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Matteo Maria Boiardo
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441–1494) was an Italian Renaissance poet and count of Scandiano who served the Este court of Ferrara and wrote the unfinished epic Orlando innamorato, which Ariosto continued.
Matteo Messina Denaro
Matteo Messina Denaro (U siccu, Diabolik), Cosa Nostra boss of Castelvetrano and Trapani province, fugitive 1993-2023, convicted for the Falcone and Borsellino bombings, arrested January 2023 at a Palermo clinic, died in custody September 2023.
Matteo Mischiati
Matteo Mischiati is an American-trained control engineer turned systems neuroscientist, lead author of a 2014 Nature study showing dragonflies steer prey interception using internal models.
Matteo Pasquali
Matteo Pasquali is a chemical engineer at Rice University, a professor and founding director of the Carbon Hub, known for developing scalable wet-spinning of carbon nanotube fibers.
Matteo Perego Di Cremnago
Matteo Perego Di Cremnago, born in Milan in 1982, is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who serves as Undersecretary of State for Defence and sat in the Chamber of Deputies from 2018 to 2022.
Matteo Pessina
Matteo Pessina, born Monza 1997, Italian midfielder and AC Monza captain; Euro 2020 winner with Italy (2 goals vs Wales and Austria); €12m 2023 transfer from Atalanta; led Monza back to Serie A in 2025-26.
Matteo Piantedosi
Matteo Piantedosi, born in Naples in 1963, is an Italian politician and career Interior Ministry official serving as Minister of the Interior in the Meloni government since 2022.
Matteo Politano
Matteo Politano, Italian footballer born Rome 1993, left-footed right winger and wing-back for Napoli (Serie A 2022/23 title, Coppa Italia 2019/20) and Italy, 21 caps, 5 goals.
Matteo Renzi
Matteo Renzi (born 1975, Florence): Italian premier 22 Feb 2014–11 Dec 2016, youngest in Italian history; Florence mayor 2009–2014; PD leader 2013–2018; resigned after 59% No in 2016 constitutional referendum; founded Italia Viva 2019; senator since 2018.
Matteo Ricci (利玛窦)
Matteo Ricci (利玛窦) was an Italian Jesuit missionary who co-founded the Jesuit China mission in the early 1580s, reached Beijing in 1601, and translated Euclid into Chinese.
Matteo Rivolta
Matteo Rivolta, Italian butterfly swimmer born 1991 in Milan, two-time Olympian (2012, 2016), three-time short-course world champion, short-course 4x50 medley relay world record holder (1:29.72), retired February 2024.
Matteo Salvini
Matteo Salvini, Italian politician born in Milan in 1973, federal secretary of the League since 2013, Interior Minister and Deputy PM 2018–2019, and Infrastructure and Transport Minister and Deputy PM in the Meloni government since 2022.
Matteo Tagliariol
Matteo Tagliariol (born 1983, Treviso) is an Italian épée fencer, 2008 Beijing Olympic individual champion and team bronze medalist, the first Italian Olympic épée champion since 1960, later a world silver medalist and coach.
Matter
Matter is anything that occupies space and has mass, the substance of all physical objects, existing as solids, liquids, gases, and plasma, and built from elementary particles.
Matter (standard)
Matter is a Connectivity Standards Alliance interoperability standard for smart-home devices, released in 2022, letting one certified device work with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings.
Matter and Interactions
Matter and Interactions, or M&I, is a calculus-based introductory physics textbook by Chabay and Sherwood emphasizing fundamental principles, the atomic nature of matter, and student-written VPython models.
Matter coupling in loop quantum gravity
Matter coupling in loop quantum gravity is the set of constructions placing fermions, Yang–Mills fields, and scalars on discrete quantum geometry without a background spacetime.
Matter in Extreme Conditions
Matter in Extreme Conditions, known as MEC, is an experimental instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source in Menlo Park, California, studying matter under extreme temperatures and pressures.
Matter Labs
Matter Labs is a blockchain software company founded in 2018, best known as the developer of zkSync, an Ethereum scaling solution, later shifting focus to the Prividium privacy platform for financial institutions.
Matter of Britain
Matter of Britain (matière de Bretagne): the medieval Arthurian legend cycle, one of Jean Bodel's three matières, founded by Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and developed by Wace, Chrétien de Troyes, and the Grail romances.
Matter of France
The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is the body of medieval legend centered on Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers defending Christianity from the Saracens.
Matter of Rome
The Matter of Rome is one of three medieval romance cycles named by Jean Bodel, covering classical legends of Alexander the Great and the Trojan War.
Matter power spectrum
The matter power spectrum, written P(k), quantifies how clumpy the Universe's matter distribution is on different scales, measured from galaxy surveys and weak gravitational lensing.
Matter Venture Partners
Matter Venture Partners is a venture capital firm in Manhattan Beach, California, founded in 2023 by former Kleiner Perkins investors to back early-stage hard technology companies.
Matter wave
A matter wave, also called a de Broglie wave, is the wave associated with a material particle, proposed by Louis de Broglie in 1924 and confirmed by electron diffraction in 1927.
Matter wave interferometry
Matter wave interferometry splits a beam of atoms or molecules into coherent wave packets along different paths and recombines them, underpinning precision gravimeters, gyroscopes, and tests of fundamental physics.
Matter-dominated era
The matter-dominated era is the period of cosmic history, beginning about 50,000 years after the Big Bang, when matter's density exceeded radiation's and drove cosmic expansion.
Matter–radiation equality
Matter–radiation equality is the epoch in the early universe, about 51,000 years after the Big Bang at redshift roughly 3400, when matter first outweighed radiation, allowing density fluctuations to grow.
Mattereum
Mattereum is a London lawtech startup founded by Vinay Gupta that creates legally backed digital identities, called Asset Passports, for physical assets sold via blockchain smart contracts.
MatterGen
MatterGen is a diffusion-based generative model for inorganic materials from Microsoft Research AI4Science, published in Nature in 2025 and fine-tunable toward target properties like bulk modulus.