* 1665 — Francesco Maria Grimaldi highlights the phenomenon of diffraction

* 1668 — Francesco Redi disproved spontaneous generation by showing that fly maggots only appear on pieces of meat in jars if the jars are open to the air.

( Other prominent Mediterranean tenors of the late 19th century to early 20th century who, like Caruso, did not " bleat " were Angelo Masini, Francesco Tamagno, Francesco Marconi, Francisco Viñas, Emilio De Marchi, Giuseppe Borgatti and Giovanni Zenatello, while the phenomenon was rare among French, German, Russian and Anglo-Saxon tenors of the same period — see Scott.

However, a contemporary of Faure's, Antonio Cotogni, ( 1831 – 1918 )— probably the foremost Italian baritone of his generation — can be heard, briefly and dimly, at the age of 77, on a duet recording with the tenor Francesco Marconi.

It was believed, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat ; Francesco Redi carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim Omne vivum ex ovo (" every living thing comes from a living thing " — literally " from an egg "), Virchow ( and his predecessors ) extended this to state that the only source for a living cell was another living cell.

* — Italian libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym for the opera by Handel

* Mikis Theodorakis & Francesco Diaz — Timeless ( Wormland White )

In order to rally Gian Gastone to its cause, Spain, concerned that another Medicean cardinal — Gian Gastone's uncle, Francesco Maria de ' Medici, already enjoyed that dignity — would tip the scales in favour of France at a Papal conclave, offered to create him " General of the Spanish Seas ".

* 2007 — Giuseppe Penone, Francesco Vezzoli

The most talented architects active in Rome — Francesco de Sanctis ( Spanish Steps, 1723 ) and Filippo Raguzzini ( Piazza Sant ' Ignazio, 1727 )— had little influence outside their native country, as did numerous practitioners of the Sicilian Baroque, including Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Andrea Palma, and Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia.

* Francesco Accarigi ( c. 1557 — 1622 ), professor of civil law

* 1930 – 1931 — Francesco " Frank / Don Cheech " Scalise – demoted after murder of boss of all bosses Salvatore Maranzano.

Among his most famous works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon ( on behalf of Francesco Algarotti ), and his vedute — paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome.

His many personal encounters with powerful Italian rulers serves to explain his perspective as a historian: “ Francesco Guicciardini might be called a psychological historian — for him the motive power of the huge clockwork of events may be traced down the mainspring of individual behavior.

Cruel, paranoid and extremely sensitive about his personal ugliness, he was nevertheless a great politician, and by employing such powerful condottieri as Carmagnola, Piccinino — who unsuccessfully led his troops at the Battle of Anghiari, 1440 — and Francesco Sforza, he managed to recover the Lombard portion of his father's duchy.

It did have, however, at least two churches that are now vanished: a chapel of S. Niccolò di Bari, demolished in 1869 in spite of its 15c frescoes ; and a church of S. Francesco di Paola, which was at La Cuccia near the Maroggia river about 1 km away — although its precise location is now unknown.

Although two children were born to the couple, neither survived — leaving Francesco and his older sister, Giovannina, the only children .> Francesco Dolendo emigrated to the United States in July 1890, and the rest of the family followed in June 1893 when Nitti was 7.

On one occasion, he informed to the Grand Duke Francesco on two lovers in the Medici household — Eleonora, the wife of Pietro de ' Medici, who was having an illicit affair with Bernardino Antinori — and his informing led directly to Eleonora's murder by Pietro.

Napoleon did not wish her to remain without a husband for an extended period of time, he tried — but failed — to recruit the incumbent Duke of Lodi and Vice-President of the Napoleonic Republic of Italy, Francesco Melzi d ' Eril, for this purpose.

Another similar case ( contrary to what Vacca has written, as Freudenthal carefully showed ) was that of Francesco Maurolico in his Arithmeticorum libri duo ( 1575 ), who used the technique to prove that the sum of the first n odd integers is n < sup > 2 </ sup >.

The following year, the combined Papal-Neapolitan army, led by Giacomo Caldora and Francesco Sforza, defeated him at the Battle of L ' Aquila ( 2 June 1424 ); Braccio died a few days later.

Pope Benedict XIII ( 2 February 1650 – 21 February 1730 ), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O. P., was pope from 1724 until his death.

Professor Francesco Cappuccio said, " Short sleep has been shown to be a risk factor for weight gain, hypertension, and Type 2 diabetes, sometimes leading to mortality ; but in contrast to the short sleep-mortality association, it appears that no potential mechanisms by which long sleep could be associated with increased mortality have yet been investigated.

In 1999 Dr. Francesco Pompei of the Exergen Corporation introduced the world's first temporal artery thermometer, a non-invasive temperature sensor which scans the forehead in about 2 seconds and provides a medically accurate body temperature.

* April 2 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist ( d. 1663 )

* January 2 – Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer ( b. 1497 )

* March 2 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist ( b. 1662 )

* September 2 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer

During the summer of 2008, a club takeover was agreed between Cazzola and an American-based consortium ; this was, however, cancelled in the end, following disagreements between the parties, and the club was successively sold to a local group led by new chairman Francesca Menarini, who thus became the second female chairman in the whole Serie A. Arrigoni was confirmed as head coach by the new group, and the start appeared to be particularly impressive, with a surprising 2 – 1 win at San Siro against Milan thanks to a winning goal scored by Francesco Valiani.

Massive damage was caused to many historical sites, but the major attraction, the Basilica di San Francesco, reopened less than 2 years later.

The first of many productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City was held on 2 February 1895, with Eugenia Mantelli as Dalila, Francesco Tamagno as Samson, and Pol Plançon portraying both Abimélech and the Old Hebrew.

Far more rarely, some stories are based on literary or historical sources, such as book 5 of Dante's Purgatory ( part 1, story 11 ), the Lucretia and Tarquin episode in Livy's History of Rome ( part 2, story 15 ), story # 23 of the Heptameron ( part 2, story 17 ), and Francesco Petrarch's Triumph of Love ( part 2, story 41 ).

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** Francesco Molinari-Pradelli ( conductor ), Leontyne Price, & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Prima Donna, Volume 2

** Francesco Molinari-Pradelli ( conductor ), Leontyne Price, & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Prima Donna, Volume 2

Saint Francis of Paola, O. M., ( or: Francesco di Paola or Saint Francis the Fire Handler, March 27, 1416 – April 2, 1507 ) was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims.

* April 2 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian physicist, discoverer of the diffraction of light ( died 1663 )

by Francesco Lora, Bologna, Ut Orpheus, 2010-2011, 2 voll.

It also has paintings by these European painters: Nardo di Cione, Francesco Botticini, Jan Swart Van Groningen, Ferdinand Bol, Jan Goyen, Hendrick Van Vliet, Franz Von Lenbach (" Bavarian Girl "), Ferdinand Waldmüller (" Interruption "), Carl Spitzweg, Christian Bokelman (" Broken Bank "), Bougereau, Gerome (" 2 Majesties "), Claude Monet (" Waterloo Bridge, Sunset Effect "), Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Kowalski (" Winter in Russia "), Jules Bastien-Lepage's " The Wood Gatherer ", and Max Pechstein.

Francesco Maria Grimaldi ( 2 April 1618 – 28 December 1663 ) was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna.

On 2 October, Hermann Göring, commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe met with his Regia Aeronautica counterpart Francesco Pricolo to discuss reinforcements.