Piero is an
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Piero Angela
Piero Domenico Angela (; 22 December 1928 – 13 August 2022) was an Italian television host, science journalist, writer, and pianist.
He started as a radio reporter, then became a foreign correspondent, and established himself as the host of ...
(1928–2022), Italian television host
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Piero Barucci
Piero Barucci (born 29 June 1933) is an Italians, Italian academic, economist and politician, who served as treasury minister of Italy in the period 1992–1994.
Early life and education
Barucci was born in Florence on 29 June 1933. He holds a b ...
(born 1933), Italian academic and politician
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Piero del Pollaiuolo
Piero del Pollaiuolo ( , , ; also spelled Pollaiolo; in Florence – 1496 in Rome), also known as Piero Benci, was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. His brother was the artist Antonio del Pollaiuolo and the two frequently worked ...
(c. 1443–1496), Italian painter
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Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca (, also , ; – 12 October 1492), originally named Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca i ...
(c1415–1492), Italian artist of the Early Renaissance
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Piero De Benedictis (born 1945), Italian-born Argentine and Colombian folk singer
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Piero Ciampi
Piero Ciampi (Livorno, 28 September 1934 – Rome, 19 January 1980) was an Italian singer-songwriter.
Discography
Single
* 1961: ''Conphiteor/La grotta dell'amore'' ( Bluebell, BB 03044; inciso come ''Piero Litaliano'')
* 1961: ''L'ultim ...
(1934–1980), Italian singer
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Piero di Cosimo
Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 – 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
He is most famous for the mythological and allegorical subjects he painted in the late Quattrocento; he is said to ...
(1462-1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, Italian Renaissance painter
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Piero di Cosimo de' Medici
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (the Gouty), (Italian: ''Piero "il Gottoso"'') (1416 – 2 December 1469) was the ''de facto'' ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance.
Biography
Piero was the son of Cosimo de' Medi ...
(1416–1469), ''de facto'' ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469
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Piero Ferrari
Piero Lardi Ferrari (born 22 May 1945Rancati, p. 107) is an Italian billionaire businessman and sport personality. He is the second and only living son of Enzo Ferrari, and a 10.23% owner of the Ferrari automotive company, of which he is the vic ...
(born 1945), Italian businessman
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Piero Focaccia
Piero Focaccia (born 16 October 1944) is an Italian pop singer and film actor.
Career
Born in Cervia, Ravenna, a former lifeguard, Focaccia began his career in 1962, with the single ''Il pappagallo''. He got his main success one year later with ...
(born 1944), Italian pop singer
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Piero Fornasetti
Piero Fornasetti (Milan, 10 November 1913 – Milan, 15 October 1988) was an Italian artist and designer.
Biography
Piero Fornasetti was born in 1913 into a well-off. middle-class family in Milan. A multifaceted figure in the Italian desig ...
(1913–1988), Italian painter
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Piero Gardoni (1934–1994), Italian professional footballer
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Piero Golia
Piero Golia (born 1974) is a conceptual artist based in Los Angeles.
Background
As a young man in Naples, Golia studied chemical engineering, learning about the transformation of raw materials into powerful energy sources.
He arrived in Los Ang ...
(born 1974), Italian conceptual artist
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Piero Gros
Piero "Pierino" Gros (born 30 October 1954) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from northwestern Italy. He won the gold medal in slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, and was the World Cup overall champion in 1974.
Biography
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(born 1954), Italian alpine skier
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Piero the Unfortunate
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (15 February 1472 – 28 December 1503), called Piero the Fatuous or Piero the Unfortunate, was the lord of Florence from 1492 until his exile in 1494.
Early life
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici was the eldest son of ...
(1472–1503), Gran maestro of Florence
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Piero Mingoia
Piero Mingoia (born 20 October 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder.
He began his career with Watford, and spent time on loan at Brentford, Hayes & Yeading United, Accrington Stanley and Boreham Woo ...
(born 1991), English footballer
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Piero Manzoni
Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticip ...
(1933–1963), Italian artist
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Piero Pelù
Pietro "Piero" Pelù (born 10 February 1962) is an Italian singer and songwriter, best known for his work with the Italian band Litfiba. He was born in Florence.
In July 1999, Pelù quit Litfiba. In 2000, he released his first solo album ''Né ...
(born 1962), Italian singer
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Piero Sraffa
Piero Sraffa (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book ''Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities'' is taken as founding the neo- ...
(1898–1983), Italian economist
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Piero Scaruffi
Piero Scaruffi (born 1955) is an Italian-American writer who maintains a website on which his reviews of music, film, and art are published. He has created his own publishing entity called Omnipublishing, that exclusively releases his books abou ...
(born 1955), Italian-American freelance software consultant and university lecturer
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Piero Soderini
Piero di Tommaso Soderini (March 17, 1451 – June 13, 1522) also known as Pier Soderini, was an Italian statesman of the Republic of Florence.
Biography
Soderini was born in Florence to Tommaso di Lorenzo Soderini, a member of an old family ...
(1450–1522), Italian statesman
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Maestro Piero
Maestro Piero (Magister Piero or Piero) (born before 1300, died shortly after 1350) was an Italian composer of the late medieval era. He was one of the first composers of the Trecento who is known by name, and probably one of the oldest. He is m ...
(c. 1300–c. 1350), known as Piero, Italian medieval composer
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Piero Umiliani
Piero Umiliani (17 July 1926 – 14 February 2001) was an Italian composer of film scores.
Biography
Umiliani was born in Florence, Tuscany. Like many of his Italian colleagues at that time, he composed the scores for many exploitation fil ...
(1926–2001), Italian composer
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San Piero (disambiguation) San Piero may refer to:
* San Piero a Sieve, frazione of Scarperia e San Piero, Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy
* San Piero Patti, municipality in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, Italy
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Pierino (given name) Pierino is an Italian given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Pierino Albini (1885–1955), Italian racing cyclist
* Pierino Baffi (1930–1985), Italian professional road bicycle racer
* Pierino Belli (1502–1575), Italian soldier an ...
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Del Piero
Alessandro Del Piero (; born 9 November 1974) is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a deep-lying forward, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions. Since 2015, he has worked as a pundit f ...
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