Italian Invention & Design by Paul

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Across
  1. 4. Enzo, Monza, Testarossa, Scuderia, F40, for example
  2. 8. Originally a Dutch invention, refined by Galileo Galilei in 1609 to observe the planets
  3. 9. Device that slows a fall through air resistance for a safe landing; first sketched by da Vinci in 1485
  4. 10. Italian for "bench," where 12th-century moneylenders in Venice, Genoa, and Florence conducted business
  5. 11. Piaggio scooter designed by Corradino D'Ascanio, launched in 1946
Down
  1. 1. Italy's oldest fashion house, founded in 1921; after a WWII leather shortage famously made bags from bamboo and canvas
  2. 2. Fortified wine invented in Turin in 1786 by Antonio Benedetto Carpano, now the backbone of cocktails worldwide
  3. 3. Store of electrical energy invented in 1791 by Alessandro Volta, now used to power practically everything
  4. 5. Large instrument (incl grand and upright) in which strings are struck by hammers, invented around 1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua
  5. 6. Governing body of the Roman Republic, 509 BC, who's name means'old man', upper house in Washington DC
  6. 7. Classic and simple stovetop coffee maker popularized by Alfonso and Renato Bialetti in 1933
  7. 9. Legendary small car named after the goddess of travel, over 8 million sold since 1980