title: 1686 in Italy
text: # 1686 in Italy
  
  An incomplete series of events which occurred in 1686 in Italy:
  
  ## Events
  
  * French attack on the Vaudois (1686) - A French attack on a Protestant community in Piedmont.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (died 1775) - fresco painter
  * Saint Ignatius of Santhiá (Laurenzo Maurizio, 1686-1770) - diocesan priest
  * Benedetto Marcello (died 1739) - composer and librettist
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Antonio Busca, painter (b. 1625)
  * Nicolas Steno, geologist and anatomist (born 1638)
  * Carlo Dolci, Italian painter (born 1616)
  