Italy On This Day

Fascinating stories from each day of the year about the people and events that have shaped the culture and history of Italy

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Showing posts with label Tivoli. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Tivoli. Show all posts

17 May 2025

Giulio Carlo Argan – art historian and politician

Award-winning art expert switched from Fascism to Communism Giulio Carlo Argan was a major figure in the arts as well as politics Art histor...

13 September 2023

Francesco Manelli – Baroque composer

Theorbo player staged the world’s first public opera Manelli worked in Tivoli, Rome and Padua before settling in Venice Musician and opera c...

17 December 2017

Rome falls to the Ostrogoths

Sacking of city in 546 left city a shadow of its former self Francesco Salviati's portrait of the Ostrogoth king Totila, painte...

7 February 2016

Little Tony – pop singer

Star from San Marino enjoyed a long career Little Tony in a scene from the 1967 film Cuore Matto...matto de legare. His song Cuore ...

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