Even at this early stage, the European states fought back: Livorno's monument Quattro Mori celebrates 16th century victories against the Barbary corsairs won by the Knights of Malta and the Order of Saint Stephen, of which the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando I de ' Medici was Grand Master.

Probably the most important event in Cristofori's life is the first one of which we have any record: in 1688, at age 33, he was recruited to work for Prince Ferdinando de Medici.

* Puliti, Leto ( 1874 ) " Della vita del Serenissimo Ferdinando dei Medici Granprincipe di Toscana e della origine del pianoforte " (" On the life of His Serene Highness Ferdinando de Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, and on the origin of the pianoforte ," Atti dell ' Accademia del R. Istituto musicale di Firenze 12: 92-240.

Ferdinando Carlo spent much of the first ten years of his life in Germany and in Vienna.

The life and times of Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, soldier and virtuoso.

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.

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

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

* Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in one act – premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884 )

* Edgar, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in four acts – premiered at La Scala, 21 April 1889 )

* At the behest of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Dr. Richard Vines, a physician, passes the winter of 1616 — 17 at Biddeford, Maine, at the mouth of the Saco River, that he calls Winter Harbor.

Ferdinando, despite no longer being a cardinal, exercised much influence at successive conclaves.

After discovering this, a Parliamentary force led by Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron-from Otley-had to cross the river upstream at Apperley Bridge before retaking Leeds in January 1643.

Cristofori's patron, Prince Ferdinando, died at the age of 50 in 1713.

: 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.

After Galileo's death on 8 January 1642, Grand Duke Ferdinando II de ' Medici asked him to succeed Galileo as the grand-ducal mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa.

This model was extremely successful in racing-won top five positions in the 2-litre class in 1925 and 1926 at Le Mans but the greatest achievement was the victory in the first Mille Miglia race in 1927 where Ferdinando Minoia and Giuseppe Morandi lead home an O. M.

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.

His second marriage, on 22 July 1624, at Harefield, Middlesex, was to Lady Anne Stanley ( 1580 – 1647 ), elder daughter and co-heiress of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby and widow of Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos.

In 1892 the Minister of Public Education, Ferdinando Martini, launched a proposal aimed at suppressing the Sienese academy ’ s activities.

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.

* Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.

This endorsement was in stark contrast to the feelings of Francesco's brother Ferdinando I de ' Medici, who was a cardinal in Rome at that time.

He was educated at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart where his teachers were Antonio Boroni, Ferdinando Mazzanti, and Johann Gottlieb Sämann.

Led by Pier Ferdinando Casini, Lorenzo Cesa and Rocco Buttiglione, the faction included also Mario Tassone ( co-leader with Buttiglione of a sub-group composed of former members of the CDU, which controlled more than 15 % of party delegates ), Michele Vietti, Luca Volontè, Francesco D ' Onofrio, Maurizio Ronconi, Francesco Bosi and Antonio De Poli, and gained the support of at least 45 % of party members.

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.

Ferdinando died in 1609, leaving an affluent realm ; his inaction in international affairs, however, would have long-reaching consequences down the line.

The Athenian marble columns supporting the nave are even older, and either come from the first basilica, or from another antique Roman building ; thirty-six are marble and four granite, pared down, or shortened to make them identical by Ferdinando Fuga, who provided them with identical gilt-bronze capitals.

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.

In the film's epilogue, Ferdinando and Angela are sailing away on a sailboat, happily.

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

Ferdinando spends his spare time ( which is most of it ) imagining several ways in which he can do away with his wife, such as throwing her into a boiling caldron to turn her into soap or sending her into space in a rocket.

As Ferdinando goes to the lovers ' hideout, he comes across Mrs. Patanè, who has just shot her husband, which actually leaves him in a worse position than before.

She occupied herself financing and overseeing the construction of the Basilica of San Lorenzo — started in 1604 by Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany — to the tune of 1, 000 crowns per week, and she donated much of her fortune to charity: £ 4, 000 per annum.

Her husband, Grand Prince Ferdinando, thought her too ugly and too dull for him.

In 1589, Isabella Andreini performed her comic work Pazzia d ' Isabella ( Isabella's madness ) for the Florentine court during the wedding of Ferdinando I de ' Medici and Christina of Lorraine, and the details of the mostly improvised play have endured until modern times.

* Camilla Faà di Bruno, ( c. 1599 – 1662 ), a society beauty who was married secretly, briefly and morganatically to Ferdinando I the Gonzaga Duke of Mantua and Monferrato ; her memoirs have been described as the first prose autobiography written by an Italian woman.

During dinner at a restaurant together with some of her acquaintances — among them the old Princess San Ferdinando, an American who is said to have been quite a loose woman in her day — they listen to a young man playing the violin.

As a wedding gift, Grand Duke Ferdinando presented her with a pearl the " size of a small pigeon's egg.

Meanwhile, in Lorraine, Charles V was without an heir and Marguerite-Louise, as the daughter of a Lorrainer princess, delegated the right to succeed to the duchy to her elder son, Ferdinando.

Following her death in 1578, Anne Stanley's grandmother, Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby, assumed the senior position among the descendants of Mary Tudor in terms of inheritance of the rights to the English crown upon the death of her cousin Elizabeth I. Margaret died in 1596, and, her son and Anne's father Ferdinando having predeceased her, Anne inherited her claims.

Two of her sons, Francesco and Ferdinando, reigned as grand Dukes of Tuscany.