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.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

* La rondine, libretto by Giuseppe Adami ( premiered at the Opéra of Monte Carlo, 27 March 1917 )

Verdi was born the son of Carlo Giuseppe Verdi and Luigia Uttini in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro which was a part of the First French Empire after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.

In 1913 he produced a symphonic poem in honour of Giuseppe Verdi with verses by Sem Benelli, which was first performed at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

* During the 1930s-1940s, Lipari Island was used for the confinement of political prisoners including: Emilio Lussu, Curzio Malaparte, Carlo Rosselli, Giuseppe Ghetti and Edda Mussolini.

* Italian — Adami, Giuseppe: Pierrot in Love ( 1924 ); Cavacchioli, Enrico: Pierrot, Employee of the Lottery: Grotesque Fantasy ... ( 1920 ); Zangarini, Carlo: The Divine Pierrot: Modern Tragicomedy ... ( 1931 ).

According to Mannoia the killer was Francesco Di Carlo, a mafioso living in London at the time, and the order to kill Calvi had come from Mafia boss Giuseppe Calò and Licio Gelli.

Bonanno was born Giuseppe Carlo Bonanno on January 18, 1905 in Castellammare del Golfo, a town on the northwestern coast of Sicily.

it: Carlo Giuseppe Bonaparte

Joseph was born Giuseppe Buonaparte in 1768 to Carlo Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino at Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic.

They included Giorgio Ronconi, who created the title role in Verdi's Nabucco ; Felice Varesi, who created the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto as well as Germont in La traviata ; Antonio Superchi, the originator of Don Carlo in Ernani ; Francesco Graziani, who was the original Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino ; Leone Giraldoni, the creator of Renato in Un ballo in maschera and the first Simon Boccanegra ; Enrico Delle Sedie, who was London's first Renato ; Adriano Pantaleoni, renowned for his performances as Amonasro in Aida as well as other Verdi roles at La Scala, Milan ; Francesco Pandolfini, whose singing at La Scala during the 1870s was praised by Verdi ; Antonio Cotogni, a much lauded singer in Milan, London and Saint Petersburg, the first Italian Posa in Don Carlos and later a great vocal pedagogue, too ; and Giuseppe Del Puente, who sang Verdi to acclaim in the United States.

Their abundant inter-war Italian counterparts included, among others, Carlo Galeffi, Giuseppe Danise, Enrico Molinari, Umberto Urbano, Cesare Formichi, Luigi Montesanto, Apollo Granforte, Benvenuto Franci, Renato Zanelli ( who switched to tenor roles in 1924 ), Mario Basiola, Giovanni Inghilleri, Carlo Morelli ( the Chilean-born younger brother of Renato Zanelli ) and Carlo Tagliabue.

) and Carlo Giuseppe Lanfranchi-Rossi ( libr.

Famous Otellos of the past have included Tamagno, the role's trumpet-voiced creator, as well as Giovanni De Negri, Albert Alvarez, Francisco Viñas, Giuseppe Borgatti, Antonio Paoli, Giovanni Zenatello, Renato Zanelli, Giovanni Martinelli, Aureliano Pertile, Francesco Merli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Frank Mullings, Leo Slezak, Jose Luccioni, Ramón Vinay, Mario del Monaco, James McCracken, Jon Vickers and Carlo Cossutta.

* October 5 – The bicentennial season of La Scala opens in Milan with a production of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo.

Satisfied, Orsini returned to Paris with the bombs and contacted other conspirators, Giuseppe Pieri, Antonio Gomez and Carlo di Rudio ( later changed to Charles DeRudio ).

* 29 March – 1 July 1849: Carlo Armellini ( b. 1777 – d. 1863 ), Giuseppe Mazzini ( b. 1805 – d. 1872 ) & Conte Aurelio Saffi ( b. 1819 – d. 1890 )

( The traditional father-to-son Beretta dynasty was interrupted when Ugo Gussalli Beretta assumed the firm's control ; uncles Carlo and Giuseppe Beretta were childless ; Carlo adopted Ugo, son of sister Giuseppina Gussalli, and named him a Beretta.

Giuseppe Mazzini made his acquaintance, and in 1829, together with Carlo Bini, they started a newspaper, L ' Indicatore Livornese, at Livorno.

* La fanciulla del West, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini ( premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, 10 December 1910 )

The discovery of element 43 was finally confirmed in a December 1936 experiment at the University of Palermo in Sicily conducted by Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè.

* December 11 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer ( d. 2007 )

* December 9 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic

* December 20 – Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet ( b. 1692 )

The opera was soon mounted at major opera houses throughout Italy, including the Teatro Regio di Parma ( 20 April 1872 ), the Teatro di San Carlo ( 30 March 1873 ), La Fenice ( 11 June 1873 ), the Teatro Regio di Torino ( 26 December 1874 ), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 30 September 1877, with Giuseppina Pasqua as Amneris and Franco Novara as the King ), and the Teatro Costanzi ( 8 October 1881, with Theresia Singer as Aida and Giulia Novelli as Amneris ) among others.

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

* Ipermestra ( 29 December 1825, Teatro S. Carlo, Naples )

* La schiava saracena, ovvero Il campo di Gerosolima ( 26 December 1848, Teatro alla Scala, Milan ) 1850 Teatro S. Carlo, Naples

* Virginia ( 7 April 1866, Teatro S. Carlo, Naples ) December 1849-March 1850

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

Constantino Paul " Big Paul " Castellano ( pronounced cass-TAY-lah-noh ) ( June 26, 1915 – December 16, 1985 ), also known as " The Howard Hughes of the Mob " and " Big Paulie " ( or " PC " to his family ), succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family, then the nation's largest Cosa Nostra family.

Charles III ( Spanish: Carlos III ; Italian: Carlo III ; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788 ) was the King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788.

Gigli made many important debuts in quick succession, and always in Mefistofele: Teatro Massimo in Palermo ( March 31, 1915 ), Teatro di San Carlo in Naples ( December 26, 1915 ), Teatro Costanzi di Roma ( December 26, 1916 ), La Scala, Milan ( November 19, 1918 ), and finally the Metropolitan Opera, New York ( November 26, 1920 ).

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (; born 9 December 1920 ) is an Italian politician and banker.

Carlo, Count Gozzi (; 13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806 ) was an Italian playwright.

Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni ( November 21, 1692 – December 20, 1768 ) was an Italian poet and librettist.

* Carlo, Duke of Calabria ( 4 January 1775 – 17 December 1778 ), died of smallpox at the age of three

* Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia, perhaps the most famous and highest scoring SM. 79 pilot, who was involved in the torpedoing of the Kent and the Glasgow, and was shot down in December 1942.

* December – Carlo Tessarini, violinist and composer ( born c. 1690 )

Carlo Alberto Biggini ( December 9, 1902 – November 19, 1945 ) was an Italian Fascist politician who served as Minister of Education before and after proclamation of the Italian Social Republic under Benito Mussolini.

Manager Carlo Ancelotti said that he injured his abductor muscle in his leg in training on 11 November, and would not be fit until December.

The 2-door coupe ( produced alongside the Chevrolet Monte Carlo at GM's Pontiac, Michigan plant ) continued, until the new front-wheel drive version was released in December 1987.

Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. ( September 16, 1846 – December 31, 1913 ) was an American astronomer.