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• Alfieri, Vittorio    b. 1749  d. 1803
  Italian poet.
  Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   
• Algarotti, Francesco   b. December 11, 1712  d. May 3, 1764
  Philosopher, Art Critic. Born into a privileged Venetian family, Algarotti studied in Rome, Bologna, Florence and Paris before settling in London in 1744 where he became a member of the Royal Society, officially known as The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. He studied and wrote on topics from classical literature and paintings, science, language, architecture to opera. His major works included "Newtonianism for Ladies," "Dialogue on Light and Color," "Travels in Russia,"...[Read More] (Bio by: Samuel Taylor Geer)
  Campo Santo Cemetery, Pisa, Provincia di Pisa, Toscana, Italy
   
• Alighieri, Dante [cenotaph]    b. 1265  d. September 14, 1321
  Author. Born Durante Alighieri in Florence, Italy the son of Alighiero di Bellincione Alighieri, a notary, and his first wife. His studies included rhetoric, grammar, philosophy, literature , theology, philosophy, and theology. In 1293 he joined the guild of physicians and apothecaries in order to gain entry into the political life of the city. About that same year he published 'Vita Nuova' a combination of lyrical verse and poetic prose telling the story of his love for Beatrice. About 1295 he...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
  Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   
• Annigoni, Pietro    b. June 7, 1910  d. October 28, 1988
  Artist. A native of Milan, Italy, he is most notable for his portrait paintings of beggars, and for his 1955 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, which has been used on several colonial banknotes including the 1968 Rhodesian note. His portrait of Queen Elizabeth II hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. Known for his style of Italian Renaissance, he was a contrast to the modernist and post-modernist artistic styles of the middle and late 20th century. Among his other works was...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
  Monumentale Cimitiere at San Miniato al Monte, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   
• Baker, Addison Earl [memorial]    b. January 1, 1907  d. August 1, 1943
  World War II Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was a National Guard officer who had been called to active duty in 1940. By 1943, he was a Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Air Corps and commander of the 93rd Heavy Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force, assigned to Benghazi, North Africa. It was from this point that he led his group as part of a daring low level attack against enemy oil refineries and installations at Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Approaching...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Florence American Cemetery and Memorial, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
  Plot: Body was never recovered.
   
• Bastianini, Ettore    b. September 24, 1922  d. January 25, 1967
  Opera singer. Originally trained as a bass, but his voice teacher recognizing the tremendous ease, power, and beauty if his upper range, convinced him in 1951 to retrain as a baritone. In 1953 he sang in Turin in his first appearance as 'Gerard' in Giordano’s "Andrea Chenier" and then, in December of that same year, he was heard at the old Metropolitan Opera in New York as the elder Germont in Verdi’s "Traviata." He had a very short but intense career (just over 10 years), at the Teatro alla...[Read More] (Bio by: tkejumbo)
  Church of San Domenico, Siena, Provincia di Siena, Toscana, Italy
   
• Berio, Luciano    b. October 24, 1925  d. May 27, 2003
  Composer. He was considered Italy's foremost composer of the late 20th century. He also conducted many of the major orchestras in Europe, the United States, Israel and Japan. He was particularly noted for innovations in electronic music. Upon winning the 1990 Wolf Prize for the arts, the selection committee hailed him as "one of the greatest composers of our generation whose new ideas, in an age of devaluation of human values, help to unify nations, cultures and generations." (Bio by: Ron Moody)
  Radicondoli Cemetery, Radicondoli, Provincia di Siena, Toscana, Italy
   
• Boccaccio, Giovanni    b. 1313  d. December 21, 1375
  Author. The illegitimate son of a French noblewoman and a merchant from Florence, he became one of the most prolific writers of the late Middle Ages, best-known today for "The Decameron", which consists of 100 stories told over ten days, by seven young women and three young men who have taken a short respite from their native city Florence, which is in the throes of the Black Death. Boccaccio was close friends with the writer and thinker Petrarch, and was also very influenced in his writings by...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
  Church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   
• Boccherini, Luigi   b. February 19, 1743  d. May 28, 1805
  Composer, Cellist. A very popular musician of his era, he was influential in bringing the cello to prominence as both a solo and chamber instrument. The "Minuet" from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (1775), is one of the most familiar melodies in all Classical music. Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was born in Lucca, Italy, the son of a doublebass player. He perfected his virtuoso skills as a cellist at St. Peter's in Rome and then went on extensive concert tours of Europe, accompanied by...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Chiesa di San Francesco, Lucca, Provincia di Lucca, Toscana, Italy
   
• Bonaparte, Julie   b. December 26, 1771  d. April 7, 1845
  Queen of Naples and Spain. Julie Clary was born in Marseille, France, the daughter of François Clary, a wealthy silk manufacturer and merchant, and his wife Françoise Rose Somis. The Clary sisters had ties to the Bonaparte family before their ascent to power, sister Desiree was engaged to Joseph Bonaparte before moving on to his brother Napoleon. Joseph married her sister Marie-Julie Clary instead on August 1, 1794 at Cuges. They had three daughters Julie Josephine Bonaparte who died as an...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
  Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   
• Botticelli (di Mariano Filipepi), Sandro (Allesandro)    b. March 1, 1445  d. May 16, 1510
  Artist. He was a contemporary of famed artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci, and his considered one of the best painters of the 15th century period of art and culture in Italy known as the "Quattrocento". He was pupil of painter Filippo Lippi and worked for the House of Medici political dynasty. His works include the paintings "Adorazione del Magi," "Nascita di Venere" and "Allegoria de la Primavera." He also worked on the Sistine Chapel in the...[Read More]
  Abbazia Di Ognissanti, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   
• Browning (Moulton), Elizabeth Barrett    b. March 6, 1806  d. June 29, 1861
  Poet. Born Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett at Cohnadatia Hall in Durham, England,, family wealth from Jamaican sugar plantations gave Elizabeth and her eleven brothers and sisters a privileged childhood. In her teens, she contracted a lung disorder, the nature of which is still speculated upon, and was treated as an invalid by her parents. In 1826 she published ‘An Essay on Mind and Other Poems' anonymously. After her father suffered financial losses which forced him to sell the family estate, the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
  Cimitero Accatolico, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   
• Brunelleschi, Filippo (Philippi)    b. 1377  d. April 15, 1446
  Brunelleschi was an archietect/sculptor who built the dome for the cathedral in Florence.
  Cathedral of Florence, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
  Plot: Chamber is below the Cathedral
   
• Buti, Carlo    b. November 14, 1902  d. November 16, 1963
  Italian Tenor. In the 1930s and the 40s, Carlo Buti had more entries in the Columbia catalogue in Italy than any other vocalist. He was the most recorded Italian voice on 78 rpm records, (around 800) and yet today he's virtually unremembered; he was appealing and the songs range through parlour romances, genuine Neapolitan ones and popular ballads of the time. (Bio by: Enrico Borsetti)
  Vecchio Cimitero, Montelupo Fiorentino, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
  Plot: Buti Family Chapel
   
• Caccini, Francesca   b. September 18, 1587  d. 1640 (circa)
  Composer, Singer, Instrumentalist. Nicknamed "The Songbird", she was one of the most famous and versatile musicians of the the 17th Century. Her comedy "La liberazione di Ruggiero" (1625) was the first opera written by a woman and the first to be performed outside of Italy. The youngest daughter of singer-composer Giulio Caccini, she was born in Florence and sang at the Medici Court as a child, along with her sister Settimia. She received an excellent musical education and learned to play the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
  Plot: Caccini Family Vault
   
• Caccini, Giulio  b. October 8, 1551  d. December 10, 1618
  Composer, Singer, Music Theorist. An important pioneer of early Baroque vocal music. His opera "Euridice" (1600) was the first ever to be published. Caccini was born in Rome and studied music in Florence under the patronage of Cosimo de Medici, who admired his singing. Around 1574 he joined the Florentine Cammerata Society, a group of intellectuals who upheld Ancient Greek art as a model for a new creative simplicity; under its influence he began writing songs in a monodic style, using a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   
• Caccini, Settimia   b. October 6, 1591  d. 1638
  Singer, Composer. One of the first women to enjoy a successful career as a professional musician. The youngest daughter of singer-composer Giulio Caccini, she was born in Florence and sang at the Medici Court as a child, along with her sister Francesca. The family later formed the vocal group "Il Concerto Caccini" and entertained King Henri IV in Paris before going their seperate ways. Claudio Monteverdi invited Settimia to Mantua to create the role of Venus in his opera "Arianna" (1608)...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
  Plot: Caccini Family Vault
   
• Calvino, Italo    b. October 15, 1923  d. September 19, 1985
  Author. Born in Cuba and raised in Italy, his career as a writer spanned nearly four decades. Two of his first fictional works were inspired by his participation in the Italian Resistance: "The Path to the Nest of Spiders," and the collection of stories entitled "Adam, One Afternoon, and Other Stories." Calvino's whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the Italy's finest postwar writers. Some of his major works include: "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller," "The Baron in the Trees" and...[Read More] (Bio by: MC)
  Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage
  Cemetery of Castiglione Della Pescaia, Provincia di Grosseto, Toscana, Italy
   
• Catherine of Siena [head and finger]    b. March 25, 1347  d. April 29, 1380
  Roman Catholic Saint. Patron saint of Italy, along with St. Francis of Assisi.
  Church of San Domenico, Siena, Provincia di Siena, Toscana, Italy
   
• Cecchi Gori, Mario    b. 1920  d. November 5, 1993
  Motion Picture Producer. He produced more than 200 films with well-known actors like Alberto Sordi and Roberto Benign, and exported the Italian Commedia on the world. (Bio by: Bea)
  Cimitero Monumentale Delle Porte Sante, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy
   

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