The Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, best known as Treccani for its developer Giovanni Treccani or Enciclopedia Italiana, is an Italian-language encyclopaedia. The publication Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout The Ages regards it as one of the greatest encyclopaedias along with the Encyclopædia Britannica and others.
Giovanni Botero was an Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat, author of Della ragion di Stato , in ten chapters, printed in Venice in 1589, and of Universal Relations,, addressing the world geography and ethnography. With his emphasis that the wealth of cities was caused by adding value to raw materials, Botero may be considered the ancestor of both Mercantilism and Cameralism.
Valerio Castello born in Genoa, was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and one of the pre-eminent Ligurian painters of his time. His art drew inspiration from a wide range of sources. He painted on canvas and fresco.
Giovanni Battista Conforti was an Italian composer, born either in Bologna or Parma. In the dedication to his Primo libro de ricercari a quattro voci he says that he "owes much" to Cardinal Niccolò Caetani of Sermoneta, for whom he had probably worked in Rome.
Cerisano is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Bartolomeo Biscaino (1632–1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Genoa.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1555.
The decade of the 1530s in music involved some significant events, publications, compositions, births, and deaths.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1554.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1552.
Leonardo Da Besozzo or Leonardo Dei Molinari was an Italian painter, active in Lombardy and Naples.
Dorico is a scorewriter software; along with Finale and Sibelius, it is one of the three leading professional-level music notation programs.
Francesco Scaramuzza was an Italian painter and poet of the Romantic period in Northern Italy. He painted mythologic and historic canvases, but is best known for his interpretations of literary subjects including Dante, an enterprise to which he dedicated decades.
The House of Loredan-Santa Maria is a cadet branch of the noble House of Loredan which has produced many politicians, diplomats, military generals, naval captains, church dignitaries, writers and lawyers, and has played a significant role in the creation of modern opera with the Accademia degli Incogniti, also called the Loredanian Academy. The branch draws its name from the parishes of Santa Maria Formosa and Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice, around which it was historically settled. The progenitor of the branch is considered to be the famous admiral and procurator Pietro Loredan (1372-1438) by his sons Giacomo and Polo.
Margherita Sarrocchi was an Italian poetess and a supporter of the theories of Galileo. She was first friend and lover, then rival and enemy of Giambattista Marino, and wrote an epic poem in twenty-three cantos, the Scanderbeide, celebrating the heroic exploits of Scanderbeg against the Ottoman Turks.
