When in 1489, Lorenzo de ' Medici, de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Michelangelo and Francesco Granacci.

The above theme is present in almost all of Bertolucci's works, starting with his second film, Prima della rivoluzione ( 1964 ), where this theme is very clear in the story of a young upper-middle agrarian class boy from Parma ( Francesco Barilli ), who, incapable of dealing with his best friend's suicide, throws himself into a relationship with a much older distant relative from Milan ( played by Adriana Asti ).

The Mona Lisa ( La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo ) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as " the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.

* The 13th century cathedral ( San Francesco, best known as Tempio Malatestiano ) was originally in Gothic style, but was transformed by order of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta according to the designs of Leon Battista Alberti and never completed.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri ( February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666 ), best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna.

Among the other best known are Lucio Battisti, Gino Paoli, Francesco Guccini, Roberto Vecchioni, Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori, Claudio Lolli, Franco Battiato, Rino Gaetano, Ivan Graziani and Ivano Fossati.

With Francesco Guidolin hired to replace Deschamps, one of Pastor's first tasks was to hold onto the players who had turned the club into one of the best in Europe.

Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino ( born October 6, 1935 ) is a former Italian born American professional wrestler, best known for being the longest-running champion of the World Wide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF ), holding the title across two reigns for over 11 years in total, as well as the longest single WWE Championship reign in professional wrestling history.

Francesco Scavullo ( January 16, 1921 – January 6, 2004 ) was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.

Francesco Maria Veracini ( 1 February 1690 – 31 October 1768 ) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.

The most famous Croatian painter was Federiko Benković who worked almost his entire life in Italy, while an Italian, Francesco Robba, did the best Baroque sculptures in Croatia.

Francesco is best remembered for dying on the same day as his second wife, Bianca Cappello, spurring forth rumours of poisoning.

* Tomb of Francesco Tornabuoni ( 1480 ), one of the best works by Mino da Fiesole

Marcantonio received his training in the workshop of the famous goldsmith and painter of Bologna, Francesco Raibolini, best known as Francia.

Nicola Francesco Leonardo Grimaldi ( 5 April 1673 ( bap ) – 1 January 1732 ) was an Italian mezzo-soprano castrato who is best remembered today for his association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in two of whose early operas he sang.

Other lesser known assistants from his studio include Francesco Barrata, Girolamo Lucenti, and Giuseppe Peroni.

Conservative music of the Roman school continued to be written in his style ( which in the 17th century came to be known as the prima pratica ) by such students of his as Giovanni Maria Nanino, Ruggiero Giovanelli, Arcangelo Crivelli, Teofilo Gargari, Francesco Soriano and Gregorio Allegri.

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

As the couple had known and admired one another for many years, their mutual attraction deepened into love ; marriage to Francesco allegedly caused Isabella to " bloom ".

Francesco Petrarca ( 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374 ), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet, and one of the earliest humanists.

A perfect example of these " carticellas " comes from a 1460 set known today as " Tarot de Mantegna " or " Tarot de Baldini " created by artist Francesco del Cossa.

Filarete, while in Milan, was responsible for the great public hospital known as the Ospedale Maggiore, and also for an influential Treatise on Architecture, which included a plan for a star-shaped ideal city called Sforzinda in honour of Francesco Sforza and passionately argued for the centrally planned form.

He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and eventually became assistant master.

* February – Pietro Bembo's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber is published in Venice by Aldus Manutius, the first book printed in the old style serif or humanist typeface cut by Francesco Griffo and known from the 20th century as Bembo.

The military engineer Francesco Laparelli de Carotona designed the original gate, known as Porta San Giorgio, which was erected between April 1566 and 1569.

* Francesco Vescovi known as “ Cecco ” ( born 1964 ), a former basketball player who grew up in Varese.

His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.

The oldest published image known to have been made with a microscope: bees by Francesco Stelluti, 1630

Kauffman is also well known by the numerous engravings from her designs by Schiavonetti, Francesco Bartolozzi and others.

Lelio Francesco Maria Sozzini or simply Lelio ( Latin Laelius Socinus ) ( Siena, January 29, 1525 – Zürich, May 4, 1562 ), was an Italian Renaissance humanist and anti-Trinitarian reformer, and uncle of the better known Fausto Sozzini ( Latin Faustus Socinus ) from whom the Polish Brethren and early English Unitarians came to be called " Socinians ".

He commissioned Francesco Griffo to cut a slanted type known today as italic.

Francesco Vianello ( 30 August 1952 – 3 May 2009 ), better known by his nickname Fravia, was a software reverse engineer and “ seeker ” known for his web archive of reverse engineering techniques and papers.

Several works by Verro still exist in the Apulian city, including S. Francesco Savario appare al Beato Marcello Mastrilli – his first known signed work.

* 1304 – Francesco Petrarca, later known as Petrarch.

Francesco, in his capacity of Captain General of the Venetian armies, was often required to go to Venice for conferences which left Isabella in Mantua on her own at La Reggia the ancient palace which was the family seat of the Gonzagas.

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

He is said to have had many affairs, but a permanent fixture in his life in Rome was " La Fornarina ", Margherita Luti, the daughter of a baker ( fornaro ) named Francesco Luti from Siena who lived at Via del Governo Vecchio.

* La Licata, Francesco ( 1993 ), Storia di Giovanni Falcone, Milan: Rizzoli

Lucca is the birthplace of composers Giacomo Puccini ( La Bohème and Madama Butterfly ), Nicalao Dorati, Francesco Geminiani, Gioseffo Guami, Luigi Boccherini, and Alfredo Catalani.

The libretto was written for a dramma per musica in three acts by Francesco Gasparini, performed that same year in the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, but the same libretto was put in music also by Nicola Porpora ( 1711, in Neaples, as Il trionfo di Flavio Anicio Olibrio ) and Leonardo Vinci ( Naples, 1728, as Ricimero ), and Andrea Bernasconi ( 1737, Wien, as Flavio Anicio Olibrio o La tirannide debellata ).

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.

Some years earlier, Martinelli had had Antonin Trantoul, who had sung Otello at La Scala in the twenties, held up to him as a shining example ; but at La Scala, those who still remembered the very first Otello, Francesco Tamagno, had found Trantoul completely unsatisfactory.

* 1641: La Didone by Francesco Cavalli

The last execution took place on March 4, 1947, as Francesco La Barbera, Giovanni Puleo and Giovanni D ' Ignoti, sentenced to death on multiple accounts of robbery and murder, faced the firing squad at the range of Basse di Stura, near Turin.

Frank Sinatra continued his legendary career, and was joined by Mario Lanza, Perry Como, Dean Martin ( Dino Crocetti ), Tony Bennett ( Benedetto ), Frankie Laine ( Francesco LoVecchio ), Vic Damone ( Vito Farinola ), Don Cornell ( Luigi Varlaro ), Bobby Darin ( Walden Cassotto ), Johnny Desmond ( Giovanni De Simone ), Bobby Rydell ( Ridarelli ), Julius La Rosa, Connie Francis ( Concetta Franconero ), Joanie James ( Giovanna Babbo ), Madonna and a host of others.

" In a 1969 French television interview with Pierre Desgraupes on the program L ' invité du dimanche, La Scala's maestro Francesco Siciliani speaks of Callas's voice going to high F.

Gunsbourg remained for sixty years overseeing such premiere productions as Berlioz's La damnation de Faust in 1893 and the first appearances in January 1894 of the heroic Italian tenor, Francesco Tamagno in Verdi's Otello, the title role of which he had created for the opera's premiere in Italy.

*" La Donna è Mobile " ( w. Francesco Piave m. Giuseppe Verdi )-Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner

After adding comic scenes to Francesco Gasparini's Bajazette in 1722 for performance at Naples, he composed comic operas in Neapolitan such as La ’ mpeca scoperta in 1723, and L ' Alidoro in 1740.