Highest IQ Italian Geniuses in History — Records

Da Vinci, Galileo, Michelangelo — Italy's highest-IQ minds.

1. Leonardo Da Vinci

   1452–1519 · Italy
   200
2. Enrico Fermi

   1901–1954 · Italy
   190
3. Giordano Bruno

   1548–1600 · Italy
   190
4. Joseph-Louis Lagrange

   1736–1813 · Italy
   190
5. Vilfredo Pareto

   1848–1923 · Italy
   190
6. Ettore Majorana

   1906–1938 · Italy
   183
7. Filippo Brunelleschi

   1377–1446 · Italy
   180
8. Galileo Galilei

   1564–1642 · Italy
   180
9. Giacomo Leopardi

   1798–1837 · Italy
   180
10. Leon Battista Alberti

    1404–1472 · Italy
    180
11. Marcus Aurelius

    0121–0180 · Italy
    180
12. Niccolò Machiavelli

    1469–1527 · Italy
    180
13. Paolo Sarpi

    1552–1623 · Italy
    180
14. Lucretius

    None–present · Italy
    180
15. Tommaso Campanella

    1568–1639 · Italy
    180
16. Torquato Tasso

    1544–1595 · Italy
    180
17. Michelangelo

    1475–1564 · Italy
    177
18. Alessandro Volta

    1745–1827 · Italy
    175
19. Boethius

    0477–0524 · Italy
    175
20. Dante Alighieri

    1265–1321 · Italy
    175
21. Petrarch

    1304–1374 · Italy
    175
22. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

    1194–1250 · Italy
    175
23. Gerolamo Cardano

    1501–1576 · Italy
    175
24. Lucilio Vanini

    1585–1619 · Italy
    175
25. Luigi Galvani

    1737–1798 · Italy
    175
26. Marcus Terentius Varro

    0116–0027 · Italy
    175
27. Julius Caesar

    0100–0044 · Italy
    170
28. Pliny the Elder

    0024–0079 · Italy
    170
29. Pietro Metastasio

    1698–1782 · Italy
    170
30. Ovid

    0043–present · Italy
    170
31. Virgil

    0070–present · Italy
    170
32. Raphael

    1483–1520 · Italy
    170
33. Thomas Aquinas

    1225–1274 · Italy
    170
34. Andrea del Verrocchio

    1435–1488 · Italy
    166
35. Francesco Guicciardini

    1483–1540 · Italy
    165
36. Gaius Lucilius

    0180–0102 · Italy
    165
37. Giuseppe Mazzini

    1807–1872 · Italy
    165
38. Guglielmo Marconi

    1874–1937 · Italy
    165
39. Seneca the Younger

    0004–0065 · Italy
    165
40. Marcello Malpighi

    1628–1694 · Italy
    165
41. Ennius

    0239–0169 · Italy
    165
42. Vincenzo Galilei

    1520–1591 · Italy
    165
43. Giuseppe Verdi

    1813–1901 · Italy
    165
44. Sandro Botticelli

    1445–1510 · Italy
    160
45. Antonio Canova

    1757–1822 · Italy
    160
46. Cardinal Mazarin

    1602–1661 · Italy
    160
47. Vittorio Alfieri

    1749–1803 · Italy
    160
48. Giacomo Casanova

    1725–1798 · Italy
    155
49. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    1525–1594 · Italy
    155
50. Girolamo Savonarola

    1452–1498 · Italy
    155

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