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Editorial Reviews - Italian Senators From the Publisher Chapters: Presidents of the Italian Senate, Senators of the Kingdom of Italy, Senators of the Republic of Italy, Giuseppe Verdi, Guglielmo Marconi, Alessandro Manzoni, Francesco Cossiga, Enrico de Nicola, Amintore Fanfani, Ernesto Burzagli, Pier Ruggero Piccio, Pietro Badoglio, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Enrico Caviglia, Vito Volterra, Luigi Albertini, Luigi Einaudi, Luigi Cadorna, Federico Luigi, Conte Menabrea, Marcello Pera, Ivanoe Bonomi, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Franco Marini, Luigi Bianchi, Giovanni Agnelli, Tommaso Tittoni, Arturo Riccardi, Ettore Bastico, Giovanni Spadolini, Armando Diaz, Nicola Mancino, Federico Sclopis, Luigi Facta, Giuseppe Saracco, Niccolò Turrisi Colonna, Luigi Federzoni, Paolo Thaon Di Revel, Mauro Del Vecchio, Cesare Merzagora, Giacomo Durando, Ruggeru Sèttimu, Mustafa Merlika-Kruja, Pietro Tomasi Della Torretta, Stefano Jacini, Raffaele Cadorna, Paolino Taddei, Sebastiano Tecchio, Biagio Brugi, Carlo Pellion Di Persano, Ferdinando Martini, Giacomo Suardo, Gabrio Casati. Excerpt: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: ; 25 April 1874 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" and was ennobled in 1924 as Marchese Marconi. Guglielmo Marconi Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Marconi was born near Bologna, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson Whiskey distillery. Marco... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12104 Synopsis Chapters: Presidents of the Italian Senate, Senators of the Kingdom