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Showing posts with label Arezzo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arezzo. Show all posts
11 June 2026

Battle of Campaldino

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Victory of Guelphs over Ghibellines established Florentine dominance The Battle of Campaldino resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,700 G...
11 September 2025

Bernardo Accolti – poet and politician

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Writer rose to become a duke but died in poverty Bernardo Accolti became one of the most popular love poets of the Renaissance One of the mo...
19 June 2025

Luca Pacioli - mathematician and geometrist

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Friar who became known as ‘Father of Accounting’ Jacopo de' Barbari's portrait of Luca Pacioli with an unknown geometry student atte...
20 April 2020

Pietro Aretino – writer

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Satirist was both admired and feared by the nobility Pietro Aretino, captured by his friend, the Venetian painter Titian in around 154...
30 October 2018

Poggio Bracciolini – scholar and humanist

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Calligrapher who could read Latin changed the course of history The linguist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini was born in a village near...
5 August 2018

Antonio Cesti – opera composer

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Singer and organist wrote operas and church music An illustration of the stage set, meant to represent the underworld, for a production...
6 February 2018

Amintore Fanfani - politician

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Former prime minister who was Kennedy's inspiration Amintore Fanfani was prime minister of Italy six times Amintore Fanfani, a ...
11 January 2018

The Giannini sextuplets

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The multiple birth that made history Rosanna Giannini and her babies featured on  the cover of Gente magazine each year  History...