Ferdinando sneaks out of the theatre and goes back to the palace, arriving just in time to see Rosalia running to the train station.

In the poem Ferdinando and Elvira, or, The Gentle Pieman, Gilbert is describing how two lovers are trying to find out who has been putting mottos into " paper crackers " ( a sort of 19th Century " fortune cookie ").

Other financiers included Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the military governor of Plymouth ; much of the information about the events in the colony comes from his letters and memoirs.

At the funeral, Ferdinando is approached by Mrs. Patanè who demands to know what he will do to avenge their situation.

By the age of twenty, Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua, began commissioning works from him, and he was also employed by local jewelers for figurative designs.

While living in Venice Salieri continued his musical studies with the organist and opera composer Giovanni Battista Pescetti, then following Pescetti's sudden death he studied with the opera singer Ferdinando Pacini or Pasini.

In the interval he enjoyed the patronage of Ferdinando de ' Medici, for whose private theatre near Florence he composed operas, and of Cardinal Ottoboni, who made him his maestro di cappella, and procured him a similar post at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1703.

The operas composed for Ferdinando de ' Medici are lost ; they might have given a more favourable idea of his style as his correspondence with the prince shows that they were composed with a very sincere sense of inspiration.

Vittoria, last descendant of the della Rovere family ( she was the only child of Federico Ubaldo ), married Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

One of the first building was the Asmara President's Office: this former " Italian government's palace " was built in 1897 by Ferdinando Martini, the first Italian governor of Eritrea.

In 1805 he appeared at the theatre of the Commune in Ferdinando Paer's Camilla, his only public appearance as a singer.

Traces of Ferdinando Paer and Giovanni Paisiello were undeniably present in fragments of the music.

While studying at the Conservatory, Puccini obtained a libretto from Ferdinando Fontana and entered a competition for a one-act opera in 1882.

* 1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer ( d. 1839 )

* 1549 – Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1609 )

However, in Paris, a long time passed before his talents were truly recognised, partly because of the presence of Ferdinando Carulli, ' adored ' by his audience.

His brother Alessandro was cardinal and Papal legate, and another brother, Ferdinando ( died March 4, 1660 ) acquired the assets of the other line of San Gemini.

The fifth duke, Ferdinando ( died December 6, 1549 ) had all his fiefs confiscated by the Spaniards, but regained it after a 40, 000 scudi payment.

The invention of the modern piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori ( 1655 – 1731 ) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de ' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments.

He was born in Gravina in Puglia to Ferdinando III Orsini, duke of Gravina, and Giovanna Frangipani della Tolfa, from Toritto.

The castle of the Sanseverino in Colorno was turned into a luxurious summer palace by Ferdinando Bibiena.

Innocent XI dispatched Ferdinando d ' Adda as nuncio to the Kingdom of England, the first representative of the Papacy to go to England for over a century.

The colony was called " Lygonia " after Cecily Lygon, mother of New England Council president Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

Some Italian Western films were made as vehicles for musical stars, like Ferdinando Baldi's Rita of the West featuring Rita Pavone and Terence Hill.

The Italian neurologist Ferdinando Cazzamali in the 1920s had claimed that telepathic communication occurred due to a type of electromagnetic radiation.

In about 1654 Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, made sealed tubes part filled with alcohol, with a bulb and stem, the first modern-style thermometer, depending on the expansion of a liquid, and independent of air pressure.

* January 3 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect / painter ( b. 1657 )

* March 14 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general ( b. 1584 )

* February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist ( b. 1770 )

Upon the death of the last Duke of Urbino ( Francesco Maria II ), instead of claiming the duchy for Ferdinando, who was married to the Duke of Urbino's granddaughter and heiress, Vittoria della Rovere, they permitted it to be annexed by Pope Urban VIII.

She was the widow of Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby, who had been poisoned because of his closeness to the throne of England.

Her godparents were Ferdinando Paer and Princess Pauline Galitsin, who provided her with her middle names.

During his monitoring of the entire plan, Ferdinando discovers that Carmelo is actually married with three children and a philanderer who could be easily distracted by any other passing skirt.

All the while Angela has been writing to Ferdinando to assure her of her undying love no matter what ; however, one of her letters is misdelivered to her father who dies of a stroke upon reading it.

Ferdinando, a lover and patron of music, was the son and heir of Cosimo III, who was one of the last of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

: 1731, 27th, Bartolomeo Crisofani, called Bartolo Padovano, died, famous instrument maker to the Most Serene Grand Prince Ferdinando of fond memory, and he was a skillful maker of keyboard instruments, and also the inventor of the pianoforte, that is known through all Europe, and who served His Majesty the King of Portugal V, who paid two hundred gold louis d ' or for the said instruments, and he died, as has been said, at the age of eighty-one years.

Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron ( 29 March 1584 – 14 March 1648 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1648.

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco ( April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927 ) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti ( June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927 ) were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.

Christina, daughter of Charles III of Lorraine and granddaughter of Catherine de ' Medici, was the widow of Ferdinando I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1587-1609, who had appointed Galileo to the professorship of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1588.

Upon the death of the last Duke of Urbino, instead of claiming the duchy for Ferdinando, who was married his granddaughter, and heiress, Vittoria della Rovere, they permitted it to be annexed by Pope Urban VIII.

One of his final acts was to order the erection of a statue of Galileo Galilei, who was patronised by his great-grandfather Cosimo II and his grandfather Grand Duke Ferdinando II, in the Basilica of Santa Croce.

* Sir Ferdinando Tuchet K. B., who married widow of Sir John Rodney.

A part of the Liberals, however, still believed in the possibility of a constitutional grand-duke who could be induced for a second time to join Piedmont in a war against Austria, whereas the popular party headed by Ferdinando Bartolommei and Giuseppe Dolfi realized that only by the expulsion of Leopold could the national aspirations be realized.

A protectionist policy ensured a consistent nucleus of scholars and teachers: laws issued by Cosimo I, Ferdinando I and Ferdinando II obliged those who intended to obtain a degree to attend the Studium of Pisa.

It remained in abeyance for 159 years, but in 1916 the abeyance was terminated in favour of Ferdinando Dudley William Lea Smith, who became the twelfth Baron.

The younger Striggio was himself a talented musician who in 1589, as a 16-year-old, had played the viol at the wedding festivities of Duke Ferdinando of Tuscany.

Important luthiers from the early 18th century include Nicolò Gagliano of Naples, Italy, Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi of Milan and Giovanni Battista Guadagnini who roamed throughout Italy during his lifetime.