Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

He received a Ph. D. in English literature and his thesis was on Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Castiglione.

The former athletic director at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, Castiglione received the 2004 Bobby Dodd Award for athletic director of the year.

He became Duke of Castiglione on 19 March 1808, a hereditary victory title ( i. e. not in chief of an actual fief, but a hollow title ), in honour of the 1796 victory.

During the siege of Mantua in 1796, the Austrians under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser were defeated here in the second Battle of Castiglione by the revolutionary French army under General Augereau, later Marshal of France, who in 1808 was created Duke of Castiglione by Emperor Napoleon I, a hereditary victory title ( so there never was an actual territorial duchy attached to it ) extinguished in 1915.

Outside Italy he often used the title Marchese di Castiglione ; in Italy he often used the title Conte di Mulazzo.

The area around Grosseto and the coast, with Marina di Grosseto, Castiglione della Pescaia and the small villages that lie in the plain between the city and the coast, represents the heart of the Tuscan Maremma.

Over time, the Medici acquired several territories, which included: the County of Pitigliano, purchased off the Orsini family in 1604 ; the County of Santa Fiora, acquired from the House of Sforza in 1633 ; Spain ceded Pontremoli in 1650, Silvia Piccolomini sold her estates, the Marquisate of Castiglione at the time of Cosimo I, Lordship of Pietra Santa, and the Duchy of Capistrano and the city of Penna in the Kingdom of Naples.

The three towers of Castiglione dominate the city seal to this day.

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione ( 1688 – 1766 ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758.

It was written by Baldassare Castiglione over the course of many years, beginning in 1508, and published in 1528 by the Aldine Press in Venice just before his death ; an English edition was published in 1561.

In Book I, the Count states that when the courtier speaks he must have a “ sonorous, clear, sweet and well sounding ” voice that is neither too effeminate nor too rough and be “ tempered by a calm face and with a play of the eyes that shall give an effect of grace .” ( Castiglione 1. 33 ) This grace, or grazia, becomes an important element in the courtier ’ s appearance to the audience.

" ( Castiglione 1. 26 ) The Count reasons that by obscuring his knowledge of letters, the courtier gives the appearance that his “ orations were composed very simply ” as if they sprang up from “ nature and truth than from study and art .” ( 1. 26 ).

They give a highly idealised depiction of the forms represented, and the compositions, though very carefully conceived in drawings, achieve " sprezzatura ", a term invented by his friend Castiglione, who defined it as " a certain nonchalance which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless ...".

There is no indication of an intimate dialogue between the woman and the observer as is the case in the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione ( Louvre ) painted by Raphael about ten years later, and undoubtedly influenced by the work.

The collection of drawings includes over 10, 000 British and 2, 000 old master works, including works by: Dürer, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Bernardo Buontalenti, Rembrandt, Antonio Verrio, Paul Sandby, John Russell, Angelica Kauffman, John Flaxman, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Kilburn, Thomas Girtin, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, David Wilkie, John Martin, Samuel Palmer, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Lord Frederic Leighton, Sir Samuel Luke Fildes and Aubrey Beardsley.

In 1706 he was again defeated by the French in the Battle of Castiglione.

A little further along, towards the Place de la Concorde, the rue de Castiglione leads to the Place Vendôme, with its Vendôme Column surmounted by the effigy of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Monotype by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, probably a second impression

The monotype process was invented by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ( 1609-64 ), an Italian painter and etcher who was also the first artist to produce brushed sketches intended as finished and final works of art ( rather than as studies for another work ).

Venice responded by sacking Castiglione delle Stiviere ( 1452 ) and hiring Ludovico's brother, Carlo.

* Fresco commissioned by Branda da Castiglione in the Basilica di San Clemente, Chapel of Saint Catherine, 1428.

* The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassare Castiglione

Shortly after Castiglione, Bonaparte tersely summed up Augereau's military qualities: " Much character, courage, steadiness, activity ; is used to war, liked by the soldiers, lucky in his operations.

The designers of these structures built of stone were the Jesuits Giuseppe Castiglione and Michel Benoist, who were employed by the Qianlong emperor to satisfy his taste for exotic buildings and objects.

The Qianlong Emperor in Armor on Horseback, by Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione ( Jesuit ) | Giuseppe Castiglione ( Long shining )( 1688 – 1766 AD ).

Emperor Qianlong in his study, painting by Giuseppe Castiglione ( Jesuit ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, 18th century

His skill as an artist was appreciated by the Emperor Qianlong and Castiglione spent many years in the court painting various subjects, including the portraits of the Emperor and Empress.

In 2005, Castiglione became the subject of the television series Palace Artist in China, played by famed Canadian-Chinese actor Dashan ( Mark Rowswell ), and broadcast by China Central Television ( CCTV ).

Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano (" The Courtier "), wrote in 1528: "... Another of the greatest painters in this world looks down on this art in which he is unequalled ..." while the biographer known as " Anonimo Gaddiano " wrote, c. 1540: " His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf ...".

Castiglione declined to imitate Boccaccio and write in Tuscan Italian, as was customary at the time ; instead he wrote in the Italian used in his native Lombardy ( he was born near Mantua ): as the Count says, “ certainly it would require a great deal of effort on my part if in these discussions of ours I wished to use those old Tuscan words which the Tuscans of today have discarded ; and what ’ s more I ’ m sure you would all laugh at me ” ( Courtier 70 ).

Nearby Castiglione delle Stiviere, where many of the wounded were taken after the battle, is the site of the museum of the International Red Cross, focusing on the events that led to the formation of that organization.

Since 1940 the Egyptian collection, dating back to 1852 and including the former Castiglione Collection, has occupied a large hall on the ground floor in the eastern part of the Winter Palace.

His friendship with Zano Castiglione, Bishop of Bayeux, led to many further connections on the Continent, including Leonardo Bruno, Pietro Candido Decembrio and Tito Livio de Forli.

But it was at the Battle of Castiglione on 5 August 1796 that Augereau rendered the most signal services.

Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi ( Born at Castiglione di Sicilia-Provincia di Catania, Sicily on 14 January 1914 – Died at his native town on 3 July 2003 ) of the Roman Catholic Church was a senior papal diplomat and former Personal Secretary to Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini ( later Pope Paul VI ).

The style was however modified according to Chinese taste-strong shadows used in chiaroscuro techniques were unacceptable as Emperor Qianlong thought that shadows looked like dirt, therefore when Castiglione painted the emperor, the intensity of the light was reduced so that there was no shadow on the face, and the features were distinct.

To the east of the Tallòria di Castiglione is the commune of Serralunga d ' Alba located on one of the highest hilltops in the Barolo zone.

In the early 16th century, Castiglione ( The Book of the Courtier ) laid out his vision of the ideal gentleman and lady, while Machiavelli cast a jaundiced eye on " la verità effettuale della cosa "— the actual truth of things — in The Prince, composed, humanist style, chiefly of parallel ancient and modern examples of Virtù.

* Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, early important photographic artist, Courtesan, supposed secret agent, mistress to Napoleon III, lived in a house he bought for her in 1857 and lived on in the area until the mid 1870s.

Quasdanovich was overcome at Lonato on 3 August and Wurmser at Castiglione on 5 August.

His last publication, El cortesano ( 1561 ), modeled on Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, gives a vivid and entertaining picture of life in the Valencian ducal court.

Boscán was urged by Castiglione and Garcilaso to translate the ambassador's " Il Cortegiano " into Spanish, which was published on April 2, 1534 to great success.

Castiglione della Pescaia consists of a High City built on the hill that ends a chain of hills towards the sea, and of a Low City at the foot of the High City, straddling the drainage canal and marina that form the central part of town.

Trupiano hosted a talk show for fourteen years in Houston and called games for MLB's Houston Astros (- 86 ), the Montreal Expos (- 90 ), the World Hockey Association's Houston Aeros ( 1974-78 ), the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets ( 1978-80 ), the National Football League's Houston Oilers ( 1980-89 ), Southwest Conference Football ( 1978-88 ) and called three games on the CBS Radio Game of the Week in before joining Joe Castiglione in the Red Sox ' radio booth in.