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February 17, 2016
In a strange twist of fate, the painter Giordano Bruno Lattuada died in Monza on 17 February 1978, the same day that his namesake was burned at the stake by the Catholic Inquisition in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori in 1600.

September 11, 2015
Italian naturalist and antiquarian Ulisse Aldrovandi was born in Bologna on 11 September 1522.