The most highly sought ( and expensive ) instruments come from Italy and include basses made by Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Gaspar da Salo, the Testore family ( Carlo Antonio, Carlo Giuseppe, Gennaro, Giovanni, Paulo Antonio ), Celestino Puolotti, and Matteo Gofriller.

Frederick, however, controlled as his unwilling guests in Tivoli two cardinals whom he had captured at sea, and in Rome Cardinal Giovanni Colonna was his ally, largely because the curia was in the hands of the Colonna archenemy, the senator Matteo Rosso Orsini.

In Shakespeare's own lifetime, a writer known for doing likewise was Matteo Bandello, who based his work on that of writers such as Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer, and who could have served as an indirect source for Shakespeare.

The UK premiere took place on 14 May 1853 at what is now the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London with Giovanni Matteo Mario as the Duke of Mantua and Giorgio Ronconi as Rigoletto.

The Massacre of the Innocents at Bethlehem, by Matteo di Giovanni

Three other monuments are those of Cardinal Matteo d ' Acquasparta ( Matthew of Acquaspa ) at the Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the tomb of Bishop Gonsalvi ( 1298 ) and that of Cardinal Gonsalvo ( 1299 ) ( both located at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore ), all sculpted by Giovanni de Cosma, the youngest of the Cosmati family lineage.

Its most important representatives include Duccio, whose work shows Byzantine influence ; his pupil Simone Martini ; Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti ; Domenico and Taddeo di Bartolo ; Sassetta and Matteo di Giovanni.

* Matteo di Giovanni

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city brought forth several notable intellectual figures, including Giovanni Aurispa, jurists Andrea Barbazio and Antonio Corsetto, as well as the architect Matteo Carnelivari and the minor composer Mario Capuana.

" ( 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.

" On June 29, 1620 the son of Tommaso Aniello d ' Amalfi Cicco and Antonia Gargano was baptized by me Don Giovanni Matteo Peta, and lifted from the sacred font by Agostino Monaco and Giovanna de Lieto.

The main gates are Porta San Giovanni on the ridge extending south, Porta San Matteo to the north west and Porta S. Jacopo to the north east.

The main streets of the town are the Via San Giovanni which leads north from the gate of the same name and connects, through the Piazza della Cisterna to the Via San Matteo.

The main streets are Via San Matteo and Via San Giovanni, which cross the city from north to south.

* Matteo di Giovanni ( Italian, 1430 – 1495 )

The vision of Marguerite as staged at Royal Opera House | Covent Garden in 1864 with Jean-Baptiste Faure as Méphistophélès and Giovanni Matteo Mario | Giovanni Mario as Faust

In 1373 Bishop Giovanni Fieschi expelled the Visconti, but Matteo reconquered the city.

The main artworks are a wondrously carved baptismal font from 1470 – 1474 and the Madonna delle Grazie by Matteo di Giovanni ( 1470 ).

Over the main altar stands a tall canopy of black marble supported by four pillars, designed by Giovanni Battista Trevano and Matteo Castelli between 1626 and 1629.

Painter borrows from Herodotus, Boccaccio, Plutarch, Aulus Gellius, Aelian, Livy, Tacitus, Quintus Curtius ; from Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Matteo Bandello, Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Queen Marguerite de Navarre and others.

Later he returned to accept a situation as clerk or secretary to Giovanni Matteo Gilberti, datary to Clement VII.

The Medicis oversaw the construction of his magnificent tomb by Donatello and Michelozzo in the Battistero di San Giovanni in Florence.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

The first cardinal from the family was appointed in 1206 when Giovanni Colonna di Carbognano was made Cardinal Deacon of SS.

For many years, cardinal Giovanni di San Paolo ( elevated in 1193 ) was identified as member of the Colonna family and therefore its first representative in the College of Cardinals, but modern scholars have established that this was based on the false information from the beginning of 16th century.

The main ' Colonna di Paliano ' family is represented today by Prince Marcantonio Colonna di Paliano, Prince and Duke of Paliano ( b. 1948 ), whose heir is Giovanni Andrea Colonna di Paliano ( b. 1975 ), and by Don Prospero Colonna di Paliano, Prince of Avella ( b. 1956 ), whose heir is Filippo Colonna di Paliano ( b. 1995 ).

The episode was often depicted ; notably, in the The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit by Stefano di Giovanni called " Sassetta ", of two episodic depictions in a single panel of the hermit Anthony's travel to greet the hermit Paul, one is his encounter along the pathway with the demonic figure of a centaur in a wood.

File: Giovanni di paolo, St Catherine of Siena. jpg | Giovanni di Paolo, " St. Catherine of Siena ", c. 1475, oil on tempera.

Returning to Italy, the most celebrated doors are those of the Battistero di San Giovanni ( Florence ), which together with the door frames are all in bronze, the borders of the latter being perhaps the most remarkable: the modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano ( 1330 ), and of the east doorway by Ghiberti ( 1425 – 1452 ), are of great beauty ; in the north door ( 1402 – 1424 ) Ghiberti adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects in them as Andrea Pisano, but in the east door the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs, in which Scripture subjects are illustrated with innumerable figures, these being probably the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena ( 1347-1380 ) by Giovanni di Paolo, ca.

As early as 1911, Giovanni Pastrone's two-reel la Caduta di Troia ( The Fall of Troy ) made a big impression worldwide, and it was followed by even bigger spectacles like Quo Vadis?

File: Algarotti, Francesco-Tomba a Pisa-Foto Giovanni Dall ' Orto. jpg | Tomb of Algarotti in Camposanto di Pisa, designed by Mauro Antonio Tesi.

it: Prima lettera di Giovanni

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

Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and Pica had him baptised as Giovanni di Bernardone.

* Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo ( 1947 ) ( dir.

After received the support of the archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Visconti, and of those of Pisa, Florence and Siena, he started a campaign against Giovanni di Vico, lord of Viterbo, who had usurped much of the Papal territories in the Latium and Umbria.

His sojourn there was to be short, however, as Giovanni di Vico and Francesco Ordelaffi ( who had hired the famous condottiero Konrad von Landau's " Grand Company ") were menacing the fragile balance of his last conquests.

The architects were Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno La Padula, and Mario Romano.

Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan prophet who foresaw the coming of Christianity.

Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan prophet who foresaw the coming of Christianity.

Others: John Browne, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Gounod, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Giovanni Felice Sances, Alessandro Scarlatti ( 1724 ), Domenico Scarlatti ( 1715 ), Pedro de Escobar, František Tůma, Vladimir Martynov, Arvo Pärt, Josef Rheinberger, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Pasquale Cafaro, Zoltán Kodály, Trond Kverno ( 1991 ), Pawel Lukaszewski ( 1994 ), Frank Ferko ( 1999 ), Salvador Brotons ( 2000 ), Bruno Coulais ( 2005 ), the black metal band Anorexia Nervosa, the symphonic metal band Epica on the album The Classical Conspiracy, and Karl Jenkins.

Leading members of the new party included Bruno Villabruna, Mario Pannunzio, Ernesto Rossi, Leo Valiani, Guido Calogero, Giovanni Ferrara, Paolo Ungari, Eugenio Scalfari and Marco Pannella.

* Secretary: Mario Pannunzio ( 1956 – 1959 ), Leopoldo Piccardi ( 1959 – 1962 ), Bruno Villabruna ( 1962 – 1963 ), Marco Pannella ( 1963 – 1967 ), Gianfranco Spadaccia ( 1967 – 1968 ), Mauro Mellini ( 1968 – 1969 ), Angiolo Bandinelli ( 1969 – 1970 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1970 – 1971 ), Angiolo Bandinelli ( 1971 – 1973 ), Giulio Ercolessi ( 1973 – 1974 ), Gianfranco Spadaccia ( 1974 – 1976 ), Adelaide Aglietta ( 1976 – 1978 ), Jean Fabre ( 1978 – 1979 ), Giuseppe Rippa ( 1979 – 1980 ), Francesco Rutelli ( 1980 – 1981 ), Marco Pannella ( 1981 – 1983 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1983 – 1984 ), Giovanni Negri ( 1984 – 1988 ), Sergio Stanzani ( 1988 – 1989 )

Many philosophers from the Renaissance are today read and remembered, even if often not categorized into a single category, but spread into modern philosophy ( if they fit, especially if oriented towards empiricism and rationalism, like Galileo Galilei or Machiavelli ) or instead put back into the Middle Ages, especially if heavily influenced by esoteric traditions ( like Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino and even Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno ).

The salons attracted countless outstanding nineteenth century figures including the romantic painter Francesco Hayez, composer Giuseppe Verdi and naturalist writers Giovanni Verga, Bruno Sperani and Matilde Serao.

Buried there are Carlo Collodi, creator of Pinocchio ; politician Giovanni Spadolini ; painter Pietro Annigoni ; poet and author Luigi Ugolini ; film producer Mario Cecchi Gori ; sculptor Libero Andreotti ; writer Giovanni Papini ; and physicist Bruno Benedetto Rossi.

In September the PRI chose Giovanni Spadolini as national secretary and Bruno Visentini as president.

* Liberals / Italian Liberal Party: Giuseppe Zanardelli, Giovanni Giolitti, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Benedetto Croce, Luigi Einaudi, Bruno Villabruna, Manlio Brosio, Leone Cattani, Gaetano Martino, Agostino Bignardi, Bruno Leoni, Giovanni Malagodi

* Mon père, il m ' a sauvé la vie ( 2000 ) by José Giovanni with Bruno Crémer, Vincent Lecoeur

During these two centuries, it has educated many of Italy's most important musicians, including Marco Stroppa, Luca Francesconi, Stefano Gervasoni, Giacomo Puccini, Arrigo Boito, Giovanni Bottesini, Alfredo Catalani, Riccardo Chailly, Amelita Galli-Curci, Vittorio Giannini, Bruno Maderna, Pietro Mascagni, Gian Carlo Menotti, Francisco Mignone, Riccardo Muti, Kurken Alemshah, Italo Montemezzi, Alceo Galliera, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Mario Nascimbene, Maurizio Pollini, Ludovico Einaudi, Antonino Fogliani, Vittorio Parisi, Riccardo Sinigaglia and Claudio Abbado.

* Giovanni Giacometti ( 1868 – 1933 ), a Swiss painter ; the father of Alberto, Diego, and Bruno Giacometti

But the early German design clues of present day owes some part to Italian designers like Giovanni Michelotti, Ercole Spada, Bruno Sacco and Giorgetto Giugiaro.

Italian designers whose designs services were sought globally are Giovanni Michelotti, Ercole Spada, Bruno Sacco, Marcello Gandini, and Giorgetto Giugiaro.

* Giovanni Bruno, Italian footballer

* Scientific High School " Giordano Bruno with attached classical section " Giovanni Pascoli "* Educational Diocesan

* Secretary: Alberto Giovannini ( 1922 – 1924 ), Quintino Piras ( 1924 – 1926 ), Giovanni Cassandro ( 1944 ), Manlio Brosio ( 1944 – 1945 ), Leone Cattani ( 1945 – 1946 ), Giovanni Cassandro ( 1946 – 1947 ), Roberto Lucifero ( 1947 – 1948 ), Bruno Villabruna ( 1948 – 1954 ), Alessandro Leone di Tavagnasco ( 1954 ), Giovanni Malagodi ( 1954 – 1972 ), Agostino Bignardi ( 1972 – 1976 ), Valerio Zanone ( 1976 – 1985 ), Alfredo Biondi ( 1985 – 1986 ), Renato Altissimo ( 1986 – 1993 ), Raffaele Costa ( 1993 – 1994 )