Italian philanthropists

Domenico Grimani (19 February 1461 – 27 August 1523) was an Italian nobleman, theologian and cardinal.

Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino (23 January 1881 – 1 June 1957), also known as Luisa Casati, was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe known for her eccentricities.

Giovanni de' Bardi (5 February 1534 – September 1612), Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier.

Alessandro Albani (15 October 1692 – 11 December 1779) was a leading collector of antiquities in Rome and a commissioner of works of art.

Ludovico Ludovisi (22 or 27 October 1595 – 18 November 1632) was an Italian cardinal and statesman of the Roman Catholic Church.

Scipione Borghese (1 September 1577 – 2 October 1633) was an Italian Cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts.

Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani (13 September 1564 – 27 December 1637) was an aristocratic Italian banker, art collector and intellectual of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known today largely for the Giustiniani art collection, assembled at Palazzo Giustiniani, close by the Pantheon, Rome, and at the family palazzo at Bassano by Vincenzo and his brother, Cardinal Benedetto, and for his patronage of the artist Caravaggio.

Gary di Silvestri (born February 3, 1967 in Staten Island, United States) is a cross-country skier who competed for Dominica at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 15 kilometre classical race.

Angelica di Silvestri, also known Angelica Marrone, (born November 25, 1965 in Cosenza, Italy) is a cross-country skier who competed for Dominica at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Cross-country skiing race.

Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (/maɪˈsiːnəs/; 15 April 68 BC – 8 BC) was an ally, friend and political advisor to Octavian (who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus) as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil.

Francesco di Marco Datini (c. 1335 – 16 August 1410) was an Italian merchant born in Prato.

Francesco Barberini (23 September 1597 – 10 December 1679) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.

Angelo Dalle Molle (4 November 1908 – 2001) was an Italian businessman and Utopian philanthropist.

Antonio Bernocchi was an Italian industrialist, who built up a successful textile factory at Legnano, in Lombardy in northern Italy.

Maria Paternò Arezzo (December 11, 1869, Ragusa Ibla, Sicily — December 28, 1908, Messina), Princess of Castellaci, was an Italian noblewoman and philanthropist who is renowned for her charity bequest to build a hospital for the poor in her city of birth.

(This article is about the fashion designer. For his company, see Brunello Cucinelli (company).) Brunello Cucinelli (born September 3, 1953 at Castel Rigone) is an Italian fashion designer and eponymous chief executive of his brand, Brunello Cucinelli.

Emily Bliss Gould (c. 1825 - 31 August 1875 Perugia, Italy) founded a school for Italian children of limited means.

Luciano Lamonarca (born 11 August 1978) is an Italian opera singer, crossover artist and event producer.

Aniceta Frisetti (Turin, 1846 – Turin, 28 October 1920) was an Italian philanthropist.

Francesca Bortolotto Possati is an Italian entrepreneur, author, interior designer, philanthropist and hotelier.

Oddone of Savoy (Oddone Eugenio Maria; 11 July 1846 – 22 January 1866) was an Italian humanist and philanthropist.

Benedetto Pamphili (often with the final long i orthography, Pamphilj) (25 April 1653 – 22 March 1730) was an Italian cardinal, patron of the arts, composer and librettist.

Donatella Flick (born Princess Donatella Missikoff of Ossetia) is an Italian philanthropist and the former wife of Gert Rudolph Flick of the wealthy German industrialist Flick family.