Francesco Albani's 17th century Baptism of Christ is a typical depiction with the sky opening and the Holy Spirit ( Christianity ) | Holy Spirit descending as a dove.

Francesco Albani's The Baptism of Christ

Francesco Albani's 17th century Baptism of Christ is a typical depiction with the sky opening and the Holy Spirit ( Christianity ) | Holy Spirit descending as a dove.

Baptism of Christ by Francesco Raibolini ( 1509 ), at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

One of Pietro Lorenzetti's most ambitious and largest works was the fresco cycle of the Passion of Christ in the left transept of the Lower Church of San Francesco in Assisi.

Deposition of Christ from the Cross, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi

Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri | Guercino, 1621 ( Dulwich Picture Gallery ).

Another of his principal pictures is in San Francesco di Matelica ; in Berlin is a Madonna and Saints ( 1491 ); in the Vatican Gallery a Dead Christ, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg is an Adoration of the Shepherds and in the Brera of Milan the Madonna of the Candle.

In his Brevis explicatio ( Lyons, 1562 ) of the prologue to St John's Gospel he already attributes to Christ an official, not an essential, deity – already an anti-Trinitarian position ; and in a letter of 1563 rejects the immortality of the soul in favour of Christian mortalism ; a position subsequently developed in his disputation with the humanist Francesco Pucci.

Dominici, Michael, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist "), Sandro Botticelli (" Lamentation of Christ "), Fra Filippo Lippi (" The Annunciation "), Lorenzo Lotto (" The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine "), Raphael (" The Canigiani Holy Family ") (" Madonna della tenda "), (" Madonna Tempi "), Leonardo da Vinci (" Madonna of the Carnation "), Antonello da Messina (" Annunciata "), Titian (" Vanity ") (" Charles V "), Tintoretto (" Christ in the House of Mary and Martha "), Guido Reni (" The Assumption of the Virgin "), Luca Giordano (" A cynical philosopher "), Tiepolo (" The Adoration of the Kings "), Francesco Guardi (" Regatta on the Canale della Guidecca "), Canaletto (" Piazetta in Venice ") and others.

He painted extensively in Ferrara, both in oil and in fresco, two of his principal works being the " Massacre of the Innocents " ( 1519 ), in the church of S. Francesco, and his masterpiece " Betrayal of Christ " ( 1524 ).

In particular the painter Gian Francesco da Tolmezzo based his fresco in Provesano ( c. 1496 ) upon The Betrayal of Christ.

The main monument in Monteleone is the 14th century church of San Francesco, with a cloister now serving as a lapidary museum, a Gothic door and a fresco of Christ crucified in the full robes of a bishop, with a loaf of bread under one foot and a chalice of wine under the other.

The Baccinata took the form of a letter to Francesco Vitelli, papal nuncio at Venice, comparing the papal actions unfavourably with those of Christ:

** Cristo Risorto ( Risen Christ ) of Candia I — Francesco Zancaruol

See Friedrich Baumgarten, De Christodoro Poeta Thebano, Bonn ( 1881 ), and his article in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, III ( 1897 ) 2450-2452 ; Wilhelm von Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur ( 1898 ); Francesco Tissoni, Cristodoro.

The family later separated into two branches: Buonaparte-Sarzana, Nobili di Sarzana had been compelled to leave Florence due to the defeat of the Ghibellines and later when Francesco Buonaparte came to Corsica in 16th century and the island was in Genoese possession.

However, weeks later, Francesco Scavullo, Carangi's friend and confidant, sent a Mass card when he heard the news.

Boccaccio married Margherita di Gian Donato de ' Martoli in 1314 ( when he was just one year old ) who bore him a legitimate son, Francesco.

The affair ended when Francesco contracted syphilis and had to end sexual relations with Lucrezia.

The Italian merchant Francesco Carletti, claimed in his autobiography he was robbed by the Dutch when sailing on a Portuguese ship in 1602.

However, the Republic collapsed when in 1450, Milan was conquered by Francesco Sforza, of the House of Sforza, which made Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance.

The poet Francesco Petrarca spent some time there, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti called him to take charge of the magnificent library which owned about a thousand books and manuscripts, subsequently lost.

The town made headlines worldwide when the Vice President of the Regional Assembly of Calabria, Francesco Fortugno, was gunned down with five bullets in front of dozens of bystanders as he cast his vote at the primary elections on October 16, 2005.

He lost Padua in 1390, when it reverted to Francesco Novello da Carrara.

In July 1991, the Mafia pentito ( a mafioso turned informer ) Francesco Marino Mannoia claimed that Roberto Calvi had been killed because he had lost Mafia funds when Banco Ambrosiano collapsed.

Developing the ideas of Francesco Lana de Terzi, S. J., Gusmão wanted to spread a huge sail over a boat-like body like the cover of a transport wagon ; the boat itself was to contain tubes through which, when there was no wind, air would be blown into the sail by means of bellows.

Betrothed when four years old at the insistence of Ferdinand, king of Naples, to Fernando Francesco d ' Ávalos, son of the marquis of Pescara, she received the highest education and gave early proof of a love of letters.

Totò much regretted growing up without a father, to the point that at the age of 35, when he was already very popular, managed to have Marquis Francesco Maria Gagliardi Focas adopt him in exchange for a life annuity.

Meanwhile, Marta has arrived in Istanbul to get a speedy divorce from Francesco, but she is taken aback when she realizes how much Francesco has changed from his Roman self: both the hamam and Mehmet's unconditional affection were just what he needed, giving him back a purpose in life.

The impresario Count Francesco Zambeccari wrote of his performance in Naples in 1715: " Senesino continues to comport himself badly enough ; he stands like a statue, and when occasionally he does make a gesture, he makes one directly the opposite of what is wanted ".

This story starts, odd as it may seem, in 1923 when Count Francesco Baracca, a fighter pilot who flew more than thirty successful missions on behalf of the allied forces, adopted a distinctive prancing horse as his personal emblem, and had it emblazoned prominently on his biplane fighter aircraft.

He later changed his name from Francesco Castiglia to Frank Costello when he joined a gang at age 13.

The British force held out until about 1530 hours when they were forced to surrender to Colonel Francesco Ronco's 75th Infantry Regiment only 45 minutes before the leading elements of 5th Infantry Division arrived from the south.

" Cosimo arranged an advantageous marriage for her with Francesco Cantelmo, the Count of Alvito and the Duke of Popoli, in 1550, when she was about fifteen years old, and provided a dowry for her of an amount that would be worth about eight million United States dollars today.

Communal autonomy was lost in 1367 when the city was annexed to the Papal States: the local overlordship shifted among various families ( the Tomacelli, the Malatesta, Braccio da Montone, Francesco Sforza and others ).

He was born Francesco Forgione, and given the name Pius () when he joined the Capuchins, thus he was popularly known as Padre Pio.

Franz von Suppé's parents named him Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere di Suppé-Demelli when he was born on April 18, 1819, in Split, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire.

The Italian songwriter Francesco Guccini has composed a song, dedicated to the memory of his father, who was a lover of van Loon's works when he was young.

As a Jesuit historian Bartoli represents the shift from the preceding Latin humanist historiography of Niccolò Orlandini and Francesco Sacchini to the illustrious Jesuit prose tradition he established in Italian when he undertook the official history of the first century of the Society of Jesus ( 1540 ).

* Francesco Piccolomini ( Jesuit ) ( 1582 – 1651 ), 8th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus