In 1297, Cardinal Jacopo ( Giacomo Colonna ) disinherited his brothers Ottone, Matteo, and Landolfo of their lands.

" ( Lanciani, 1896 ch 1 ) Like prophets, Renaissance sibyls forecasting the advent of Christ appear in monuments: modelled by Giacomo della Porta in the Santa Casa at Loreto, painted by Raphael in Santa Maria della Pace, by Pinturicchio in the Borgia apartments of the Vatican, engraved by Baccio Baldini, a contemporary of Botticelli, and graffites by Matteo di Giovanni in the pavement of the Duomo of Siena.

* 2009 — Matteo Basilé, Manfredi Beninati, Valerio Berruti, Bertozzi & Casoni, Nicola Bolla, Sandro Chia, Marco Cingolani, Giacomo Costa, Aron Demetz, Roberto Floreani, Daniele Galliano, Marco Lodola, MASBEDO, Gian Marco Montesano, Davide Nido, Luca Pignatelli, Elisa Sighicelli, Sissi, Nicola Verlato e Silvio Wolf

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Florence are Italian President Alessandro Pertini ; Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini ; Italian political leaders Giorgio La Pira, Leonardo Domenici and Matteo Renzi ; astrophysicist Margherita Hack ; botanist Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli ; immunologist Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli ; philosopher Giacomo Marramao ; poets Margherita Guidacci and Mario Luzi.

Other pupils include Giacomo Boni, Andrea and Francesco Bondi ; Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi ; Girolamo Domini ; Francesco Galli ; Bonaventura Lamberti ; Matteo Lamboni ; Camilla Lauteri ; Stefano Maria Legnani ; Charles Lucy ( 1692-after 1767 ), Francesco Mancini ; Paolo Antonio Paderna., and Sante Vandi.

* Secretary: Pietro Nenni ( 1931 – 1945 ), Sandro Pertini ( 1945 – 1946 ), Ivan Matteo Lombardo ( 1946 – 1947 ), Lelio Basso ( 1947 – 1948 ), Alberto Jacometti ( 1948 – 1949 ), Pietro Nenni ( 1949 – 1963 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1963 – 1968 ), Mauro Ferri ( 1968 – 1969 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1969 – 1970 ), Giacomo Mancini ( 1970 – 1972 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1972 – 1976 ), Bettino Craxi ( 1976 – 1993 ), Giorgio Benvenuto ( 1993 ), Ottaviano Del Turco ( 1993 – 1994 )

Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Haydn's classical school and by the stile galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent, technical legato style which he passed on to an entire generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Czerny.

* Armida in Damasco by Giacomo Rampini ( Venice, 1711 )

* 1665 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer ( d. 1729 )

* 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer ( d. 1798 )

* 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer ( d. 1674 )

* Giacomo Grillo ( 1893 – 1894 )

* Liborio Angelucci, Giacomo De Mattheis, Panazzi, Reppi, Ennio Quirino Visconti, Consuls ( 20 March – September 1798 )

* 1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer ( b. 1665 )

* 1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer ( d. 1924 )

* 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

* 1573 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesu and Villa Farnese ( b. 1507 )

* 1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist

Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

* 1983 – Giacomo Brichetto, Italian footballer

* 1971 – Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher ( b. 1884 )

Among his sons, Giacomo ( died 1379 ) was created cardinal by Gregory XI in 1371, while Nicola ( August 27, 1331 – February 14, 1399 ) obtained the counties of Ariano and Celano.

Pope Honorius IV ( c. 1210 – 3 April 1287 ), born Giacomo Savelli, was Pope for two years, from 1285 to 1287.

* 1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer ( d. 1864 )

* Giacomo Manzù –

* April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer ( b. 1661 )

* September 5 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer ( d. 1864 )

* September 7 – Giacomo Aconcio, Italian pioneer of religious tolerance ( d. 1566 )

* June 10 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

* May 2 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer ( b. 1791 )

* December 22 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer ( d. 1924 )

* June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer ( b. 1798 )

* January 6 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer ( b. 1779 )

Catherine also gave the name of the Hermitage to her private theatre, built nearby between 1783 and 1787 by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi.

Along with Zorrilla's work ( still performed every year on November 2nd throughout the Spanish-speaking world ), arguably the best known version is Don Giovanni, an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, first performed in Prague in 1787 ( with Giacomo Casanova probably in the audience ) and itself the source of inspiration for works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena, Italy, to Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth dyer who ran his enterprise with the help of his sons, and Lapa Piagenti, possibly the daughter of a local poet.

The 1916 Manifesto of Futuristic Cinematography was signed by Filippo Marinetti, Armando Ginna, Bruno Corra, Giacomo Balla and others.

In the aftermath of the election, a crisis and political scandal erupted after Socialist Party deputy Giacomo Matteoti was kidnapped and murdered by a Fascist.

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

His father Michele was a music teacher and an unsuccessful opera composer, who died when Giacomo was five years old.

An English translation was by Giacomo Leoni in the early 18th century.

This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.

Rossini's Guillaume Tell helped found the new genre of Grand Opera, a form whose most famous exponent was another foreigner, Giacomo Meyerbeer.

He was made Duke of Gravina by King Alfonso, title definitely assigned to his son Giacomo ( died 1472 ), to which had been added the counties of Conversano, Campagna and Copertino.

The body was exhumed in 1606, the results recorded by Giacomo Grimaldi.

The sarcophagus was saved only when church historian Giacomo Grimaldi arrived and, realizing its importance, ordered it preserved.

The Italian sonnet was created by Giacomo da Lentini, head of the Sicilian School under Emperor Frederick II.

An anonymous novella Spalatro: from the notes of Fra Giacomo, published in the Dublin University Magazine in 1843, was added to the Le Fanu canon as late as 1980, being recognised as Le Fanu's work by W. J.

Giacomo Lacaita, legal adviser to the British embassy, was imprisoned by the Neapolitan government, as were other political dissidents.

His father, Giacomo, originally from Chiavari, was a university professor who had adhered to Jacobin ideology ; his mother, Maria Drago, was renowned for her beauty and religious ( Jansenist ) fervour.

Ruggero ( or Ruggiero ) Giacomo Maria Giuseppe Emmanuele Raffaele Domenico Vincenzo Francesco Donato Leoncavallo (; 23 April 18579 August 1919 ) was an Italian opera composer.

It was rebuilt and reopened on 11 May 1946, with a memorable concert conducted by Arturo Toscanini — twice La Scala's principal conductor and an associate of the composers Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini — with a soprano solo by Renata Tebaldi, which created a sensation.