In July 1991, the Mafia pentito ( a mafioso turned informer ) Francesco Marino Mannoia claimed that Roberto Calvi had been killed because he had lost Mafia funds when Banco Ambrosiano collapsed.

Through Marino, he had been introduced to Marcello Sacchetti who in turn introduced him to another of his early patrons, Cardinal Francesco Barberini.

* April 1-Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari and Giovanni Francesco Ugolini take office as captains-regent of San Marino.

For example, Francesco Marino Mannoia's mother, aunt and sister were murdered.

There are portraits of Lunardi in the National Gallery of Scotland ( by Francesco Bartolozzi, Marino / Mariano Bovi / Bova ).

The walks were lined with a hundred allegorical marble sculptures, executed by Francesco Penso, Pietro Baratta, Marino Gropelli, Alvise Tagliapietra, Bartolomeo Modulo and other Venetian sculptors that were acquired by Sava Vladislavich.

The pentito Francesco Marino Mannoia, who belonged to the Santa Maria di Gesù Family and who was highly sought after by all Mafia families for his skills in chemistry, recalled having refined at least 1000 kilograms of heroin for Bontade.

According to pentito Francesco Marino Mannoia, Andreotti contacted Bontade to try to prevent the Mafia from killing DC-politician Piersanti Mattarella.

" The Ten " in Francesco Hayez's The Death of the Doge Marino Faliero | Marin Faliero ( 1867 )

In 1996, Francesco Marino Mannoia, an informant and former member of the Sicilian Mafia, claimed he had stolen the painting as a young man on the orders of a high-ranking mobster, but other sources say it was stolen by amateurs and then sold on to various Mafiosi ; at one point it is said to have ended up in the hands of Rosario Riccobono, who was killed in 1982, after which it passed on to Gerlando Alberti.

According to Mannoia the killer was Francesco Di Carlo, a mafioso living in London at the time, and the order to kill Calvi had come from Mafia boss Giuseppe Calò and Licio Gelli.

Frank Russell Capra ( born Francesco Rosario Capra ; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991 ) was a Sicilian-born American film director.

Capra was born Francesco Rosario Capra in Bisacquino, Sicily, a village near Palermo.

Francesco Sforza was born in San Miniato, Tuscany, one of the seven illegitimate sons of the condottiero Muzio Sforza and Lucia da Torsano.

Saint Francis of Assisi ( born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone ; 1181 died: October 3, 1226 ) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.

A second grandchild, Francesco, was born in 1366, but died before his second birthday.

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.

Pope Pius III ( 29 May 1439 – 18 October 1503 ), born Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, was Pope from 22 September to 18 October 1503.

Pope Clement XI ( 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721 ), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was Pope from 1700 until his death in 1721.

Pope Sixtus IV ( 21 July 1414 – 12 August 1484 ), born Francesco della Rovere, was Pope from 1471 to 1484.

Francesco was born to a family of modest means from Liguria, Italy, the son of Leonardo della Rovere and Luchina Monleoni.

* August 12 – Francesco Crispi, Italian Prime Minister ( born 1819 )

They had three children: Francesco Quinn ( March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011 ), Danny ( born April 16, 1964 ), and Lorenzo Quinn ( born May 7, 1966 ).

Notable people born here include the former presidents of the Italian Republic, Antonio Segni and Francesco Cossiga, and Enrico Berlinguer, secretary of the Italian Communist Party.

* Francesco Panetta ( born 1963 ), former long-distance runner

Pope Leo XII ( 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829 ), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 1823 to 1829.

Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola was born on September 21, 1452 in Ferrara.

Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi ( baptized Mutius Philippus Vincentius Franciscus Xaverius ), was born in Rome, Italy on January 24, 1752, and the following day baptized in the local church of S. Lorenzo in Damaso.

* Francesco Maurolico, astronomer and mathematician, of Greek origin, born in Messina in 1494.

* Francesco Vescovi known as “ Cecco ” ( born 1964 ), a former basketball player who grew up in Varese.

* Archduke Francesco Leopoldo of Austria, born 15 December 1794 ;

Pope Pius VIII ( 20 November 1761 – 30 November 1830 ), born Francesco Saverio Castiglioni was Pope in 1829 and 1830.

The two brothers were born in Venice and were sons of Baron Francesco Bandiera, an admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and were themselves members of that service.

Ermolao Barbaro was born in Venice, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro, and the grandson of Francesco Barbaro.

** 18 April 1941 – 1942 Francesco Saverio Grazioli ( b. 1869 – d. 1951 )

* Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani ( 1871 – 1951 ) ( 1930, 1948 )

Concertos and concert works for two pianos have been written by Bach ( two to four pianos, BWV 1060-65, actually harpsichord concertos, but often performed on pianos ), Mozart ( two, K 242 ( originally for three pianos and orchestra ) and K 365 ), Mendelssohn ( two, 1823-4 ), Bruch ( 1912 ), Béla Bartók ( 1927 / 1932, a reworking of his Sonata for two pianos and percussion ), Poulenc ( 1932 ), Arthur Benjamin ( 1938 ), Peter Mieg ( 1939-41 ), Darius Milhaud ( 1941 and 1951 ), Bohuslav Martinů ( 1943 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( c. 1946 ), Roy Harris ( 1946 ), Gian Francesco Malipiero ( two works, both 1957 ), Walter Piston ( 1959 ), Luciano Berio ( 1973 ), and Harald Genzmer ( 1990 ).

* Francesco Moser ( born 1951 ), Italian cyclist

John McCaw, Jr. ( c. 1951 ) is a businessman who formerly owned McCaw Cellular in Seattle, Washington and a former part-owner of the Vancouver Canucks NHL franchise, with Francesco Aquilini.

Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani ( 1 October 1871 – 13 January 1951 ) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, Vicar General of Rome, Secretary of the Holy Office, and Dean of the College of Cardinals.

The 12th century plan was turned 90 degrees from the current one, which is a new construction also started by Federico II and commissioned to Francesco di Giorgio Martini, author of the Ducal Palace.

Italian architect Francesco Chiaramella de Gandino started to plan the citadel in 1557 and was replaced by his compatriot Rochus Graf zu Lynar one year later.

In 1820, following a short lived revolution in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Francesco IV started to arrest and jail suspected patriots on trumped-up, flimsy charges.

In 1535, when Francesco II Sforza ( the last Duke of Milan ) died, there started for Lombardy and for the lands of the Lake of Lario two centuries of onerous Spanish rule ( the period about which the novel The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni ).

The first documented experiments dealing with EMG started with Francesco Redi ’ s works in 1666.

Although Francesco Andreini dissolved the Gelosi after her death, their son Giambattista Andreini, who was an actor and a playwright, started his own company, the Fedeli, with the original troupe of the Gelosi.

Two years later he started film work under directors such as Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli, Salvatore Samperi, Damiano Damiani, Francesco Rosi, Walerian Borowczyk, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Cavara and Carlo Lizzani.

After his divorce from Roberta Lubich ( mother of his two daughters, Maria Carolina and Benedetta ), he started dating and eventually moved in with Azzurra Caltagirone, daughter of the famous Roman entrepreneur and publisher Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone.

* An Italian zoological journal, named after Francesco Redi, started in 1903 and currently published by the Research Centre for Agrobiology and Pedology ( ABP ) of the Agricultural Research Council ( CRA ).

In his first season, he only made 14 league appearances, but in 2010 – 11 season, he started a successive 5 league games for the team, as one of the strikers in a 4-3-3 formation, along with Luís Gabriel Sacilotto to partner with Umberto Improta or Francesco Di Gennaro.

Recently, Francesco International Love Outreach, was started to assist in working with the poverty-stricken outside of the US, including the underprivileged in Uganda and Poland.