Pietro is an

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Pietro I Candiano Pietro I Candiano ( – 18 September 887) was briefly the sixteenth Doge of Venice in 887. History He followed Orso I Participazio and Giovanni II Participazio as Doge of Venice, elected to the throne at the side of the elderly, and beloved, Gio ...

(c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice *

Pietro Tribuno Pietro Tribuno (died 912) was the Doge of Venice from 887 to his death. History He was the son of Domenico Tribuno and Agnella, the niece of Pietro Tradonico. He succeeded Pietro I Candiano, following a brief period during which the elderly and ...

(died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death *

Pietro II Candiano Pietro II Candiano ( – 939) was the nineteenth Doge of Venice between 932 and 939. He followed Orso II Participazio (912–932) to become Doge in 932. Career The Candiano family was the most important family of Venice during the tenth century. ...

(c. 872–939), 19th Doge of Venice, son of Pietro I

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Pietro Accolti Pietro Accolti (15 March 1455 – 11 December 1532), known as the "cardinal of Ancona", was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and judge of the Roman Rota. Life He was born in Florence on 15 March 1455, the son of the famous jurist Benedetto Accol ...

(1455–1532), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal *

Pietro Aldobrandini Pietro Aldobrandini (31 March 1571 – 10 February 1621) was an Italian cardinal and patron of the arts. Biography He was made a cardinal in 1593 by his uncle, Pope Clement VIII. He took over the duchy of Ferrara in 1598 when it fell to the Pa ...

(1571–1621), Italian cardinal and patron of the arts *

Pietro Anastasi Pietro Anastasi (; 7 April 1948 – 17 January 2020), nicknamed ''Petruzzu 'u turcu'' () by fans, was an Italian footballer who played mainly in the role of a forward. He started his professional club career in Italy with Varese in 1966, helpi ...

(1948–2020), Italian former footballer * Pietro di Antonio Dei, birth name of

Bartolomeo della Gatta Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448–1502), born Pietro di Antonio Dei, was an Italian (Florentine) painter, illuminator, and architect. He was the son of a goldsmith. He was a colleague of Fra Bartolommeo. In 1468, Bartolomeo became a monk in the O ...

(1448–1502), Florentine painter, illuminator and architect *

Pietro Aretino Pietro Aretino (, ; 19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics. He was one of the most influential writers of his time and a ...

(1492–1556), Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer * Pietro Auletta (1698–1771), Italian composer known mainly for his operas *

Pietro Baracchi Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto Baracchi (25 February 1851 – 23 July 1926) was an Italy, Italian-born astronomer, active in Australia and Government Astronomer of Victoria (Australia) 1900-15.J. L. Perdrix,Baracchi, Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto ...

(1851–1926), Italian-born astronomer * Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700), Italian Baroque painter *

Pietro Belluschi Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 – February 14, 1994) was an Italian-American architect. A leading figure in modern architecture Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based up ...

(1899–1994), Italian architect *

Pietro Bembo Pietro Bembo, ( la, Petrus Bembus; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the It ...

(1470–1547), Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and cardinal *

Pietro Bernini Pietro Bernini (6 May 1562 – 29 August 1629) was an Italian sculptor. He was the father of one of the most famous artists of Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, as well as the sculptor-architect Luigi Bernini. Biography Bernini was born in Sesto F ...

(1562–1629), Italian sculptor * Pietro Borghese (1398–1484), also called Pietro della Francesca, Italian painter of the early Renaissance * Pietro Bianchi (disambiguation) *

Pietro Campilli Pietro Campilli (1891–1974) was an Italian economist and politician who held several cabinet posts during the 1940s and 1950s. He was the first president of the European Investment Bank and served in the post between 1958 and 1959. Biography C ...

(1891–1974), Italian economist and politician *

Pietro Carnesecchi Pietro Carnesecchi (24 December 1508 – 1 October 1567) was an Italian humanist. Biography Born in Florence, he was the son of a da Andrea Carnesecchi, a merchant who under the patronage of the Medici, and especially of Giulio de' Medici a ...

(1508–1567), Italian humanist *

Pietro Cascella Pietro Cascella (February 2, 1921 – May 18, 2008) was an Italian sculptor. His principal work consisted of large monumental sculptures, including the '' International Monument to the Victims of Fascism'' in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death ca ...

(1921–2008), Italian painter and sculptor *

Pietro Cataldi Pietro Antonio Cataldi (15 April 1548, Bologna – 11 February 1626, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of contin ...

(1548–1626), Italian mathematician * Pietro Crinito (1475–1507), known as

Crinitus Pietro Crinito (22 May 1474 – 5 July 1507), known as Crinitus, or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi (derived from Riccio, 'curly', translated into Latin as ''crinitus''), was a Florentine humanist scholar and poet who was a disciple of Poliziano. He is ...

or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, Florentine humanist scholar and poet *

Pietro Dusina Pietro Dusina was an Italian Roman Catholic priest from Brescia who was the inquisitor and apostolic delegate to Malta between 1574 and 1575. Dusina was nominated inquisitor of Malta by Pope Gregory XIII on 3 July 1574, and he arrived on the island ...

, Italian priest and inquisitor *

Pietro Erardi Fra Pietro Erardi (1644–1727) was a Maltese chaplain and painter. He was a cleric and became a chaplain of obedience of the Order of St. John in 1669. He joined the Wignacourt College in Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er- ...

(1644–1727), Maltese chaplain and painter

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Pietro Facchetti Pietro Facchetti (1539 – 27 February 1613) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, mainly active in Rome. Born to a poor family in Mantua. Facchetti initially trained with Lorenzo Costa the younger, but then moved to Rome and joined t ...

(1539–1613), Italian painter of the late Renaissance *

Pietro Ferrari (footballer, born 1906) Pietro Ferrari (; April 6, 1906 – ?) was an Italian professional football player. He played for 3 seasons (27 games, 3 goals) in the Serie A for A.S. Roma and A.S. Casale Calcio A.S.D. Casale Foot Ball Club (formerly A.S. Casale Calcio) is ...

, Italian retired footballer *

Pietro Ferraris Pietro Ferraris (; 15 February 1912 – 11 October 1991) was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. Throughout his career, he won 6 Serie A titles with Ambrosiana-Inter and Torino, and the 1938 FIFA World Cup with the Italy national footba ...

(1912–1991), Italian footballer * Pietro Ferrero (disambiguation) *

Pietro Fontana (engraver) Pietro Fontana (1762 – 18 September 1837) was an Italian engraver. Born in Bassano del Grappa, he worked in Rome and specialized in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy. He was a member of the Accademia di San Luca. He started his c ...

(1762–1837), Italian engraver * Pietro Fontana (engineer), early 19th century Italian engineer and agronomist *

Pietro Germi Pietro Germi (; 14 September 1914 – 5 December 1974) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his development of the neorealist and commedia all'Italiana genres. His 1961 film ''Divorce Italian Style'' earned him a Be ...

(1914–1974), Italian actor, screenwriter and director * Pietro Lanza di Scalea (1863–1938), Italian noble and politician *

Pietro Locatelli Pietro Antonio Locatelli (3 September 1695 in Bergamo – 30 March 1764 in Amsterdam) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. Biography Bergamo Little is known about Locatelli's childhood. In his early youth he was the third violinist ...

(1695–1764), Italian Baroque composer and violinist *

Pietro Lombardi (architect) Pietro Lombardi (30 July 1894 – 5 February 1984) was an Italian architect. At the beginning of his career Lombardi worked in the studios of Armando Brasini and Marcello Piacentini. With his design for the '' Fontana delle Anfore'', a fountain i ...

(1894–1984), Italian architect *

Pietro Lombardi (wrestler) Pietro Lombardi (4 June 1922 – 5 October 2011)Pietro Lombardi (singer) Pietro Lombardi (born 9 June 1992) is a German singer and the winner of season 8 A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of t ...

(born 1992), German singer *

Pietro Loredan Pietro Loredan (1372 – 28 October 1438) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian nobleman of the House of Loredan, Loredan family and a distinguished military commander both on sea and on land. He fought against the Ottoman Empire, Ottomans, winning t ...

(1372–1438), Venetian nobleman and military commander on sea and land *

Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni ( Cles in Tyrol, 1721 – Salzburg, 1782) was an Austrian painter who is believed to have painted several portraits of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family: "The Boy Mozart" (1763), his sister Maria Anna Mozart in "Nanne ...

(1721–1782), Austrian painter *

Pietro Magni (sculptor) Pietro Magni (October 21, 1817 - January 20, 1877) was an Italian sculptor. Born in Milan, he studied at that city's Brera Academy, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera before moving to the workshop of Abbondio Sangiorgio. Later in his career he be ...

(1817–1877), Italian sculptor * Pietro Magni (engineer) (1898–1988), Italian aeronautical engineer * Pietro Magni (footballer) (1919–1992), Italian footballer and football manager *

Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735 - 1787) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a late- Baroque and early Neoclassical style. He was born in Sissa The International School for Advanced Studies (Italian: ''Scuola Internazionale Super ...

(1735–1787), painter from Parma * Pietro Mennea (1952–2013), Italian sprinter and politician *

Pietro Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of '' opera seria'' libretti. Early life Me ...

, pseudonym of Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698–1782), Italian poet and librettist

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* Pietro Negroni (c. 1505–1565), Italian painter of the Renaissance *

Pietro Pastore Pietro Mario Pastore, also known as Piero Pastore (3 April 1908, in Padua – 8 January 1968, in Rome) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker; he later became an actor. Football career Pastore was the youngest ever play ...

(1908–1969), Italian footballer and actor * Pietro Pedranzini (1826-1903), Italian Lieutenant *

Pietro Perti Giovanni Pietro Perti or Peretti (1648 – 1714) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and architect, regarded as one of the leading European sculptors on the verge of the 18th century. He has been an elder of Šnipiškės and Antakalnis suburbs gove ...

or Peretti (1648–1714), Italian Baroque sculptor and architect * Peter S. Pezzati (1902–1993), aka Pietro Pezzati, American portrait painter * Pietro Pezzati (artist) (1828–1898), Italian mural painter *

Pietro Porcinai Pietro Porcinai (Fiesole, Italy 1910– Florence, Italy 1986) is renowned as one of the most outstanding Italian landscape architects of the twentieth century. He designed a wide variety of projects on the most diverse scales: gardens and public p ...

(1910–1986), Italian landscape architect *

Pietro Scalia Pietro Scalia (born March 17, 1960) is an Italian–American film editor. He won Best Film Editing at the 64th Academy Awards for his work on the film ''JFK'', sharing the award with Joe Hutshing, and at the 74th Academy Awards for '' Black Ha ...

(born 1960), Italian-American film editor *

Pietro Scarcella Pietro "Peter" Scarcella (; born 12 July 1950) is an Italian-Canadian mobster based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, linked to the Sicilian Rizzuto crime family of Montreal, Quebec. In the 1970s, Scarcella became the driver of Toronto mobster, Pau ...

(born 1950), Italian-Canadian mobster *

Pietro Antonio Solari Pietro Antonio Solari (Latin: Petrus Antonius Solarius)Z. Davidov. Stars on the towers. (Звезды на башнях) Moscow, 1963 (c. 1445 – May 1493), also known as Pyotr Fryazin, was an Italian architect and sculptor. He was born in Ca ...

(c. 1445–1493), Italian architect and sculptor * Pietro or

Pier Paolo Vergerio Pier Paolo Vergerio ( 1498 – October 4, 1565), the Younger, was an Italian papal nuncio and later Protestant reformer. Life He was born at Capodistria (Koper), Istria, then part of the Venetian Republic and studied jurisprudence in Padua, wh ...

(c. 1498–1565), Italian religious reformer *

Pietro De Vico Pietro De Vico (1 February 1911 – 10 December 1999) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1948 and 1991. He was born in Naples, and died in Rome. He was married, from 1937 until his death in 1999, to actress Anna Campo ...

(1911–1999), Italian film actor *

Pietro Vierchowod Pietro Vierchowod (, born 6 April 1959) is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender, and a current manager. He also represented the Italian national side during his career, and was a member of the Italian squad that won the 1982 F ...

(born 1959), Italian football manager and former player * Pietro Vinci (c. 1525–1584), Italian composer *

Pietro Ziani Pietro Ziani (died in Venice, 13 March 1230) was the 42nd Doge of Venice from 15 August 1205 to 1229, succeeding Enrico Dandolo. He was the son of Doge Sebastian Ziani of the very rich noble family. He was married to Maria Baseggio and Consta ...

(died 1230), 42nd Doge of Venice

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* Pietro Maximoff, fictional Marvel Comics superhero known as Quicksilver

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