Enrico Mattei (1906-1962) was the most acclaimed entrepreneur in Italy after World War II. A small industrialist before the war and a leading anti-fascist partisan during the war, Mattei in the 1950s created one of the largest public industrial...

For 30 years, Janet Akyuz Mattei was the lodestar for amateur astronomers tracking the skies for diamond-like stars whose brightness waxes and wanes. As an astronomer, Mattei was internationally known for her knowledge of variable stars the ones that pulsate, expand and contract...

In the 1950s and 60s, this exuberant Italian-American entrepreneur provided San Francisco with a series of entertainment hot spots, including the hungry i (aka the "eye"), a theater and night club that introduced fresh talent. San Franciscans have always welcomed those larger-than-life characters...