Guidobaldo da Montefeltro adopted Francesco Maria I della Rovere, his sister's child and nephew of Pope Julius II.

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

Francesco Sforza was born in San Miniato, Tuscany, one of the seven illegitimate sons of the condottiero Muzio Sforza and Lucia da Torsano.

da: Francesco Cossiga

There are remarkable suites of Flemish tapestries, and paintings, among which the most famous is the Ecce Homo by Antonello da Messina ( 1473 ), but which also include panels by Jan Provoost and other Flemish artists, oil paintings by Domenico Maria Viani and Francesco Solimena.

Bernini was also a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture along with his contemporaries, the architect, Francesco Borromini and the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona.

Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicholas Poussin.

The leader of the next generation of Italian lutenists, Francesco Canova da Milano ( 1497 – 1543 ), is now acknowledged as one of the most famous lute composers in history.

Michelangelo's father sent him to study grammar with the Humanist Francesco da Urbino in Florence as a young boy.

da: Francesco Petrarca

Divination using playing cards is in evidence as early as 1540 in a book entitled The Oracles of Francesco Marcolino da Forlì which allows a simple method of divination, though the cards are used only to select a random oracle and have no meaning in themselves.

* January 2 – Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer ( b. 1497 )

Early in following year, while composing Elena da Feltre ( which premiered in January 1839 ), Mercadante wrote to Francesco Florimo laying out his ideas about how opera should be structured, following the " revolution " begun in his previous opera:

* August 18 – Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer ( died 1543 )

* May 5 – Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer ( executed )

* In Italy, the siege of Cremona by the condottieri troops of Francesco Piccinino and Luigi dal Verme is raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.

The astounding list of painters and artists includes the names of Andrea Mantegna, Vicino da Ferrara, Giovanni Bellini, Leon Battista Alberti, Pisanello, Piero della Francesca, Battista Dossi, Dosso Dossi, Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa and Titian.

Even earlier, Dante, in a passing reference in the 19thcanto of the Inferno, speaks of ` the treacherous assassin '( lo perfido assassin ); his fourteenth-century commentator Francesco da Buti, explaining a term which for some readers at the time may still have been strange and obscure, remarks: ' Assassino è colui che uccide altrui per danari ' ( An assassin is one who kills others for money ).

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

Amongst the contents of the museum are the tapestries of Grandmaster Fra Ramon Perellos de Roccaful, portraits of Grandmasters Fra Jean de la Cassiere, Fra Nicolas Cotoner and Fra Manuel Pinto da Fonseca and paintings that were once kept in the Co-Cathedral's many side chapels such as " St George killing the Dragon " by Francesco Potenzano.

In 1792, Lanzi wrote " Nel 1788 morì in Firenze di anni 86 Francesco Zuccherelli di Pitigliano, ammaestrato nella capitale (= Florence ) dall ' Anesi, poi in Roma dal Morandi e dal Nelli " ( p. 147 ); then, in 1795, " Molti quadri di vedute campestri son per Firenze dipinte da Paolo Anesi, e ve n ' è copia anche in Roma.

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.

In the beginning Assisi fell under the rule of Perugia and later under several despots, such as the soldier of fortune Biordo Michelotti, Gian Galeazzo Visconti and his successor Francesco I Sforza, dukes of Milan, Jacopo Piccinino and Federico II da Montefeltro, lord of Urbino.

The Cathedral was begun in 1532 under Duke Francesco II, who commissioned the design to Antonio da Lonate.

In its earliest development it was simple construction: Francesco da Barberino in 1300 called it a " raw and chaotic singalong ".

Statements made by Francesco da Barberino ( early part of 14th century ), and recently brought to light, give us a glimpse of several works of this class which have been lost.

Other prose novels were inserted by Francesco Barberino in his work Del reggimento e dei costumi delle donne, but they are of much less importance.

The second book includes eight further types, broken down not into fractions but an Albertian system, which Dürer probably learned from Francesco di Giorgio's ' De harmonica mundi totius ' of 1525.

Dissatisfied with the method of that learned theorist, he studied for five months under Francesco Antonio Vallotti at Padua, and afterwards proceeded to Rome, where, having been ordained priest, he was admitted to the famous Academy of Arcadia, made a knight of the Golden Spur, and appointed protonotary and chamberlain to the pope.

He regarded himself as an infallible critic, and could not bear the slightest contradiction ; his quarrels with Francesco Filelfo, Guarino da Verona and especially with Traversari created a great sensation in the learned world at the time.

Francesco Molza of Modena ( 1489 – 1544 ), learned in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, wrote in a graceful style and with spirit.

According to the pentito Francesco Di Carlo, the journalist Mauro De Mauro was killed in September 1970 because he had learned that Borghese – one of De Mauro's childhood friends – was planning the coup.

His cousin, Ernesto Pacelli, was a key financial advisor to Pope Leo XIII ; his father, Filippo Pacelli, a Franciscan tertiary, was the dean of the Sacra Rota Romana ; and his brother, Francesco Pacelli, became a lay canon lawyer and the legal advisor to Pius XI, in which role he negotiated the Lateran Treaty in 1929, the pact with Benito Mussolini, bringing an end to the Roman Question.

** Francesco Fontana, Italian lawyer and astronomer ( d. 1656 )

He was born in Florence, On July 22, 1515 and he was born the youngest child of Francesco, a lawyer, and his wife Lucrezia da Mosciano, whose family were nobility in the service of the state.

Bresci was captured and put on trial, where he was defended by the anarchist lawyer Francesco Saverio Merlino.

The lawyer Francesco Sturbinetti, who had led the Council of the Deputies, received the most votes, followed by Carlo Armellini, the physician Pietro Sterbini, monsignor Muzzarelli, in whose hands Pius had left the city and Carlo Luciano Bonaparte, prince of Canino.

Francesco Fontana ( lawyer ) ( 1580 – c. 1656 ) was an Italian lawyer ( University of Naples ) but was an astronomer.

The most known citizens of Pomarico were Niccolò Fiorentino ( lawyer and patriot during the Neapolitan Revolution, 1799 ) and Francesco Caggiani ( awarded with a gold medal during the World War I ).

* Carlo Francesco Gabba ( 1865-1920 ), an Italian lawyer

Edward I was the last king to sojourn in Beaumont officially as a palace, and in 1275 he granted it to an Italian lawyer, Francesco Accorsi, who had undertaken diplomatic missions for him.