History offers us many examples of people that with their ideas, their intuitions and their thinking have provided invaluable inspiration for future generations. Every country, every culture has its share of inspirational people. With this calendar I want to share some of the well-known and less known Italian men and women that can inspire us in our daily life. I hope that the quotations that I have selected for this calendar will be of help in your own journey and will spark your curiosity to learn more about these people and their lives.

1. 2020
Italian wisdom through the years
Get Inspired
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2. About the Calendar
Stefano Baldi
History offers us many examples of people that with their
ideas, their intuitions and their thinking have provided
invaluable inspiration for future generations.
Every country, every culture has its share of inspirational
people.
With this calendar I want to share some of the well-known
and less known Italian men and women that can inspire
us in our daily life.
I hope that the quotations that I have selected for this
calendar will be of help in your own journey and will spark
your curiosity to learn more about these people and their
lives.

3. Credits
Stefano Baldi 2019 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
For more quotations and suggestions: http://diplolearn.wordpress.com
Concept and design: Stefano Baldi
Inspiration credits:
For many years, I have been realising this calendar with my friend Eduardo Gelbstein.
He left us on July 19, 2015. I will forever thank him for the great long lasting inspiration
he gave me during our long and fruitful friendship. Forever thank you Ed!

5. Galileo Galilei
You cannot
teach a man
anything
you can only
help him find it
within himself
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Galileo Galilei (1564 1642) - Astronomer, physicist mathematician and engineer. He made some fundamental
contributions to science, in particular to astronomy and to the development of the scientific method.

7. You may
have the
universe if
I may have
Italy
Giuseppe Verdi
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901) - One of the most important opera composers in history. He produced many successful
operas such as Rigoletto (1851), La traviata (1853), Aida (1871), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893).

9. he dreams of
being an honest
coward like
everybody else
Umberto Eco
The real hero is
always a hero by mistake;
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Umberto Eco (1932 – 2016) - Novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is
widely known for his 1980 novel "Il nome della rosa" (The Name of the Rose).

11. The best
comes from them
Rita Levi Montalcini
Above all,
don’t fear
difficult
moments.
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Rita Levi Montalcini (1909 - 2012) - Neurologist. She shared with biochemist Stanley Cohen, the Nobel Prize for Physiology
or Medicine in 1986 for her hekp to discover the chemical tools the body uses to direct cell growth and build nerves.

13. A great flame
follows a
little spark
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321) - Poet, philosopher, and political thinker. He is the author of " La Divina Commedia", (The
Divine Comedy), one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest Italian literary work.

15. Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is
the ultimate
sophistication
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) - Polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing,
painting, sculpture, architecture, science, engineering, literature, anatomy, botany, and many others.

17. San Francesco d'Assisi
All the
darkness in the
world cannot
extinguish the
light of a single
candle
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San Francesco d'Assisi (1181/1182 – 1226) - Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. He is one of the most
venerated religious figures in history and the patron saint of animals and the environment.

19. A room
without books
is like a body
without a
soul
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) - Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, writer and philosopher, who served as
consul in the year 63 BC. His works on philosophy and politics greatly influenced European thought.

21. Federico Fellini
There is no
end. There is
no beginning.
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Federico Fellini (1920 – 1993) - Film director and screenwriter. He won four Academy Awards in the category of Best
Foreign Language Film. Among his most famous films: "La Dolce Vita", "8½", "Le notti di Cabiria", "La Strada", "Amarcord".
There is only
the passion of
life

23. Never help a
child with a
task at which
he feels he can
succeed
Maria Montessori
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Maria Montessori (1870 – 1952) - Physician and educator. She best known for the philosophy of education that bears her
name, based on belief in the creative potential of children, and the right of each child to be treated as an individual.

25. Michelangelo Buonarroti
Your
greatness is
measured by
your horizons
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564) - Sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the Renaissance born in the Republic
of Florence. He considered as one of the greatest artist of all time.

27. The most
important
victory is the
one which
has to arrive
Enzo Ferrari
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Enzo Ferrari (1898 – 1988) - Racing driver, automobile manufacturer and designer. He is the founder of
Ferrari marque that produces some of the most stylish and status-symbol cars in the world.

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