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Celio is the XIXth rione of Rome. Located within Municipio I, its logo is the bust of an African, with an elephant headdress with golden tusks on a silver background, in memory of an African bust that was found in via Capo d'Africa.
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.
John and Paul are saints who lived during the fourth century in the Roman Empire. They were martyred at Rome on 26 June. The year of their martyrdom is uncertain according to their Acts; it occurred under Julian the Apostate (361–3).
Castelfiorentino is a town and comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, central Italy, halfway between Florence, Pisa (50 km) and Siena (55 km). The population is approximately 20,000 inhabitants. It is part of Valdelsa.
Castelfiorentino borders the following municipalities: Certaldo, Empoli, Gambassi Terme, Montaione, Montespertoli and San Miniato.
The Diocese of Novara is a Roman Catholic diocese in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Vercelli.
Castello is the largest of the six sestieri of Venice, Italy.
The Basilica of Saints John and Paul on the Caelian Hill is an ancient basilica church in Rome, located on the Caelian Hill.
Anna Renzi was an Italian soprano renowned for her acting ability as well as her voice, who has been described as the first diva in the history of opera.
Giovanni Ser di Mocenigo, Jr., Pietro Mocenigo's brother, was doge of Venice from 1478 to 1485. He fought at sea against the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and on land against Ercole I d'Este, duke of Ferrara, from whom he recaptured Rovigo and the Polesine. He was interred in the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges. His dogaressa was Taddea Michiel (d.1479), who was to be the last dogaressa to be crowned in Venice until Zilia Dandolo in 1557, almost a century later.
Andrea Tirali (1657–1737) was an Italian architect working in Venice and the Veneto. He is known to have worked at Villa Duodo at Monselice and the Chiesa and Convento di San Nicolò at Tolentino. At Villa Duodo he added to the work of the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi. Tirali was responsible for the intricate design of the pavement in the Piazza San Marco in Venice, for the elaborate tomb of the Valier family and for St Dominic Chapel in the Basilica of Saints Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. He also designed the portico to the Church of Tolentini, Venice from an idea of Scamozzi, the S. Vidal's facade and the entrance staircase to Ca' Sagredo. He was the architect of Villa Sceriman at Mira and Villa Morosini at Fiesso Umbertiano; of him the restoratiom of SS. Apostoli's towerbell, Scuola of Angelo Custode at Santi Apostoli, Palazzo Venier and Ponte dei Tre Archi at Cannaregio, Palazzo Castelli at S. Marina...all that in Venice. He was the architect of St Vida's Vision Sanctuary at Pellestrina
The Diocese of Biella is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in northern Italy, created in 1772. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Vercelli. Biella is a city in Piedmont.
Andrea Vendramin served as Doge of Venice, 1476–78, at the height of Venetian power, the only member of the Vendramin family to do so. His mother, Maria Michiel, and his wife Regina Gradenigo, both came from Dogal families. He had served as Venetian Procurator in Rome, and his brief reign was largely concerned with the end of the Second Turkish–Venetian War. He probably died of plague.
The Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo was a theatre and opera house in Venice located on the Calle della Testa, and takes its name from the nearby Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. Built by the Grimani family in 1638, in its heyday it was considered the most beautiful and comfortable theatre in the city. The theatre played an important role in the development of opera and saw the premieres of several works by Francesco Cavalli, as well as Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea.
Giovanni Maria Ruggieri or Ruggeri
was a Baroque composer from Italy. His dates of birth and death are uncertain, but he may have been born about 1665 in Verona and died around 1725. He is known to have flourished from 1689–1720.
The Teatro San Angelo or Teatro Sant' Angelo was once a theatre in Venice which ran from 1677 until 1803.
The Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni is a Renaissance sculpture in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy, executed by Andrea del Verrocchio in 1480–88. Portraying the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni, it has a height of 395 cm excluding the pedestal. It is the second major equestrian monument of the Italian Renaissance, after Donatello's equestrian statue of Gattamelata (1453).
Il prato is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. It was screened at the Venice Film Festival. For this film Isabella Rossellini was awarded with a Silver Ribbon for Best New Actress.
Valentino Rovisi was an Italian painter in a late Baroque style.
