By the age of twenty, Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua, began commissioning works from him, and he was also employed by local jewelers for figurative designs.

* 1549 – Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1609 )

* March 19 – Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in the Fortezza Vecchia Chapel of Saint Francesco, elevates Livorno to the rank of city.

* February 17 – Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( b. 1549 )

* 23 July-After a court battle, King Charles I handed over title to the North American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of Plymouth Council for New England.

* July 30 – Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1609 )

* Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1549 – 1609 ), grand duke in 1587

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

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* Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1549 – 1609, grand-duke from 1604 )

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* Ferdinando I, re di Napoli ( 1959 )

In front of the Palace is the Monument to Grand Duke Ferdinando I de ' Medici ( 1595 ), by Pietro Francavilla, following a design of Giambologna.

Coronato, Moneta di Ferdinando I di Napoli

In the late 1580s, Ferdinando I of Tuscany declared Livorno a porto Franco, which meant that the goods traded here were duty free within the area of the town's control.

On 19 March 1606, the Granduca di Toscana Ferdinando I de ' Medici, in the Fortezza Vecchia Chapel of Saint Francis of Assisi elevated Livorno to the rank of city.

The " Monumento dei quattro mori " (" Monument of the Four Moors "), dedicated to Grand Duke Ferdinando I de ' Medici of Tuscany, is one of the most important monuments of Livorno.

Christina, daughter of Charles III of Lorraine and granddaughter of Catherine de ' Medici, was the widow of Ferdinando I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1587-1609, who had appointed Galileo to the professorship of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1588.

In 1587 Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany died without a legitimate male heir ; his brother Ferdinando immediately declared himself the third Grand Duke of Tuscany.

She occupied herself financing and overseeing the construction of the Basilica of San Lorenzo — started in 1604 by Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany — to the tune of 1, 000 crowns per week, and she donated much of her fortune to charity: £ 4, 000 per annum.

* Cosimo II 1609 – 1621 – Son of Ferdinando I.

In October 1614, Frescobaldi was approached by an agent of the Duke of Mantua, Ferdinando I Gonzaga.

A protectionist policy ensured a consistent nucleus of scholars and teachers: laws issued by Cosimo I, Ferdinando I and Ferdinando II obliged those who intended to obtain a degree to attend the Studium of Pisa.

He died in 1574, succeeded by his eldest surviving son Francesco, whose inability to produce male heirs led to the succession of his younger brother, Ferdinando, upon his death in 1587.

By the end of 1587 Marenzio had entered into the service of Ferdinando I de ' Medici in Florence, where he stayed for two years.

It is highly probable that he was already in the service of Ferdinando while the latter was still a cardinal living in Rome, and that he followed him to Florence when he succeeded to the granducal throne in 1587.

In 1587, Ferdinando de ' Medici succeeded his brother as Grand Duke of Tuscany, and in 1588 he brought Cavalieri to Florence as an overseer of artists, craftsmen and musicians.

In 1587 the grand-duke Francesco died ; to this event Sozzini's biographers attribute the loss of his Italian property, but his unpublished letters show that he was on good terms with the new grand-duke, Ferdinando.

Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 30 July 1549 – 17 February 1609 ) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother Francesco I.

The title was definitively suppressed in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V, who assigned a titulus of Sts Quirico e Giulitta to Cardinal Ferdinando de ' Medici.

* Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, ( 1549 – 1609 ), Grand Duke of Tuscany 1587 – 1609

* Ferdinando ( 26 April 1587 – 29 October 1626 ), who ruled as Ferdinando I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat from 1612 until his death.

* Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in one act – premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884 )

* Edgar, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in four acts – premiered at La Scala, 21 April 1889 )

* 1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer ( d. 1839 )

* 1984 – Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver

The invention of the modern piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori ( 1655 – 1731 ) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de ' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments.

* January 3 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect / painter ( b. 1657 )

* March 14 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general ( b. 1584 )

* February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist ( b. 1770 )

* August 18 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect / painter ( d. 1743 )

* April 16 – Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby is found poisoned.

* May 23 – Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( b. 1610 )

* July 14 – Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1670 )

* March 29 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English parliamentary general ( d. 1648 )

* Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1610 – 1670 ), grand duke in 1621

The present façade was built in 1732 – 1734 by the architect Ferdinando Fuga on the orders of Pope Clement XII Corsini, whose coat-of-arms, trumpeted by two Fames, still surmounts the roofline balustrade, as in Piranesi's view.

Charles Emmanuel IV ( Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria ; 24 May 1751 – 6 October 1819 ) was King of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802.

Victor Emanuel II ( Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso ; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878 ) was king of Sardinia from 1849 until, on 17 March 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878.

* Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, also known as Ferdinand II de Medici ( 1610 – 1670 ), Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1620

Ferdinand II ( Ferdinando Carlo, 12 January 1810 – 22 May 1859 ) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his death.