italian unification

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.

August 13, 2015
Domenico Morelli, who was both a painter and politically engaged reformer, died on 13 August 1901 in Naples.