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.

* Giovanni Carlo Tramontano, Count of Matera

Giovanni Antonio ( Giannantonio ) Del Balzo Orsini ( 1386 or 1393 – November 15, 1463 ) was Prince of Taranto, Duke of Bari, Count of Lecce, Acerra, Soleto and Conversano, as well as Count of Matera ( 1433 – 63 ) and of Ugento ( 1453 – 63 ).

* Giovanni Antonio ( 1386 – 1463 ), Prince of Taranto, Duke of Bari, Count of Lecce, Acerra, Soleto, Conversano, also 1443 count of Matera, 1453 Ugento.

The Monastery of San Giorgio was established in 982, when the Benedictine monk, Giovanni Morosini asked the doge Tribuno Memmo to donated the whole island for a Monastery.

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

Some say he may have met Giovanni Pico della Mirandola while in Florence and composed for him a discourse on the “ Harmony of the Skies .” If so, he also probably associated with Elia de Medigo, teacher of Pico della Mirandola, Yohanan Alemanno ( a Jewish writer influenced by the Medici court and mysticism and author of Song of songs ), Giovanni Pontano, Mario Equicola and monk Egidio da Viterbo.

Ser Giovanni Fiorentino wrote, under the title of Pecorone, a collection of tales, which are supposed to have been related by a monk and a nun in the parlour of the monastery Novelists of Forli.

** Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint ( d. 1456 )

* October 23 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint ( b. 1386 )

* June 24 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint ( d. 1456 )

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.

* Documentary Film about the Sassi di Matera and the Appian Way, Roba Forestiera, 44 min., 2004

In the seventeenth century Matera was handed over to the Orsini and then became part of the Terre d ' Otranto di Puglia.

Matera has gained international fame for its ancient town, the " Sassi di Matera " ( meaning " stones of Matera ").

The Sassi di Matera

In 1952, the inhabitants of the Sassi di Matera were re-housed by the State, but many of Basilicata ’ s population had emigrated or were in the process of emigrating, which led to a demographic crisis from which it is still recovering.

At the beginning of 1994, UNESCO declared Sassi di Matera a World Heritage Site.

North-eastern Lucanian ( province of Matera: Matera, Gravina di Puglia )

Matera has gained international fame for its ancient town, the " Sassi di Matera " ( meaning " stones of Matera ").

| 7500 Sassi || 1996 TN || Sassi di Matera, Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage site *

The bordering municipaltiies are Bitonto, Cassano delle Murge, Gravina in Puglia, Grumo Appula, Matera, Ruvo di Puglia, Santeramo in Colle and Toritto.

Her mark, di Ego Godiva Comitissa diu istud desideravi The Countess Godiva, have desired this for a long time, appears on a charter purportedly given by Thorold of Bucknall to the Benedictine monastery of Spalding.

She lived on until 1183, endowing as her legacy a Benedictine abbey at the site of Santa Maria di Maniaca, constructed by Giorgio Maniace over a century prior, and a church at San Marco d ' Alunzio, Robert Guiscard's first castle in Sicily.

She was given the habit of a nun and transferred to Benedictine monasteries, first at Bastia and then at Sant ' Angelo di Panzo, for her monastic formation.

Benedictine monk Benedetto Fontanini wrote the first version of the most notable expression of Spirituali doctrine, the Beneficio di Cristo ( The Benefit of Christ's Death ), in 1543, attempting to prove that salvation comes through faith in Christ alone Sola fide, not through works or the Church ; later the poet and humanist Marcantonio Flaminio revised it.