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Showing posts with label Lucca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lucca. Show all posts
5 July 2023

Italian aviators set distance flying record

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Rome-Brazil flight makes history The Savoia-Marchetti S64 on the runway at Montecelio airfield, near Rome  Italian aviation enthusiasts were...
3 June 2019

Pietro Paolini – artist

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Follower of Caravaggio passed on his techniques to the next generation Paolini's Achilles among the Daughters of  Lycomedes,  whi...
29 March 2019

Castruccio Castracani - condottiero

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Castruccio Castracani was a career soldier who ruled Lucca for 12 years Mercenary soldier who ruled Lucca  Castruccio Castracani, a ...
17 February 2019

Giovanni Pacini – opera composer

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Works of overshadowed musician have enjoyed recent revival Giovanni Pacini found himself overshadowed first by Bellini and Donizetti, ...
11 September 2018

Manrico Ducceschi - partisan

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Brave freedom fighter whose death is unsolved mystery Manrico Ducceschi operated under the codename Pippo as he fought as an Italian p...
28 February 2018

Mario Andretti – racing driver

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American champion was born and grew up in Italy Mario Andretti raced as an American but was born in Montona, then part of Italy ...
5 December 2017

Francesco Gemianini - composer and violinist

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Tuscan played alongside Handel in court of George I Francesco Geminiani moved to London in 1714 and settled there The violinist, c...
27 July 2017

Giosuè Carducci – poet and Nobel Prize winner

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Writer used his poetry as a vehicle for his political views  Giosu è  Carducci in a photograph   taken  in about 1870 Giosuè Car...