* 1602 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer ( d. 1676 )

His most important follower Francesco Cavalli helped spread opera throughout Italy.

* Orione ( opera ), 1653 opera by Francesco Cavalli

* The opera Ormindo is first performed in Venice: music by Francesco Cavalli and libretto by Giovanni Faustini.

* February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer ( d. 1676 )

* January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer ( b. 1602 )

* Francesco Cavalli Giasone ( opera, 1649 )

In many pieces ( particularly those of early to mid Baroque composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Francesco Cavalli, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Riccio, Dario Castello, Antonio Bertali, Pavel Josef Vejvanovský, Jan Křtitel Tolar, Michael Praetorius, Johann Hermann Schein, Samuel Scheidt, Sebastian Knüpfer, Johann Schelle, Johann Andreas Pachelbel, Giovanni Felice Sances, Johann Joseph Fux, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Andreas Hofer, Alessandro Stradella, Matthew Locke, John Adson and Heinrich Schütz ) the cornett is indispensable in performance, and the music suffers if other instruments substitute for them.

* 1641: La Didone by Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli ( 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676 ) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period.

His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.

* Scipione affricano, Opera by Francesco Cavalli

* Francesco Cavalli – Didone

Stampiglia's libretto was itself based on one by Nicolò Minato that was set by Francesco Cavalli in 1654.

In the following years he subsequently prepared more operas by Monteverdi, as well as operas by Francesco Cavalli.

* February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, composer ( died 1676 )

* January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer ( born 1602 )

She was also compositionally gifted, and her father arranged for her to study with composer Francesco Cavalli.

Perti maintained in his Op. 1 that he was influenced by the melodic style of Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Cesti, and Luigi Rossi ; however he shows considerable originality in instrumentation, use of dialogue and countermelody.

One of his operas, Xerse, parodied material in an earlier setting of that opera by Francesco Cavalli.

He was involved in performances of four operas, two by Francesco Cavalli and two by Antonio Cesti.

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* 1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist

* 1537 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and humanist ( d. 1604 )

* 1726 – Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist ( d. 1778 )

* 1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist

* 1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant ' Agnese in Agone ( b. 1599 )

* 1336 – Francesco Petrarca ( Petrarch ) ascends Mont Ventoux.

* 1430 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.

* 1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist ( d. 1663 )

* 1360 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist ( d. 1417 )

* 1988 – Francesco Acerbi, Italian footballer

* Francesco Riganti, Carlo Luigi Costantini, Duke Bonelli-Crescenzi, Antonio Bassi, Gioacchino Pessuti, Angelo Stampa, Domenico Maggi, Provisional Consuls ( 15 February – 20 March 1798 )

* Brigi, Calisti, Francesco Pierelli, Giuseppe Rey, Federico Maria Domenico Michele, Zaccaleoni, Consuls ( September – 24 July 1799 )

* Francesco Salesio Della Volpe ( 4 January 1911 – 5 November 1916 )

* 1952 – Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer

Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).

# Francesco Maria I della Rovere ( 1490 – 1538 )

# Francesco Maria II della Rovere ( 1549 – 1631 )-duchy abolished, title continued

* 1666 – Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer and musician ( d. c. 1741 )

* 1687 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian football player

* 1712 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher ( d. 1764 )

* 1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist ( d. 1729 )

* Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua ( 1466 – 1519 )

* Francesco II d ' Este, Duke of Modena ( 1662 – 1694 )