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Showing posts with label Arezzo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arezzo. Show all posts
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 Antonio Cesti was hailed as the finest musician of his generation Composer Pietro ...
6 February 2018

Amintore Fanfani - politician

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Former prime minister who proposed "third way" 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...
12 October 2017

Piero della Francesca - Renaissance painter

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Mathematician famous for exploring perspective Della Francesca's assumed self- portrait in his Ressurrection Piero della France...
23 August 2017

Roberto Assagioli – psychiatrist

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Harsh imprisonment sparked new psychiatric theories Roberto Assagioli, the pioneering psychiatrist who founded the science of psy...
19 February 2017

Vittorio Grigolo - opera singer

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Tenor courted public popularity as way to land 'serious' roles Vittorio Grigolo in a picture for his album The Italian Tenor ...
19 July 2016

Petrarch – Renaissance poet

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Writer whose work inspired the modern Italian language Francesco Petrarca Renaissance scholar and poet Francesco Petrarca died on th...