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Showing posts with label Ferdinand IV of Naples. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ferdinand IV of Naples. Show all posts

28 February 2025

Luisa Sanfelice - executed aristocrat

'Heroine' may have been accidental revolutionary Gioacchino Toma's painting, Luisa Sanfelice in Prison, in the National Museum...

18 April 2018

Ippolita Maria Sforza – noble woman

Learned lady sacrificed happiness for a political alliance Ippolita Maria Sforza's marriage helped forge a strong link between Nap...

16 January 2018

Niccolò Piccinni – opera composer

Writer drawn into 18 th century Paris rivalry Niccolò Piccinni was one of Italy's most popular composers in the 18th century ...

12 January 2018

Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies

Despotic ruler presided over chaos in southern Italy Ferdinand IV of Naples as a boy, painted by the German painter Anton Raphel Me...

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