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The Ventimiglia family was an old Italian noble family of Liguria. [1] Descendants of the family held positions and titles of nobility in Sicily in Mediaeval times and later. [2]
A branch line, the Lascaris di Ventimiglia, Conti di Tenda, is descended in female line from the Lascaris family of the Empire of Nicaea through the marriage in 1261 of Guglielmo Pietro I, Conte di Ventimiglia, Signore de Tenda (d. 1282) with Eudokia Laskarina (1248–1311), daughter of Emperor Theodore II Laskaris and his wife Princess Elena of Bulgaria. [5]
The Pazzi conspiracy was a failed plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence.
Francesco Maurolico was a mathematician and astronomer from Sicily. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. He edited the works of classical authors including Archimedes, Apollonius, Autolycus, Theodosius and Serenus. He also composed his own unique treatises on mathematics and mathematical science.
In classical scholarship, the editio princeps of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts. These had to be copied by hand in order to circulate.
Bartolomeo d'Aragona was a Sicilian statesman, the eldest son and heir of Vinciguerra d'Aragona. His surname derives from the fact that he was a great-great-grandson of Peter III of Aragon in the male line.
Giovanni II Ventimiglia y Moncada, 6th Marquis of Geraci was a Sicilian aristocrat, a member of the prominent House of Venitmiglia.
BeatriceCane, mistakenly known in much of the historiography as Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda but actually a member of the Cane family, was an Italian noblewoman who married first the condottiero Facino Cane, Count of Biandrate and a cousin once removed, and then Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, who later had her killed.
The Metropolitan City of Palermo is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Palermo. It replaced the province of Palermo and comprises the city of Palermo and other 82 comuni.
Caio Domenico Gallo, was an Italian historian. Gallo was born and died in Messina, in the north-east of the Mediterranean island of Sicily. His principal work, the Annali della città di Messina, is a comprehensive history of that city from its beginnings up to the time of the plague of 1743. It was published in four volumes, of which only two appeared during his lifetime, in 1756 and 1758. The third volume was published posthumously in 1804, and the fourth in 1875. Two volumes of later history, by Gaetano Oliva, were added in 1896.
Prince of Squillace was a noble title created in 1494, by King Alfonso II of Naples for Gioffre Borgia on the occasion of his wedding with the king's daughter Sancia d'Aragona. He was also created Count of Cariati. His second wife was María de Mila y Aragón with whom he had issue. The male line became extinct after the death of the fourth title-holder, Pietro Borgia d'Aragona, the last male heir to hold this title.
Pietro De Martino or Di Martino was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.
Giovanni Cesare Netti was an Italian composer and maestro di cappella.
The Battle of Capo d'Orso, sometimes known as the Battle of Cava and the Battle of Amalfi, was a naval engagement taking place over two days, on April 28 and April 29, 1528, during the War of the League of Cognac. A French fleet inflicted a crushing defeat on the fleet of the Kingdom of Naples under Spanish command in the Gulf of Salerno, where Spanish forces trying to break the French blockade of the city met the French fleet.
The House of Barozzi was an aristocratic Venetian family that belong to the Venetian nobility. Members of the family became sailors, clerics and men of learning. They were lords of Santorini and Thirassia, and held military fiefs on the island of Crete. Members of the family were involved in the conspiracy of Bajamonte Tiepolo against the Doge of Venice in 1310.
The Premio Mylius was an Italian prize for painting. It was established by the Austrian industrialist Heinrich Mylius in 1841 and awarded by the Accademia di Brera in Milan, which at that time was under Habsburg rule. In 1856 there were two types of award, an annual prize of 700 Austrian lire for a painting in oils, and a biennial award of 1000 lire for fresco work. It was awarded until the outbreak of the Second World War.
Biagio Cusano was an Italian Marinist poet and professor of law. The date of his birth is currently unknown. He is best known for being Gennaro Cusano's uncle and Marcello Papiniano Cusani's grand uncle.
The d'Afflitto family is an ancient princely family originally from Amalfi, documented since the IX century, and spread throughout southern Italy.
Niccolò Franco was a poet and literato executed for libel.
Pietro Napoli Signorelli was an Italian scholar of classic literature, mainly drama, and historian.
The Querini family or Quirini was an old Venetian patrician family. They claimed an ancient Roman heritage, but their traceable history goes back to the 11th century. The family divided into many branches.
Pandolfo Collenuccio was an Italian Renaissance humanist, Civil Servant and writer.
