. Retrieved 7 August 2008.Robert Routledge, A popular history of science, G. Routledge and Sons, {{ISBN|0-415-38381-1}} also known as Voltaic pile.

• Dipped candle: Romans made candles using rendered animal fat (called tallow), beginning around 500 BC.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/candles2.html|title=Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Candles|website=www.smith.edu|access-date=2019-11-05}}
• Caprotti valve gear: a valve design that found significant application in steam locomotives.
• Carbon paper, invented by Pellegrino Turri in 1806Adler, Michael H. (1973) The writing machine (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.)
• Casino: the first public, legal and government-owned casino was a Venetian four-story gambling house called "Ridotto", opened in 1638.{{Cite web|url=https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/casino1.htm|title=How Casinos Work|date=2007-05-01|website=HowStuffWorks|access-date=2019-11-03}}
• Julian calendar: later perfected by Luigi Lilio becoming the Gregorian calendar, which is today's internationally accepted civil calendar, also known as the Western or Christian calendar.{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/gregorian-calendar.html|title=The Gregorian Calendar|website=www.timeanddate.com|access-date=2019-11-05}}
• Cardan suspension of a gimbal: named after the Italian inventor Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), who described the device in detail. This device made inertial navigation possible.
• Cello: with 'The King Violoncello' by Andrea Amati being the earliest known bass instrument of the violin family to survive.{{Cite web|url=http://collections.nmmusd.org/Cellos/Amati/Amaticello.html|title=Violoncello by Andrea Amati, Cremona, Mid-16th Century|website=collections.nmmusd.org|access-date=2019-11-05}}
• Centrifugal Pump: the first machine that could be characterized as a centrifugal pump was a mud lifting machine that appeared as early as 1475 in a treatise by the Italian Renaissance engineer Francesco di Giorgio Martini.{{cite journal |last1=Reti |first1=Ladislao |title=Francesco di Giorgio (Armani) Martini's Treatise on Engineering and Its Plagiarists |journal=Technology and Culture |volume=4 |issue=3 |date=Summer 1963 |pages=287–298 (290) |doi=10.2307/3100858 |last2=Di Giorgio Martini |first2=Francesco|jstor=3100858 |s2cid=113038460 }}
• Codex: is the precursor of modern books, having defined the reference format of virtually all the books of Western civilization. Invented during Roman times, its adoption was later spread by Christianity.Roberts, Colin H; Skeat, TC (1983). The Birth of the Codex. London: British Academy. pp. 15–22. {{ISBN|0-19-726061-6}}.
• (Modern Diesel) Common Rail: designed by researcher Mario Ricco of the FIAT Group.{{Cite web|url=http://www.distrettomedis.it/images/media/CV_Ricco_en.pdf|title=Ricco Curriculum Vitae}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.autonews.com/article/20040517/SUB/405170847/fiat-s-loss-was-bosch-s-gain|title=Fiat's loss was Bosch's gain|date=2004-05-17|website=Automotive News|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14}}
• Proportional compass: generally featuring a proportional scale, it could be used for calculus of infinitesimals and proportions of geometric figures. There are three types:{{Cite web|last=Zaffino|first=Valentina|title=Giordano Bruno and the Proportional Eight Spike Compass|url=https://www.academia.edu/15302296|language=en|quote=proportional compasses have, on their hands, various proportional scales [...] There are three kinds: with crossed hands, similar to the reduction compass such as the Commandino or Bürgi one; with eight spikes, such as the Mordente one; with flat hands, such as Galileo’s compass.}}
• Reduction compass: developed by Commandino Federico (inventor of the polymetric compass){{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/federico-commandino_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|title=COMMANDINO, Federico in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2020-01-10}} and Joost Bürgi.{{Cite web|url=https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/mediciscienze/emed.asp?c=35399|title=The Medici and science|website=brunelleschi.imss.fi.it|language=EN|access-date=2020-01-10}}
• Proportional eight spikes compass: invented by Fabrizio Mordente and used by G. Bruno in his research of the physical minimum.
• Flat hands compass: such as Galilei's one.
• Roman concrete: for edification purposes, more resilient than modern concrete.{{Cite journal|last=Witze|first=Alexandra|title=Seawater is the secret to long-lasting Roman concrete|url=http://www.nature.com/news/seawater-is-the-secret-to-long-lasting-roman-concrete-1.22231|journal=Nature News|date=3 July 2017|doi=10.1038/nature.2017.22231}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/why-modern-mortar-crumbles-roman-concrete-lasts-millennia|title=Why modern mortar crumbles, but Roman concrete lasts millennia|last1=Ahmad|first1=Zahra|date=2017-06-30|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|access-date=2019-10-22}}
• Confetti: initially meaning a type of sweet, then used for analogy to indicate little chalk balls used in Italy during carnival festivities. Mangilli di Crescenzago (Milan) is credited as an early inventor of paper confetti.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/magazine/lingua_italiana/domande_e_risposte/varie/varie_012.html|title=Da quando c'è l'abitudine di gettare i coriandoli a Carnevale?|website=Treccani, l'Enciclopedia italiana|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-28}}
• Connecting rod: a device invented by Roman engineers to transform circular motion into linear motion.
• Corvus: Roman naval boarding device.{{Cite web|last=Marrison|first=Richard|title=Top 20 Ancient Roman Inventions|work=HistoryTen |date=27 September 2020 |url=https://historyten.com/roman/ancient-roman-inventions/|access-date=2021-07-12|language=en-us}}
• Composite order: Imperial Roman form of the Corinthian order.

• Dental fillings: First mentioned by Cornelius Celsus in the 1st century AD.{{cite web |title=10 Ancient Roman Inventions That Will Surprise You |url=https://www.thecollector.com/10-ancient-roman-inventions-that-will-surprise-you/ |website=www.thecollector.com |date=4 August 2020 |access-date=7 January 2021}}
• Dentures: the first dentures were developed by the Etruscans in 700 BCThe inventions that changed the world, Reader's Digest (1982) [Portuguese edition of 1983]
• Di Pietro air engine: a pneumatic engine built by Angelo Di Pietro, which require very low pressure to start rotation.{{Cite journal|last=Zwierzchowski|first=Jaroslaw|date=2017|title=Design type air engine Di Pietro|journal= EPJ Web of Conferences|language=en|volume=143|pages=02149|doi=10.1051/epjconf/201714302149|quote=The article presents a pneumatic engine constructed by Angelo Di Pietro. [...] . A directional valve is a key element of the control system. The valve functions as a camshaft distributing air to particular engine chambers. The construction designed by Angelo Di Pietro is modern and innovative. A pneumatic engine requires low pressure to start rotary movement. [...] According to his assumptions, this engine has 94.5% efficiency, and constant high torque. Additionally, this engine does not generate vibrations and has a very low friction, allowing the engine to operate at a low supply pressure of only 1 PSI (approx. 0.07 bar)|bibcode=2017EPJWC.14302149Z|doi-access=free}} This engine produces almost no vibration, internal wear or friction and is potentially useful for a wide range of environment-friendly applications.{{Cite web|url=https://www.engineair.com.au/|title=Environmentally Friendly, Engine, Invention {{!}} Melbourne|website=www.engineair.com.au|language=en|access-date=2019-12-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ge.com/reports/20-09-2013pumping-up-the-silent-engine/|title=Pumping up the silent engine|author=|date=2013-09-14|website=GE Reports|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-20|quote=An invention that would have earned a nod from Da Vinci himself, Angelo’s engine [...] virtually eliminates vibration, internal wear and friction.}} In 2004, it has 100% more efficiency than any other air engine to that date. It also represents the first air engine that could be applied in transportation.{{Cite web|url=https://newatlas.com/significant-new-rotary-engine-design-runs-on-compressed-air/3185/|title=Significant new rotary engine design runs on compressed air|last=Hanlon|first=Mike|date=2004-09-15|website=New Atlas|language=en|access-date=2019-12-20|quote=There is no other motor as efficient as the Di Pietro Rotary Air Engine. It is 100% more efficient than any other air powered engine built to date and its high torque makes it the first air engine suitable for mobile applications.}}
• Dipleidoscope: invented by Giovan Battista Amici.Ronchi, Vasco (1970). "Amici, Giovan Battista". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. {{ISBN|0-684-10114-9}}.
• Dollying: to move a camera on a dolly, esp. toward or away from the subject being filmed or televised. Giovanni Pastrone first used this method in 1914.
• Doppio Borgato: a musical instrument which is a variation of the pianoLarry E. Ashley, Pierce Piano Atlas, 12th edition, Larry E. Ashley Publisher, Albuquerque, NM U.S.A., 2008, p.58.
• Double-entry bookkeeping system (for accounting): developed in the mercantile city-states of medieval Italy and first documented by Lucas de Burgo in Venice. Perfected by Amatino Mannucci in the 14th century.{{cite book|last=Beckmann|first=Johann|title=A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GMSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1|access-date=23 March 2014|year=1846|publisher=Henry G. Bohn|isbn=9781508445098 }} The actual invention could have been Roman or Asiatic. Anyway, the system reached a huge diffusion as a consequence of Italian use and theorisation, with Summa de Arithmetica containing the rules of double-entry, the first example of calculating a neperian logarithm as well as early examples of probability calculus.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luca-pacioli|title=Paciòli, Luca nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-17}}
• Doxorubicin: a chemotherapy agent invented by Farmitalia Spa in the 1950s.{{cite journal |author=Weiss RB |title=The anthracyclines: will we ever find a better doxorubicin? |journal=Seminars in Oncology |volume=19 |issue=6 |pages=670–86 |date=December 1992 |pmid=1462166}}
• D-Shape: a new 3D printer capable of printing entire buildings invented in 2004 by Enrico Dini.{{Cite web|url=https://d-shape.com/|title=D-shape}}

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• Eau de Cologne: perfume developed by Johann Maria Farina in 1709.Wells, Frederick V.; Billot, Marcel (1981). Perfumery Technology. Art, science, industry. Chichester: Horwood Books. pp. 25, 278. {{ISBN|0-85312-301-2}}
• Electroplating: a manufacturing technique invented by Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli in 1805.Mohler, James B. (1969). Electroplating and Related Processes. Chemical Publishing Co. {{ISBN|0-8206-0037-7}}. He pioneered galvanoplastic experiments, introducing the technique of electroplating. His acquaintance with A. Volta played an important role in his scientific career. He hypothesized that in the chemical pile there was also a transport of atoms, obtaining experimental evidence of this. He discovered the properties of coal cathodes as electrical conductors and succeeded in covering them with a metallic layer. He sensed the possible applications in the industrial field, sharing this procedure with a Pavese goldsmith, who used it.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luigi-valentino-brugnatelli_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|title=BRUGNATELLI, Luigi Valentino in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-24}}
• Encyclopedia: from the Greek enkýklios paidèia, meaning a set of doctrines constituting a complete education. The comprehensive works of Aristotle can be considered encyclopedic (covering politics, rhetoric, ethic, aesthetic, psychology, biology, math). The first Latin encyclopedia was written by Cato the Elder in an attempt to mitigate the influence of Greek culture. He wrote for his son an "encyclopedia" of what he believed to be the necessary subjects for the Roman citizen: agriculture, rhetoric, medicine, law and warfare. Marcus T. Varro wrote a second, more complete and systematic encyclopedia, covering nine disciplines: grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, musical theory, medicine, and architecture. Plinius the Elder wrote Historia naturalis, the first encyclopedia to survive as a complete work. Marziano F. Capella wrote an allegoric encyclopedia in prose and verses, De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/treccani_%28Il-Libro-dell%27Anno%29/|title=Treccani in "Il Libro dell'Anno"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-25}}. These encyclopedias, along with the works of Cassiodorus and Boethius, paved the way for the medieval seven liberal arts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/enciclopedia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29/|title=enciclopedia in "Dizionario di Storia"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-25}}
• Epidemiology (innovated): Roman scholar Marcus Varro mentioned microorganisms as a possible causal agent of diseases. Girolamo Fracastoro, in the mid 16th century, was the first one to scientifically state the real nature of germs, infection, and contagious ways of disease transmission. He attributed the causes of diseases to very small living particles, invisible to the eye. They were considered vulnerable to fire, capable of self multiplying as well as spreading by air.On Contagion, Contagious Diseases and Their Cure (1546) by Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553)
• Espresso machine:
• first prototype invented by Angelo Moriondo in 1884 in Turin."Bollettino delle privative industriali del Regno d’Italia", 2nd Series, Volume 15, Year 1884, pages 635 – 655
• (piston driven model) invented by Achille Gaggia in 1945.Pendergrast, Mark (2001) [1999]. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. London: Texere. p. 218. {{ISBN|1-58799-088-1}}.
• Estimo: discipline, part of economic science, which establishes the logical and methodological principles allowing a reasoned, objective and generally valid formulation of the esteem of the monetary value of economic goods.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nk6dBwAAQBAJ&q=estimo&pg=PA9|title=Estimo Immobiliare Urbano ed Elementi di Economia: Con valutazione economico-finanziaria degli investimenti per la valorizzazione e trasformazione delle opere pubbliche|last=D'Agostino|first=Alberto|date=2015-03-25|publisher=Società Editrice Esculapio|isbn=978-88-7488-849-8|pages=284–285|language=it}} The first estimative surveys of a normative character took shape with the Italian Catasti a Valore (translated, land-value registers), called Estimi a Apprezzi. Florentine estimate method was already codified in the thirteenth century. From the sixteenth century the land, merchant and then civil esteems of the capital began to spread in Italy.{{Cite journal|last=Sella|first=Domenico|date=1980|title=Fisco e societa' nella Lombardia del Cinquecento|journal=Studi Storici|volume=21|issue=4|pages=915–920 |jstor=20564854}} The first modern treaty on Estimo was Trattato della stima dei Beni Stabili by Cosimo Trinci, who introduced the concept of ascending and descending [http://www.georoma.it/DNN80426/Portals/0/Documenti/Geopunto/Geopunto%202007-2008/geo20%20p13%20inserto.pdf influences] on the capitalization rate according to the different land's characteristics. Also see Roman Cadastre.
• Eudiometer: invented by Alessandro Volta{{Cite web|url=http://scienzapertutti.infn.it/rubriche/biografie/800-alessandro-volta|title=Volta Alessandro|website=scienzapertutti.infn.it|language=it-it|access-date=2019-11-14}} and Marsilio Landriani. Thanks to this instrument Lavoisier discovered the chemical composition of water.{{Cite web|url=http://matematica.unibocconi.it/sites/default/files/Volta%20genn%202013.pdf|title=Volta|website=matematica.unibocconi.it}}
• Eyeglasses: originating from Italy, the eyeglasses were perhaps the invention of an unidentified Venetian glassmaker of the 13th century. The research of Roger Bacon on magnifying glasses probably aided their future development.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/occhiali|title=occhiali nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-09}}

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• Film festival: founded as Esposizione d’Arte Cinematografica, the Venice Film Festival was established in 1932.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/625395/Venice-Film-Festival |title=Venice Film Festival|encyclopedia=Britannica.com |access-date=2012-11-23}}
• Forlanini helicopter: first engine-powered helicopter. A steam powered helicopter which first flew in 1877, designed by Enrico Forlanini in Milan. This has represented the first heavier-than-air aircraft lifting from the ground with autonomous means.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/enrico-forlanini/|title=Forlanini, Enrico nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-20}} Italian engineering will further develop the helicopter: on 7 April 1925 Corradino d'Ascanio patented the helicopter with two coaxial propellers.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imprese.san.beniculturali.it/web/imprese/enterprise/dettaglio-soggetto-produttore?id=55587|title=Dettaglio Soggetto Produttore - Imprese|website=www.imprese.san.beniculturali.it|access-date=2019-11-20}} Other patents and inventions related to the aeronautical world followed.{{Cite web|url=https://st.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Tempo%20libero%20e%20Cultura/2008/10/storie-storia-elicottero-DAT3-corradino-d-ascanio.shtml?uuid=0cda5c72-8e23-11dd-aadf-8a371e451c08&refresh_ce=1|title=13 ottobre 1930: un elicottero italiano da record - Il Sole 24 ORE|website=st.ilsole24ore.com|access-date=2019-11-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.imss.fi.it/milleanni/cronologia/biografie/dascan.html|title=Biografie - Corradino D'Ascanio|website=www.imss.fi.it|access-date=2019-11-20}}
• Firefighting: The earliest firefighters were in the city of Rome. In 60 A.D., Roman emperor Nero established a corps of Vigiles, to protect Rome from disastrous fires.{{Cite web|title=The Firefighters of Ancient Rome|url=https://ancient-history-blog.mq.edu.auvigiles/|access-date=2021-07-11|website=MQ Ancient History: City of Rome Blog|language=en}}

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• Galleon (origins): historical evidence suggests that this iconic type of ship was pioneered by the early 16th century Venetians and later spread to Iberian Peninsula, where it became widely adopted and further developed.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hIKUhgBcSacC&q=galleon+origins&pg=PA216|title=Archaeology and the Social History of Ships |access-date=8 August 2014|isbn=9781139498166 |last1=Gould |first1=Richard A. |date=2011-04-29 |publisher=Cambridge University Press }}
• Gelato: Procopio Cutò is credited with being the inventor of modern gelato.{{Cite news |url=http://www.sicilianpost.it/en/francesco-procopio-dei-coltelli-the-man-who-invented-gelato/ |title=Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli: the man who invented gelato |last=Stornello |first=Olga |translator-first=Francesco |translator-last=Raciti |date=October 2018 |work=Sicilian Post |access-date=2019-02-03 |df=dmy-all}} In 1903 Italo Marchioni patended a machine for producing the gelato cone.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ilpost.it/2013/06/07/storia-cono-gelato/|title=Chi ha inventato il cono gelato?|date=2013-06-07|website=Il Post|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-06}}
• (Modern) giro system: a payment transfer from one bank account to another bank account initiated by the payer, not the payee.{{Cite web|url=http://rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=28619|title=Reserve Bank of India|date=2014-12-06|access-date=2019-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206030651/http://rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=28619|archive-date=6 December 2014}}{{Cite journal|last=INCLIMONA|first=ETTORE|date=1913|title=Le origini del Banco giro|journal=Giornale degli Economisti e Rivista di Statistica|volume=46 (Anno 24)|issue=2|pages=144–156 |jstor=23223972}} The first occurrences of book money can be traced back in Northern Italy and, in particular, in Venice.{{Cite web|url=http://www.veneziamuseo.it/REPUBBLICA/mar_sen_ss_depban.htm|title=depositario del banco giro|website=www.veneziamuseo.it|access-date=2019-11-05}}
• Geothermal power plant: the first one being built in Tuscany (1904) by Piero Ginori Conti.{{Cite web|url=https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/history-geothermal-energy-america|title=A History of Geothermal Energy in America|website=Energy.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-12-20|quote=Prince Piero Ginori Conti invents the first geothermal power plant at the Larderello dry steam field in Tuscany, Italy.}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.enel.com/stories/a/2018/05/geothermal-industry-200-years-source-clean-energy|title=200 years of geothermal industry: clean energy and sustainability|website=www.enel.com|date=18 May 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-12-20|quote=[Piero Ginori Conti] idea was to exploit geothermal vapour as a source of energy. On 4 July 1904 he used a simple generator consisting of a dynamo running off geothermal heat to successfully turn on five light bulbs.}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/geothermalenergyhistory.php|title=Geothermal Energy History|date=2013-01-20|website=Conserve Energy Future|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-20}} The first Italian industrial use of geothermal energy dates 1827.{{Cite web|url=https://buildingcue.it/geotermico-a-zero-emissioni-invenzione-tutta-italiana/5745/|title=Geotermico a Zero Emissioni: Invenzione tutta Italiana|last=Rubino|first=Lorenzo|date=2015-06-01|website=Close-up Building Engineering|language=it-IT|trans-title=Zero-emission geothermal: All-Italian invention|access-date=2019-12-20|quote=Translation In 1827, in Larderello, a group of engineers and scientists exploited the steam contained in a geyser for industrial purposes (boric acid extraction)}}
• Ghetto, with the institution of the Venetian GhettoCalimani, Riccardo. 1987. The Ghetto of Venice. New York: M. Evans & Co. {{ISBN|0871314843}}. pp. 129–32. early in 1516.
• Gondola: a typical Venetian boat.{{Cite web|url=http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/3397|title=Città di Venezia - Turismo - Manifestazioni e feste - Regata Storica - Le barche|date=2010-03-03|access-date=2019-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303172720/http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/3397|archive-date=3 March 2010}}
• Grappling hook: The device was invented by the Romans in approximately 260 BC.{{Cite web|title=Naval warfare|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/naval-warfare|access-date=2021-07-26|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}
• Guildhall: The first guildhalls appeared in Rome.

• Herbarium: intended as a collection of plants classified under scientific methods, was first established in Bologna in 1534 by Luca Ghini.[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/erbario/] Treccani, L'Enciclopedia Italiana, Erbario.
• Holocene calendar: a calendar obtained by adding 10000 years to the current Gregorian calendar, first proposed by Cesare Emiliani in 1993.{{cite journal|last=Emiliani|first=Cesare|year=1993|title=Correspondence – Calendar Reform|journal=Nature|volume=366|issue=6457|page=716|bibcode=1993Natur.366..716E|doi=10.1038/366716b0|s2cid=4346154|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Emiliani|first=Cesare|date=1994|title=Calendar reform for the year 2000|journal=Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union|language=en|volume=75|issue=19|pages=218|doi=10.1029/94EO00895 |bibcode=1994EOSTr..75..218E}}
• Hydrofoil: a lifting surface that operates in water: Enrico Forlanini developed and patented around 1900 a "ladder" foil system.
• Hyper Search: a type of web search engine based on link analysis invented in 1997 by Massimo Marchiori, whose algorithm played an important role in the development of Google page ranking.Massimo Marchiori, [http://www.w3.org/People/Massimo/papers/WWW6/ "The Quest for Correct Information on the Web: Hyper Search Engines"], Proceedings of the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW6), 1997.Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, [http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html "The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine"], Proceedings of the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW7), 1998.

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• Induction motor: Galileo Ferraris invented the AC commutator-free three-phase induction motor. He was the first one to demonstrate this invention in 1885; around the same time, Nikola Tesla independently developed a similar invention.Alternating currents of electricity: their generation, measurement, distribution, and application by Gisbert Kapp, William Stanley, Jr. Johnston, 1893. Page 140. [cf., This direction has been first indicated by Professor Galileo Ferraris, of Turin, some six years ago. Quite independent of Ferraris, the same discovery was also made by Nikola Tesla, of New York; and since the practical importance of the discovery has been recognized, quite a host of original discoverers have come forward, each claiming to be the first.]Larned, J. N., & Reiley, A. C. (1901). History for ready reference: From the best historians, biographers, and specialists; their own words in a complete system of history. Springfield, Mass: The C.A. Nichols Co.. [https://books.google.com/books?id=fRSOIHe7gyIC&pg=PA440 Page 440]. [cf., At about the same time [1888], Galileo Ferraris, in Italy, and Nikola Tesla, in the United States, brought out motors operating by systems of alternating currents displaced from one another in phase by definite amounts and producing what is known as the rotating magnetic field.]The Electrical engineer. (1888). London: Biggs & Co. Pg., 239. [cf., "[...] new application of the alternating current in the production of rotary motion was made known almost simultaneously by two experimenters, Nikola Tesla and Galileo Ferraris, and the subject has attracted general attention from the fact that no commutator or connection of any kind with the armature was required."]Galileo Ferraris, "Electromagnetic rotation with an alternating current," Electrican, Vol 36 [1885]. pg 360-75.{{Cite web|url=http://edisontechcenter.org/AC-PowerHistory.html|title=AC Power History|website=edisontechcenter.org}}{{cite magazine |last=Neidhöfer |first=Gerhard |title=Early Three-Phase Power (History) |magazine=IEEE Power and Energy Magazine |publisher=IEEE Power & Energy Society |year=2007 |volume=5 |issue=5 |pages=88–100 |doi=10.1109/MPE.2007.904752 }}[http://www.fi.edu/learn/case-files/tesla/motor.html "Two-Phase Induction Motor"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118121135/http://www.fi.edu/learn/case-files/tesla/motor.html |date=2012-11-18 }} (2011), The Case Files: Nikola Tesla, The Franklin Institute.
• Intel 4004: designed by Federico Faggin, who etched his initials "FF" on a corner of the chip prototype as his signature.{{Cite web|url=http://www.intel4004.com/|title=The Intel 4004 Home|website=www.intel4004.com}} Faggin, Marcian Hoff and Stanley Mazor have been awarded with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by the President of the United States Barack Obama for their work in creating the first commercial microprocessor.{{Cite news|url=https://phys.org/news/2010-11-obama-rewards-digital-camera-microprocessor.html|title=Obama rewards digital camera, microprocessor inventors|website=phys.org|language=en-us|access-date=2019-11-19}}
• Intel 8080: the first high-performance 8-bit microprocessor in the market, using the faster n-channel SGT. The 8080 was conceived and designed by Faggin, and designed by Masatoshi Shima under Faggin's supervision.
• Italic typeface: Designed in the early 1500 by the book-printer Francesco Griffo.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/italic|title=Italic {{!}} typeface|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-10-29}}
• Infill: The earliest type of infill, called opus craticum by the Romans.
• Ice resurfacer: Frank Zamboni invented the ice resurfacer which is named after him.

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• Jacuzzi Spa: founded in 1915 by seven Italian brothers from Northern Italy and led by Giocondo and Candido Jacuzzi.{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2009/12/27/italia-america.html|title=Italia d' America - la Repubblica.it|website=Archivio - la Repubblica.it|date=27 December 2009 |language=it|access-date=2019-11-05}} Its first product was a portable hydrotherapy unit that sat in the bath.{{Cite web|url=https://en.jacuzzi.eu/jacuzzi-world/history|title=History of Jacuzzi®: how we developed our revolutionary water pump system|website=en.jacuzzi.eu|access-date=2019-11-25}}
• Jeans: type of trousers originated from the city of Genoa, Italy (hence the name). Modern Jeans have been invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873.{{Cite web|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8014040/Denim-jeans-originated-in-Italy-not-France-art-historian-claims.html|title=Denim jeans originated in Italy, not France, art historian claims - Telegraph|website=fashion.telegraph.co.uk|date=5 May 2016 |access-date=2019-11-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofjeans.com/|title=History of Jeans - Origin of Denim Jeans|website=www.historyofjeans.com|access-date=2019-11-20}}
• Jumping position in horsemanship: developed by Federico Caprilli.

• Launeddas (or Sardinian triple clarinet): typical Sardinian woodwind instrument composed by three pipes.Kroll, O. (1968). The Clarinet. New York, NY: Taplinger Publishing Company.
• Lazaret (quarantine station): the first was founded by the Republic of Venice in 1403, on a small island in the Venetian lagoon.
• Light bulb (partially innovated): Alessandro Cruto built the first light bulb having a carbon filament treated with ethylene. The filament, under high pressure and temperature, acquires a positive resistance coefficient (when temperature increases, resistance increases as well). Cruto's bulb was officially lit 5 months after Edison bulb (on 4 March 1880). Cruto's filament improved the durability of the bulb from Edison's 40 hours to 500 hours of lighting.{{Cite web|url=http://www.torinoscienza.it/personaggi/alessandro-cruto|title=Alessandro Cruto {{!}} Torino Scienza|website=www.torinoscienza.it|language=it|access-date=2019-10-30}}

File:Maria Montessori (portrait).jpg developed Montessori education, a child-centered educational approach, in 1907]]

File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg, inventor of the radio and the father of the wireless communication{{cite book|url=https://monoskop.org/images/f/f4/Hong_Sungook_Wireless_From_Marconis_Black-Box_to_the_Audion.pdf|ref =Hong|author=Hong, Sungook|title=Wireless: From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion|place=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher= MIT Press|year= 2001|isbn=0-262-08298-5|page=1}}"[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/marconi-bio.html Guglielmo Marconi: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909]". nobelprize.org]]

File:Antonio Meucci.jpg developed a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.]]

• Mandolin: a string instrument played with a plectrum{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/mandolino|title=mandolino nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-09}}.
• Maiolica: originated in Central Italy.
• Guglielmo MarconiGuglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio and the father of the wireless communication
• Mater-Bi: different classes of plastic-like starch-based biodegradable kind of polymers researched and mass-produced by the Italian company Novamont.{{Cite web|url=https://materbi.com/en/solutions/carrier-bags/what-happened-when-italy-banned-non-biodegradable-bags/|title=Bio-plastics: Letting the Planet Breathe|website=www.wipo.int|language=en|access-date=2019-12-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://bioplasticsnews.com/2013/12/30/mater-bi-biopolymers/|title=Mater-Bi® Biopolymers|last=lepitreb|date=2013-12-30|website=Bioplastics News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-19}}{{Cite journal|last1=Nainggolan|first1=Hamonangan|last2=Gea|first2=Saharman|last3=Bilotti|first3=Emiliano|last4=Peijs|first4=Ton|last5=Hutagalung|first5=Sabar D.|date=2013-05-23|title=Mechanical and thermal properties of bacterial-cellulose-fibre-reinforced Mater-Bi® bionanocomposite|journal=Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology|language=en|volume=4|issue=1|pages=325–329|doi=10.3762/bjnano.4.37|pmid=23766957|pmc=3678394 }}{{Cite journal|last=Bastioli|first=Catia|date=1998-01-03|title=Properties and applications of Mater-Bi starch-based materials|journal=Polymer Degradation and Stability|series=Biodegradable Polymers and Macromolecules|volume=59|issue=1|pages=263–272|doi=10.1016/S0141-3910(97)00156-0 }}
• Medical thermometer: invented by Sanctorius in the early 1600s.
• Microscope: Sometimes credited as the first compound microscope, Galileo Galilei found after 1610 that he could close focus his telescope, maybe even turning it around backwards, to view near by small objects.A. Mark Smith, From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics, University of Chicago Press - 2014, page 387 This method was combersom since he had to extend his 2 foot long telescope out to 6 feet to view objects that close.Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - 2011, page 327 After seeing a purpose-built compound microscope by Drebbel exhibited in Rome in 1624, Galileo built his own improved version.Raymond J. Seeger, Men of Physics: Galileo Galilei, His Life and His Works, Elsevier – 2016, p. 24J. William Rosenthal, Spectacles and Other Vision Aids: A History and Guide to Collecting, Norman Publishing, 1996, page 391[http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/galileo.html uoregon.edu, Galileo Galilei (Excerpt from the Encyclopedia Britannica)] Giovanni Faber coined the name microscope for the compound microscope Galileo submitted to the Accademia dei Lincei in 1625{{cite book |author=Gould, Stephen Jay |title=The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780095031417 |url-access=registration | chapter = Chapter 2: The Sharp-Eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature |publisher=Harmony |location=New York |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-224-05044-9}} (Galileo had called it the "occhiolino" or "little eye").
• Antonio Meucci developed a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.Wheen, Andrew. [https://books.google.com/books?id=B6shu_hAiGkC&pg=PA45 Dot-Dash to Dot.com: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429211228/https://books.google.com/books?id=B6shu_hAiGkC&pg=PA45& |date=29 April 2016}} Springer, 2010. p. 45. Web. 23 September 2011.; Cleveland, Cutler (Lead Author); Saundry, Peter (Topic Editor). [http://www.eoearth.org/article/Meucci,_Antonio Meucci, Antonio.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526094228/http://www.eoearth.org/article/Meucci,_Antonio |date=26 May 2013}} Encyclopedia of Earth, 2006. Web. 22 July 2012.
• Microscopic anatomy and histology: pioneered by Marcello Malpighi in the 1660s.
• Mile: a unit of distance based on the distance covered in 1,000 steps by a Roman legionnaire.
• Milestone: Romans came up with this invention to measure the distances of the roads.
• Mitre gates: on a Canal lock in a canal, gates that remain closed by the pressure of the water itself; developed and possibly invented by Leonardo da Vinci{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/lock-waterway|title=Lock {{!}} waterway|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-01-12|quote=The mitred canal gate, [...] may have been invented by Leonardo da Vinci for the San Marco Lock in Milan...}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sketch-of-a-miter-gate-by-Leonardo-Da-Vinci-ca-1490-Codex-Atlanticus-C-Veneranda_fig1_273369230|title=Sketch-of-a-miter-gate-by-Leonardo-Da-Vinci-ca-1490-Codex-Atlanticus|website=researchgate.net}} and still used today in all canals worldwide such as the Panama Canal.
• Moka pot: a type of coffeemaker invented by Alfonso Bialetti.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bialetti.it/it_it/company-story|title=Company Story|website=www.bialetti.it|access-date=2019-11-05}}
• Montessori education: child-centered educational approach developed by Maria Montessori in 1907.
• Monopole antenna: invented by Guglielmo Marconi in 1895.
• Moon Boot: created in 1970 by Italian company Tecnica.
• (Petroleum internal-combustion) motorcycle: in 1884 Enrico Bernardi built the first vehicle in the world powered by a petrol engine, a tricycle called Motrice Pia; Karl Friedrich Benz developed a similar metallic motor tricycle in the following year (1885).{{Cite web|url=http://lanostrastoria.corriere.it/2018/04/09/enrico-bernardi-litaliano-che-invento-lautomobile/|title=Enrico Bernardi, l'italiano che inventò l'automobile|website=lanostrastoria.corriere.it|language=it|access-date=2019-11-20}} A motorcycle is a two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle. Firsts known petroleum motorcycles are the Daimler Reitwagen with 2 wheels plus 2 outriggers (1885), and the Butler Petrol Cycle with 3 wheels plus 2 castors (1887). In 1893 Bernardi mounted a petrol engine on a propulsion wheel for an ordinary bicycle, thus, according to what Enrico Fermi wrote for the Treccani Encyclopedia, creating the first motorcycle.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/enrico-bernardi_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/|title=Enrico Bernardi in Enciclopedia Treccani|last=Fermi|first=Enrico|date=1930|website=treccani.it|quote=nel 1893 montò il motore a benzina [...] su una ruota di propulsione per una bicicletta ordinaria, realizzando così la prima motocicletta. Translatation in 1893 he mounted the petrol engine [...] on a propulsion wheel for an ordinary bicycle, thus realizing the first motorcycle.}} Bernardi is to be considered one of the pioneers of the automobile too.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8mlDwAAQBAJ&q=enrico+bernardi+car+inventor&pg=PA1875|title=Cars of Legend: First Cars of History|last=Lucendo|first=Jorge|date=2019-07-29|publisher=Jorge Lucendo|language=en}} He partnered with the Miari e Giusti to produce three- and four-wheeled automobiles powered by the gasoline engine he had invented and patented in 1882.{{Cite web|url=http://www.museonicolis.com/motrice-pia-enrico-bernardi-a-1-cilindro/|title=Bernardi Enrico, 1882, Motrice Pia|date=2016-02-04|website=Museo Nicolis|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-23}} The Bernardi mod 3,5 HP (1896) features many of his innovations, such as geometrically correct steering, cylinder with detachable head, overhead valves and a centrifugal inlet valve regulator.{{Cite web|url=https://www.museoauto.it/website/en/component/content/article/71-bernardi-mod-35-hp|title=Museo dell'automobile|website=www.museoauto.it|access-date=2019-11-23}} The quality of the vehicles was demonstrated by travelling for 60000 km without engine failure.
• Motorways: as a controlled access highway that directly connects two cities: Autostrada Milano-Varese in 1924.
• Moving Picture Experts Group Standard: MPEG Standard has been a collective and international effort in which the Italian engineer Leonardo Chiariglione played a major role: the Movie Picture Experts Group was founded by L. Chiariglione and the Japanese Hiroshi Yasuda.{{Cite web|title=Genesis of the MP3 Audio Coding Standard|author=Musmann, Hans Georg |date=2006|website=Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne|url=http://users.ipfw.edu/reddpv01/mp3Genesis.pdf|access-date=2019-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117173334/http://users.ipfw.edu/reddpv01/mp3Genesis.pdf|archive-date=17 January 2012}}
• Multi-mirror telescope: made possible by the pioneering work and research of Guido Horn d’Arturo.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lelucidihorn.it/hex/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Tesi-Picazzi.pdf|title=Thesis on: "Il progetto di telescopio a tasselli di Guido Horn d'Arturo: forefather of the new generation multi-mirror telescopes"|last=Picazzi|first=Valeria|website=lelucidihorn.it}}

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• Nativity Scene: developed from the sacred Christmas representations in the churches, linked to the living crib of San Francesco d'Assisi in Greccio. Dominicans, Franciscans and Jesuits spread the nativity scene in Italy and Europe.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/presepe/|title=presepe nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-19}}
• Newspaper: first newspapers started circulating in Venice in 1563; they were originally named Gazette, news-sheets reporting an abstract of current events and facts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/gazette|title=Gazette {{!}} periodical|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-16}}
• Nitroglycerin: first synthesized by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-who-invented-nitroglycerin-was-horrified-dynamite-180965192/|title=The Man Who Invented Nitroglycerin Was Horrified By Dynamite|last=Eschner|first=Kat|website=Smithsonian|access-date=2019-10-27}}

File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg, creator of the world's first nuclear reactor. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age"{{cite news|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/enrico-fermi-architect-of-the-nuclear-age-dies|title=Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies|date=Autumn 1954|access-date=2 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117014820/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/enrico-fermi-architect-of-the-nuclear-age-dies|archive-date=17 November 2015|url-status=dead}} and the "architect of the atomic bomb".{{Cite news |date=29 November 1954 |title=Enrico Fermi Dead at 53; Architect of Atomic Bomb |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0929.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314034514/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0929.html |archive-date=14 March 2019 |access-date=21 January 2013 |work=The New York Times}}]]

• Nuclear reactor: the first working fission nuclear reactor was constructed by a team led by Enrico Fermi, who is regarded as the 'father of nuclear age'.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/enrico-fermi-really-father-nuclear-age-180967214/|title=Was Enrico Fermi Really the "Father of the Nuclear Age"?|last=Roeback|first=Tacuma|website=Smithsonian|access-date=2019-10-27}} Nuclear fission, converting part of the mass in energy,{{Cite web|url=https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Nuclear_fission|title=Nuclear fission - Energy Education|website=energyeducation.ca|access-date=2019-10-27}} is far more efficient than other, fossil energy sources.

• Ocarina: musical instrument invented by Giuseppe Donati
• Opera House: the first public opera house was the "Teatro San Cassiano" opened in Venice in 1637 and survived until 1800.[http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/429776/opera/27830/Venetian-opera#ref395600], Encyclopædia Britannica, "Opera (music)".

File:Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) paratroopers jump from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft over Bangladesh during exercise Cope South 14 Nov. 10, 2013 131110-F-SI013-240.jpg dates back to the Renaissance Italy]]

• Paddle boat: first designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s{{cite web|title=Paddle Boat|url=http://www.msichicago.org/scrapbook/scrapbook_exhibits/leonardo/models/01_model.html|website=Leonardo da Vinci Exhibit: the Models|publisher=Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|access-date=17 September 2015|date=2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113072925/http://www.msichicago.org/scrapbook/scrapbook_exhibits/leonardo/models/01_model.html|archive-date=13 November 2015}}
• Pantelegraph: a device for telegraphic transmission of writing and drawing invented by Giovanni Caselli. Commercial service started in 1865. It was the first functional Fax Machine to enter commercial service{{cite book|last1=Homans|first1=Isaac Smith|last2=Dana|first2=William B.|title=Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iFxJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA194|access-date=23 March 2014|volume=46|year=1862|publisher=F. Hunt|page=194|chapter=Recent Italian inventions}}{{Cite web|url=https://faxauthority.com/biographies/giovanni-caselli/|title=Giovani Caselli – Pantelegraph (and fax) inventor|website=Fax Authority|access-date=2019-10-27}}
• Parachute: dates back to the Renaissance Italy
• Pasta's industrial production: in 1740 the Venetian Paolo Adami opened the first pasta factory.{{Cite web|url=http://www.internationalpasta.org/index.aspx?id=6|title=The History of pasta|website=www.internationalpasta.org|access-date=2019-12-20}} Buitoni mechanical pasta factory, founded in 1827, is the oldest in the world.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pasta-alimentare_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/|title=PASTA ALIMENTARE in "Enciclopedia Italiana"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-20}} The French machine Marseillais Purifier speeded up the separation of semolina flour from the bran. In Italy various artificial exsiccation techniques were developed.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AcOZDwAAQBAJ&q=Marseillais+Purifier&pg=PA29|title=The Ultimate Pasta and Noodle Cookbook|last=Cosmo|first=Serena|date=2017-10-24|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-60433-733-4|language=en}}https://www.dececco.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/32054_LENTA-ESSICCAZIONE-PER-UNA-PASTA-DI-QUALITA-SUPERIORE-1.pdf

"Translation from source: in 1889, the Founder of De Cecco was one of the first inventors of pasta drying systems hygienically acceptable and independent from the climatic conditions of the production area."

• Pasteurization:
• Technique known since the century XII in Asia and used both in China and Japan for alcoholic beverages preservation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/hornsey-2003-history-of-beer.html|title=Book Excerptise: A History of Beer and Brewing by Ian Spencer Hornsey|website=www.cse.iitk.ac.in|access-date=2019-11-18}}
• Scientific proof given by Lazzaro Spallanzani in 1768, disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lazzaro-Spallanzani|title=Lazzaro Spallanzani {{!}} Italian physiologist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}
• Personal Computer (in a broad sense, not referring to the modern IBM PC compatible architecture): due to the pioneering work of Pier Giorgio Perotto
• Perspective: linear perspective was invented by the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi, whose system depicts how objects shrink in size according to their distance from the eye.[https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/20060709leonardo-perspectograph.pdf], NYT, "Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions". Perspective was later reported in "Della pittura" (1435) by Leon Battista Alberti.{{Cite book|title=Della Pittura|last=Alberti|first=Leon Battista|publisher=1435}}
• Piano: an acoustic, stringed musical instrument played using a keyboard, with hammers striking the strings, invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1709.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/piano|title=Piano {{!}} musical instrument|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-11-09}}

File:Autostrada between Varese and Como.jpg ('Lakes Motorway'; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and Autostrada A9) in the 1950s, the first motorway built in the world. It was ideated by Piero Puricelli]]

• Piero Puricelli: Italian engineer and politician in the first half of the 20th century who was responsible for the ideation, in Italy, of the first motorways in the world, the Autostrada dei Laghi, connecting Milan to Lake Como and Lake Maggiore.{{Cite news |first=Thea |last=Lenarduzzi |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/the-worlds-first-motorway-piero-puricellis-masterpiece-is-the-focus-of-an-unlikely-pilgrimage-a6840816.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/the-worlds-first-motorway-piero-puricellis-masterpiece-is-the-focus-of-an-unlikely-pilgrimage-a6840816.html |archive-date=2022-05-26 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The motorway that built Italy: Piero Puricelli's masterpiece|date=January 30, 2016|newspaper=The Independent }}{{cite web|url=https://www.motorwebmuseum.it/en/places/varese/the-milano-laghi-by-piero-puricelli-the-first-motorway-in-the-world/|title=The "Milano-Laghi" by Piero Puricelli, the first motorway in the world|access-date=10 May 2022}}
• Pistol: first handheld guns were probably created in the city of Pistoia around 1540.The War Office (UK): Textbook of Small Arms (1929), page 86. H.M. Stationery Office (UK), 1929 Anyway, the etymology of the word is still debated.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pistola_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29|title=PISTOLA in "Enciclopedia Italiana"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-10-22}} In 1833 Francesco Antonio Broccu built the first prototype of the (percussion cap) revolver, which was later independently conceived and mass-produced by the American Samuel Colt.{{Cite web|url=http://daily.wired.it/news/cultura/prima-pistola-tamburo.html|title=Il simbolo del Far West|website=daily.wired.it|language=it|access-date=2019-12-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.focus.it/cultura/storia/10-inventori-italiani-da-ricordare?gimg=1#img1|title=10 invenzioni "italiane" attribuite ad altri - Focus.it|website=www.focus.it|access-date=2019-12-19}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnUqDwAAQBAJ&q=revolver+Francesco+Antonio+Broccu&pg=PT429|title=Blue Blood Revenge|last=Woodruff|first=R. R.|date=2017-07-02|publisher=Page Publishing Inc|isbn=978-1-64027-583-6|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpGuDwAAQBAJ&q=revolver+Francesco+Antonio+Broccu&pg=RA4-PA37|title=Competition Power May 2019 Monthly eBook|last=Publications|first=Adda247|publisher=Adda247 Publications|language=en|edition=English}}
• Pizzeria: established in 1738 as a stand for peddlers, Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba was opened in 1830 in Naples.{{cite book|last=Hughes|first=Holly|title=Frommer's 500 Places for Food and Wine Lovers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gUGOKH5cHnwC&pg=PA36|access-date=23 March 2014|date=8 April 2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-48064-9|page=36}}
• Polypropylene:
• (as a crystalline isotactic polymer) first synthesized by the Italian Giulio Natta and, independently, by the German Karl Rehn, beginning to be manufactured in Italy in 1957.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ab7-AwAAQBAJ&q=karl+rehn+plastic&pg=PA140|title=The Science Book|date=2014-08-01|publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited|isbn=9780241185100|language=en}}
• (as a syndiotactic polymer) first synthesized by Giulio Natta and his coworkers.
• Porro prism: invented by Ignazio Porro.

• Quick release skewer (for attaching a wheel to a bicycle): invented by Tullio Campagnolo in 1927; he was also among the early innovators of the rod gear derailleur, introducing an anterior dual gears derailleur (in addition to the posterior).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bikeitalia.it/breve-storia-del-cambio-della-bici/|title=Breve storia del cambio della bici|website=Bikeitalia.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-19|quote=Translation The real revolution comes with the Campagnolo Gran Sport gearbox, which became a milestone in technical evolution. [...] Also for the first time the front derailleur appeared}}

Image:Colt Autentica.jpg was invented in 1833 by the Italian artisan and inventor Francesco Antonio Broccu (1797–1882), born in Gadoni, Sardinia.]]

• Radio: developed, successfully tested in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi and produced on industrial scale as a long-distance communication medium. Marconi partially relied on similar technologies developed by the Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla. Both inventors have always had an independent interest in wireless technology and patents issued and reversed suited the economical needs of the time.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html|title=PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: Who Invented Radio?|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=2019-11-02|quote=The Marconi Company was suing the United States Government for use of its patents [...]. The action [was avoided] by restoring the priority of Tesla's patent over Marconi.}}
• Radiogoniometer: radio-electric apparatus that enables to determinate the direction, and thus the position, of transmission of the radio waves emitted.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/radiogoniometro_%28Dizionario-delle-Scienze-Fisiche%29/|title=radiogoniometro in "Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-22}} Applied in radio-assisted navigation, it represented the oldest (as well as one of the most important) instrument.{{Cite web|url=http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/B-T%20MFDF%201.htm|title=Bellini-Tosi MF/DF|website=www.airwaysmuseum.com|access-date=2019-12-22|quote=in 1906 [...] Dr Ettore Bellini and Captain Tosi, produced a direction-finding system which [...] in principle remained in use for over 70 years.}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/radiogoniometro/|title=radiogoniometro nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-22|quote=Translation [Radiogoniometer] is the oldest and one of the most important instruments for radio-assisted navigation. [...]. Conceived by A. Artom (1901), also known by the name of r. Bellini-Tosi (1908).}} To the development contributed Ettore Bellini,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gc9MP5gTt28C&q=Ettore+Bellini+guglielmo+marconi|title=Bollettino della Deputazione di storia patria per l'Umbria|last=l'Umbria|first=Deputazione di storia patria per|date=1942|publisher=Deputazione di storia patria per lU̓mbria.|language=it}} militar engineer Alessandro Tosi,{{Cite web|url=http://www.arifidenza.it/LaSezione/DiplomaPionieriItaliani2019/DIPLOMA_PROFILI.pdf|title=PIONIERI ITALIANI DELLA RADIOTECNICA|website=www.arifidenza.it|trans-title=Italian pioneers of radio technology|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222143244/http://www.arifidenza.it/LaSezione/DiplomaPionieriItaliani2019/DIPLOMA_PROFILI.pdf|archive-date=2019-12-22}} and Alessandro Artom (inventor of the "cross-frame" r. for long and medium length waves transmitters).{{Cite journal|last1=Bellini|first1=E.|last2=Tosi|first2=A.|date=1907-12-01|title=A Directive System of Wireless Telegraphy|url=https://zenodo.org/record/2084023|journal=Proceedings of the Physical Society of London|volume=21|issue=1|pages=305–328|doi=10.1088/1478-7814/21/1/321|quote=In order to be able to transmit and receive to or from any direction whatsoever, without having to turn the aerial, or having recourse to a large number of aerials in fixed positions, the aerials were built up of two equal closed oscillatory circuits, vertically placed and mutually perpendicular. This aerial system is connected up to special instruments for transmission and reception which the authors have called "Radiogoniometers." [...]. On this [original] method, by merely rotating a small coil of wire on the table, a fixed aerial directive system of any size was made to do what could otherwise only be done by turning the whole system of aerial wires in azimuth. The essence of the system was the piece of apparatus styled the radiogoniometer, which, by causing appropriate component radiation from two fixed wire triangles set at right angles, brought about a resultant radiation in any direction desired [...] so that if it can be used, as stated by the Authors, accurately to about one degree of arc, the radiogoniometer is the practical equivalent of 360 bent antennae.|bibcode=1907PPSL...21..305B}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gonnelli.it/it/asta-0025/artom-alessandro-raccolta-di-oltre-200-documen.asp|title=Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli - Casa d'Aste - Gonnelli Casa d'Aste|last=Multimedia|first=THETIS Srl Grafica-|website=Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli - Casa d'Aste - Gonnelli Casa d'Aste|access-date=2019-12-22|quote=Artom (1867-1927) was a scientist, inventor of the directional radio antenna and radiogoniometer}}
• Reggio Emilia approach: an educational method to be applied in preschooling.
• Revolver: The Italian artisan and inventor Francesco Antonio Broccu (1797–1882), born in Gadoni, Sardinia, is regarded as the first developer of the Revolver, realised by him in 1833.{{Cite web|date=2015-06-10|title=Brev. Lefaucheux 1858|url=http://www.storiainsoffitta.it/ALFABETICO/L/Lefaucheux%201858%20-%20Arma%20da%20Fuoco%20Belgio/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610215822/http://www.storiainsoffitta.it/ALFABETICO/L/Lefaucheux%201858%20-%20Arma%20da%20Fuoco%20Belgio/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-06-10|access-date=2021-02-09}}{{Cite web|last=Mura|first=Farwest it Sergio|title=Francesco Antonio Broccu : www.farwest.it|url=http://www.farwest.it/?tag=francesco-antonio-broccu|access-date=2021-02-09|language=it}}{{Cite web|title=Il simbolo del Far West|url=http://daily.wired.it/news/cultura/prima-pistola-tamburo.html|access-date=2021-02-09|website=daily.wired.it|language=it}}[http://edicola.unionesarda.it/Articolo.aspx?Data=20101203&Categ=0&Voce=1&IdArticolo=2528176 "La pistola di Colt? La inventò prima Broccu"] L'Unione Sarda. Web. 5 March 2011. {{in lang|it}}
• RFID (Radio Frequency Identification): the first RFID system was patented in America by the Italian-American Mario Cardullo. The system itself derives from the IFF transponder, which had been introduced by Great Britain during WWII. This RFID technology was used for the telepass, a smart card allowing the driver to pass through a motorway's toll station without halting the vehicle, as well as other contactless mobile payments.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/90anni/parole/1990-telepass.html|title=Treccani 90° - 1925/2015, 90 anni di cultura Italiana - 1990telepass|last=Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it|access-date=2019-12-16|quote=Translation the first RFID system designed for civil use [...] is due to inventor of Italian origins Mario W. Cardullo.}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nfcnearfieldcommunication.org/charles-walton.html|title=NFCNEARFIELDCOMMUNICATION.ORG - The Invention of RFID and the Contributions of CHARLES WALTON|website=www.nfcnearfieldcommunication.org|access-date=2019-12-16|quote=In 1973 Mario Cardullo was the first person to patent a RFID tag with the ability to have specific information written on it that was actually rewritable.}}{{Cite web|url=https://st.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2010-07-15/pago-080907.shtml?uuid=AYOz5w7B|title=Pago MA CON LA SIM - Il Sole 24 ORE|website=st.ilsole24ore.com|access-date=2019-12-16|quote=Translation Mario Cardullo, Author of the first patent related to RFID (1973), which is the base of contact-less mobile payments}}

Image:Satellite San Marco 1.jpg, a satellite of historical relevance: Italy was the third country, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to successfully launch a satellite, in 1964]]

• San Marco 1: a satellite of historical relevance: Italy was the third country, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to successfully launch a satellite, in 1964.
• School (partially innovated): at the height of the Roman Republic (and later during the Empire) parents were expected to have their children alphabetized and educated (albeit with partial gender discrimination on the specific subjects),{{Cite web|url=https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ancient-rome/roman-education/|title=Roman Education|website=History Learning Site|access-date=2019-11-08}} especially in order to enter a political career. Formal schools were established and arranged in progressive and meritocratic tiers. In the words of Quintilian, a teacher in the 1st century AD: "Some boys are lazy, unless forced to work; others do not like being controlled; some will respond to fear but others are paralyzed by it. Give me a boy who is encouraged by praise, delighted by success and ready to weep over failure." The rigorous educational method and curriculum used in Rome was copied in its provinces, providing a basis for education systems throughout later Western civilization.Oxford Classical Dictionary, Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Third Edition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996Michael Chiappetta, "Historiography and Roman Education," History of Education Journal 4, no. 4 (1953): 149-156.
• Science academy: the first scientific society was the Academia Secretorum Naturae founded in Naples in 1560 by the polymath Giambattista della Porta.{{cite book|last1=Bergin|first1=Thomas Goddard|last2=Speake|first2=Jennifer|title=Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOb4hIp7EE8C&pg=PT12|access-date=23 March 2014|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Facts on File, Incorporated|isbn=978-1-4381-1026-4|page=12}}
• Seawalls: ancient Rome pioneered concrete sea walls.
• Secchi disk: created by Angelo Secchi used to measure water transparency or turbidity in bodies of water
• (Modern) electromagnetic seismograph: in 1855 Luigi Palmieri realizes a seismograph consisting of U-shaped tubes oriented on the different cardinal directions, filling them with mercury. When an earthquake shakes the ground, the motion of the mercury produces an electrical contact that stops a clock and at the same time starts a recording drum registering the motion of a float on the surface of mercury. Results are: time of occurrence, relative intensity and duration. In 1875 Filippo Cecchi introduces the first pendulum seismograph in which the relative motion of the pendulums (with respect to ground motions) is recorded as a function of time.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/seismograph|title=seismograph {{!}} Definition & Facts|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-10-31}}{{Cite journal|last1=Borgstrom|first1=S.|last2=Lucia|first2=M. De|last3=Nave|first3=R.|date=1999-11-25|title=Luigi Palmieri: first scientific bases for geophysical surveillance in Mt. Vesuvius area|journal=Annals of Geophysics|volume=42|issue=3|doi=10.4401/ag-3741 |doi-access=free}}
• Roman Senate: a deliberative assembly of the Romans, lasting from the 8th century BC to at least the 7th century AD. The term senate comes from the Latin senatus or "Assembly of Elders". Previous councils of elders are known in Greece and in the Greek cities of Hellenistic and Roman ages; there was also a similar organism in Carthage. Rome established the senate as one of the fundamental institutions of the state and, for a long time, the main responsible for both domestic and foreign policy. Until the 15th century, the magistracy of the (roman) senator appointed by the Pope, along with magistrates of popular nomination (i.e. tribunes, reformers, conservatories), retained real authority, lasting with a symbolic role until the 19th century.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/senato/|title=senato|website=treccani.it}}
• Shopping Center: the earliest example of public shopping mall was the Trajan's Market in Ancient Rome built around 100-110 AD by Apollodorus of Damascus.
• Sphygmomanometer (partially innovated): invented by the Austrian Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch, Scipione Riva Rocci added to the design a key element: a cuff encircling the arm. Previous designs had used rubber bulbs filled with water or air to manually compress the artery or other technically complicated ways of pressure measurement.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hwz_eQvn7PMC|title=Medicine and the Reign of Technology|last1=Reiser|first1=Stanley J.|last2=Reiser|first2=Stanley Joel|date=1981-02-27|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-28223-9|language=en}}
• Staff: invented by music theorist Guido of Arezzo, whose four-line staff is still used today.
• Star fort (or Italian outline): with the first examples located in Italy, built towards the mid-15th century.{{Cite web|url=http://www.castlesandmanorhouses.com/types_10_star.htm|title=Types and History of Castles - Star Forts|website=www.castlesandmanorhouses.com|access-date=2019-11-12}} The bastioned trace was originally developed by Italian architects (e.g. Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Giuliano Giamberti da Sangallo, Michelangelo Buonarroti),{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/bastioned-trace|title=Bastioned trace {{!}} warfare|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}L'Enciclopedia - La biblioteca di Repubblica, Volume 8 (Felid-Ganz), p. 446 with experimentations of shapes continuing during the 16th century (see, for instance, castle of Copertino{{Cite web|url=http://musei.puglia.beniculturali.it/musei/castello-copertino/|title=Castello di Copertino|website=Polo Museale della Puglia|language=it|access-date=2019-11-12}})
• Stiletto: a type of narrow dagger appearing in Italy during the Middle Ages.
• Stock Exchange (origins): the underlying principles of stock exchange were introduced by Italian merchants in Bruges (Belgium);{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbbmuseum.be/en/2010/01/stockmarket.htm|title=The stock market: from the 'Ter Buerse' inn to Wall Street — Museum of the National Bank of Belgium}} an early example of stock exchange dates back to around 1309 in an inn called "Huis ter Beurze". The inn belonged to the Ter Bourse family, merchants of possible (if not likely) Venetian origin (della Borsa), who conducted transactions at the inn.{{Cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/rubriche/la-parola/2012/08/05/news/la_parola_5_agosto-40419817/|title=Borsa|date=2012-08-05|website=La Repubblica|access-date=2019-11-13}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/borsa|title=borsa nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-13}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.educational.rai.it/lemma/testi/economia/borsa.htm|title=lemma Borsa|website=www.educational.rai.it|access-date=2019-11-13}} The term 'beurs' derives from the name of this inn, spreading to other European countries and evolving into 'bourse', 'borsa', 'bolsa', 'börse', etc. In England the term ‘bourse’ was used between 1550 and 1775, eventually giving way to the term ‘royal exchange'.De Clercq G. (e.a.), Ter Beurze. Geschiedenis van de aandelenhandel in België, 1300-1990, 1993, p. 15-32.

File:Cptvdisplay.jpg was invented by the Italian-American Augusto Bissiri.]]

File:Phonecards from found in Olneyville Rhode Island 2008.tif was introduced by the Italian phone company SIP (later becoming Telecom Italia) in 1976, as a response to shortages of coin and theft of tokens and coins from public telephones.]]

• Modern enclosed Theater: Their structure was similar to that of ancient theaters, with a cavea and an architectural scenery, representing a city street. The oldest surviving examples of this style are the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (1580) and the Teatro all'antica in Sabbioneta (1590).{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}
• Prepaid telephone card: the Italian phone company SIP (later becoming Telecom Italia) inaugurated the earliest pre-paid electronic phone cards in 1976, as a response to shortages of coin and theft of tokens and coins from public telephones.{{Cite web|url=http://money4u.tripod.com/history.htm|title=About Pre-Paid Phone Cards|website=money4u.tripod.com|access-date=2019-12-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://targetitalianideas.com/2015/01/20/la-carta-telefonica-prepagata-uninvenzione-italiana/|title=La carta telefonica prepagata, un'invenzione italiana.|last=targetpointsrl|date=2015-01-20|website=Target Point|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-11}} The invention of the phone card itself (soon after spread in Europe) dates 1975,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbgusa.com/phonecardindustry/article/24.php|title=Phone Card Industry History|website=www.bbgusa.com|access-date=2019-12-11}} introduced by the Italian SIDA and was initially used at a SIP public telephone center in Rome. Tim introduced the first prepaid sims in 1996.{{Cite web|url=https://www.italiaoggi.it/archivio/tim-inventa-la-carta-sim-prepagata-272612|title=tim-inventa-la-carta-sim-prepagata|website=www.italiaoggi.it|quote=By complying with the type already used in fixed telephony, Tim will in fact launch a product capable of eliminating the constraints of fixed costs. This will be possible thanks to ´Ready to go ', the first prepaid sim card.}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.telecomitalia.com/tit/it/notiziariotecnico/edizioni-2015/2015-1/capitolo-3.html|title=Expo 2015 come opportunità di comunicazione {{!}} Notiziario Tecnico TIM|website=Telecom Italia Corporate|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-12}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/cards/13-invenzioni-italiane-che-ci-hanno-cambiato-vita-o-faranno/anni-90-scheda-telefonica-prepagata-1996.shtml|title=Le 14 invenzioni italiane che ci hanno cambiato la vita (o lo faranno)|date=2015-05-19|website=Corriere della Sera|language=it|access-date=2019-12-12}}
• Automatic telephone exchange: the first one being built for the Vatican in 1886 by Giovanni Battista Marzi.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-battista-marzi/|title=Marzi, Giovanni Battista nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-19}}
• Television (partially innovated): the Italian-American Augusto Bissiri was an early pioneer of the transmission of pictures, and is credited as an inventor of the television.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmiuC4uQIKUC&q=augusto+bissiri|title=Pig 'N Whistle|last=Gelakoska|first=Veronica|date=2010-11-01|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-4043-2|language=en}} His first short-distance transmission occurred in 1906, while his first intercontinental one dates 1917. In 1922 a system composed by disks,{{Cite web|url=http://linguaggio-macchina.blogspot.com/2007/09/e-philo-invent-la-tv.html|title=E Philo inventò la TV|last=Mameli|first=Andrea|date=2007|website=LINGUAGGIO MACCHINA|quote= Translation On 7 August 1922 a patent is registered in Los Angeles and signed Augusto Bissiri. The idea is to improve the Nipkow disk by obtaining a series of lines of light then converted into light signals and recreated in an electromechanical vision system.}} cathode-ray tube and screen is filed for patent;{{Cite patent

|country=US|number=1546193|pubdate=1925-07-14|title=Live-picture production|inventor1-last=Bissiri|inventor1-first=Augusto}} other improvements followed.{{Cite patent|country=US|number=1713213|pubdate=1929-05-14|title=Transmission of pictures|assign1=General Electric Company|inventor1-last=Bissiri|inventor1-first=Augusto}}, [previous solutions required a] variable illumination and visibility of the screen on which the picture is reproduced. In accordance with my invention, these difficulties are largely avoided or altogether obviated by the provision of a continuously illuminated screen which is arranged to have its contour and shading varied in accordance with the shading of the picture. Among other inventions, he developed a railway safety system and the Lettera Disco (lit. letter-disk), a voice recording device.{{Cite web|url=https://augustobissiri.wordpress.com/invenzioni/|title=Invenzioni|date=2012-07-30|website=Augusto Bissiri|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-29}} In 1927 Philo Farnsworth performed the first transmission of a fully electronic image. Later, a legal battle broke out between him and V. Zworykin.

• Thermojet: an early type of motorjet (jet engine) developed by Secondo Campini,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fueDwAAQBAJ&q=thermojet+campini&pg=PA11|title=Jet Prototypes of World War II: Gloster, Heinkel, and Caproni Campini's wartime jet programmes|last=Buttler|first=Tony|date=2019-09-19|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4728-3597-0|language=en|quote=Ingegnere Secondo Campini, inventor of the thermojet [...] In 1931 he and his two brothers moved to Milan and formed the Veivoli e Natanti a reazione}} whose prototype Caproni Campini N.1 has been the first (successful) publicly demonstrated jet airplane.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UEEAAAAMBAJ&q=public+record&pg=PA47|title=Life|date=1944-11-27|language=en|quote=First Jet Airplane on public record was Caproni-Campini plane of Italian air force}} He applied the motor-jet to boats too. Despite being abandoned in favor of turbojets, Campini' s work has inspired other new propulsion approaches.{{Cite journal|url=https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/2015-01-2484/|title=Energy Self Sufficient Aircrafts [sic] Can Become Reality through New Propulsion Design Approaches (2015-01-2484 Technical Paper)- SAE Mobilus|website=saemobilus.sae.org|language=en|doi=10.4271/2015-01-2484|access-date=2020-01-04|quote=Via researchgate.net CASPER architecture is inspired by Caproni-Campini CC2 indirect jet, with ducted fan and post-combustor}}{{Cite web|url=https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/2013-01-2205|title=Thermojet: An Old Idea Can Define a Novel Family of Jets (2013-01-2205 Technical Paper)- SAE Mobilus|website=saemobilus.sae.org|language=en|access-date=2020-01-04}}
• Galileo thermometer: invented by Galileo Galilei in 1593.
• Toffoli gate: a universal reversible logic gate invented by Tommaso Toffoli.
• Public toilets: latrines were part of the sanitation system of ancient Rome, placed near or as part of public baths (thermae).{{Cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2015-11-toilets-sewers-ancient-roman-sanitation.html|title=What toilets and sewers tell us about ancient Roman sanitation|website=phys.org|access-date=2019-11-08}}{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1999/03/20/quell-antica-latrina-romana-che-sembra-una.html|title=Quell' antica latrina romana che sembra una sala da ballo - la Repubblica.it|website=Archivio - la Repubblica.it|date=20 March 1999 |language=it|access-date=2019-11-08}} During the Middle Ages sanitation partially regressed, to be reintroduced in Europe by Britain (WC or water-closet){{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it//vocabolario/water-closet|title=water-closet in Vocabolario - Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-08}} and France.
• Tarot: Tarot, any of a set of cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling. Tarot decks were invented in Italy in the 1430s by adding to the existing four-suited pack a fifth suit of 21 specially illustrated cards called trionfi (“triumphs”) and an odd card called il matto (“the fool”).{{Cite web|title=Tarot {{!}} playing card|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/tarot|access-date=2021-07-07|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}
• Tarot card reading: One of the earliest reference to tarot triumphs is given c. 1450–1470 by a Dominican preacher in a sermon against dice, playing cards and 'triumphs'. References to the tarot as a social plague continue throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, but there are no indications that the cards were used for anything but games anywhere. As philosopher and tarot historian Sir Michael Dummett noted, "it was only in the 1780s, when the practice of fortune-telling with regular playing cards had been well established for at least two decades, that anyone began to use the tarot pack for cartomancy."{{Cite book|last=Dummett|first=Michael|title=The Game of Tarot|page=81|place=London|publisher=Duckworth}}
• Tontine: a form of life insurance developed by Lorenzo De Tonti in 1653.
• Torpedo: invented by the Italian G. B. Luppis and perfected by the English R. Whitehead.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/armi-subacquee_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/|title=Subacquee, armi|last=Caretti|first=Luigi|date=1936|website=www.treccani.it|quote=Translation The history of the torpedo is associated with that of its inventors, the Italian G. B. Luppis, [...] and the engineer R. Whitehead.}}
• Touchpad (co-invented): Federico Faggin has been co-founder and CEO of Synaptics. He co-invented many patents assigned to Synaptics,{{Cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/inventor/federico-faggin|title=Federico Faggin Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search|website=patents.justia.com|access-date=2019-11-02}} which produced and commercialized the first touch-pad and the earliest touchscreens. In an interview, Faggin stated that Apple had been the first company to be truly interested on Synaptics' touchscreens, asking for the exclusive on the technology. The offer was declined; nonetheless the later success of iPhones and iPads opened a huge market for Synaptics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/cronache/19_aprile_28/10-interni-10-interni-personcorriere-web-sezioni-ab6d3d4e-69e3-11e9-9fa7-3789e57c1b85.shtml|title=Così inventai il touchscreen, ma dissi no all'offerta di Steve Jobs|last=Vercesi|first=Pier Luigi|date=2019-04-28|website=Corriere della Sera|language=it|access-date=2019-11-02}}
• Trimprob: used for the electromagnetic detection of cancerous tissue, was developed in 1992 by Italian engineer Clarbruno Vedruccio.
• Triumphal Arch: the first recorded triumphal arches were set up in the time of the Roman Republic."Triumphal arch." Encyclopædia Britannica (2010)
• Typewriter: in 1575 the venetian printer and bookseller Francesco Rampazetto{{cite journal |last1=Nielsen |first1=Clare Iannota |title=Rampazetto, Francesco |journal=Oxford Music Online |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.22851 |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000022851}} created the first prototype of a machine that could impress letters on a piece of paper by means of "tactile writing".{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/who-invented-the-typewriter.html|title=Who Invented The Typewriter?|website=WorldAtlas|date=19 September 2019|access-date=2019-10-24}}{{Cite web|url=http://museocasertaolivetti.altervista.org/scrittura/|title=Scrittura {{!}} Museo dinamico della tecnologia Adriano Olivetti|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-10-28}} In 1714 the English engineer Henry Mill patented a typewriter without fabricating it. Early versions of the typewriter are reported in Austria in 1779 and Italy just after 1800 by Pellegrino Turri and Pietro Conti di Cilavegna.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/macchine-dattilografiche_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/|title=macchine dattilografiche|website=www.treccani.it}} In 1855 Novara lawyer Giuseppe Ravizza built and patented the Cembalo scrivano or macchina da scrivere a tasti (lit. "key based typing machine"), modeling its keyboard design on the keys of pianoforte. The Cembalo Scrivano is recognized as the most advanced typing machine until the invention of Remington. Cembalo scrivano was also capable of printing upper and lower cases that didn't exist yet in the first Remington typewriter machine.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}
• electronic typewriter: Olivetti ET 101 is the first Olivetti e. t. (1978) and is the first global-scale produced electronic typewriter.{{Cite web|url=http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/cards/13-invenzioni-italiane-che-ci-hanno-cambiato-vita-o-faranno/olivetti-et-101-1978.shtml|title=Le 14 invenzioni italiane che ci hanno cambiato la vita (o lo faranno)|date=2015-05-19|website=Corriere della Sera|language=it|access-date=2019-12-11}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.storiaolivetti.it/percorso.asp?idPercorso=625|title=La Olivetti ET 101 e le macchine per scrivere elettroniche|date=2012-06-18|access-date=2019-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618132616/http://www.storiaolivetti.it/percorso.asp?idPercorso=625|archive-date=18 June 2012}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.museotecnologicamente.it/olivetti-et-101-1978/|title=Olivetti ET 101, 1978 - Museo Tecnologicamente|website=www.museotecnologicamente.it|access-date=2019-12-11|quote=Translation The ET 101 was the first electronic typewriter in the world, a record to share with the QYX, of the Exxon Corporation, which never entered production}}
• Tuscan order: Classical order developed by the Romans.

File:Archiginnasio ora blu Bologna.jpg, established in 1088 AD, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation.]]

• Unibody of Lancia Lambda, a car designed by Vincenzo Lancia and presented between 1921-'22. The vehicle introduced the fusion between chassis and bodywork, halving the weight compared to similar displacement cars and providing much higher resistance to impact in respect to traditional structures.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-lancia_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|title=LANCIA, Vincenzo in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-27}} Other new features included independent front suspension, allowing better safety, and a V-shaped overhead four cylinder engine.{{Cite web|url=https://revivaler.com/1922-lancia-lambda-1st-series-torpedo/|title=1922 Lancia Lambda 1st Series Torpedo|last=Branch|first=Jon C.|date=2016-05-05|website=Revivaler|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-27}}{{Cite patent|title=Motor car|country=US|number=1694546|pubdate=1928-12-11|inventor1-last=Lancia|inventor1-first=Vincenzo}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RA1CgAAQBAJ&q=unibody&pg=PA60|title=Car|last=Votolato|first=Gregory|date=2015-06-15|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1-78023-459-5|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KxTHBAAAQBAJ&q=Probably+the+first+attempt+to+develop+such+an+architecture+was+done+with+the+1922+Lancia+Lambda&pg=PA23|title=The Motor Car: Past, Present and Future|last1=Genta|first1=Giancarlo|last2=Morello|first2=Lorenzo|last3=Cavallino|first3=Francesco|last4=Filtri|first4=Luigi|date=2014-01-06|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-8552-6|language=en}}
• University: the term comes from the Latin "universus", meaning "the whole / the universe", indicating a community of masters and scholars focused on higher learning{{Cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/university|title=university {{!}} Origin and meaning of university by Online Etymology Dictionary|website=www.etymonline.com|access-date=2019-11-08}} concerning all - both secular and religious - human knowledge known to that date, namely Jurisprudence, Medicine, Philosophy and Theology. European academics attending the universities were expected to have already mastered the seven liberal arts, spanning from grammar to music and astronomy. The University of Bologna (founded around 1088 AD) is, by these standards, the first university of the world and, as its motto goes, 'Nourishing Mother of the Studies'.{{Cite web|url=http://iotu.uchicago.edu/gray.html|title=The University in History: 1088 And All That|website=iotu.uchicago.edu|access-date=2019-11-08}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/blog/10-oldest-universities-world|title=10-oldest-universities-world|date=21 June 2019|website=www.topuniversities.com}} Many other universities started flourishing in Italy from the 13th century onward. Previous higher educational institutions existed during the Islamic Golden Age (the first one being the University of Karueein in 859 AD), focusing mainly on Islam (religion and laws) and only later obtaining the status of Universities. European universities themselves have, in part, religious origins, rooted in medieval Christian monastic schools and other institutions teaching theology.{{Cite web|url=https://universityequipe.com/elenco-universita-piu-antiche-mondo|title=L'elenco delle università più antiche del mondo: al primo posto il Marocco|last=Cirica|first=Paolo|date=2018-05-28|website=University Equipe|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-08}} Finally, academies developed well before the Roman empire, with the most famous being depicted almost two millenniums later by Raphael: the school of Athens. Medieval universities are distinguished from the academies of the classical age by the particular legal recognition (i.e. degree) they granted to those who completed the studies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/universita/|title=università nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-27}}

File:Venice Carnival - Masked Lovers (2010).jpg is an early example annual Carnival festival dating back in Venice to at least 1268. The most peculiar feature of Venice's celebration has laid in the extensive use of masks.]]

• Valsalva maneuver: named after its inventor, the 17th century physician Antonio Maria Valsalva,{{whonamedit|synd|2316}} who firstly created it for testing of circulatory functions.
• Vault (partially innovated): the firsts vaults were either built underground or required continuous walls of great thickness to resist their thrust. Romans perfected the statics of the intersecting barrel vault, overcoming these limitations and pioneering the use of vaults over halls of great dimensions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/vault-architecture|title=Vault {{!}} architecture|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-10-29}}
• Vega (rocket): Italy had the lead in this program (65%), which produced an extremely fast vector to bring light payloads into orbit. First Launch was in 2012.
• Venetian Carnival: carnival is an annual festival held in different places around the world, with an early example dating back in Venice to at least 1268. The most peculiar feature of Venice's celebration has laid in the extensive use of masks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/20889/7-carnivals-around-world|title=7 Carnivals Around the World|date=2009-02-17|website=www.mentalfloss.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-20}} The rite of Carneval has obscure origins, possibly Roman.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Carnival-pre-Lent-festival|title=Carnival {{!}} pre-Lent festival|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carnevale/|title=CARNEVALE in "Enciclopedia Italiana"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-20}}
• Vespa: in 1946 the Italian vehicle manufacturer Piaggio patented a "motorcycle of a rational complexity of organs and elements combined with a frame with mudguards and a casing covering the whole mechanical part". This design became one of the most popular scooters worldwide and is still in production.{{Cite web|url=http://www.museoscienza.org/approfondimenti/documenti/vespa/brevetto.asp|title=Vespa Piaggio: un viaggio nella storia italiana - museoscienza|website=www.museoscienza.org|access-date=2019-11-12}} The Vespa had an inedited load-bearing bodywork.{{Cite web|url=https://www.focus.it/tecnologia/innovazione/100-grandi-idee-made-in-italy?gimg=7#img7|title=Focus innovazione: 100 grandi idee italiane - Focus.it|website=www.focus.it|access-date=2020-01-04|quote=Translation To design the scooter (the first in the world to have a load-bearing body) was the engineer from Abruzzo Corradino D'Ascanio.}}
• Vibram: Vitale Bramani is credited with inventing the first rubber lug soles for shoes in 1937.
• Vibram FiveFingers: a type of shoe invented in 1999 by Robert Fliri.
• Viola (partially innovated): slightly larger than violin, is characterized by lower and deeper sound. Known fabrication started in northern Italy between 1530 and 1550.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Viola/History|title=History - Vienna Symphonic Library|website=www.vsl.co.at|access-date=2019-11-05}} It is speculated that the 'Viola da gamba' was invented in Valencia, Spain, to be later introduced in Italy during Renaissance: a valencian painting representing a viola dates back to 1475.{{Cite web|url=http://www.orpheon.org/OldSite/Seiten/education/OldestVioladagamba.htm|title=viola da gamba, viol, origin, history, iconography, buy, sell, Jose Vazquez, Orpheon Consort|website=www.orpheon.org|access-date=2019-11-05}} However, the viola is the oldest arched instrument, dating back, in different forms, to at least the 9th century.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/viola/|title=viola nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-05}} Ascribing the true origin of this instrument to specific geographical locations leads to questionable results.{{Cite web|url=https://violacentral.com/history-of-the-viola/|title=History of the Viola – Viola Central|website=violacentral.com|access-date=2019-11-13}}

• Watermark: this medieval innovation was first introduced in Fabriano, Italy, in 1282.
• Welfare: the earliest form of welfare was the lex frumentaria instituted by the tribune Gaius Gracchus dating back to 122 B.C., a law that ordered Rome's government to supply its citizens with allotments of cheaply priced grain.
• Galileo Hydrostatic Weighing Scale: a weight measuring device that uses hydraulic counter-force of a liquid, usually water or oil, to determine weight of an object under Archimedes' principle. Nowadays is mainly used in hydraulic types of weighbridges. Its functioning principles were first described by Galileo Galilei in 1586.

• Zamboni pile: early electric battery{{Cite web | last = Tinazzi | first = Massimo | title = Perpetual Electromotive of Giuseppe Zamboni | year = 1996 | url = http://www.brera.unimi.it/sisfa/atti/1996/tinazzi.html | access-date = 2008-01-18 }}
• Ziegler–Natta catalyst: catalyst to produce polymers co-invented by Giulio Natta.{{cite journal | title=Giulio Natta, 1903—1979 | author=C.E.H. Bawn | journal=Nature | volume=280 | issue= 5724|page=707 | year=1979 | doi=10.1038/280707a0| bibcode=1979Natur.280..707B | s2cid=42699844 | doi-access=free }}

File:Staphylococcus aureus (AB Test).jpg: Vincenzo Tiberio is considered by notable sources to be discoverer of antibiotics]]

• Antibiotics:{{Cite web|url=http://www.difesa.it/GiornaleMedicina/Pagine/Roma_ricorda_figura_di_Vincenzo_Tiberio.aspx|title=A Roma si ricorda la figura di Vincenzo Tiberio|website=www.difesa.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-14}} Vincenzo Tiberio is considered by notable sources to be discoverer of antibiotics. By 1895 the Italian physician had already observed, scientifically reproduced and written a research on the antibiotic effect of "cellular products, soluble in water" extracted from Penicillium glaucum, Mucor mucedo and Aspergillus flavescens{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/magazine/atlante/scienze/L_italiano_che_invento_la_penicillina.html|title=L'italiano che inventò la penicillina|website=Treccani, l'Enciclopedia italiana|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-14}} and sterilized in the experimentation{{Cite journal|last1=Bucci|first1=Roberto|last2=Gallì|first2=Paola|date=2011|title=Public Health History Corner Vincenzo Tiberio: a misunderstood researcher|journal=Italian Journal of Public Health|language=en|volume=8|issue=4|doi=10.2427/5688 |doi-access=free}} (both in vitro and in vivo{{Cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/salute/11_febbraio_09/penicillina-scoperta-italiana-tiberio-corcella_28d1bc0a-307d-11e0-a9d6-00144f02aabc.shtml|title=La penicillina? Una scoperta italiana - Corriere della Sera|website=www.corriere.it|access-date=2019-11-14}}). It can't be ruled out the possibility of his findings to have been taken as a starting point for later European researches.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lastampa.it/salute/2017/09/20/news/tiberio-l-italiano-che-scopri-il-potere-curativo-delle-muffe-35-anni-prima-della-penicillina-di-fleming-1.34422998|title=Tiberio, l'italiano che scoprì il potere curativo delle muffe 35 anni prima della penicillina di Fleming - La Stampa|date=2017-09-20|website=lastampa.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-14}}
• Mycophenolic acid, the first fungi-derived crystallized antibiotic, discovered by Bartolomeo Gosio, who is also known for his research on the toxic Gosio gas.{{Cite web|url=http://www.difesaonline.it/news-forze-armate/storia/vincenzo-tiberio-ufficiale-medico-della-regia-marina-primo-italiano|title=Vincenzo Tiberio, ufficiale medico della Regia Marina, primo italiano scopritore degli antibiotici|date=2017-04-17|website=Difesa Online|language=it|access-date=2019-12-23|quote=Translation Bartolomeo Gosio [...] discovered [...] the first true antibiotic}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iP0i7x_38ZwC&q=bartolomeo+gosio|title=Natural Products: Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine|last1=Zhang|first1=Lixin|last2=Demain|first2=Arnold L.|date=2007-11-17|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-59259-976-9|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289245568|title=Bartolomeo_Gosio_Lo_scienziato_di_Magliano_a_un_passo_dal_Nobel|last=Aimassi|first=Giorgio|date=2008|website=researchgate.net}}{{Citation|last=Bentley|first=Ronald|title=Bartolomeo Gosio, 1863–1944: An appreciation|date=2001-01-01|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065216401480051|journal=Advances in Applied Microbiology|volume=48|pages=229–250|publisher=Academic Press|doi=10.1016/S0065-2164(01)48005-1|pmid=11677681|isbn=9780120026487|access-date=2019-12-23}}
• Rifampicin, an antibacterial drug discovered by a team led by Prof. Piero Sensi at Lepetit Pharmaceuticals in 1957 in Milan, Italy.
• Cephalosporins antibiotics. Discovered by Giuseppe Brotzu in 1948.Podolsky, M. Lawrence (1998) Cures Out of Chaos: How Unexpected Discoveries Led to Breakthroughs in Medicine and Health, Harwood Academic Publishers
• Artificial insemination: although previously theorized, only in 1784 the first artificial insemination in a viviparous animal{{Cite web|url=https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/lazzaro-spallanzani-1729-1799|title=Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) {{!}} The Embryo Project Encyclopedia|website=embryo.asu.edu|access-date=2019-12-22|quote=Interested in questions about generation, Spallanzani performed the first artificial insemination of a viviparous animal, a spaniel dog, a feat he recognized as one of his greatest accomplishments.}} was officially performed and reported by the Italian physiologist Lazzaro Spallanzani.{{Cite journal|last1=Ombelet|first1=W.|last2=Van Robays|first2=J.|date=2015|title=Artificial insemination history: hurdles and milestones|journal=Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn|volume=7|issue=2|pages=137–143 |pmc=4498171|pmid=26175891|quote=More than 100 years later, in 1784, the first artificial insemination in a dog was reported by the scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani (Italian physiologist, 1729-1799). This insemination resulted in the birth of three puppy’s 62 days later (Belonoschkin, 1956; Zorgniotti, 1975). It is believed that Spallanzani was the first to report the effects of cooling on human sperm when he noted, in 1776, that sperm cooled by snow became motionless.}}
• Black reaction: a silver staining technique which was first performed by Camillo Golgi. It helped the study of the nerve cells.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1906/golgi/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=2019-11-05}}
• Blood circulation: since Galen times it was believed that the internal human body circulation was separated in two different circuits: veins system, carrying food to the body, and arteries system, responsible for the flowing pneuma or "circulating air" in the body that was necessary to vital functions. Although many beliefs of Galen have been disproved by many Italian anatomists during Renaissance, the first who guessed blood did not mix in the heart and, instead, formed a single circulating system passing through the lungs, was the Spanish physician Miguel Serveto. However, his works were largely unknown for a long time as he was burned at the stake with his books for heresy by order of the city's governing council of Geneva, and it was an Italian anatomy professor, Realdo Colombo, who validated the intuitions of Servetus, proving that cardiac septum is impermeable to blood. He also spoke correctly about the existence of pulmonary circulation. Girolamo Fabrizi d’Acquapendente (1537–1619) was the first to study the valves of the veins, but it was Andrea Cesalpino the one who described the circulation of blood in the body. Cesalpino showed that the heart, not the liver, is the engine that physically pumps the blood into the vessels: starting from the arteries to capillaries, blood reaches the whole body, then it returns through the veins up to the heart. He used for the first time the term blood circulation and he demonstrated that in veins and arteries flows only blood, not pneuma, and that the passage of blood from arteries to veins through capillaries is due to difference of pressure. It remains famous his experiment of ligature of veins then resumed by William Harvey in order to prove the blood flow course in veins. Finally, Marcello Malpighi gave with his microscope observational proof of the exchange of blood from arteries to veins in capillaries.
• Cerebrospinal fluid: the physician Domenico Cotugno is credited with the discovery of this fluid in 1774.
• DDrna: a class of small non-coding RNAs (abbreviated DDRNAs) unveiled in a study by Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, which play an important role in the activation of DDR, and in turn, as previously discovered by F. Fagagna, in the proliferation's inhibition typical of cellular aging.{{Cite web|url=http://www.igm.cnr.it/pagine-personali/dadda-di-fagagna/|title=d'Adda di Fagagna|website=www.igm.cnr.it|access-date=2019-12-16}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/02/27/scoperte-da-un-team-di-ricercatori-italiani-molecole-contro-linvecchiamento-cellulare/3419316/|title=Scoperte da un team di ricercatori italiani molecole contro l'invecchiamento cellulare|date=2017-02-27|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-16|quote=[Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna] work described a class of non-coding RNAs entirely new, the Ddrna}}{{Cite web|url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/322726|title=A novel direct role of non coding RNA in DNA damage response activation|website=cordis.europa.eu|quote=We have recently identified a completely hitherto undiscovered level of control of DDR activation [...]. We have discovered that short RNA species are detectable at DNA damage sites and are necessary for DDR activation at DNA lesions. [IFOM Fondazione Istituto Firc Di Oncologia Molecolare]}}{{Cite journal|last1=Gioia|first1=Ubaldo|last2=Francia|first2=Sofia|last3=Cabrini|first3=Matteo|last4=Brambillasca|first4=Silvia|last5=Michelini|first5=Flavia|last6=Jones-Weinert|first6=Corey W.|last7=d’Adda di Fagagna|first7=Fabrizio|date=2019-04-23|title=Pharmacological boost of DNA damage response and repair by enhanced biogenesis of DNA damage response RNAs|journal=Scientific Reports|language=en|volume=9|issue=1|pages=6460|doi=10.1038/s41598-019-42892-6|pmid=31015566|pmc=6478851 |bibcode=2019NatSR...9.6460G}}
• Gastric digestion (scientific proof): Edward Stevens for the first time performed an in vitro digestion. Spallanzani interpreted the process of digestion not simply as a mechanical process, but as one of actual solution, chemically mediated by the acid gastric juice of the stomach.{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Spallanzani, Lazaro |volume=25 |page=593}}{{Blockquote|text="His great work, however, is the Dissertationi de fisica animale e vegetale (2 vols., 1780). Here he first interpreted the process of digestion, which he proved to be no mere mechanical process of trituration, but one of actual solution, taking place primarily in the stomach, by the action of the gastric juice."|sign=|source=}}{{Cite journal|last1=Kousoulis|first1=Antonis A.|last2=Tsoucalas|first2=Gregory|last3=Armenis|first3=Iakovos|last4=Marineli|first4=Filio|last5=Karamanou|first5=Marianna|last6=Androutsos|first6=George|date=2012|title=From the "hungry acid" to pepsinogen: a journey through time in quest for the stomach's secretion|journal=Annals of Gastroenterology|volume=25|issue=2|pages=119–122 |pmc=3959394|pmid=24713892|quote=Edward Stevens was the first to perform [...] in vitro digestion successfully and proved that the gastric juice itself contained the active principle necessary for the assimilation of food [...] [Lazzaro Spallanzani] postulated that digestion was by an acid and, in 1783, he finally concluded that digestion in vitro as well as in vivo was a chemical process.}}{{Cite journal|last1=Peescott|first1=F.|last2=Spallanzani|date=1930|title=Spallanzani on Spontaneous Generation and Digestion|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine|language=en|volume=23|issue=4|pages=495–510|doi=10.1177/003591573002300445 |quote=Spallanzani's researches on digestion [...] proved in a decisive manner that digestion is not a simple mechanical process, but one of true solution, occurring mainly in the stomach under the influence of the gastric juice.|doi-access=free}}
• Eustachian tube: Bartolomeo Eustachi extended the knowledge of the internal ear by rediscovering and describing correctly the tube that bears his name. He is the first who described the internal and anterior muscles of the malleus and the stapedius, and the complicated figure of the cochlea.
• Fallopian tube: Gabriele Falloppio studied the reproductive organs in both sexes, and described the tube, which leads from the ovary to the uterus and now bears his name. He was the first to describe a condom (in his writings, a linen sheath wrapped around the penis), and he advocated the use of such sheaths to prevent syphilis.
• Germ theory of disease (as a scientific theory):{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Girolamo-Fracastoro|title=Girolamo Fracastoro {{!}} Italian physician|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-19}} physician Girolamo Fracastoro, scholar and poet, in 1546 was the first proposing that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable tiny particles or "spores" that could transmit infection by direct or indirect contact or even without contact over long distances. In his idea the "spores" of diseases may refer to either chemicals or living entities. He appears to have first used the Latin word fomes, meaning tinder, in the sense of infectious agent. He was the one to christen the syphilis disease with this name, from the name of a young boy Syphilius in Greek mythology, who was punished with an horrible disease for he had offended Apollo. Fracastoro also gave the first scientific description of typhus. The lunar crater Fracastorius is named after him.

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• Golgi apparatus: an organelle of the eukaryotic cell, discovered by Camillo Golgi in 1897.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Golgi-apparatus|title=Golgi apparatus {{!}} Definition, Function, Location, & Facts|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-11-05}}
• HIV Virus (co-discovered): the French Luc Montagnier and the Italian American{{Cite web|url=https://www.esteri.it/mae/en/sala_stampa/archivionotizie/approfondimenti/new-york-consegnato-a-robert-gallo.html|title=New York - Robert Gallo receives Leonardo da Vinci Prize|website=www.esteri.it|access-date=2019-11-05}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.americaoggi.info/2016/01/14/46464-il-premio-leonardo-robert-gallo|title=Il Premio Leonardo a Robert Gallo {{!}} America Oggi|website=www.americaoggi.info|access-date=2019-11-05}} Robert Charles Gallo (US-born) are credited with discovering the virus causing the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
• Human Genome Diversity Project (or HGDP): a research project started by Stanford University's Morrison Institute in 1990s along with collaboration of scientists around the world.{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-scientist.com/news/proposed-human-genome-diversity-project-still-plagued-by-controversy-and-questions-57807|title=Proposed Human Genome Diversity Project Still Plagued By Controversy And Questions|website=The Scientist Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-09-11}} It has been the result of many years of work by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza.
• Insulin: artificial synthesis (contribution in discovery): the Italian Roberto Crea was part of a team of ten Genentech scientists publishing in 1979 a research that described the solution for synthetic insulin,{{Cite web|url=https://www.gene.com/stories/cloning-insulin|title=Cloning Insulin|last=Genentech|website=Genentech: Breakthrough science. One moment, one day, one person at a time.|access-date=2019-11-12}} obtained through genes (coding the protein insulin A and B) that were inserted in Escherichia coli bacteria.{{Cite journal|last1=Goeddel|first1=D. V.|last2=Kleid|first2=D. G.|last3=Bolivar|first3=F.|last4=Heyneker|first4=H. L.|last5=Yansura|first5=D. G.|last6=Crea|first6=R.|last7=Hirose|first7=T.|last8=Kraszewski|first8=A.|last9=Itakura|first9=K.|last10=Riggs|first10=A. D.|year=1979|title=Expression in Escherichia coli of chemically synthesized genes for human insulin|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=76|issue=1|pages=106–110|doi=10.1073/pnas.76.1.106 |pmid=85300|pmc=382885|bibcode=1979PNAS...76..106G|doi-access=free}} This technique made possible the mass production of insulin without relying on extraction from animals sources.
• Liposuction: medical procedure invented by Dr Giorgio Fischer in 1974.
• Malaria transmission: discovered by Amico Bignami to be originated by mosquitoes as infecting vectors.{{Cite web|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2484.html|title=Amico Bignami|website=www.whonamedit.com|access-date=2019-11-17}}
• Mirror Neurons: being activated in a subject following either his own actions or the ones of another observed actor. These kinds of neurons were discovered by a team of Italian scientists led by Giacomo Rizzolatti.{{Cite journal|last1=Caggiano|first1=Vittorio|last2=Fogassi|first2=Leonardo|last3=Rizzolatti|first3=Giacomo|last4=Casile|first4=Antonino|last5=Giese|first5=Martin A.|last6=Thier|first6=Peter|date=2012-07-17|title=Mirror neurons encode the subjective value of an observed action|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=109|issue=29|pages=11848–11853|doi=10.1073/pnas.1205553109 |pmid=22753471|pmc=3406819|bibcode=2012PNAS..10911848C|doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.lescienze.it/news/2012/07/06/news/il_valore_soggettivo_secondo_i_neuroni_specchio_2_-1137737/|title=Il valore soggettivo per i neuroni specchio|website=Le Scienze|language=it|access-date=2019-12-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.isfar-firenze.it/formazione/scoperta-e-ruolo-neuroni-specchio/|title=Neuroni specchio: scoperta e ruolo nei processi socio-educativi|date=2018-05-15|website=Isfar|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomo-rizzolatti/|title=Rizzolatti, Giacomo nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-19}}
• MS4A4A: discovered by an Italian research, this molecule plays a central role in the dialogue between Natural Killer and macrophage cells, controlling the tumoral metastatic diffusion.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lescienze.it/news/2019/07/25/news/immunita_e_tumori_scoperta_una_molecola_che_previene_la_formazione_delle_metastasi-4491086/|title=Immunità e tumori: scoperta una molecola che previene la formazione delle metastasi|date=2019-07-25|website=Le Scienze|language=it|access-date=2019-12-13|quote=Translation We discovered the gene responsible for MS4A4A 10 years ago in tumor-associated macrophages, but the role of the protein it codified has been clarified [only] recently - explains Massimo Locati, professor of immunology at the University of Milan...}}
• NGF or nerve growth factor: a protein involved primarily in the growth, as well as the maintenance, proliferation, and survival of nerve cells, whose absence leads to various diseases. Co-discovered in the early 1950s by Rita Levi-Montalcini in collaboration with Stanley Cohen. Today, NGF and its relatives are collectively designated as neurotrophins and are extensively studied for their role in mediating multiple biological phenomena.{{Cite journal|last1=Aloe|first1=Luigi|last2=Chaldakov|first2=George N.|date=March 2013|title=The Multiple Life of Nerve Growth Factor: Tribute to Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012)|journal=Balkan Medical Journal|volume=30|issue=1|pages=4–7|doi=10.5152/balkanmedj.2013.003 |pmc=4116029|pmid=25207059}}
• Octopamine: discovered by Vittorio Erspamer.{{Cite journal|last=Erspamer|first=V.|date=2009-03-13|title=Active Substances in the Posterior Salivary Glands of Octopoda. II. Tyramine and Octopamine (Oxyoctopamine).|journal=Acta Pharmacologica et Toxicologica|language=en|volume=4|issue=3–4|pages=224–247|doi=10.1111/j.1600-0773.1948.tb03345.x}}{{cite journal |last1=Aonuma |first1=Hitoshi |last2=Kaneda |first2=Mugiho |last3=Hatakeyama |first3=Dai |last4=Watanabe |first4=Takayuki |last5=Lukowiak |first5=Ken |last6=Ito |first6=Etsuro |title=Weak involvement of octopamine in aversive taste learning in a snail |journal=Neurobiology of Learning and Memory |date=May 2017 |volume=141 |pages=189–198 |doi=10.1016/j.nlm.2017.04.010 |pmid=28450080 |s2cid=207263628 }}
• Oncovirus: type of virus capable of causing cancers. The experiments led by Italian-American Renato Dulbecco and his group demonstrated that the genes of the reverse transcribing viruses infecting the cells, are inoculated into their chromosomes, with a behavior that alternates phases of inactivity and activity, linked to the formation of tumors.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/renato-dulbecco_%28Enciclopedia-dei-ragazzi%29/|title=Dulbecco, Renato in "Enciclopedia dei ragazzi"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-29}} Nobel prize was awarded to Renato Dulbecco, David Baltimore and Howard Temin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-29}} In 1986 R. Dulbecco proposed the Human Genome Project to the international community,{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/renato-dulbecco/|title=Dulbécco, Renato nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-29}} with the subsequent project initiation by the Italian CNR (National Research Council).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lescienze.it/archivio/articoli/2007/12/01/news/il_progetto_genoma_vent_anni_dopo-549101/|title=Il Progetto Genoma vent'anni dopo|date=2007-12-01|website=Le Scienze|language=it|access-date=2019-11-29}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.lescienze.it/topics/2012/02/20/news/progetto_genoma_umano-861535/|title=Renato Dulbecco e il Progetto genoma umano|website=Le Scienze|language=it|access-date=2019-11-29}}
• Occupational medicine: with his book on occupational diseases, De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (Diseases of Workers), Bernardino Ramazzini played a substantial role in the birth and development of Occupational medicine, outlining the health hazards of chemicals, dust, metals, repetitive or violent motions, odd postures, and other disease-causative agents encountered by workers in more than fifty occupations.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/occupational-medicine|title=Enciclopedia Britannica|date=21 April 2023 }}
• Piezoelectric surgery: a surgery technique developed by Tomaso Vercellotti.{{Cite patent|country=US|number=6695847|pubdate=2004-02-24|title=Surgical device and method for bone surgery|inventor1-last=Bianchetti|inventor1-first=Fernando|inventor2-last=Vercellottí|inventor2-first=Domenico|inventor3-last=Vercellotti|inventor3-first=Tomaso}}
• Pneumothorax induction as an early method of treating tuberculosis: nowadays abandoned, proposed by Carlo Forlanini.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/collassoterapia-polmonare_res-5f2b2b80-8bad-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/|title=COLLASSOTERAPIA POLMONARE in "Enciclopedia Italiana"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.paviaedintorni.it/temi/personaggi_file/personaggi_scienza_file/personaggi_scienza_forlanini_file/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Documento1.pdf|title=Il pneumotorace artificiale di Carlo Forlanini|website=paviaedintorni.it}}
• Ricordi Chamber: doctor Camillo Ricordi -director of Diabetes Research Center (DRI), and Cell Transplant Center of University of Miami- became one of highest authorities in the cure of diabetes disease; he developed the first device able to isolate large quantities of insulin-producing cells from the human pancreas and to have successfully conducted the first series of pancreatic islets transplants capable of treating diabetes. His procedures have been used worldwide.
• Robotic Hand Prosthesis (permanent implant on humans): the first prototype of an artificial, poly-articulated and sensitive hand was made in Italy, with a real-time decoding of the electrical signals sent from the brain to the muscles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/made-italy-mano-robotica-impiantata-svezia-e-nata-pisa-AFktAfG|title=Made in Italy: la mano robotica impiantata in Svezia è nata a Pisa|website=Il Sole 24 ORE| date=5 February 2019 |language=it|trans-title=Made in Italy: the robotic hand implanted in Sweden was born in Pisa|access-date=2019-12-16}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2015/04/16/prima-mano-robotica-italiana/|title=La prima mano robotica tutta italiana|date=2015-04-16|magazine=Wired|language=it|access-date=2019-12-16}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ansa.it/canale_scienza_tecnica/notizie/biotech/2019/02/05/primo-impianto-permanente-al-mondo-di-mano-robotica_ceffa85f-3495-439d-ad43-c4190d39e8a8.html|title=Primo impianto permanente al mondo di una mano robotica FOTO E VIDEO - Scienza & Tecnica|date=2019-02-05|website=ANSA.it|language=it|access-date=2019-12-16}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina-e-ricerca/2019/02/05/news/primo_impianto_permanente_al_mondo_di_una_mano_robotica-218340585/|title=Primo impianto permanente al mondo di mano robotica|date=2019-02-05|website=Repubblica.it|language=it|access-date=2019-12-16}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/02/05/per-la-prima-volta-al-mondo-una-mano-robotica-dotata-di-sensibilita-e-stata-impiantata-in-modo-permanente-grazie-agli-scienziati-italiani/4948314/|title=Per la prima volta al mondo una mano robotica dotata di sensibilità è stata impiantata in modo permanente, grazie agli scienziati italiani|date=2019-02-05|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it-IT|trans-title=For the first time in the world, a robotic hand with sensitivity has been permanently implanted, thanks to Italian scientists|access-date=2019-12-16}}
• Sarcoptes scabiei: discovered by Giacinto Cestoni and Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo (in 1687) and identified as the disease-causing agent of scabies. Bonomo also developed the cure: bathing in antiseptic.{{Cite web|url=http://pacs.unica.it/biblio/lesson5.htm|title=History of Medicine|website=pacs.unica.it|access-date=2019-11-11}} Parasitology had other fundamental advancements thanks to the research of Francesco Redi, pioneering the subsequent invalidation of spontaneous generation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francesco-Redi|title=Francesco Redi {{!}} Italian physician and poet|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-11}}
• SARS virus: an infectious disease discovered by Carlo Urbani; having been infected, he didn't live long enough to see how effective his early detection and intervention was in buying time and saving lives.{{Cite journal|last1=Reilley|first1=Brigg|last2=Van Herp|first2=Michel|last3=Sermand|first3=Dan|last4=Dentico|first4=Nicoletta|date=2003-05-15|title=SARS and Carlo Urbani|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=348|issue=20|pages=1951–1952|doi=10.1056/NEJMp030080 |pmid=12748315|doi-access=free}}

File:Serotonin-Spartan-HF-based-on-xtal-3D-balls-web.png: discovered and synthesized by Italian chemist and pharmacologist Vittorio Erspamer.]]

• Serotonin: discovered and synthesized by Italian chemist and pharmacologist Vittorio Erspamer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/salute/depressione/19_novembre_13/ecco-dove-nata-serotonina-ormone-della-felicita-e2169316-f270-11e9-a8b5-b5f95b99eb6a.shtml|title=Ecco dove è nata la serotonina, ormone "della felicità"|last=Vercesi|first=Pier Luigi|date=2019-11-13|website=Corriere della Sera|language=it|access-date=2019-11-26}}{{Cite journal|last=Whitaker-Azmitia|first=Patricia Mack|date=1999|title=The Discovery of Serotonin and its Role in Neuroscience|journal=Neuropsychopharmacology|language=en|volume=21|issue=1|pages=2–8|doi=10.1016/S0893-133X(99)00031-7|pmid=10432482|s2cid=23530491 |doi-access=free}}
• (Spinal) biomechanics: Giovanni A. Borelli is often considered father of biomechanics,{{Cite journal|last1=Provencher|first1=Matthew T.|last2=Abdu|first2=William A.|date=2000-01-01|title=Historical Perspective: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli: "Father of Spinal Biomechanics"|journal=Spine|language=en-US|volume=25|issue=1|pages=131–6 |doi=10.1097/00007632-200001010-00022|pmid=10647171|s2cid=75899745}}{{Cite journal|last=Pope|first=Malcolm H.|date=2005-10-15|title=Giovanni Alfonso Borelli—The Father of Biomechanics|journal=Spine|language=en-US|volume=30|issue=20|pages=2350–2355|doi=10.1097/01.brs.0000182314.49515.d8|pmid=16227900 }} having calculated the forces necessary in the human body for reaching the equilibrium in the joints, long before the publishing of the Newtonian Laws. Borelli first understood that it is the motion to be magnified by the locomotor system's levers rather than force and consequently motion-producing muscles have to explicate greater force compared to the motion-resisting entities. It is worth mentioning Borelli ideated what is probably the first rebreather.{{Cite web|last=Quick, D|date=1970|title=A History Of Closed Circuit Oxygen Underwater Breathing Apparatus.|url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/4960|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217192044/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/4960|url-status=usurped|archive-date=17 February 2012|language=en}}
• Stem cells as vectors for Gene Therapy: in 1992 doctor Claudio Bordignon, working at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, performed the first procedure of gene therapy using hematopoietic stem cells as vectors delivering genes intended to correct hereditary diseases.Gene therapy. Italians first to use stem cells. Abbott A. Nature. 9 April 1992;356(6369):465 He is known for having validated many successful gene therapy protocols targeting genetic and acquired disorders, such as leukaemias.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepharmaletter.com/profile/claudio-bordignon|title=Claudio Bordignon|website=www.thepharmaletter.com|access-date=2019-11-13}}
• Striated muscles: first differentiated from smooth muscles by Giorgio Baglivi in his monograph De fibra motrice. An exponent of iatrophysics, he isolated muscle fibers and studied them using a compound microscope, outlining the fundamental role played by the fiber as a structure. He also concluded that the heart muscle had spontaneous contraction, independent from other innervations.{{Cite journal|last1=Hurst|first1=J. Willis|last2=Fye|first2=W. Bruce|last3=Fye|first3=W. Bruce|date=2006-12-05|title=Giorgio Baglivi|journal=Clinical Cardiology|volume=25|issue=10|pages=487–489|doi=10.1002/clc.4960251010 |pmc=6654177|pmid=12375809}} His depiction of pulmonary edema is credited as its first proper clinical description. In addition, he proposed the introduction of specialized medical degrees.
• Strimvelis: the first ex-vivo stem cell gene therapy to treat patients with a very rare disease called ADA-SCID. The treatment was developed at San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), in Milan. Strimvelis has been approved in Europe for the treatment of human patients.
• Tafazzin: a protein discovered in 1996 by Italian scientists Silvia Bione, researcher at the time at the Institute of Genetics, Biochemistry and Evolution-CNR of Pavia.{{Cite journal |last1=Schlame |first1=Michael |last2=Xu |first2=Yang |date=2020-08-21 |title=The Function of Tafazzin, a Mitochondrial Phospholipid–Lysophospholipid Acyltransferase |journal=Journal of Molecular Biology |series=Molecular Mechanisms in Integral Membrane Enzymology |language=en |volume=432 |issue=18 |pages=5043–5051 |doi=10.1016/j.jmb.2020.03.026 |issn=0022-2836 |pmc=7483898 |pmid=32234310}}
• Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS), with the first recorded clinical application by Giovanni Aldini in 1803.{{Cite web |url=https://haloneuroblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/a-brief-history-of-tdcs/ |title=A brief history of TDCS | |access-date=24 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702180252/https://haloneuroblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/a-brief-history-of-tdcs/ |archive-date=2 July 2018 |url-status=dead }}"AIM25 text-only browsing: Royal College of Surgeons of England: Aldini, Giovanni: Notebook". Aim25.ac.uk. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
• Rappuoli (innovated) vaccines: covering more than 150 patent families that have been registered since the mid-1990s by Rino Rappuoli, radically changing the vaccine production procedures used to immunize millions of people.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ufficiobrevetti.it/invenzioni-italiane/|title=Invenzioni italiane: i 10 brevetti che hanno fatto la storia - UfficioBrevetti.it|date=2017-06-16|website=Ufficio Brevetti|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-08}}
• Reverse vaccinology: a new method for making vaccines using the pathogen's sequenced genome, pioneered by R. Rappuoli{{Cite journal|last=Rappuoli|first=R.|date=2001-03-21|title=Reverse vaccinology, a genome-based approach to vaccine development|journal=Vaccine|volume=19|issue=17–19|pages=2688–2691|doi=10.1016/s0264-410x(00)00554-5 |pmid=11257410}} and the J. Craig Venter Institute.{{cite journal |last1=Sette |first1=Alessandro |last2=Rappuoli |first2=Rino |title=Reverse Vaccinology: Developing Vaccines in the Era of Genomics |journal=Immunity |date=October 2010 |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=530–541 |doi=10.1016/j.immuni.2010.09.017 |pmid=21029963 |pmc=3320742 }} Rappuoli has continued researching for even more advanced techniques.{{Cite journal|last1=Rappuoli|first1=Rino|last2=Bottomley|first2=Matthew J.|last3=D’Oro|first3=Ugo|last4=Finco|first4=Oretta|last5=Gregorio|first5=Ennio De|date=2016-04-04|title=Reverse vaccinology 2.0: Human immunology instructs vaccine antigen design|journal=Journal of Experimental Medicine|language=en|volume=213|issue=4|pages=469–481|doi=10.1084/jem.20151960 |pmid=27022144|pmc=4821650}}
• Recombinant pertussis vaccine (1992): with genetic editing and inactivation of the toxic gene in the chromosome of Pertussis bacterium, so that a non-toxic molecule is produced instead. The immune response was reported to improve compared to previous conventional technologies.{{Cite journal|last1=Rappuoli|first1=R.|last2=Pizza|first2=M.|last3=Covacci|first3=A.|last4=Bartoloni|first4=A.|last5=Nencioni|first5=L.|last6=Podda|first6=A.|last7=De Magistris|first7=M. T.|date=1992|title=Recombinant acellular pertussis vaccine--from the laboratory to the clinic: improving the quality of the immune response|journal=FEMS Microbiology Immunology|volume=5|issue=4|pages=161–170|doi=10.1111/j.1574-6968.1992.tb05898.x |pmid=1384602|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Robbins|first1=John B.|last2=Schneerson|first2=Rachel|last3=Kubler-Kielb|first3=Joanna|last4=Keith|first4=Jerry M.|last5=Trollfors|first5=Birger|last6=Vinogradov|first6=Evgeny|last7=Shiloach|first7=Joseph|date=2014-03-04|title=Toward a new vaccine for pertussis|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=111|issue=9|pages=3213–3216|doi=10.1073/pnas.1324149111 |pmc=3948267|pmid=24556987|quote=it follows that improvement of the current pertussis vaccine can begin with two steps: (i) removal of the nonessential vaccine components; and (ii) improving the essential component PTx by using a nondenatured, genetically detoxified mutant, one of which has been shown to be a better immunogen|bibcode=2014PNAS..111.3213R|doi-access=free}}
• CAd3-ZEBOV: an experimental Ebola virus vaccine developed by Swiss-Italian biotechnology company Okairos under the leadership of Dr Riccardo Cortese, in collaboration with American Nih. Okairos was later incorporated into GlaxoSmithKline.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140908152930.htm|title=Rapid and durable protection against Ebola virus with new vaccine regimens|website=ScienceDaily|language=en|access-date=2019-12-01|quote=Okairos, a Swiss-Italian biotechnology company now part of GlaxoSmithKline}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/10/03/ebola-loms-sceglie-un-vaccino-italiano-per-sconfiggere-il-virus/1143166/|title=Ebola, l'Oms sceglie un vaccino italiano per contrastare il virus|date=2014-10-03|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-01|quote=Translation The vaccine with which the World Health Organization has decided to fight the Ebola epidemic that hit Africa [...] will be Italian. [The virus] could be counteracted by the product studied by the Italian company Okairos. Much of the merit of the discovery goes to the founder of the pharmaceutical company, Riccardo Cortese [...]}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/09/07/ebola-vaccino-prodotto-in-italia-fa-sperare-il-creatore-agisce-sulle-cellule-killer/1113403/|title=Ebola, vaccino prodotto in Italia fa sperare. Il creatore: "Agisce sulle cellule killer"|date=2014-09-07|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-01|quote=Translation For five years Professor Riccardo Cortese [...] was developing this vaccine which - he explains to IlFattoQuotidiano.it - "has an approach different from the others because, in addition to developing antibodies against the infectious agent, it acts on the "killer cells" [...] The Italian vaccine is different by nature from Zmapp [...]}}
• Trotula: Trota De Ruggiero (or Trocta) was a medical practitioner, probably a regular physician and university Professor who lived in the early 12th century in Salerno, near Naples. It seems she was daughter of one of the private Professors of the Schola Medica Salernitana, following her father's steps as a physician and teacher of medicine, and whose progeny continued this tradition as well. It is uncertain whether she was the first woman of the Medieval age to become a graduated physician in the Western World, but it is well known from various sources that at least 24 women practiced surgery in Neapolitan Area during Middle Ages.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}} Trota left a collection of writings about the cure of women illnesses in a codex named after her, Trotula. It consists of three manuscripts, of which only the book called De curis mulierum (lit. "On Treatments for Women") is attributed to her, while the other two are works of different authors. The fact she wrote such an organic collection of remedies and cures is one of the evidences suggesting she was a regular graduate and not a simple practitioner. The Schola Medica Salernitana is considered "the oldest medical school of modern civilization" and "forerunner of modern University Medical Schools".{{cite journal |last1=de Divitiis |first1=Enrico |last2=Cappabianca |first2=Paolo |last3=de Divitiis |first3=Oreste |title=The "Schola Medica Salernitana": The Forerunner of the Modern University Medical Schools |journal=Neurosurgery |date=October 2004 |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=722–745 |doi=10.1227/01.neu.0000139458.36781.31 |pmid=15458581 }}
• VEGF: Napoleone Ferrara isolated and cloned the 'vascular endothelial growth factor' in 1989, while working at Genentech.{{Cite web|url=https://profiles.ucsd.edu/napoleone.ferrara|title=Napoleone Ferrara {{!}} UCSD Profiles|website=profiles.ucsd.edu|access-date=2019-11-25}}{{Cite journal|last=Neill|first=Ushma S.|date=2014-08-01|title=A conversation with Napoleone Ferrara|journal=The Journal of Clinical Investigation|language=en|volume=124|issue=8|pages=3275–3276|doi=10.1172/JCI77540|pmid=25083827|pmc=4109558 }}{{Cite journal|last=Ribatti|first=Domenico|date=2008|title=Napoleone Ferrara and the saga of vascular endothelial growth factor|journal=Endothelium: Journal of Endothelial Cell Research|volume=15|issue=1|pages=1–8|doi=10.1080/10623320802092377 |pmid=18568940}} He is credited with developing a whole new class of anti-VEGF drugs for cancer treatment. He had a leading role in the development of ranibizumab, a drug intended for macular degeneration.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aacr.org:443/Membership/Pages/FellowDetailsNoModal.aspx?ItemID=26|title=Napoleone Ferrara, MD|website=www.aacr.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-25}}

{{Main|Culture of Italy}}

• Baroque, firstly, as an architectural style developed in Rome, a result of doctrines adopted by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent in 1545–63 in response to the Protestant Reformation; later, developing as an artistic, literary, and musical style.
• Colony, from the Latin "colonia", indicating a Roman outpost established to secure conquered territory (sometimes situated near previous settlements{{cite journal |last1=Allinne |first1=Cécile |title=Antide Viand (dir.), Nanterre et les Parisii. Une capitale au temps des Gaulois ? |journal=Archéologie médiévale |date=1 December 2009 |volume=39 |issue=39 |pages=359–361 |doi=10.4000/archeomed.18586 |doi-access=free }}) and built for retired Roman legionaries. Colonies have been part of a Roman policy "whose wisdom only the future could fully reveal"-(Cedric A. Yeo, The Classical World).{{Cite journal|last=Yeo|first=Cedric A.|date=1959|title=The Founding and Function of Roman Colonies|journal=The Classical World|volume=52|issue=4|pages=104–130|doi=10.2307/4344123 |jstor=4344123}} Eventually the term denoted the highest status of a Roman city.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/colony-ancient-Roman-settlement|title=Colony {{!}} ancient Roman settlement|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-11-02}} Many colonies survived the fall of Rome, with some becoming seminal European cities (e.g. London, Paris, Barcelona, Frankfurt).{{Cite web|url=https://londontopia.net/site-news/featured/londinium-10-interesting-facts-figures-roman-london/|title=Londinium: 10 Interesting Facts and Figures about Roman London|website=Londontopia|date=23 January 2017 |access-date=2019-11-02}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.barcelonayellow.com/bcn-tourist/359-map-barcelona-roman-walls|title=Barcelona 2019 - Map Barcelona Roman walls and ruins|website=www.barcelonayellow.com|access-date=2019-11-02}} The map of Roman infrastructures manifests a remarkable pattern similarity with European road density today: ancient cities and roads might have set the template for the next two thousand years of economic development.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/10/roads-led-rome-also-led-europes-modern-day-prosperity-study/|title=All roads led to Rome but they also led to Europe's modern-day prosperity, study finds|last=Squires|first=Nick|date=2018-08-10|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2019-11-18|language=en-GB }}
• Cosmology of Giordano Bruno: he expanded the relatively new Copernican theory proposing for the first time the idea that the stars were distant suns (as bodies emitting energy) surrounded by their own planets (as bodies receiving and reflecting energy) orbiting around.{{Cite web|url=http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/brunoiuw3.htm|title=Giordano Bruno: On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (Third Dialogue)|date=2012-04-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427091405/http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/brunoiuw3.htm|archive-date=27 April 2012|access-date=2019-11-20|quote=There are then innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths revolve around those suns, just as the seven we can observe revolve around this sun which is close to us. [...] we discern only the largest suns, immense bodies. But we do not discern the earths because, being much smaller, they are invisible to us [...] We see that no part of the earth shineth by her own brightness, but that some parts shine by reflection from elsewhere, as for example her watery region and her vaporous atmosphere which receive heat and light from the sun and can transfer both to the surrounding regions.}}{{Cite journal|last=Valentinuzzi|first=M. E.|date=2019|title=Giordano Bruno: Expander of the Copernican Universe|journal=IEEE Pulse|volume=10|issue=5|pages=23–27|doi=10.1109/MPULS.2019.2937244|s2cid=208842400 |doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/03/13/cosmos-giordano-bruno-response-steven-soter/|title=Defending Giordano Bruno: A Response from the Co-Writer of "Cosmos"|last=Corey-S-Powell|date=2014-03-13|website=Out There|access-date=2019-11-20}} According to Steven Soter "[this] is arguably the greatest idea in the history of astronomy". Giordano raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism; he also claimed the universe is infinite and could have no "center". Barely suffering any form of religious authority, he was excommunicated by three different Christian cults: Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists. In his positions Bruno identified God as a God-Nature, as a reality that in itself subsists immanent in the guise of the Infinite, since infinity is the fundamental characteristic of the divine.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giordano-bruno|title=Bruno, Giordano nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-20}} For this reason and other beliefs considered heretic by the Catholic Church, such as negating Holy Trinity, he was dragged into court in Venice by local Inquisition, where he skillfully tried to defend himself stating that philosophers in their course of thoughts, according to "the natural light of intellect", can come to conflicting conclusions with the matters of faith, without having to be considered heretics. Roman Inquisition asked for his extradition to Rome, that was exceptionally granted by the Venetian Senate, and in Rome Bruno decided to not defend himself anymore and instead openly declare his beliefs. Found guilty of heresy, he was burned at the stake.
• Fermi paradox: arising from the high probability of existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and yet absence of alien contacts (given the great number of stars and planets of our galaxy and billions of years of time for hypothetical civilizations to develop space travel). Herbert York wrote in 1984 that Fermi "followed up with a series of calculations on the probability of earthlike planets, the probability of life given an earth, the probability of humans given life, the likely rise and duration of high technology, and so on. He concluded on the basis of such calculations that we ought to have been visited long ago and many times over".[https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/la-10311-ms.pdf "Where is everybody?: An account of Fermi's question"], Dr. Eric M. Jones, Los Alamos technical report, March 1985. Jones wrote to Teller on 13 July 1984, York on 4 September, and Konopinski on 24 September 1984.
• Criminology:
• Classical theory: Cesare Beccaria is credited with starting the school of classical theory on crime in his fundamental work On Crimes and Punishments.{{Cite web|url=http://terrytube.net/InterestingPages/PiagetKohlberg.htm|title=Brief Review of Sociological Explanations for Crime|website=terrytube.net|access-date=2019-12-12|quote=The person generally considered responsible for the school of classical theory on crime is the Italian Cesare Beccaria.[...] The positivist perspective was first embraced by the "holy three of criminology": Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909), Raffaele Garofalo (1852 – 1934), and Enrico Ferri (1856 – 1929)...}}
• Positivist theory: founded by Raffaele Garofalo, Enrico Ferri and Cesare Lombroso, the latter being prominent in criminal anthropology.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQQTsQDgqegC&q=Criminology+cesare+lombroso&pg=PR1|title=The Cesare Lombroso Handbook|last1=Knepper|first1=Paul|last2=Ystehede|first2=Per|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-50977-0|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.poliziapenitenziaria.it/cesare-lombroso-fondatore-della-antropologia-criminale-poi-denominata-criminologia/|title=Cesare Lombroso, fondatore della antropologia criminale poi denominata criminologia|date=2019-02-01|website=Polizia Penitenziaria|language=it-IT|trans-title=Cesare Lombroso, founder of criminal anthropology then called criminology|access-date=2019-12-12}}
• Fascism: illiberal political movement characterized as a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism, created by politician and then dictator Benito Mussolini.

File:'Unique Forms of Continuity in Space', 1913 bronze by Umberto Boccioni.jpg, an artistic and social movement, was born in Italy in the early 20th century]]

• Futurism: an artistic and social movement born in Italy in the early 20th century, that glorified modernity, emphasized speed, technology, youth, impetuosity, and iconic objects of modernity and speed such as internal combustion engines, the car and the airplane as a form of art, an ideal of beauty and trendy absolute ambition for manly boldness. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was the most prominent figure of the movement.
• Humanism: a broad concept present in different cultures, derives its term from the Latin "humanitas", developed during Roman times (see Aulus Gellius).{{Cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/13*.html|title=Gellius • Attic Nights — Book XIII|website=penelope.uchicago.edu|access-date=2019-11-15}}
• Latin alphabet, derived from the Greek alphabet; became the foundation of many languages worldwide, e.g. Neo-Latin languages. Currently more than 4.9 billion people rely on this alphabet.
• Machiavellianism: (or Machiavellism) is widely defined as the political philosophy of the Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli, usually associated with realism in foreign and domestic politics, and with the view that those who lead governments must prioritize the stability of the regime over ethical concerns."Machiavellianism is a radical type of political realism that is applied to both domestic and international affairs."
• Korab-Karpowicz, W. Julian, [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism-intl-relations/ "Political Realism in International Relations"], The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.),{{cite book |last=Meinecke |first=Friedrich |date=1957 |title=Machiavellism: The Doctrine of Raison d'État and Its Place in Modern History |page=36 |url=https://archive.org/details/machiavellismdoc00mein |publisher=Yale University Press}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Machiavellianism|title=Definition of MACHIAVELLIANISM|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en|access-date=2018-11-07}} There is no scholarly consensus as to the precise nature of Machiavelli's philosophy, or what his intentions were with his works.For example, Benedetto Croce once stated that Machiavelli is an "enigma that will never be resolved".
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=5hlHEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA40&dq=%22croce%22%20%22enigma%20that%20perhaps%20will%20never%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false Interpreting Modern Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Marx], pg. 40 {{Cite web |title=Machiavelli, Niccolò {{!}} Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |url=https://iep.utm.edu/machiave/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |language=en-US}} The word Machiavellianism first appeared in the English language in 1607, due to Machiavelli's popularity, often as a byword for unsavory government politics.{{cite journal | url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2011.01.002 | doi=10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2011.01.002 | title=Wrestling with Machiavelli | date=2011 | last1=Evrigenis | first1=Ioannis D. | last2=Somos | first2=Mark | journal=History of European Ideas | volume=37 | issue=2 | pages=85–93 }}

• Renaissance humanism: a cultural movement of rebirth in the study of classical antiquity, originating in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe (around 1300–1500). Humanists perceived themselves as a different kind of men opposed to those who lived in medieval age and who had another vision of the world, science and literature, rougher and incomplete if compared to the humanistic rediscovery of ancient classics, new perception of nature of things, and a new way of conceiving arts and beauty.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/humanism|title=humanism {{!}} Definition, Principles, History, & Influence|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-15}}
• Roman Law: together with the Napoleonic Law,Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (2014), p. xxxiii.

Quote: "The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on—were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon. To them he added a rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire"{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bonaparte-family|title=Bonaparte Family {{!}} French history|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-01|quote=Bonaparte Family, Italian Buonaparte [...]. The French form Bonaparte was not commonly used, even by Napoleon, until [...] 1796.}} represents the foundation for the Civil Law, now adopted by 150 countries. Ancient Roman Law influenced to some extent the following medieval Common Law.{{Cite web|url=https://europeanconservative.com/2019/05/the-contribution-of-roman-law-to-modern-legal-systems/|title=The Contribution of Roman Law to Modern Legal Systems|last=Feature|first=25 May 2019|date=2019-05-25|website=European Conservative|access-date=2019-10-23}}

• Adoption, as legal process of parenting another person and permanently transferring all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation and full rights for the adopted of inheriting family name and family legacies. Institution of adoption was widely used by Roman Emperors to grant themselves an heir of male gender.
• Habeas Corpus's origins, which can be traced back to the Roman Law.{{Cite web|url=http://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2879&context=smulr|title=The Historical Development of Haberas Corpus|website=scholar.smu.edu}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lbiZVrkrGWgC|title=A Treatise of the Writ of Habeas Corpus: Including Jurisdiction, False Imprisonment, Writ of Error, Extradition, Mandamus, Certiorari, Judgments, Etc. with Practice and Forms|last=Church|first=William Smithers|date=2003|publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.|isbn=9781584772774|language=en|quote=This comprehensive work discusses all aspects of the writ of habeas corpus and its jurisdiction in English common law [...] and a thorough history of the writ that traces its history to the Roman edict.}}
• Marriage as a legal transaction between two peoples as stated by Roman law, sometimes involving the adoption of a prenuptial agreement.
• Municipium, a social contract between municipes, the "duty holders," or citizens of the town: the munera were a communal obligation of the municipes in exchange for privileges and protections of citizenship.Frank Frost Abbott, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire (1926), Read Books, 2007, p.8 The continuation in the Middle Ages of municipal institutes of Roman derivation constituted, together with the feudal fragmentation and the mechanisms of association of bourgeois origin, one of the determining factors for the formation of the communes. They developed as autonomous and recognized forms of city government, of an economic nature and, particularly in Italy, political.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/comune/|title=comune nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-01}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/commune-medieval-Western-Europe|title=Commune {{!}} medieval town, Western Europe|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-01}}
• Proprietas: in ancient Roman legal system, indicates the sum of powers, rights and privileges, of a person on a thing. The seminal distinction between laws of property and obligation has characterized all Western Civilization.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/property-law|title=Property law - Property law and the Western concept of private property|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-01-06}} Historically, Democritus justified private property because it was efficient. Aristotle added the argument of human nature. Etruscans and Romans perceived private property as the bond of the family with the ancestors and gods.{{cite web |last1=Colombatto |first1=Enrico |last2=Tavormina |first2=Valerio |title=The Origins of Private Property |date=27 June 2017 |url=https://en.irefeurope.org/Publications/Working-Paper-Series/The-Origins-of-Private-Property }}
• Runic alphabet: the runic alphabet was based on Old Italic script.
• Sonnet: type of poetry originating in Italy and highly developed by Francesco Petrarca.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/sonnet|title=sonnet {{!}} Definition, Examples, & Facts|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-15}}
• Scholasticism
• (as a philosophy): a school of thought that employed a critical method of analysis and tried to reconcile the Christian faith with a system of rational thought (mainly derived from Greek philosophy), integrating classical philosophy as anticipating Christian theology. The intent of the scholastics was to develop a harmonious knowledge, integrating the Christian revelation with the philosophical systems of the Greek-Hellenistic world, as they were convinced of their compatibility, and to seek in the knowledge of the classics (mainly from great thinkers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus) a route able to raise the acceptance of Catholic dogmas. Scholasticism started developing from the works of the Roman Boethius{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anicius-Manlius-Severinus-Boethius|title=Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius {{!}} Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-11-03}} at the very onset of the Middle Ages.
• (as a method of organizing studies): an organization of higher education present in ancient schools and universities. Clergymen and secular literates usually started their cursus studiorum in capitular schools enclosed by abbeys and monasteries, learning the arts of Trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and then proceeding in the arts of Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy). King Lothair I of Italy, nephew of emperor Charlemagne, created a system of high schools in strategic cities of his reign (Pavia, Ivrea, Turin, Cremona, Florence, Fermo, Verona, Vicenza, Forlì) in order to train skilled officials and bureaucrats. Italian merchant cities enhanced the schooling system by creating, around 1100, the "Scuole d'Abaco" (abacus learning schools) as professional institutes intended for the preparation of accountants, clerks, and any sort of trading specialists.
• Theory of the two Suns: a political theory developed by Dante Alighieri, especially in the De Monarchia,{{Cite web|url=http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/textpopup/pur1602.html|title=Two Suns Theory|website=danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu|access-date=2019-12-01}} advocating the autonomy of the temporal power of the Holy Roman Emperor from the spiritual power of the Pope. Dante has been defined by William Franke "pioneer and prophet of Christian Secularism".{{Cite journal|last=Franke|first=William|date=2013|journal=Religion & Literature|volume=45|issue=1|pages=1–31 |jstor=24397807|title=Dante and the Secularization of Religion Through Literature}}

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• Introduction of Indo-Arabic Numbers in Europe: Leonardo Fibonacci da Pisa (or Leonardo Pisano), arguably the most talented mathematician of Middle Ages, in his book Liber Abaci (1202) introduced the Arab numbers in the Western World, which was still relying on Roman numerals. He is also famous for the Fibonacci Sequence of numbers, as he used this sequence to calculate the growth of an ideal rabbit population in order to foresee its expansion. Sequence first mentions are from Indian mathematics. Much later, Lagrange will discover the Pisano periods of the sequence.
• Introduction of non-euclidean geometry in Europe: the first notable work investigating Euclid's Fifth Postulate was written by Persian Omar Khayyám in the 11th century. At the very end of the 17th century, the Italian Giovanni G. Saccheri resumed the concept of Khayyam–Saccheri quadrilateral in order to prove the fifth postulate, ultimately in vain.{{Cite web|url=http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Non-Euclidean_geometry.html|title=Non-Euclidean geometry|website=mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk|access-date=2019-12-03}} However, Saccheri became, quite unintentionally, discoverer{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-girolamo-saccheri_%28Il-Contributo-italiano-alla-storia-del-Pensiero:-Scienze%29/|title=Saccheri, Giovanni Girolamo in "Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero: Scienze"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-03}} and forerunner of non-euclidean geometries.{{Cite journal|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Mary of Mercy|date=1964|title=Saccheri, forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|volume=57|issue=5|pages=323–332|doi=10.5951/MT.57.5.0323 |jstor=27957056}} In his demonstrative effort, he came to the description of the various properties of hyperbolic lines, subdividing the straight lines into three distinct classes: incident, asymptotic and ultraparallel. Furthermore, he outlined the fundamental concept of angle of parallelism. Later, fathers of hyperbolic geometry were Gauss, Janos Bolyai, and Lobachevsky.{{Cite web|url=http://web.colby.edu/thegeometricviewpoint/2016/12/08/history-of-hyperbolic-geometry/|title=The Geometric Viewpoint {{!}} History of Hyperbolic Geometry|last=Sami|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-03}}

File:Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) RMG BHC2700.tiff (consisting of observation through quantification, hypothesis and testings of models): was theorized by Galileo Galilei, recognized as 'the father of modern science, physics and astronomy'.]]

• Scientific method (consisting of observation through quantification, hypothesis and testings of models{{Cite web|url=https://www.rasch.org/rmt/rmt64g.htm|title=Galileo and Scientific Method|website=www.rasch.org|access-date=2019-11-19}}): was theorized by Galileo Galilei, recognized as 'the father of modern science, physics and astronomy'.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=108|title=International Space Hall of Fame :: New Mexico Museum of Space History :: Inductee Profile|website=www.nmspacemuseum.org|access-date=2019-10-27}} Galilei wanted to reach whatever conclusions a scrupulous and methodical analysis of evidence suggests rather than seeking exclusively the aspects of reality confirming and conforming to a specific orthodoxy. Galileo's method and discoveries represented the focal point for the European scientific revolution in the 17th century. He invalidated a belief system that parted the ancient world from modernity.{{Cite web|url=https://www.onlineeducation.com/features/galileo-galilei|title=Galileo Galilei – The Father of Modern Science|website=OnlineEducation.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-19}} Galileo revolutionized the goal of science: to research the mathematical properties of substances, such as 'location, motion, shape, size, opacity, mutability, generation and dissolution', instead of their intrinsic essence.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TczHBAAAQBAJ&q=model+galilei+abstraction+impedimentss+of+matter&pg=PA145|title=Rethinking Logic: Logic in Relation to Mathematics, Evolution, and Method|last=Cellucci|first=Carlo|date=2013-10-09|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9789400760912|language=en}}
• Galilean relativity (the laws of physics are the same in every inertial frame): this seminal principle, defined by Galileo, was perfected and expanded during the following centuries. For example, Einstein's theory of special relativity states that the laws of physics are the same in any inertial frame, and, in particular, any measurement of the speed of light in any inertial frame will always be constant (around 300000 km/s).{{Cite web|url=http://galileoandeinstein.phys.virginia.edu/lectures/spec_rel.html|title=Special Relativity|website=galileoandeinstein.phys.virginia.edu|access-date=2019-11-04}}
• Law of inertia: a body having constant (k=0 v k>0) velocity, will retain its vector unless a force (f>0) acts upon it. Defined by Galileo for horizontal motion.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-inertia|title=law of inertia {{!}} Discovery, Facts, & History|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}
• Uniformly accelerated motion: correctly described for falling bodies from height h using an inclined plane by Galilei in d (distance) = k (constant)*t ² (or d ∝ t ²) , v (velocity) ∝ t , v ∝ h^1/2, with the specific mass of the bodies being irrelevant.{{Cite web|url=http://ppp.unipv.it/Silsis/Pagine/Corso1/PDF_Files/3a%20lez/Galileo/GalileoPerc2.pdf|title=Galileo and the study of motion|language=it}} Previously, William Heytesbury described the earliest mathematical relationship of motion with constant acceleration; with Nicole Oresme and Giovanni di Casali providing graphical demonstration of Heytesbury's statement.Clagett, Marshall (1961) The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press), pp. 332–45, 382–91.
• Isochronism of the pendulum: Galileo proposed this principle and illustrated a mechanical clock using the pendulum,{{Cite web|url=https://catalogo.museogalileo.it/oggetto/ApplicazionePendoloOrologio.html|title=Museo Galileo - Applicazione del pendolo all'orologio|website=catalogo.museogalileo.it|access-date=2019-11-30}}{{Cite web|url=https://catalogo.museogalileo.it/oggetto/ModelloApplicazionePendoloOrologio.html|title=Museo Galileo - Modello dell'applicazione del pendolo all'orologio|website=catalogo.museogalileo.it|access-date=2019-11-30}} with C. Huygens formulating the isochronism properlyNewton, R. G. (2004). Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter. Harvard University Press. p. 51. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01331-5}}. and credited as inventor of the pendulum clock. Controversy sparkled between Vincenzo Viviani and Huygens about the paternity of the invention.{{Cite web|last=Torzo|first=Giacomo|title=Foucault Pendulum in Palazzo della Ragione, Padova| date=January 2006 |url=https://www.academia.edu/26296147|language=en|quote=I remember that in 1641 [...] [Galilei] had the idea of coupling a pendulum to a mechanical clock, with the hope that the isochronical pendulum motion could compensate the clock defects. But he was blind, so he could not draw sketches for a prototype. One day his son Vincenzo came to Arcetri from Florence [...]. Finally they agreed on how to start testing in practice what the theoretical model suggested. Viviani writes this text in a memory dated 1659, seventeen years after the Galileo’s death, and three years after the publication of the Christian Huygens’ patent on the pendulum clock.}}
• Italian school of algebraic geometry: being formed between 1891 and 1912, especially thanks to Corrado Segre, the school grouped several brilliant students and academics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/corrado-segre_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|title=SEGRE, Corrado in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-12}} C. Segre works focused mainly on algebraic geometry,{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/segre-corrado_%28Enciclopedia-della-Matematica%29/|title=Segre Corrado in "Enciclopedia della Matematica"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-12|quote=Translation [S. Corrado] studies mainly concern the projective geometry of hyperspaces and the first phase of algebraic geometry [...][and] projective-differential geometry.}} being known for Segre classification, Segre cubic, Segre embedding, Segre surface, Zeuthen–Segre invariant (first discovered by Zeuthen). Other notable exponents of this school have been F. Enriques, F. Severi, G. Castelnuovo and G. Veronese; to these shall not be omitted the Polish mathematician O. Zariski. The school was composed by mathematicians interested in converging topics, who gave pivotal contributions to the development of the algebraic-geometric field particularly in the classification of algebraic surfaces, proceeding from the previous works of Alexander von Brill, M. Noether and Luigi Cremona.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/la-scuola-italiana-di-geometria-algebrica_%28Enciclopedia-della-Matematica%29/|title=La scuola italiana di geometria algebrica in "Enciclopedia della Matematica"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-12}}
• Algebra (from Arab al jabr{{Cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/algebra|title=algebra {{!}} Origin and meaning of algebra by Online Etymology Dictionary|website=www.etymonline.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-13}}): works such as Algebra{{Cite book|title=Algebra|last=Bombelli|first=Raffaele|year=1572–1579}} by Raffaele Bombelli, 'Ars Magna' by Gerolamo Cardano and 'General trattato di numeri et misure'{{Cite web|url=http://dm.unife.it/divulgazione/2015/doc/t_tartaglia.pdf|title=Divulgazione e Museologia della Matematica|last=Fiocca|first=Alessandra}} by Niccolò Tartaglia pioneered a systematic diffusion in didactic form of mathematical knowledge, introducing, for instance, the solution of third degree equations, imaginary numbers and operations within the set of complex numbers.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/raffaele-bombelli|title=raffaele-bombelli|website=www.treccani.it}} Indian Brahmagupta had already solved 2nd degree equations.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtWNDwAAQBAJ&q=brahmagupta+second+degree+equations&pg=PT212|title=Certain Number-Theoretic Episodes In Algebra, Second Edition|last=R|first=Sivaramakrishnan|date=2019-03-19|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-351-02332-0|language=en}}
• Ballistics: the discipline of ballistics was initially studied and developed by Italian mathematician Niccolo TartagliaNiccolo' Tartaglia, Nova Scientia, 1537. (a treatise on gunnery and ballistics).
• Ruffini's rule: a practical method developed by Paolo Ruffini allowing the factorization of polynomials (without degree limitation) as products of binomials, provided they meet particular conditions defined by the Ruffini's theorem.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youmath.it/lezioni/algebra-elementare/polinomi/272-la-regola-di-ruffini.html|title=Regola di Ruffini|website=www.youmath.it|date=4 October 2011 |access-date=2019-11-24}}
• Mathematical analysis: Evangelista Torricelli's work in geometry{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evangelista-Torricelli|title=Evangelista Torricelli {{!}} Italian physicist and mathematician|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-10-27}} and Cavalieri's principle, using the method of indivisibles and infinitesimals, paved the way for integral calculus{{Cite web|url=https://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/The_rise_of_calculus.html|title=Calculus history|website=www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk|access-date=2019-10-28}} (e.g. Bonaventura Cavalieri solved $\backslash textstyle\; \backslash int\_\{0\}^\{a\}\; \backslash displaystyle\; x^n$), which was later predominantly developed by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This method allowed the two Italian mathematicians to obtain simply and rapidly the area and volume of several geometric figures, including solids of revolution.{{Cite web|url=http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Torricelli.html|title=Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)|website=mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk|access-date=2019-11-18}} Torricelli expanded Cavalieri's method to include curved indivisibles: the improvement consisted in the confrontation between two planar figures broken down using, respectively, rectilinear indivisibles for one and curved indivisibles (i.e. curves of infinitesimal thickness) for the other. If each curved indivisible has the same extension of the associated rectilinear indivisible then the areas of the two figures are equal.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/evangelista-torricelli/|title=Torricèlli, Evangelista nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-23}} More dramatically, studying the curve describing distance as a function of time, Torricelli understood the concept of instant velocity as the tangent of a point on the curve forming an angle with the x axis.https://amslaurea.unibo.it/13819/1/GiorgiaLari.pdf Lari, Giorgia (2016) "Storia del calcolo differenziale e la disputa tra Leibniz e Newton, Tesi di Laurea in Storia della Matematica" " Translation from source There are two origins of the derivative: geometrical (the tangent problem), with Descartes and Fermat, and mechanics (the determination of the velocity of a varied motion), with Galileo, Torricelli and Barrow." He intuited derivatives and, implicitly, the inverse character of integration and derivation.{{Cite web|url=http://matematica-old.unibocconi.it/galeazzi/capitolo14.htm|title=Matematica - Articoli - Interventi di&Maristella Galeazzi;|website=matematica-old.unibocconi.it|access-date=2019-12-02|quote=Translation (not lit.) [For uniformly accelerated motion] Considering the two diagrams of distance [1; s(t)] and speed [2; v(t)] as a function of time, Torricelli ascertained that the ordinates of the [1] (curve of) distances are proportional to the areas enclosed by [2] the (line of) speeds, while the ordinates of [2] the points of the velocity are the angular coefficients of the tangents of the [1] space curve. [...] Leibniz wrote of the most sublime geometry were initiators and promoters and they worked valiantly in it, Cavalieri and Torricelli; others then, ...}} The fundamental theorem of calculus was explicitly enunciated by Isaac Barrow (thus called T.-Barrow theorem). Barrow himself mentioned Galileo, Cavalieri, and Torricelli. Eventually, the theorem received formal demonstration by Isaac Newton.
• Torricelli's trumpet: E.Torricelli researched the apparently contradicting properties (at least for his time) of a solid of revolution with finite volume (calculated by Torricelli to be π/a, with a value of abscissa) and yet infinite surface, obtained when the curve y=1/x for x=1 v x>1 is rotated in 3-space about the x-axis.{{Cite web|url=https://thatsmaths.com/2017/04/13/torricellis-trumpet-the-painters-paradox/|title=Torricelli's Trumpet & the Painter's Paradox|date=2017-04-13|website=ThatsMaths|language=en|access-date=2019-11-22}} In recognition for his works on infinitesimal geometry he was referred to as 'the highest geometer', in the century when Descartes, Cavalieri, Fermat and Huygens lived too.{{cite journal |last1=Bortolotti |first1=Ettore |title=L'Opera geometrica di Evangelista Torricelli |journal=Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik |date=December 1939 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=457–486 |doi=10.1007/BF01696201 |s2cid=121939101 }} He calculated the coordinates of the center of gravity of geometric figures through the quotient of two definite integrals, developing a "universal theorem" nowadays still considered the most general possible.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/physics-biographies/evangelista-torricelli|title=Evangelista Torricelli {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-11-22}} He introduced the curved indivisibles, that is the integration by substitution and the use of curvilinear coordinates, and, along with Fermat, worked towards the generalization of the Cavalieri's quadrature formula (solving the case of higher hyperbolae). Among other things, Torricelli calculated the volume of solids formed by any lateral surface and limited by two plane surfaces (e.g.: the volume of barrels). He also solved the Torricelli–Fermat point, worked with Roberval on the cycloid (its quadrature, center of gravity, and rotational solid), and researched the ballistic trajectories.
• Logarithmic spiral: was conceived and graphically rectified by Torricelli, up to its center, to which the curve tends after infinite revolutions. Torricelli substituted the "potential infinite and infinitesimal" of the Greeks with the "actual infinite and infinitesimal".
• Fano resonance: discovered by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana,{{cite journal|last1=Vittorini-Orgeas|first1=Alessandra|last2=Bianconi|first2=Antonio|date=7 January 2009|title=From Majorana Theory of Atomic Autoionization to Feshbach Resonances in High Temperature Superconductors|journal=Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism|volume=22|issue=3|pages=215–221|arxiv=0812.1551|doi=10.1007/s10948-008-0433-x|s2cid=118439516 }} and named after Italian-American Ugo Fano, who produced a theoretical explanation of the phenomenon." A. Bianconi Ugo Fano and shape resonances in X-ray and Inner Shell Processes" AIP Conference Proceedings (2002): (19th Int. Conference Roma June 24–28, 2002) A. Bianconi arXiv: cond-mat/0211452 21 November 2002{{cite journal|last=Fano|first=U.|author-link=Ugo Fano|date=15 December 1961|title=Effects of Configuration Interaction on Intensities and Phase Shifts|journal=Physical Review|volume=124|issue=6|pages=1866–1878|doi=10.1103/physrev.124.1866 |bibcode=1961PhRv..124.1866F}} U. Fano is also known for Feshbach–Fano partitioning, Fano factor, Fano noise, Lu–Fano plot,{{Cite journal|last1=Kokoouline|first1=V.|last2=Drag|first2=C.|last3=Pillet|first3=P.|last4=Masnou-Seeuws|first4=F.|author4-link= Françoise Masnou-Seeuws |date=2002|title=Lu-Fano plot for interpretation of the photoassociation spectra|url=http://inis.iaea.org/Search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:36038231|journal=Physical Review A|language=en|volume=65|issue=6|pages=062710–062710.10|doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.65.062710 |bibcode=2002PhRvA..65f2710K}} Fano effect, Fano–Lichten mechanism,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORPrBwAAQBAJ&q=Fano%E2%80%93Lichten+mechanism&pg=PA31|title=Physical and Chemical Mechanisms in Molecular Radiation Biology|last1=Glass|first1=William A.|last2=Varma|first2=Matesh N.|date=2012-12-06|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-7627-9|language=en}} Beutler-Fano profile{{Cite journal|last1=Finkelstein-Shapiro|first1=Daniel|last2=Keller|first2=Arne|date=2018-02-12|title=On the ubiquity of Beutler-Fano profiles: from scattering to dissipative processes|journal=Physical Review A|volume=97|issue=2|pages=023411|doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.97.023411 |arxiv=1710.04800|s2cid=54004185}} and Fano's theorem.{{Cite journal|last=Spencer|first=L. V.|date=1975|title=Some Comments on Fano's Theorem|journal=Radiation Research|volume=63|issue=1|pages=191–199|doi=10.2307/3574319 |jstor=3574319|bibcode=1975RadR...63..191S}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHJ1DQAAQBAJ&q=albert+Ghiorso+italiano&pg=PA266|title=Italian Americans: The History and Culture of a People|last=Martone|first=Eric|date=2016-12-12|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-61069-995-2|language=en}}
• Fubini's theorem: a result defining the conditions under which is possible to calculate a double integral by using iterated integral, described by Guido Fubini. He is also known for developing the Fubini-Study metrics in 1904,G. Fubini, "Sulle metriche definite da una forme Hermitiana", (1904) Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 63 pp. 502–513 with Eduard Study describing the same just one year later, in 1905.E. Study, "Kürzeste Wege im komplexen Gebiet", (1905) Math. Ann., 60 pp. 321–378 Fubini opened new paths in the areas of analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.{{Cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fubini.html|title=Guido Fubini (1879-1943)|website=www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk|access-date=2019-10-27}}
• Functional analysis: Vito Volterra is considered founder of this branch of mathematics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/vito-volterra-storia-di-matematico-politico/angelo-guerraggio/2014-04-05|title=Vito Volterra, storia di un matematico politico|last=Guerraggio|first=Angelo|date=2014-04-05|website=Scienza in rete|language=it|access-date=2019-12-13|quote=Translation Volterra is considered the founder of Functional Analysis [...]. If by real function of a real variable we mean a correspondence that associates another real number to a real number, with the word functional we designate a correspondence that associates an element of any set [generalization of independent variable] with a real number.}} He developed a general theory of functionals, i.e. functions of functions,{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/functional-analysis-mathematics|title=Functional analysis {{!}} mathematics|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-13}} not to be confused with function composition, and his works are credited with having a generous influence on modern calculus (e.g. harmonic integrals). Volterra also applied his analytics to the theories of elasticity, distortion and electromagnetism.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vito-Volterra|title=Vito Volterra {{!}} Italian mathematician|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-13}} He independently co-developed the predator-prey model.{{Cite web|url=http://www.federica.unina.it/smfn/metodi-e-modelli-matematici/modello-preda-predatore-di-lotka-volterra/|title=Modello preda-predatore di Lotka-Volterra|last=Marasco|first=Addolorata|website=www.federica.unina.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-13}}

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• Peano axioms, defining the arithmetical properties for the set of natural numbers N; these postulates were proposed by Giuseppe Peano, a founder of mathematical logic and set theory. He wrote Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita; common mathematical symbols have been introduced by or are derived from his work, such as ∈, ⊂, ∩, ∪, and A−B. He is also known for having developed the Peano curve, the Peano existence theorem, the Peano-Jordan measure, the Peano kernel theorem, the Peano–Russell notation and the Peano form of the remainder for the Taylor's theorem. His contributions spanned from geometry, mathematical analysis and vector calculus to logic and the indagation of principles.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-peano_%28Il-Contributo-italiano-alla-storia-del-Pensiero:-Scienze%29/|title=Peano, Giuseppe in "Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero: Scienze"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-11-21}}
• Probability calculus: initiated in Europe by Italian mathematicians, statistics and probability met general and systematic theorization with Pascal and Fermat.{{Cite web|url=http://homepages.wmich.edu/~mackey/Teaching/145/probHist.html|title=A Short History of Probability|website=homepages.wmich.edu|access-date=2019-12-12}} Cardano, for instance, enunciated what is possibly the first definition of classical probability.{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~pg2113/index_files/Gorroochurn-Some%20Laws.pdf|title=Some Laws and Problems of Classical Probability and How Cardano Anticipated Them|last=Gorroochurn|first=Prakash|quote=[De Ludo Aleae, Cardano] So there is one general rule, namely, that we should consider the whole circuit, and the number of those casts which represents in how many ways the favorable result can occur, and compare that number to the rest of the circuit, and according to that proportion should the mutual wagers be laid so that one may contend on equal terms.}} Permutation and combination had already been used by Arab mathematicians.
• Tensor calculus: extension of vector calculus to tensor fields, allowing expression of physics equations in a form that is independent of the choice of coordinates on a manifold, such as space-time. It was developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita.{{cite book|title=Tensor Calculus|author1=J. John Lighton Synge|author2=Alfred Schild|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|year=1978|isbn=978-0-486-14139-8|page=142}} Later, it constituted a critical tool used by Albert Einstein to develop his theory of relativity.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/tensor-analysis|title=Tensor analysis {{!}} mathematics|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/content/ricci-curbastro-il-matematico-italiano-cui-einstein-disse-grazie|title=Ricci Curbastro, il matematico italiano a cui Einstein disse grazie|website=Il Bo Live UniPD|date=8 May 2013 |language=it|access-date=2019-11-19}}
• Classical and celestial mechanics: Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia improved the Newtonian mechanics formulating what is known as Lagrangian mechanics, introducing the concepts of generalized coordinates, potential (i.e. gravitational or electrical field) and Lagrangian orbits.{{Cite web|url=https://www.famousscientists.org/joseph-louis-lagrange/|title=Joseph-Louis Lagrange - Biography, Facts and Pictures|access-date=2019-10-27}}{{Cite web|url=http://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2012/REUPapers/Yu.pdf|title=LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD|last=Yu|first=Thomas}}
• Group theory: Lagrange's theorem of groups (a subgroup's order must always divide the order of the group exactly) represents one of the earliest steps in the theory of groups. Lagrange is considered a founder of group theory, along with Niels Henrik Abel and Évariste Galois.
• Hydrodynamics
• Winds (in scientific terms): explained by Torricelli as an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of movements of air masses "produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of the earth". He wrote "we live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air".Walker, Gabrielle (2010). An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere. London: Bloomsbury. {{ISBN|9781408807132}}
• Torricelli also described fluids with the Torricelli's law, a particular case of Bernoulli's principle; his work was so important that Ernst Mach considered T. "founder of hydrodynamics".
• Venturi effect: fluid pressure is reduced when a fluid flows in a more constricted section of a pipe. Discovered by the Italian scientist Giovanni Battista Venturi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Bernoullis-theorem|title=Bernoulli's theorem {{!}} Definition, Derivation, & Facts|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-25}}
• Avogadro principle: equal volumes of all (ideal) gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of particles (atoms or molecules).{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Avogadros-law|title=Avogadro's law {{!}} chemistry|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-11-09}}
• Law of Capacitance: Q (quantity of charge) = C (capacitance) * V (tension or voltage), discovered by Alessandro Volta{{Cite web|url=https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=2142|title=Heroes of Progress, Pt. 29: Alessandro Volta|website=Human Progress|date=19 October 2019|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPO9BAAAQBAJ&q=volta%27s+law+of+capacitance&pg=PT76|title=Defining and Measuring Nature: The Make of All Things|last=Williams|first=Jeffrey Huw|date=2014-03-01|publisher=Morgan & Claypool Publishers|isbn=9781627052801|language=en}} (its proper formulation is: Q ∝ V).
• Mercalli scale, developed by volcanologist Giuseppe Mercalli, classifies the intensity of an earthquake based on its visible effects on buildings.{{Cite web|url=https://www.focus.it/ambiente/natura/scala-mercalli-e-richter-qual-e-la-differenza|title=Scala Mercalli e Richter: qual è la differenza?|website=Focus.it|access-date=2019-10-29}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sms-tsunami-warning.com/pages/mercalli-scale|title=mercalli-scale}}
• Metallurgy (innovated): Pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (1540) represents the first book (and the first printed) totally dedicated to metallurgy, elements and techniques.{{Cite web|url=http://www.alai.it/classici-italiani/il-primo-libro-interamente-dedicato-alla-metallurgia-1540|title=Il primo libro interamente dedicato alla metallurgia - 1540 - ALAI|website=alai.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-12|quote=Translation (not lit.) [the book features] techniques for the extraction, processing and smelting of metals (gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, iron, steel and brass). The author then classifies natural non-metallic substances, such as sulfur, antimony, manganese, saltpeter and cobalt blue (mentioned here for the first time) ...}} V. Biringuccio is regarded as "the first true foundryman and the father of the foundry industry".{{Cite web|url=http://www.castingarea.com/education/history.htm|title=Michael J.Lessiter, Ezra L.Kotzin: Timeline of Casting Technology|website=www.castingarea.com|access-date=2019-12-12}} Prior to his publication, foundry techniques were kept as a secret and generally handed down orally: Pirotechnia is the starting point for a true technological literature, interested in experimental fact{{Cite book|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirotechnia|title=Pirotechnia|editor1= Smith, Cyril Stanley|editor2=Gnudi, Martha Teach |date=15 March 1966|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262520171|language=en|access-date=2019-12-12}} and method, of which Biringuccio is considered an important exponent{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/metallurgy-and-mining-biographies/vannoccio-biringuccio|title=Vannoccio Biringuccio {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-12-12}} (also see Bernardino Telesio and Francis Bacon).
• Milky Way (in scientific terms): Galileo observed, described and theorized our galaxy as a collection of a tremendous amount of stars.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/galileo-galilei_%28Enciclopedia-dei-ragazzi%29/|title=galileo galilei in Enciclopedia-dei-ragazzi|website=treccani.it}}
• Paleontology: although mainly known for his artistic endeavors, Leonardo da Vinci was paleontology's founding father{{Cite journal|last=Marchant|first=Jo|date=2010-10-02|title=Leonardo da Vinci: palaeontology's founding father|journal=New Scientist|volume=208|issue=2780|pages=34–37|doi=10.1016/S0262-4079(10)62415-3 |quote=Forget the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci's biggest legacy could have been his studies of the fossil record}} (also see Science of Leonardo da Vinci, about Leonardo's visionary research).
• Paleoceanography, Cesare Emiliani is considered founder of this field of science, having discovered that deep oceans are not immutable environments: they have oscillated considerably in temperature over geological ages.{{Cite journal|last1=W. Hay|first1=William|last2=Zakevich|first2=Eloise|date=1999|title=Cesare Emiliani (1922-1995): the founder of paleoceanography.|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12378156|journal=International Microbiology|volume=2|issue=1|pages=52–54|pmid=10943392|via=researchgate.net}}
• CKM Matrix: a unitary matrix containing information about the strength of the flavour-changing weak interaction. The first version of the matrix was developed in 1963 by Nicola Cabibbo -renowned physicist and later president of the Pontifical Academy of Science- and was subsequently completed by the Japanese Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa.{{Cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/scienze/08_ottobre_07/nobel_fisica_italiani_traditi_d9993120-946d-11dd-a0d8-00144f02aabc.shtml|title=Nobel, l'amarezza dei fisici italiani - Corriere della Sera|website=www.corriere.it|access-date=2019-11-09}} Nobel Prize was awarded to the latter two omitting the former.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14885-physics-nobel-snubs-key-researcher/|title=Physics Nobel snubs key researcher|website=newscientist.com}} Cabibbo's work helped in understanding the violation of an almost exact symmetry of charge and parity between particles and the corresponding antiparticles, called Cp violation. It is hypothesized matter and anti-matter to be present in equal quantities at the beginning of the universe.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-there-more-matter-than-antimatter/|title=Why Is There More Matter Than Antimatter?|first=Marco |last=Gersabeck|website=Scientific American|access-date=2019-11-09}} The violation could help explain why matter is now far more abundant than antimatter.{{Cite web|url=http://home.infn.it/it/comunicazione/comunicati-stampa/3476-asimmetria-materia-antimateria-osservata-per-la-prima-volta-la-violazione-di-cp-nelle-particelle-charm|title=ASIMMETRIA Materia-Antimateria: Osservata Per La Prima Volta La Violazione Di CP Nelle Particelle Charm|last=varaschin|website=home.infn.it|access-date=2019-11-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lescienze.it/news/2019/03/21/news/violazione_cp_particelle_charm-4344017/|title=Verso una spiegazione dell'asimmetria materia-antimateria|date=2019-03-21|website=Le Scienze|language=it|access-date=2019-11-09}}
• Quantum loop theory: the Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli is one of the founders of this quantum theory of gravity,{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/|title=Carlo Rovelli · Fisico · Italian theoretical physicist and writer|website=www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr|access-date=2019-11-25}} together with Lee Smolin and Abhay Ashtekar. The theory is aimed at merging the general relativity with quantum mechanics. Furthermore, C. Rovelli and French mathematician Alain Connes put forward the thermal time hypothesis in order to solve the problem of time.{{Cite web|url=https://www.edge.org/conversation/carlo_rovelli-science-is-not-about-certainty-a-philosophy-of-physics|title=SCIENCE IS NOT ABOUT CERTAINTY: A PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS {{!}} Edge.org|website=www.edge.org|access-date=2019-11-25}}
• Relational quantum mechanics: interpretation of the state of a quantum system as the relation between the observer and the system, introduced by C. Rovelli.Rovelli, C. (1996), "Relational quantum mechanics", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 35: 1637–1678.
• Viterbi algorithm, developed by the Italian-American Andrea Viterbi, found useful applications in mobile phones.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/libri/lalgoritmo-di-viterbi/|title=L'algoritmo di Viterbi|last=Chiaberge|first=Riccardo|date=2011|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-01|quote=Translation Born in Bergamo 65 years ago, Andrea Viterbi found himself [...] living in the United States, as his family had fled to escape anti-Semitic persecution. American by adoption, but profoundly Italian in spirit, Viterbi has tried to take the best from the two countries, [...] obtaining great successes: [...] he has developed an algorithm that is at the base of the main international standards of mobile telephony, including GSM. He is founder of Qualcomm ...}}
• Gini Index: often used in economy and statistics to define, among the units of a community, the global measure of the inequality in income's distribution.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/indice-di-gini_%28Dizionario-di-Economia-e-Finanza%29/|title=Gini, indice di in "Dizionario di Economia e Finanza"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2020-01-12}}{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2014/02/23/corrado-gini--uomo-coefficiente.html|title=CORRADO GINI L' Uomo coefficiente - la Repubblica.it|website=Archivio - la Repubblica.it|date=23 February 2014 |language=it|access-date=2020-01-12|quote=Translation The Gini much loved by Barack Obama is Corrado, [...] The US president relies on the "Gini coefficient" whenever he wants to attract the focus on social inequalities.}}
• Least absolute deviations: a statistical technique introduced by Serbian-Italian, Croatian and European scientist{{Cite journal|last=Domijan|first=Perica|date=2012|title=Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, La vita e le attività in Italia|journal=Ekonomska Misao I Praksa|volume=21 |issue=1|pages=409–422|trans-title=Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, Life and works in Italy|url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/83804?lang=en|quote=Translation R.G Boscovich, one of the most representative Croatian and European scientists [...] most of his life spent in Italy.}} Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich."Least Absolute Deviation Regression". The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. Springer. 2008. pp. 299–302. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1_225. {{ISBN|9780387328331}}. His physical theories would influence Hamilton.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ruggero-giuseppe-boscovich_%28Il-Contributo-italiano-alla-storia-del-Pensiero:-Scienze%29/|title=Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe in "Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero: Scienze"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|trans-title=Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe in "The Italian Contribution to the History of Thought: Sciences"|access-date=2020-01-12|quote=Translation (not lit.) Ruđer Josip Bošković [...]. His father Nicholas (Nikola) was a Serbian merchant. His mother Pavica Bettera (Betere) was of Italian origin. [...] For Hamilton The atomic theory of which I speak is roughly that of Boscovich and consists in the representation of all the phenomena of motion as produced by the action of local energies of attraction or repulsion, each of which centered in space: and this center [...] is hypothesized as a mathematical point.}}

• Astatine (co-discovered, in US): Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè are credited with isolating the element in 1940.{{Cite journal|last1=Corson|first1=D. R.|last2=MacKenzie|first2=K. R.|last3=Segrè|first3=E.|date=1940-10-15|title=Artificially Radioactive Element 85|journal=Physical Review|volume=58|issue=8|pages=672–678|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.58.672|bibcode=1940PhRv...58..672C}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.periodic-table.org/astatine-discoverer/|title=Astatine – Discoverer – Year of Discovery|website=periodic-table.org|date=11 November 2020}}
• Methane, the simplest hydrocarbon, isolated and studied for its inflammable properties by Alessandro Volta.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Volta|title=Alessandro Volta {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Invention|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14}} He also demonstrated interests in the ignition of other inflammable gases through electric sparks, designing a rudimentary electric pistol.{{Cite web|url=http://ppp.unipv.it/Volta/Pages/eF5struF.html|title=ELECTRIC PISTOL|website=ppp.unipv.it|access-date=2019-11-14}}
• Technetium (Tc): in 1937 two Italian scientists - Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè - produced technetium-97, the first artificial element.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/technetium|title=Technetium {{!}} chemical element|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-13}}{{cite journal |last1=Perrier |first1=C. |last2=Segrè |first2=E. |title=Technetium : The Element of Atomic Number 43 |journal=Nature |date=January 1947 |volume=159 |issue=4027 |pages=24 |doi=10.1038/159024a0 |pmid=20279068 |bibcode=1947Natur.159...24P |s2cid=4136886 }} Segrè and Glenn T. Seaborg later isolated the metastable isotope Tc-99m that, having just a 6-hour half-life, found useful applications in medical radiographic scanning.{{Cite journal|last1=Segrè|first1=E.|last2=Seaborg|first2=G. T.|title=Nuclear Isomerism in Element 43|journal=Physical Review|language=en|date=1938|volume=54|issue=9|pages=772|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.54.772.2 |bibcode=1938PhRv...54..772S}}
• Antiproton: co-discovered in a 1955 by Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain, both awarded with Nobel Prize. They brought experimental evidence of the existence of the proton's antiparticle.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1959/segre/facts/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-12}}
• W and Z bosons (collaboration in discovery): discovered by Cern's UA1 and UA2. In 1976 Carlo Rubbia, Peter McIntyre and David Cline suggested the creation of the CERN's proton-antiproton collider.{{Cite web|url=https://home.cern/news/news/physics/carrying-weak-force-thirty-years-w-boson|title=Carrying the weak force: Thirty years of the W boson|website=CERN|language=en|access-date=2019-11-30}} C. Rubbia led a team of physicists in the UA1 Collaboration, managing the construction of the central detector, which allowed to obtain experimental evidence of the bosons in 1982-'83;{{Cite web|url=http://library.cern/archives/CERN_archive/guide/experimental_physics/SPS/isaua1|title=Archives of the UA1 Collaboration, Underground Area 1 Collaboration {{!}} CERN Scientific Information Service|website=library.cern|access-date=2019-11-30}} in November 1982 the first W candidate was found; the discovery was reported during a workshop in Rome the following year (12-14 January) and then internationally. Simon van der Meer contribution has been vital for stocking large quantities of anti-protons. Both S. Meer and C. Rubbia have been awarded with the Nobel prize.

• Ceres: father Giuseppe Piazzi was the first to discover an asteroid he called Ceres, the major object in the Asteroid belt of the Solar System, and considered a dwarf planet by modern astronomic terminology. He cataloged 7,646 stars, demonstrating that most stars are in relative motion to the Sun. He also discovered the proper motion of the double star 61 Cygni. The asteroid 1000 Piazzia and a Moon's crater have been christened with his name.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giuseppe-Piazzi|title=Giuseppe Piazzi {{!}} Italian astronomer|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-16}}

File:Jupiter Family of Moons by Juno.png, discovered in 1610 and named by Galileo Galilei thanks to his enhanced telescope.]]

• Jupiter moons, discovered in 1610 and named by Galileo Galilei thanks to his enhanced telescope.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2016/01/07/galileos-discovery-of-jupiters-moons-and-how-it-changed-the-world/|title=Galileo's Discovery Of Jupiter's Moons, And How It Changed The World|last=Koberlein|first=Brian|website=Forbes|access-date=2019-11-05}} These moons were found orbiting around Jupiter. If the Aristotelic geocentric theory had been correct, then these moons could not have existed.{{Cite web|url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/OrbitsHistory|title=Planetary Motion: The History of an Idea That Launched the Scientific Revolution|date=2009-07-07|website=earthobservatory.nasa.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-11-20}} This discovery, along with his observation of the phases of Venus, gave proof of a heliocentric universe.
• Jupiter Great Red Spot, observed by Giovanni Domenico Cassini.{{Cite journal|last=Falorni|first=Marco|year=1987|title=The discovery of the Great Red SPOT of Jupiter|journal=Journal of the British Astronomical Association|volume=97|pages=215|bibcode=1987JBAA...97..215F}}
• Lagrangian orbits: mathematician and astronomer Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia, also known as Joseph Louis Lagrange, was one of the creators of the calculus of variations and discovered the points of libration in a planetary orbit, now called Lagrangian Points, by studying the astronomic and mathematic problem of calculating the evolution during time of three celestial bodies (such as Sun, Earth and Moon) concurrent orbits.
• Moon's mountains and valleys, observed by Galileo. These observations led to a radical change from obsolete Aristotelian theories (considering the celestial realm unchanging and eternal).{{Cite web|url=http://people.hws.edu/gfrost-arnold/MMSlecture9.htm|title=Lecture Notes: Galileo|website=people.hws.edu|access-date=2019-11-05}}{{Cite web|url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/307/galileos-observations-of-the-moon-jupiter-venus-and-the-sun|title=Galileo's Observations of the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and the Sun|website=NASA Solar System Exploration|date=24 February 2009 |access-date=2019-11-05}}
• Meteor shower's origin, demonstrated by Giovanni Schiaparelli to be the remnants of comets. He also conducted studies on double stars, Mercury, Venus, and Mars (describing its canals).{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Virginio-Schiaparelli|title=Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli {{!}} Italian astronomer|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-16}}
• Saturn rings, planar rings of icy particles orbiting Saturn; they were first spotted by Galileo, although their true nature has been unveiled only later.
• Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus, four of the main moons of Saturn, were discovered by G. Cassini.{{Cite web|title=Naming the Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn|author=Albert Van Helden|date=August 1994|url=http://had.aas.org/hadnews/HADN32.pdf|access-date=2019-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314073252/http://had.aas.org/hadnews/HADN32.pdf|archive-date=14 March 2012}}
• Sun spots, dark spots on the surface of the Sun visibly contrasting with the surrounding region, discovered by Galile

• Fabian strategy, a delaying strategy (similar to guerrilla-warfare) first implemented by Quintus Fabius Maximus "Cunctator" in 217 BC.Goldsworthy, Adrian. The Fall of Carthage. p. 151. {{ISBN|0-304-36642-0}}.
• Italian fencing style: towards the end of '500, the Italian style, putting an emphasis on skills and speed instead of force, spread across Europe, with fencing being instituted as an art. Italians used a lighter weapon, the rapier, finely balanced and fabulous for attack, together with a style of fencing that was, at the same time, simple, controlled and agile. Italians discovered that using the point of the sword was more effective than relying on its edge. The early English fencing style was substituted by the continental one.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/sports/fencing|title=fencing {{!}} History, Organizations, & Equipment|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-26}}
• Beretta: founded around 1526 by Bartolomeo Beretta, the Fabbrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta is the world's oldest manufacturing company{{Cite web|url=https://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/beretta-a-history-of-the-worlds-oldest-firearm-company/|title=Beretta: A History of the World's Oldest Firearm Company|date=2010-04-20|website=The Shooter's Log|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-09|quote=In 1526, Bartolomeo was paid by the Arsenal of Venice to make 185 arquebus barrels, making the Beretta company the oldest manufacturing company in the world.}} and can be considered the oldest industry; during the Venetian-Turkish war (1570–73) Beretta produced 300 weapons per-day.{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1987/10/09/la-santabarbara-italia.html|title=LA SANTABARBARA D' ITALIA - la Repubblica.it|last=DE' MARINIS|first=FABRIZIO|date=1987|website=Archivio - la Repubblica.it|language=it|access-date=2019-12-09|quote=Translation (not lit.) [Beretta] is considered the oldest industry in the world, given that it is the oldest of all the companies recognized by Les Hènokiens, the French association that groups [...] [companies with] proven continuity of family management. Translation from historical source, 1562 Through the Val Trompia runs the river Mella, as it has been said, which moves machinery and contrivances, and the valley has very few cultivated lands [...]. And there are eight ovens for iron distinctly placed, and around forty forges where it is done steel and iron of every sort, who one thing, who another. Rifles of every kind are made, muskets with all the supplies (all the parts that make a complete weapon), harquebuses, crossbows and bombards, bales of artillery, carabines, weapons of all kinds for use on the ground, on horses and ships, other fire weapons and various battle instruments. Every year about twenty-five-thousand rifles are taken from this valley, and exported by merchants to foreign states. This valley is abundant in iron, because all these mountains are full of it [...], so much that they furnish XV ovens.}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/economia/italie/veneto-2012/notizie/13-posto-onore-les-henokiens-aziende-bicentenarie_cbe1de84-6c54-11e1-bd93-2c78bee53b56.shtml|title=Un posto d'onore tra Les Hénokiens il club delle aziende bicentenarie - Corriere.it|website=www.corriere.it|access-date=2019-12-09|quote=Translation Les Hénokiens is an international club reserved for thirty-eight major industrial dynasties with at least two hundred years of history. Like the Bortolo Nardini. Italy boasts fourteen names, against the eleven French and the three Germans. Standing out are the Amarelli di Cosenza, founded in 1731, the Fratelli Piacenza (1733), the Fabbrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta (1526).}} According to Marco Morin and Robert Held, well-known experts in military history, in the 16th century the Brescian valley became "an envied supplier of weapons on a global scale, which for the unsurpassed quality and strength of its products and above all of its gun barrels beat the great metallurgical centers of the time like Suhl, Augsburg and Nuremberg, in Germany": weapons were purchased by different Italian States, France and England. In 1975, Beretta introduced the 9mm Model 92, which met worldwide diffusion as the self loading pistol most adopted by armies and law enforcement.

file:Alpini Btn Feltre - Ex Falzarego 2011 006.jpg: modern special forces intended for mountain warfare, created in 1872]]

• Frogmen: the first modern frogmen were the World War II Italian commando frogmen.
• Marine infantry -as modern concept of armed troops for defending ships in combat, repel mutinies, and perform organized military landings- were created in vice-realm of Naples in 1537, by Spain King Carlos I, Compañías Viejas del Mar de Nápoles, and subsequently in Republic of Venice, Fanti da mar in 1550. Their heritage is keep by Italian elite troops San Marco Regiment.
• Alpini: modern special forces intended for mountain warfare, created in 1872. The first 15 Alpini companies were officially established by Kingdom of Italy on 15 October.{{Cite web|url=http://www.esercito.difesa.it/organizzazione/armi-e-corpi/Fanteria/Le-Specialita/Gli-Alpini|title=Gli Alpini - Esercito Italiano|website=www.esercito.difesa.it|access-date=2019-11-03}} The Italian example was soon followed by other countries having mountainous areas and thus France formed the Chasseurs des Alpes, in Germany the Alpenkorps were born, in Austro-Hungarian Empire the Landwehr and the Tyrolean hunters (Kaiserjäger); similar troops appeared in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Switzerland and Spain.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alpini/|title=Alpini in "Enciclopedia Treccani"|website=treccani.it}} During WWI the Alps have been the major theater of mountain warfare (also called Alpine warfare).

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• Modern music notation, theorized by Guido di Arezzo in his work Micrologus de disciplina artis musicae (1026).
• Guidonian solmization, assigning each note of the diatonic scale to a Solfège (or sol-fa) syllable. This represents a practical method for teaching sight-singing (singing music from written notation). Guido di Arezzo chose the syllables from the first syllable in each line of the Latin hymn Ut queant laxis (Hymn to John the Baptist): ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (subsequent convention).{{Cite web|url=https://www.choraldirectormag.com/articles/off-the-podium/the-legacy-of-guido-darezzo-solfege-part-2/|title=The legacy of Guido D'Arezzo|last=Bitner|first=Walter|website=www.choraldirectormag.com|date=December 2017}}
• Ballet, invented and performed for the first time in Florence during the Italian Renaissance.{{cite web|url=https://global.britannica.com/art/ballet|title=The Origins of Ballet|author=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=20 December 2016}}
• Bel canto, a style that reigned supreme in Italian theaters, concert halls, and churches throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.{{cite journal |last1=Poriss |first1=Hilary |title='Bel Canto: A Performer's Guide' by Robert Toft |journal=Performance Practice Review |date=1 September 2014 |volume=18 |issue=1 |doi=10.5642/perfpr.201318.01.05 |url=https://scholarship.claremont.edu/ppr/vol18/iss1/5/ |doi-access=free }}
• Cantata, (from Italian cantare, sing), originally designating a musical composition meant to be sung as opposed to be instrumentally performed (viz., sonata); now vaguely used for compositions featuring both voices and instruments. The early "cantata" have been written by Italians, and this word was used for the first time by the Italian composer Alessandro Grandi; there had been precursors (such as strophic arias, and late madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi).{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/cantata-music|title=Cantata {{!}} music|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}
• Libretto, grouping opera text; the earliest operas had their words printed in small books (lit. libretto) for commemoration (see also melodramma).{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/libretto|title=Libretto {{!}} opera|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}

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• Opera, the earliest (1597) being written by Ottavio Rinuccini, put to music by Jacopo Peri{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/quest/txt/s1487531.htm|title=How the Quest Was Won: OPERA (21/10/2005)|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=2006-05-19|access-date=2019-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519115601/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/quest/txt/s1487531.htm|archive-date=19 May 2006}} and titled 'Dafne' (also see Neapolitan genre Opera Buffa).{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/opera-buffa|title=Opera buffa {{!}} Italian music|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}
• Oratorio, large musical composition for orchestra, choir and soloists,Oxford English Dictionary: "A large-scale, usually narrative musical work for orchestra and voices, typically on a sacred theme and performed with little or no costume, scenery, or action." usually narrative and sacred in nature; the first surviving being Rappresentazione di anima et di corpo (lit. The Representation of Soul and Body) by Emilio del Cavaliere, characterized by dramatic action and ballet. Later, Giacomo Carissimi's o. verged towards a more sober expression, adopting Old Testament text written in Latin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/oratorio|title=Oratorio {{!}} music|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}
• Symphony (origins): symphonies are written, usually orchestral, instrumental compositions. Their starting point can be located in Lombardy around 1730; in specific, they are to be found in Alessandro Scarlatti's opera overtures, showing a fast-slow-fast structure (Allegro-Adagio-Allegro) that later spread throughout Europe.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wqxr.org/story/what-was-first-symphony-and-who-wrote-it|title=What Was the First Symphony, and Who Wrote It? {{!}} WQXR Blog|website=WQXR|date=6 September 2017 |language=en|access-date=2019-12-09}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sinfonia/|title=sinfonia nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-12-09}} A second type of symphony, bipartite slow-fast, emerged from the compositions of Italian-French Giovanni Battista Lulli. However, the etymology of the word is συμφωνία ("agreement or concord of sound"),{{Cite web|url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/musicapp_historical/chapter/symphony/|title=History of the Symphony {{!}} Music Appreciation|website=courses.lumenlearning.com|access-date=2019-12-09|quote=[Symphony] in the sense of "sounding together," [...] begins [...] [with] 16th- and 17th-century composers including Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sacrae symphoniae [...]; Adriano Banchieri’s Eclesiastiche sinfonie [...]; Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s Sinfonie musicali [...]; and Heinrich Schütz’s Symphoniae sacrae...}} and the concept existed at least since the mid-16th century. Early orchestral compositions have been written by Giovanni Gabrieli, with the vivid Italian style being prosecuted by his pupil Heinrich Schütz.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/symphony-music|title=symphony {{!}} Description, History, & Facts|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-09}} Giovanni Battista Sammartini transformed the opera overtures in concerts of their own (e.g. Memet, 1732). Joseph Haydn inserted a fourth movement (in the form of "Minuet dance") in the structure of A. Scarlatti.

• Italo dance a style of music popular in the 1970-1980s
• Italo disco a style of music popular in the 1980s
• Italo house a style of music popular in the late 1980s
• Lento violento: a style of music popular in the late 1990s.

{{Main|Italian cuisine}}

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• Carbonara: Italian dish from Rome.
• Ravioli: a type of pasta in the form of a case with meat or cheese filling.[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ravioli]
• Tortellini: ring shaped pasta that originates from Emilia-Romagna.
• Macaroni: a dry pasta that has a narrow tube shape.
• Gelato: the Renaissance alchemist Cosimo Ruggieri created the first gelato flavor at the Medici's court, in Florence: the 'fior di latte'. The architect Bernardo Buontalenti invented the 'egg cream' gelato.{{Cite web|url=http://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/taste-history-gelato|title=Taste the History of Gelato|last=Donati|first=Silvia|date=2013-08-16|website=ITALY Magazine|access-date=2019-11-06}} In 1903 Italo Marchioni patended a machine for producing the gelato cone.
• Cannoli: Italian tubed shape shells of fried pastry dough.
• Tiramisu: traditional Italian dessert featuring mascarpone cheese, chocolate shavings, and espresso.
• Espresso: a coffee-brewing method.
• Nutella, spread made from cocoa, hazelnuts and palm oil; created by the Ferrero firm in 1964.
• Mozzarella: southern Italian cheese made from Italian buffalo's milk by the pasta filata method.
• Marinara sauce: tomato sauce made with tomatoes, garlic, herbs and onions.
• Ciabatta: Italian white bread made from wheat flour, water, salt, yeast, and olive oil.
• Breadstick: long and thin sticks of crisp of dry baked bread that was invented in Italy.
• Risotto: Northern Italian rice dish.
• Broccoli: broccoli resulted from breeding of landrace Brassica crops in the northern Mediterranean starting in about the sixth century BCE. Broccoli has its origins in primitive cultivars grown in the Roman Empire and was most likely improved via artificial selection in the southern Italian Peninsula or in Sicily.
• Pasta filata: a technique in the manufacture of a family of Italian cheeses.

{{Main|Sport in Italy}}

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• Bocce, a boules-type game dating back to Roman times{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bocce_%28Enciclopedia-dello-Sport%29/|title=Bocce in enciclopedia dello sport|website=www.treccani.it}} and later developed in Italy;{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/sports/bocce|title=bocce {{!}} Description & Play|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2019-11-05}} bocce volo as a variant. The game was spread across Europe by the Romans and is closely related to the later British bowls and French boules.
• Calcio Fiorentino or historic football. The Vocabolario della Crusca (first edited in 1612) noted: "Calcio [lit. soccer, football, kick] is also the name of an ancient and proper game of the city of Florence, like an orderly battle, with a ball, resembling the spheromachy, passed from Greeks to Latins and from Latins to us". The noble Piero de 'Medici summoned the most skilled players to his court, thus representing the first patronage applied to football. In the Great Britain of the 19th century, soccer evolved into modern regulation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/calcio-la-storia-del-calcio_%28Enciclopedia-dello-Sport%29/|title=La storia del calcio|website=www.treccani.it}}
• Sicilian Defence: in the game of Chess, an opening move created in Italy around the 16th century and described for the first time in a Chess theory book of 1594 by Chess Master Giulio Cesare Polerio.
• Five-pins billiard game and Goriziana pin billiard game.
• Italian playing cards and related games, such as Scopa, Scopone scientifico, Tressette, Asso pigliatutto, Briscola.
• Palio: initially used to indicate speed competitions, usually with horses, it later embraced many other peculiarities, evolving into a group of typical manifestations dating back to various Italian medieval cities.{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2019/07/02/benvenuti-al-palio-eterna-reinvenzione-del-nostro-medioevo30.html|title=benvenuti al palio|website=repubblica.it|date=2 July 2019 }}

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The following is an extract of the most noteworthy geographical discoveries, partially or totally Italian:

• Americas America as a continent has been explored and inhabited by American natives (since 17,000 years ago)Wells, Spencer; Read, Mark (2002). The Journey of Man - A Genetic Odyssey (Digitised online by Google books) and the Vikings (with even conjectures of Roman presence{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/history/628827/ANCIENT-ROMANS-America-eerie-discovery-change-history|title=ANCIENT ROMANS landed in America: Staggering discovery will 'change history'|last=Smith|first=Oli|date=2015-12-22|website=Express.co.uk|access-date=2019-11-05}}); Christopher Columbus ({{langx|it|Cristoforo Colombo}} {{IPA|it|kriˈstɔːforo koˈlombo|}}) is credited for introducing the 'New World' to the major European powers and, by extension, to Western Europe. The year of his discovery (1492 AD) symbolically marks the starting point of western colonialism and the modern age of history.{{Cite web|url=https://www.historyhit.com/day-columbus-reaches-new-world/|title=Does Columbus' Voyage Mark the Start of the Modern Age?|website=History Hit|access-date=2019-11-05}} Later, the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci came to the conclusion that the land (discovered by Colombo) was a new continent, which has been named after him.See Encyclopædia Britannica Online "Amerigo Vespucci" and Room, Adrian (2004), Placenames of the world: origins and meanings of the names for over 5000 natural features, countries, capitals, territories, cities and historic sights; the Americas are believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.
• North America's Atlantic coast:
• John Cabot ({{langx|it|Giovanni Caboto}} {{IPA|it|dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto|}}) was the first European to explore the coast since the Vikings; he discovered Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island.{{Cite web|url=https://www.johncabot.edu/about-jcu/who-was-john-cabot.aspx|title=Who Was John Cabot {{!}} John Cabot University in Rome {{!}} JCU|website=www.johncabot.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-11-25}}
• Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to discover New York Bay and Narragansett Bay, exploring the coast between Florida and New Brunswick.Greene, George Washington (1837). The Life and Voyages of Verrazzano. Cambridge University: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston. p. 13

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• [http://www.imss.fi.it/milleanni/indice.html One Thousand Years of Science In Italy]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q459yBkCt4U 10 Italian Inventions that changed the world]
• [http://www.codiceedizioni.it/files/2011/10/Marchis_estratto_sito.pdf 150 years of italian inventions]
• [http://www.focus.it/tecnologia/innovazione/100-grandi-idee-made-in-italy 100 great Italian inventions]
• [http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/cards/13-invenzioni-italiane-che-ci-hanno-cambiato-vita-o-faranno/anni-60-olivetti-programma-101-1964_principale.shtml the 14 Italian inventions that changed our lives]
• [http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2015/03/13/foto/le_invenzioni_degli_italiani-109117850/1/#1 30 great italian inventions]

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