Her position as a Marchesa required her serious attention, therefore she was required to study the problems faced by a ruler of a city-state.

There were also the academies of the " Intrepidi " ( 1560 ), the " Animosi " ( 1576 ), and the " Illuminati " ( 1598 ); this last, founded by the Marchesa Isabella Aldobrandini Pallavicino.

* Margaret Fuller ( Marchesa Ossoli ) by Julia Ward Howe in multiple formats at Gutenberg. org

On 9 January 1886, while still at St. Petersburg, he married Maria Anna Zoe Rosalia Beccadelli di Bologna, Principessa di Camporeale, Marchesa di Altavilla, whose first marriage with Count Karl von Dönhoff had been dissolved and declared null by the Holy See in 1884.

Both her bias cut and her urbanely sensual approach to couture remain a strong and pervasive influence on contemporary fashion as evidenced by the collections of such past and present-day designers as Ossie Clark, Halston, John Galliano, Comme des Garçons, Azzedine Alaia, Issey Miyake and Marchesa.

Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria, 1606, age 22, as painted by Peter Paul Rubens, shortly after her wedding to Giacomo Massimiliano Doria

Marchesa Luisa Casati ( 1881-1957 ) with a greyhound by Giovanni Boldini

Portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati by Adolf de Meyer

After being promised the hand of Ellena by Signora Bianchi before her mysterious death, Vivaldi learns that Ellena has been kidnapped, and he immediately assumes it is by the hand of the Marchesa and Schedoni.

Ellena, however, is sent by Schedoni and the Marchesa to a lone house on the seaside, inhabited only by the villain Spalatro, to be murdered.

* Raimonda Ciano ( Rome, 12 December 1933-Rome, 24 May 1998 ), married to Nobile Alessandro Giunta ( 1929 -), son of Nobile Francesco Giunta ( Piero, 1887 – 1971 ) and wife ( m. Rome, 1924 ) Zenaida del Gallo Marchesa di Roccagiovine ( Rome, 1902 – São Paulo, Brazil, 1988 )

Gian Gastone recalled Governor Violante Beatrice to the royal court and banished his sister, the Dowager Electress, to the Villa La Quiete.

On November 16, 1992, Buscetta testified before the Antimafia Commission presided by Luciano Violante about the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and Giulio Andreotti.

A second marriage was arranged for Lionel with Violante ( c. 1353-November 1386 ), daughter of Galeazzo Visconti, lord of Pavia ( d. 1378 ); the enormous dowry which Galeazzo promised with his daughter being exaggerated by the rumour of the time.

As a child of ten, she was recruited by an Italian rope dancer called Violante and played Polly Peachum in a Lilliputian production of The Beggar's Opera.

He also left a bastard daughter by Sicilian-born Agathe de Pesce, named Violante of Aragon, who died c. 1428 and was married twice: firstly in 1405 as his second wife ( some say she was his mistress ) to Enrique Pérez de Guzmán, 2nd Count de Niebla ( 1371 – 1436 ), and secondly to his cousin Martín de Guzmán.

To keep the two ladies from quarrelling over precedence, Cosimo III defined Violante Beatrice's status just before the Electress's arrival by appointing her Governess of Siena.

Violante Beatrice tried to withdraw the Grand Duke from their sphere of influence by organising banquets.

These parites ceased when Violante Beatrice died, in 1731 ; Gian Gastone was devastated by the loss of his beloved sister-in-law.

* In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Mephisto ( Ciarán Hinds ) now goes by the name Roarke, is one of the main antagonists ( along with his hired gun, Ray Carrigan aka Blackout ) and has fathered a child, with a woman named Nayda ( Violante Placido ), and has plans for the boy, named Danny ( Fergus Riorden ).

By the 1717-18 season she had been appointed (" chamber soloist ") to Violante Beatrice, Grand Princess of Tuscany, performing at Florence, Siena, Genoa, Mantua, and Reggio nell ' Emilia in operas by Orlandini and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, and in Vivaldi's Scanderbeg.

According to Venetian records, Cecilia or Olivia was presumably the natural daughter of Nicolò Venier, a Lord of Páros, by Violante Baffo.

He did not marry but had a natural son by Yolande ( Violante ) Gomes, a Pelicana ( the she-pellican ), a New Christian, who is said to have died a Nun in Almoster, Santarém, on 16 July 1568, daughter of Pedro Gomes, from Évora.

The six quarters were officially abolished the edict issued by Violante Beatrice of Bavaria ( known as Notice of Violante of Bavaria ) in 1729, which marked the boundaries of New Division Contrade still valid.

Governor Violante Beatrice and the Dowager Electress, following the former's sojourn in Rome, in spite of their mutual dislike of each other, attempted to ameliorate Gian Gastone's decadent public image together.

* La finta parigina ( carnival 1773 Naples Teatro Nuovo )

* La frascatana nobile ( winter 1776 Naples Teatro Nuovo ) finta frascatana

* La finta ammalata ( 1796 Lisbon )

* R 1. 18 La finta maga per vendetta ( autumn?

* R 1. 61 La finta amante ( 5. 6. 1780 Mogilev )

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera La finta giardiniera

* Fracasso, La finta semplice

* Don Anchise, La finta giardiniera

* Don Anchise / Il Podestà, La finta giardiniera ( Mozart )

# La finta Frascatana ( 1744 )

It was told by French peasants in the 14th century as well as in Italy, where a number of versions exist, including La finta nonna ( The False Grandmother ).

Highlights in Boston that she conducted and / or stage directed included La voyage de la lune, Otello ( with Tito Gobbi as Iago ), Command Performance ( world premiere ), Manon and Faust ( both with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle ), Lulu ( U. S. East Coast premiere ), I puritani ( with Dame Joan Sutherland ), Intolleranza ( U. S. premiere ), Boris Godunov ( original version ), Hippolyte et Aricie ( U. S. stage premiere, with Plácido Domingo ), La bohème ( with Renata Tebaldi and Domingo ), Moses und Aron ( U. S. premiere ), The Rake's Progress, Bluebeard's Castle, Carmen ( with Marilyn Horne ), Macbeth ( original version ), The Good Soldier Schweik, The Fisherman and His Wife ( world premiere, with Muriel Costa-Greenspon ), La finta giardiniera, Norma ( with Sills ), Les Troyens, Don Carlos ( U. S. premiere of original French version ), Don Quichotte, War and Peace ( U. S. stage premiere, with Arlene Saunders ), Benvenuto Cellini ( U. S. premiere, with Jon Vickers ), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Montezuma ( U. S. premiere ), Ruslan and Ludmila ( U. S. premiere ), Rigoletto ( with Sills, Richard Fredricks, and Susanne Marsee ), Stiffelio ( U. S. stage premiere ), La damnation de Faust, Tosca ( with Magda Olivero ), La vide breve, El retablo de maese Pedro, The Ice Break ( U. S. premiere ), Aïda ( with Shirley Verrett in the title role ), Die Soldaten ( U. S. premiere ), The Invisible City of Kitezh, Taverner ( U. S. premiere ), The Makropoulos Case ( with Anja Silja, William Cochran, and Chester Ludgin ), Médée ( in French and Greek ), Dead Souls ( U. S. premiere ), Der Rosenkavalier ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones ), and, finally, The Balcony ( world premiere, 1990 ).

* Pasquale Anfossi – La finta ammalata

** La finta giardiniera

* Pasquale Anfossi – La finta giardiniera ; Olimpiade

* Domenico Cimarosa – La finta parigina

More recently, Ainsley has sung the roles of Soliman in Zaide and Belfiore in La finta giardiniera at the Salzburg Festival ( 2006 ), The Madwoman in Britten ’ s Curlew River with Oper Frankfurt ( 2006 ), Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande with the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( 2006 ), Skuratov in Janáček's From the House of the Dead with both the Amsterdam and Vienna Festivals ( 2007 ), Hippolyt in the world premiere of Henze's Phaedra with the Berlin State Opera ( 2007 ) and La Monnaie ( 2007 ), Vere in Billy Budd with Oper Frankfurt ( 2007 ), Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmelites with the Hamburg State Opera ( 2008 ), and both Bajazete in Tamerlano and the title role in Idomeneo with the Bavarian State Opera ( 2008 ).

( Petrosellini was also the probable librettist of Mozart's earlier opera La finta giardiniera ).

** La finta semplice, conducted by Fabio Luisi, staged by Laurent Pelly ;