Famous Italians #2

Based on the clues, name these famous Italians, past and present.
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Clue
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"Redshirts" leader who unified Italy
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Director of "La Dolce Vita"
Federico Fellini
Former F1 and NASCAR-winning driver
Mario Andretti
Venetian womanizer
Giacomo Casanova
Violin maker who died in 1737
Antionio Stradivari
Tyrannic Emperor who murdered his mother Agrippine
Nero
PM assassinated by the Red Brigades
Aldo Moro
"The Birth of Venus" painter
Sandro Botticelli
Most famous Venetian Renaissance painter
Titian
Notorious Queen said to have started the St. Bartholomew massacre
Catherine de' Medici
"Blue Velvet" actress
Isabella Rossellini
Orator in the waning days of the Roman Republic
Cicero
Inventor of the electrical battery
Alessandro Volta
Italy's leading World Cup goalscorer
Roberto Baggio
Opera composer of "Aida" and "Rigoletto"
Giuseppe Verdi
Opera buffa composer of "The Barber of Seville"
Gioachino Rossini
Roman Emperor who made his horse senator
Caligula
13th century philosopher who was "Doctor of the Church"
Thomas Aquinas
Discovered electric signals on dead frogs
Luigi Galvani
"Great" pope who met Attila the Hun
Leo I
Fashion designer assassinated in 1997
Gianni Versace
Painter of elongated figures
Amedeo Modigliani
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Mar 6, 2025
Saint Bonaventure, Saint Ambrose, and Pope Saint Gregory the Great are also all 13th century Italians who have been named Doctor of the Church :)