| PIRANDELLO | Luigi ___, Italian author; 1934 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (10) |
| BOCCHERINI | Luigi ___, Italian composer best known for a minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275) |
| NERVI | Pier Luigi ___, Italian architect who co-designed the UNESCO building in Paris (5) |
| ECO | Umberto ___ Italian author of The Name of the Rose |
| DELEDDA | Grazia ___, Italian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 |
| IVOANDRIC | Author of 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina; 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| NONO | Luigi ___, Italian composer of 1961 work Intolleranza 1960 (4) |
| DALLAPICCOLA | Luigi ___, Italian composer whose final opera was Ulisse to his own libretto, completed in 1968 |
| CALVINO | Italo ___, Italian author of the novels Invisible Cities and The Nonexistent Knight (7) |
| MARINETTI | Filippo ____, Italian author of the Futurist Manifesto in 1909 |
| GALVANI | Which Italian anatomist (Luigi ___) is best known for his discovery of the twitching of frogs' legs in an $$ % |
| HIV | Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, a French virologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, did the fundamental work in identifying ___ as the cause of AIDS |
| ELIASCANETTI | German-language author born in Bulgaria, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 (5,7) |
| CHERUBINI | Luigi ___, Italian composer buried at Pere Lachaise Cemetery close to his friend Chopin |
| RIVA | Luigi ___, former footballer nicknamed Rombo di Tuono (Roar of Thunder), who is the all-time leading scorer for the Italian national team |
| COETZEE | J M ?, 1983 Booker Prize winner for Life & Times of Michael K; 2003 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| SELMALAGERLOF | Swedish author who was the first female winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1909 (5,8) |
| LEVI | Carlo ___, Italian author of 1945 memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli (4) |
| CURIE | Which unit used in the measurement of radioactivity was named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry (5) |
| ANNIEERNAUX | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who described her prose in the novel "Les Armoires Vides" as "brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene" (October, 2022) |