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Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).
* Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher ( eds.
This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.
de: Catherine Grace Coleman
Portrait by Juan de Flandes thought to be of 11-year old Catherine
Catherine was born at the Archbishop's Palace in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, on the night of 16 December 1485.
File: CatherineSienaMeo. jpg | Michele de Meo, " Catherine of Siena, Patroness of Europe ," 2003, Chapel of St. James, Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
fr: Catherine de Sienne
de: Catherine Lucile Moore
* 1665 Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite ( b. 1588 )
* St. Catherine de Ricci ( d. 1590 )
* " The European Company: attractiveness and opportunities in times of crisis " blog of Maître Catherine Cathiard, Avocat ( Free translation of the article " La société européenne: intérêts et opportunités en temps de crise " Catherine Cathiard, Avocat et David Zeitoun, directeur juridique groupe, Unibail-Rodamco, DECIDEURS Stratégie Finance Droit n ° 108, sept. 2009 )
Although they were slow to be adopted, records of banquets show Catherine de ' Medici serving sixty-six turkeys at one dinner.
Catherine de Medici, married king Henry II of France and, after his death in 1559, reigned as regent in France.
** Charles IX, 1560 1574 ( 1560 1563 under regency of Catherine de ' Medici )
* 1632 Catherine de Saint-Augustin, Canadian saint, founder of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec ( d. 1668 )
** Catherine de Saint-Augustin
Rereadings into abstract art by art historians such as Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock and Catherine de Zegher critically show, however, that pioneering women artists who produced major innovations in modern art had been ignored by official accounts of its history.
* Armstrong, Carol and de Zegher, Catherine ( eds.
* de Zegher, Catherine, Inside the Visible.
A copy was also possessed by the Catholic king and emperor Charles V. In France, after an initially mixed reaction, Machiavelli came to be associated with Catherine de ' Medici and the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Catherine de Médicis, the queen consort of King Henri II of France, was one of Nostradamus ' greatest admirers.

Catherine and Medici
He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.
During the 16th century, royalty started wearing high-heeled shoes to make them look taller or larger than life, such as Catherine de Medici or Mary I of England.
The word nicotiana ( as well as nicotine ) is in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent it as a medicine to the court of Catherine de Medici.
The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.
Despite Elizabeth's government constantly begging her to marry in the early years of her reign, it was now persuading Elizabeth not to marry the French prince for his mother, Catherine de ' Medici, was suspected of ordering the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of tens of thousands of French Protestant Huguenots in 1572.
In 1575, Albert de Gondi, a man from Florence who had come to France with Catherine de ' Medici, bought the seigneury of Versailles.
* August 18 Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles and daughter of Catherine de Medici, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France.
His mother, Catherine de ' Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.
Again Catherine de ' Medici and Charles IX make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.
Her mother-in-law, Catherine de ' Medici, becomes regent of
* April 13 Catherine de ' Medici, queen of Henry II of France ( d. 1589 )
* March 18 François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici ( d. 1584 )
During the 16th century, royalty started wearing high-heeled shoes to make them look taller or larger than life, such as Catherine de Medici or Mary I of England.
* January 5 Catherine de ' Medici, queen of Henry II of France ( b. 1519 )
The years in which they reigned have been called " the age of Catherine de ' Medici ".
Catherine was born in Florence, Italy, as Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de ' Medici.
According to a contemporary chronicler, when Catherine de ' Medici was born, her parents, were " as pleased as if it had been a boy ".

Catherine and Italian
Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.
Often assumed to be illiterate, Catherine is acknowledged by Raymond in his life of her as capable of reading both Latin and Italian, and another hagiographer, Tommaso Caffarini, claimed that she could write in her own hand, though the majority of her written work was dictated.
* 1347 Catherine of Siena, Italian saint ( d. 1380 ).
* April 29 Saint Catherine of Siena, Italian theologian ( b. 1347 )
* April 23 Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress ( d. 1590 )
* March 25 Catherine of Siena, Italian saint ( d. 1380 )
When Italian duchess Catherine de ' Medici married the Duke of Orléans ( Henry II of France ) in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to France some Italian chefs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets.
Numerous other Roman Catholic churches within Valletta include Our Lady of Pilar Church, the Carmelite Church, Our Lady of Liesse Church, St. James Church, St. Barbara Church ( offering services in French, English and German ), Our Lady of Damascus ( a Byzantine Rite Catholic church ), St. Lucy Church, St. Roch Church, St. Catherine of Italy Church ( offering services in Italian ), St. Nicholas Church ( known as the ' Church of All Souls '), St. Catherine of Alexandria Church and the Parish Church of Saint Mary of Porto Salvo and Saint Dominic, accredited the first basilica in Malta in the Bolla Pont by Pope Pius V.
Alongside the Grand Avenue of Plane trees, in the centre of the arbour and facing the caryatides, a maze with two thousand yews has been planted in the spirit of Catherine de ' Medici's time, according to an Italian plan dating from 1720.
The art of perfumery prospered in Renaissance Italy, and in the 16th century, Italian refinements were taken to France by Catherine de ' Medici's personal perfumer, Rene the Florentine ( Renato il fiorentino ).
That evening, Catherine held a meeting at the Tuileries Palace with her Italian advisers, including Albert de Gondi, Comte de Retz.
Following the failed assassination attack against the Admiral de Coligny, which Wanegffelen attributes to the Guise family and Spain, the Italian advisers of Catherine de Medici undoubtedly recommended in the royal Council the execution of about fifty Protestant leaders to benefit from the occasion by eliminating the Huguenot danger, but both the Queen Mother and the King were very firmly opposed.
Catherine also gave the name of the Hermitage to her private theatre, built nearby between 1783 and 1787 by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi.
At first, classicizing decor was grafted onto familiar European forms, as in the interiors for Catherine II's lover Count Orlov, designed by an Italian architect with a team of Italian stuccadori: only the isolated oval medallions like cameos and the bas-relief overdoors hint of neoclassicism ; the furnishings are fully Italian Rococo.
A craze for Italian opera at Court during the reigns of Empresses Elisabeth and Catherine also helped spread interest in Western music among the aristocracy.
The first break with Rome ( subsequently reversed ) came when Pope Clement VII refused, over a period of years, to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, not purely as a matter of principle, but also because the Pope lived in fear of Catherine's nephew, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, as a result of events in the Italian Wars.
# Joseph Maggio was an Italian grocer who was attacked on May 22, 1918 while sleeping alongside his wife, Catherine, at their home on the corner of Upperline and Magnolia Streets, where they conducted a barroom and grocery.
to build an Italian Renaissance garden, with fountains, a labyrinth, and a grotto, decorated with faience images of plants and animals, made by Bernard Palissy, whom Catherine had ordered to discover the secret of Chinese porcelain.
She was featured in Marked for Death ( 1990 ) as an expert on Jamaican voodoo and gangs ; in the Italian erotic thriller Husbands and Lovers ( 1992 ) as a free spirited adultress ( which featured a rather controversial bare-bottom spanking scene, a first in a mainstream film ); Tombstone ( 1993 ) as Doc Holliday's lover, Kate ( also known as Big Nose Kate and Mary Catherine Haroney, born November 7, 1850 ); in The Haunted Sea ( 1997 ); and in the film Virus ( 1999 ), playing a Russian scientist.

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