Giacinto Campana (born c. 1600, Bologna) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
He trained first with Francesco Brizio, then with Francesco Albani. He moved to Poland to paint for King Władysław IV Vasa, and died in Poland.
The Pazzi conspiracy was a plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence.
Francesco Bianchini was an Italian philosopher and scientist. He worked for the curia of three popes, including being camiere d'honore of Clement XI, and secretary of the commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.
The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and of the Martyrs is a basilica and titular church in Rome, Italy, built inside the ruined frigidarium of the Roman Baths of Diocletian in the Piazza della Repubblica.
Francesco Bracciolini was an Italian poet.
Francesco Solimena was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen.
Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, surname also spelled Galli da Bibiena or Bibbiena, was an Italian Baroque-era architect, designer, and painter.
Lorenzo Vaccaro was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor. He worked in a formalized restrained style.
Jacopo Zucchi was a Florentine painter of the Mannerist style, active in Florence and Rome.
Bartolomeo Nazari was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, mainly active in Venice as a portraitist.
Charitable institutions attached to churches in Rome were founded right through the medieval period and included hospitals, hostels, and others providing assistance to pilgrims to Rome from a certain "nation", which thus became these nations' national churches in Rome. These institutions were generally organised as confraternities and funded through charity and legacies from rich benefactors belonging to that "nation". Often, they were also connected to national "scholae", where the clergymen of that nation were trained. The churches and their riches were a sign of the importance of their nation and of the prelates that supported them. Up to 1870 and Italian unification, these national churches also included churches of the Italian city states.
Francesco da Cotignola, also called Zaganelli, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Parma and Ravenna.
Piazza della Repubblica is a circular piazza in Rome, at the summit of the Viminal Hill, next to the Termini station. On it is to be found Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri. It is served by the Repubblica – Teatro dell'Opera Metro station. From the square starts one of the main streets of Rome, Via Nazionale.
Rocco Lurago was an Italian architect, active in Genoa in the 16th century.
Gabriele Agnolo, also known as Gabriele d'Angelo was an Italian architect active in Naples in the early-Renaissance manner.
Pietro Andolfati was an actor and troupe director, active mainly in Northern Italy, mainly of comedies. He is also known as Pietro Attore Andolfatti.
Quirino Colombani was an Italian composer, and cellist. He was active in both 17th and 18th centuries.
Francesco Comande was an Italian painter of a Renaissance style, born and active in Messina, Sicily.
Bernardino Zaganelli, also Bernardino di Bosio Zaganelli and Bernardino da Cotignola, was an Italian painter, of the Renaissance period.
Francesco Rossi was an Italian composer, organist and Maestro di Cappella.