Events during the year 2007 in Italy.

Incumbents

Giorgio Napolitano Giorgio Napolitano (; born 29 June 1925) is an Italian politician who served as president of Italy from 2006 to 2015, the first Italian president to be re-elected to the presidency. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics, some critics ...

* Prime Minister: Romano Prodi

Events

Literature

*'' The Italian'', novel by

Sebastiano Vassalli Sebastiano Vassalli (24 October 1941 – 26 July 2015) was an Italian author. He wrote the 2007 novel ''The Italian (L'italiano)''. Vassalli was born in Genoa, Italy in 1941. His mother are from Tuscany and father were from Lombardy. At a ver ...

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Manituana ''Manituana'' is a novel by Wu Ming first published in Italian in 2007. Wu Ming is a collective of five authors founded in 2000. The members were formerly associated with the Luther Blissett Project and wrote the international best-selling novel ...

'', novel by the writers' collective Wu Ming *''

The Track of Sand '' The Track of Sand '' (orig. Italian ''La pista di sabbia'') is a 2007 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2010 by Stephen Sartarelli Stephen Sartarelli (born 1954 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American poet and translator. Life ...

'', novel by Andrea Camilleri

Deaths

*26 January –

Emanuele Luzzati Emanuele Luzzati (3 June 1921 – 26 January 2007) was an Italian Painting, painter, production designer, illustrator, film director and animator. He was nominated for Academy Awards for two of his short films, ''La gazza ladra'' (''The Thie ...

, painter, production designer and animator (b. 1921). *8 February – Adele Faccio, civil right activist (b. 1920). *26 February –

Angelo Arcidiacono Angelo Arcidiacono (25 September 1955 – 26 February 2007) was an Italian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team sabre event at the 1976 Summer Olympics and a gold in the same event at the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympi ...

, fencer (b. 1955). *3 March – :* Osvaldo Cavandoli, cartoonist (b. 1920). :*

Benito Lorenzi Benito "Veleno" Lorenzi (; 20 December 1925 – 3 March 2007) was an Italian footballer born in Borgo a Buggiano, province of Pistoia. He played as a striker. Club career Throughout his career (1947–1960), Lorenzi played with Italian clubs In ...

, footballer (b. 1925). *19 March –

Giampaolo Calanchini Giampaolo Calanchini (4 February 1937 – 19 March 2007) was an Italian fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre at the 1960 Summer Olympics and a silver in the same event at the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonl ...

, fencer (b. 1937). *21 May –

Bruno Mattei Bruno Mattei (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor who directed exploitation films in many genres, including women in prison, nunsploitation, zombie, mondo, cannibal, and Nazisploitation films. Ma ...

, film director, screenwriter and editor (b.

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

) *23 July –

Franco Cuomo Franco Cuomo (22 April 1938, in Naples – 23 July 2007, in Rome) was an Italian journalist and writer. Best known for his historical novels set in the Middle Ages, he was short-listed twice for the Strega Award (the most prestigious literary pr ...

, writer (b. 1938). *24 July –

Giorgio Anglesio Giorgio Anglesio (13 April 1922 – 24 July 2007) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team épée event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1951 Mediterranean Games The 1951 Mediterranean Games, officially k ...

, fencer (b. 1922). *21 September – Mauro Mellano, Italian economist and university professor. *7 October – Luciana Frassati Gawronska, writer (b. 1902). *2 December –

Eleonora Rossi Drago Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in ''Le amiche''. She appeared in ''Un maledetto imbro ...

, actress (b. 1925).

References

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