Italo

Italo Vegliante (born 1961) is an Italian acoustic guitarist.

Italo Zingarelli (15 January 1930 – 29 April 2000) was an Italian film producer. He produced 26 films between 1954 and 1995. In 1981, he was a member of the jury at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.

Italo Terzoli (18 January 1924 – 13 May 2008) was an Italian author, playwright, screenwriter, television and radio writer. In 1971 he started a proficuous collaboration with the writer Enrico Vaime; their debut novel, "Amore significa", was a bestseller and got over thirty editions. From 1977, the couple also wrote a series of musicals and comedy plays for Garinei & Giovannini.

Aron Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer and businessman, known as a novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

Italo Montemezzi (August 4, [1] 1875 – May 15, 1952) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his opera L'amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings), once part of the standard repertoire. It is now seldom performed.

Italo Gariboldi (20 April 1879 – 3 February 1970) was a senior officer in the Italian Royal Army (Regio Esercito) before and during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross by German Führer Adolf Hitler, for his leadership of Italian forces in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Italo Balbo was successor to Mussolini (though he died way before that could've happen) and also the commander-in-chief of the North African part of Italy.

Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) (pronounced [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).

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Lionised in Britain and America, he was, at the time of his death, the most-translated contemporary Italian writer.