Possible Clues:

• Pianist Arrau
• -- Ranieri, Italian football coach
• 'Much Ado About Nothing' role
• Companion (with Benedick) of Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing
• Italian fellow’s extremely cool sound reproduction
• Florentine count not exactly big up in Oderzo at first
• Italian man in car kept by fool lately seen to be defective
• Hero-worshipper's praise I accepted in company
• Character in Much Ado About Nothing
• Composer Monteverdi