This period of his life is said to have been embittered by the intrigues of envious and hostile persons, including his old rival, Giovanni Paisiello.

The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments.

* In Capo dei Capi, a recent Mediaset TV film split into six parts, the movie reflects most of Giovanni Falcone's life as well as his death.

Some sources say, that his father Giovanni Sarto ( in polish Jan Krawiec, in german Jan Krawietz ) was a Pole, who emigrated to today's Italy from Boguszyce-a village in the district of Toszek within Gliwice, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland ; located exactly in Upper Silesia " for a better life ".

Buscetta asked to talk to Giovanni Falcone and began his life as an informant.

In 1877, Asaph Hall reported two moons of Mars and Giovanni Schiaparelli found the surface of Mars to be adorned with continents, seas, and channels, and a very suitable habitat for life.

Petrarch popularized the sonnet as a poetic form ; Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron made romance acceptable in prose as well as poetry ; François Rabelais rejuvenates satire with Gargantua and Pantagruel ; Michel de Montaigne single-handedly invented the essay and used it to catalog his life and ideas.

Canaletto was inspired by the Roman vedutista Giovanni Paolo Pannini, and started painting the daily life of the city and its people.

* The Segantini Museum: dedicated to Giovanni Segantini, a painter that lived the last five years of his life in Engadine.

He returned to Genoa for good in 1555, and being very old and infirm, he gave over the command of the galleys to his great-nephew Giovanni Andrea Doria, the son of Giannettino Doria, who conducted an expedition against Tripoli, but proved even more unsuccessful than his great-uncle had been at Algiers, barely escaping with his life after losing the Battle of Djerba against the Turkish fleet of Piyale Pasha and Turgut Reis.

He left the apothecarys ' life and apprenticed to the surgeon Giovanni Antonio Lonigo, under whom he studied for 7 years.

Two influences in Victoria ’ s life were Giovanni Maria Nanino and Luca Marenzio.

In early life he secured the favour of Giovanni Angelo Braschi, who in 1775 became Pope Pius VI.

Besides Rodeo, two other de Mille ballets are performed on a regular basis, Three Virgins and a Devil ( 1934 ) adapted from a tale by Giovanni Boccaccio, and Fall River Legend ( 1948 ) based on the life of Lizzie Borden.

She appears to have led a quiet, if not slightly unusual life ; there is evidence that at least three of her four children were fathered by the same man, Giovanni Paolo Vidman.

Shortly afterwards he was appointed by Cardinal Bessarion to a benefice in Calabria, where the later years of his life were spent, and where he died about 1475 and was buried in the Basilian monastery of San Giovanni a Piro.

The Brooklyn museum has among others late Gothic and Early Italian Renaissance paintings by Lorenzo di Niccolo (" Scenes from the life of Saint Lawrence "), Sano di Pietro, Nardo di Cione, Lorenzo Monaco, Donatello (" Saint Jerome "), Giovanni Bellini.

In Rome he lived a frugal life till 1796 ; his son Johannes ( Giovanni ) was born there in 1776.

* Giovanni Naldi, Lorenzo Pareschi, Giuseppe Toscani, Mathematical modelling of collective behavior in socio-economic and life sciences, Birkhauser, ( 2010 ).

Photograph of a triptych by Giovanni del Biondo entitled Martyrdom of St Sebastian and scenes from his life.

He remained in Sicily as governor ( the exact Italian title was Luogotenente generale dei reali domini al di là del Faro, meaning Lieutenant-general of the royal domains beyond the Lighthouse ) until 1855, when he retired into private life, as he could not carry out the reforms he desired owing to the hostility of Giovanni Cassisi, the minister for Sicily.

The attached Chiostro degli Aranci ( Cloister of the Oranges ) contains a fresco cycle ( c. 1435 – 1439 ) on the life of St Benedict, whom many attribute to the Portuguese painter Giovanni di Consalvo, a generally unknown follower of Fra Angelico.

Born in Perinaldo ( modern Liguria ) he was the nephew of Giovanni Cassini, and worked most of his life at the Paris Observatory ( 1687 – 1718 ).

The arches are decorated with scenes from the life of the saint, including Apotheosis of the saint in the center, Crucifixion, Saint lost at sea, and at left, Baptism of an Indian princess, by Giovanni Andrea Carlone.

* Consoli, Joseph P. ( 1992 ) Giovanni Boccaccio: an Annotated Bibliography.

Of those who took part in the council's opening session, four have become pontiffs to date: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who on succeeding Pope John XXIII took the name of Paul VI ; Bishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I ; Bishop Karol Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II ; and Father Joseph Ratzinger, present as a theological consultant, who became Pope Benedict XVI.

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.

* 1860: Giovanni Luppis, a retired engineer of the Austro-Hungarian navy, demonstrates a design for a self-propelled torpedo to emperor Franz Joseph.

In 1806, Jean Marie Joseph Farina, a grand-grand-nephew of Giovanni Maria Farina ( 1685 – 1766 ), opened a perfumery business in Paris that was later sold to Roger & Gallet.

Example: " di Stefano " (" son of Steven "), " di Giovanni " (" son of John "), " di Giuseppe " (" son of Joseph "), etc.

Among the papabili cardinals who were elected pope are Eugenio Pacelli ( Pius XII ), Giovanni Battista Montini ( Paul VI ), and Joseph Ratzinger ( Benedict XVI ).

Leopold II of Tuscany ( Italian: Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo, German: Leopold Johann Joseph Franz Ferdinand Karl ; 3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870 ) was the last reigning grand duke of Tuscany ( 1824 – 1859 ).

* Archduke Raineri Salvatore Maria Gaetano Giuseppe Giovanni Filippo Jacopo Antonius Zanobi Lodovico Gonzaga ( Rainer Salvator Maria Gaëtan Joseph Johann Phillipp Jacob Antonius Zanobius Ludwig Gonzaga ) ( Florence, 1 May 1842-Florence, 14 August 1844 ).

She played Donna Elvira in Joseph Losey's 1979 film adaptation of Don Giovanni.

* Georg Joseph Vogler becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini at Bologna.

* Alan Alda, American actor, whose birth name was Alphonso Joseph D ' Abruzzo ; son of the Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D ' Abruzzo ( above )

Contributors to its pages have included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Pope Benedict XVI ( as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ) and Pope Paul VI ( as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini ).

The Detroit crime family then shipped the narcotics to their New York contacts, Giovanni " Big John " Ormento, of the Lucchese crime family, Carmine " Lilo " Galante and Natale " Joe Diamonds " Evola of the Bonanno crime family, Frank " Cheech " Livorsi of the Luciano crime family, and Joseph " Joe Bandy " Biondo of the Mangano crime family.

Other Luciano lieutenants working mainland Italy included American deportees, Frank Barone and Giuseppe Arena in Rome, Frank Pirico, Frank Saverino and Giovanni Maugeri in Milan, Salvatore DiBella in Naples, and former Mangano crime family soldier, Joseph " Joe Peachy " Pici in Milan and Genoa.

Teresa Berganza has appeared in nine motion pictures, including Il barbiere di Siviglia in 1972, as Zerlina in the Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni in 1979, and both Werther and Carmen in 1980.

Before Giovanni Schiaparelli gave it the name Hellas ( which in Greek means ' Greece '), it was known as ' Lockyer Land ', having been named by Richard Anthony Proctor in 1867 in honor of Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, an English astronomer who, using a 6. 25-inch ( 16-cm ) refractor, produced " the first really truthful representation of the planet " ( in the estimation of E. M. Antoniadi ).

As the Kyrie is the first item in settings of the mass ordinary and the second in the requiem mass ( the only mass proper set regularly over the centuries ), numerous composers have included Kyries in their masses, including Guillaume de Machaut, Guillaume Dufay, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Cherubini, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gabriel Fauré, Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod, Giuseppe Verdi, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Arvo Pärt, Mark Alburger, and Erling Wold.

The complementary field of document-supported art history traces its origins to the somewhat earlier work of Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle.

Its vast Late Baroque Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ( Giovanni Battista Santini, architect ) attests to the secular power and wealth of the abbey, which was dissolved under the regime of Joseph II.

Gulbenkian's motto was " Only the best ", and hence the museum has masterpieces by western European artists as Domenico Ghirlandaio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Rodin, Carpeaux, Houdon, Renoir, Dierick Bouts, Vittore Carpaccio, Cima da Conegliano, Van Dyck, Corot, Degas, Nattier, George Romney, Stefan Lochner, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Claude Monet, Jean-François Millet, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Frans Hals, Ruisdael, Boucher, Largillière, Andrea della Robbia, Pisanello, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Antonio Rosselino, André-Charles Boulle, Cressent, Oeben, Riesener, Antoine-Sébastien Durand, Charles Spire, Jean Deforges, François-Thomas Germain, and many others.

* Crowe, Joseph A. and Cavalcaselle, Giovanni B., The Early Flemish Painters: Notices of their Lives and Works, London: John Murray, 1857