Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as GiambattistaTiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain.
Antonio Abati was an Italian baroque poet. He was a member of several Italian literary academies, including the Umoristi, where he read his satire Ragguaglio di Parnaso, dedicated to the bad poets of the times. Between 1634 and 1638, Abati was in Viterbo, where he made the acquaintance of Salvator Rosa. Rosa was in large part inspired to become a satirist by his example. His satires were first published in Venice in 1651 and went through a number of editions.
Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino or Pallavicini, was an Italian cardinal, philosopher, theologian, literary theorist, and church historian.
The Barbaro family was a patrician family of Venice. They were wealthy and influential and owned large estates in the Veneto above Treviso. Various members were noted as church leaders, diplomats, patrons of the arts, military commanders, philosophers, scholars, and scientists.
The Diocese of Vicenza is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy. It is located in the region of the Veneto, and is the capital of the Province of Vicenza, approximately 60 km west of Venice, and around 45 km east of Verona. The diocese was in existence before 590. Vicenza was a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Aquileia until 1751. In 1751 it was transferred to the ecclesiastical province of Udine. In 1818, upon the dissolution of the ecclesiastical province of Udine, Vicenza was made it a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Venice.
The Diocese of Padua is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Veneto, northern Italy. It was erected in the 3rd century. The diocese of Padua was originally a suffragan (subordinate) of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. When the Patriarchate was suppressed permanently in 1752, it became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Udine. In 1818, when the dioceses of northern Italy were reorganized by Pope Pius VII, it became a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Venice, and remains so today.
The Diocese of Concordia-Pordenone is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church situated in northeastern Italy, at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea, between Venice and Udine. Since 1818, Concordia Veneta, has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Venice. Bishop Andrea Casasola attended the Provincial Council of the Provincia Veneta in October 1859 as a suffragan of the Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato. The name of the diocese was changed to its present form in 1971.
Giuseppe Aprile was an Italian castrato singer and music teacher. He was also known as 'Sciroletto' or 'Scirolino'.
Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (1606–1651) was an Italian playwright and librettist, the son of poet and playwright Jacopo Cicognini.
Giovanni Dolfin, also known as Giovanni Delfino or Delfin, was the 57th Doge of Venice from his appointment on 13 August 1356 to his death in 1361. Despite his value as a general, during his reign Venice lost Dalmatia. He was blinded in one eye after a wound received in battle.
Giovanni Delfino may refer to:
Jacopo Dondi dall'Orologio (1290–1359), also known as Jacopo de' Dondi, was a doctor, astronomer and clock-maker active in Padua, Italy. He is remembered today as a pioneer in the art of clock design and construction. He was the father of Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio. Jacopo Dondi wrote on a number of subjects, including surgery, pharmacology, astrology and natural science.
The Delfin family, singular Dolfin or Delfin[o], is a prominent noble family of Venice, part of the twelve original noble lineages of the Republic, known as the "apostolic families", thought to have elected the first Doge of Venice in the year 697 a.C.
Daniello Marco Dolfino or Daniel Marc Delfin is an Italian cardinal of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century and member of the noble family Delfin. He is a grand-nephew of Cardinal Giovanni Delfino (seniore) (1604) and a nephew of Cardinal Giovanni Delfino (iuniore) (1667).
Cardinal Giovanni Dolfin, often Italianized as Delfin or Delfino, was an Italian politician and cardinal. He was one of several cardinals from his family by this name. He is the uncle of Cardinal Giovanni Delfino (iuniore).
Ludovico Zuccolo was an Italian writer and political theorist.
Giovanni Maria Mosca or Giovanni Padovano was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and medallist, active between 1515 and 1573, initially in the Veneto and after 1529 in Poland, where his first name was rendered Jan.
Michelangelo Torcigliani was an Italian Baroque poet from Lucca.
Antonio Abbondanti was an Italian Baroque poet and historian.
Bartolomeo (Bortolo) Gradenigo, better known as Marco Gradenigo, was Bishop of Verona from 1714 to 1725 and later Patriarch of Venice up to his death.
