* Giacomo Losi ( born 1935 ), Italian football defender

Turandot ( or ; ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

Roberto de ' Rossi of Florence met him in Venice, and, in 1395, Rossi's acquaintance Giacomo da Scarperia set off for Constantinople to study Greek with Chrysoloras.

The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym who used an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani, which had been set to music by Antonio Sartorio ( 1676 ).

A painting by Giacomo Mantegazza in 1876 shows a harem girl holding a set of rings above her head.

Giacomo Andrea's original drawing has only one set of arms and legs while Leonardo's has the position of his man's arms and legs change.

The libretto is by Nicola Francesco Haym, and was based on an earlier libretto by Antonio Salvi set by Giacomo Antonio Perti in 1710.

* Giacomo Torelli ( 1608 – 1678 ), set designer

Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria ( SV 325, The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland ) is an opera in a prologue and five acts ( later revised to three ), set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro.

* " Dives Malus " ( the wicked rich man ) also known as " Historia Divitis " ( c. 1640 ) by Giacomo Carissimi is a Latin paraphrase of the Luke text, set as an oratorio for 2 sopranos, tenor, bass ; for private performance in the oratories of Rome in the 1640s.

In questa reggia ( In this palace ) is an aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

Scrittura femminile nell ’ Inghilterra di re Giacomo: Elizabeth Cary e Mary Wroth, Roma, Aracne, 2007.

Marshall, Laurence Fishburne, Lauren Tom, Patricia Clarkson, Jennifer Grey, Laurie Metcalf, Oliver Platt, Patricia Richardson, William H. Macy, Robin Curtis, Steve Buscemi, Roma Maffia, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Moriarty, Chris Cooper, Michael Rooker, David Strathairn, Charles S. Dutton, Cynthia Nixon, Bruce Payne, Laura San Giacomo, Kasi Lemmons, Al Leong, Ving Rhames, Amanda Plummer, Daniel Davis, Jon Polito, Jasmine Guy, Mark Linn-Baker, Meat Loaf, Lori Loughlin, Michael Wincott, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony Zerbe, and Stanley Tucci.

Among the prominent scholars who have taught at Roma Tre University are chemist Pier Luigi Luisi ; economists Pierangelo Garegnani and Paolo Leon ; historian Andrea Riccardi ; literary critic Giorgio Melchiori ; philosophers Giacomo Marramao and Mario De Caro.

He made a brief appearance in the 1936 Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald film Rose Marie, singing music from Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, but according to Merchant of Dreams, Charles Higham's biography of Louis B. Mayer, Eddy, who apparently considered Jones a rival and a potential threat, asked that most of Jones's footage in Rose Marie be cut, including his rendition of the great Puccini aria E lucevan le stelle-and MGM agreed to Eddy's demand.

Her last Met appearance was on July 6, 1973 in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with Enrico Di Giuseppe as Cavaradossi, Morley Meredith as Scarpia, and Ignace Strasfogel conducting.

Some of the roles with which Gigli became particularly associated during this period included Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème and the title role in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, both of which he would later record in full.

* 1895-Future master pimp Giacomo " Big Jim " Colosimo emigrated to Chicago at about age 17, with no known criminal record following him.

The King failed to move against the Mussolini regime's abuses of power ( including, as early as 1924, the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti and other opposition MPs ) and remained silent during the winter of 1925 – 26 when Mussolini dropped all pretense of democracy.

He was to adopt the surname Meyerbeer on the death of his grandfather Liebmann Meyer Wulff ( 1811 ) and the first name Giacomo during his period of study in Italy, around 1817.

He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1867 and obtained the degree of doctor of letters in 1877 with a Latin thesis on Gaius Asinius Pollio and a French one on Giacomo Leopardi ( whose works he subsequently translated into French He made a study of parliamentary oratory during the French Revolution, and published two volumes on Les orateurs de la Constituante ( 1882 ) and on Les orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention ( 1885 ).

Two other great Italian tenors present on the roster of Met singers during the 1920s also happened to be Gigli's chief contemporary rivals for tenor supremacy in the Italian repertory — namely, Giovanni Martinelli and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi.

Not until September 23, 1942, during the Second World War, did Alfredo Perino, along with guides Louis Carrel ( nicknamed " The Little Carrel ") and Giacomo Chiara, climb the complete ridge and the overhangs directly.

In 1970 a monument by Giacomo Manzù was erected during the centennial celebration in Lenin's honour.

The naval Battle of Focchies took place on 12 May 1649, during the Cretan War, off Focchies, near Smyrna in western Turkey, when a Venetian fleet of 19 ships, under Giacomo Riva, defeated an Ottoman fleet of 11 ships, 10 galleasses ( mahons ) and 72 galleys.

According to Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Dossetti's personal role during the Second Vatican Council was of great importance, because he contributed to making the Council less conservative and traditional than what was originally planned.

Gian Giacomo Trivulzio ( 1440 or 1441 – December 5, 1518 ) was an Italian aristocrat and condottiero who held several military commands during the Italian Wars.

In May 1539 during the general chapter of the Order at Rome Bartolomé Carranza de Miranda, former student and subsequently renowned professor of theology at the College of San Gregorio at Valladolid was awarded the title of Master of Sacred Theology by the studium generale at Santa Maria sopra Minerva Giacomo Nacchiante ( 1502 – 1596 ) was appointed professor of philosophy and theology at the studium in 1541.

Her other roles at the Met during these thirteen years included Aida, Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Cio-Cio-San in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Elvira in Verdi's Ernani, Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, Liù in Puccini's Turandot, Maddalena in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, and the title role in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda among others.

Baron Giacomo de Martino was the Envoy of Italy to the United States during the regime of Benito Mussolini.

To complicate matters further, German musicology in the early 20th century invented its own historical application for " bel canto ", using the term to denote the simple lyricism that came to the fore in Venetian opera and the Roman cantata during the 1630s and ' 40s ( the era of composers Antonio Cesti, Giacomo Carissimi and Luigi Rossi ) as a reaction against the earlier, text-dominated " stilo rappresentativo ".

* ACERBO, Giacomo ( 1888 – 1969 ) Fascist economist.

On June 11, 2005, Afleet Alex passed Giacomo and the rest of the field in the final turn at Belmont Park to win the G1 Belmont Stakes by seven lengths, running the fastest final quarter (: 24 ) in that race since Arts and Letters in 1969.

* Secretary: Pietro Nenni ( 1931 – 1945 ), Sandro Pertini ( 1945 – 1946 ), Ivan Matteo Lombardo ( 1946 – 1947 ), Lelio Basso ( 1947 – 1948 ), Alberto Jacometti ( 1948 – 1949 ), Pietro Nenni ( 1949 – 1963 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1963 – 1968 ), Mauro Ferri ( 1968 – 1969 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1969 – 1970 ), Giacomo Mancini ( 1970 – 1972 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1972 – 1976 ), Bettino Craxi ( 1976 – 1993 ), Giorgio Benvenuto ( 1993 ), Ottaviano Del Turco ( 1993 – 1994 )

* Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence ( 1969 )

* Infanzia, vocazioni, prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano ( 1969 ) by Luigi Comencini

Giacomo Acerbo, Baron of Aterno ( July 25, 1888 – January 9, 1969 ) was an Italian economist and Fascist politician that drafted the Acerbo Law which solidified Benito Mussolini's position once in power.

During this tour he wrote three new comic operas and he also collaborated with Giacomo Rust on one opera, Il Talismano ( The Talismand ).

He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and some theorize that he had some connection with northern Italy because his early works seem to show the influence of Stradella and Legrenzi.

With the introduction of European astronomy into China via the Jesuits, the motions of both the sun and moon began to be calculated with sinusoids in the 1645 Shíxiàn calendar (, Book of the Conformity of Time ) of the Qing dynasty, made by the Jesuits Adam Schall and Giacomo Rho.

Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena, Italy, to Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth dyer who ran his enterprise with the help of his sons, and Lapa Piagenti, possibly the daughter of a local poet.

Giacomo Puccini with conductor Arturo Toscanini

Examples of this type of man would be Giacomo Casanova and Don Juan, who were both reputed to have had many libertine affairs with women.

Only Giacomo Agostini with eight ( seven consecutive ) and Valentino Rossi with seven ( five consecutive ) have won more.

This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.

Composers such as Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini, Paul Hindemith and Hans Pfitzner pushed Wagnerian harmony further with a more extreme use of chromaticism and greater use of dissonance.

His early career connects itself in some measure with the rise of his elder brother, Gian Giacomo Medici, from the position of a mere bravo to that of Marchese di Marignano.

A sonnet is a form of a poem that originated in Europe, mainly Italy: the Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.

The traditional founding is identified with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo at the islet of Rialto ( Rivoalto, " High Shore "), which is said to have been at the stroke of noon on 25 March 421.

That year, he had disputes with Ruggiero Leoncavallo and Giacomo Puccini.

It was rebuilt and reopened on 11 May 1946, with a memorable concert conducted by Arturo Toscanini — twice La Scala's principal conductor and an associate of the composers Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini — with a soprano solo by Renata Tebaldi, which created a sensation.

* March 25 – Venice is founded at twelve o ' clock noon ( according to legend ) with the dedication of the first church, San Giacomo, at the islet of Rialto ( Italy ).

He later continued studying in Vienna with Georg Joseph Vogler, known as Abbé Vogler, founder of three important music schools ( in Mannheim, Stockholm, and Darmstadt ); another famous pupil of Vogler was Giacomo Meyerbeer, who became a close friend of Weber.

Sebastiano Serlio ; the Regola delli cinque ordini of Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola ( 1507 – 1573 ); the Quattro libri di Architettura of Andrea Palladio, and Vincenzo Scamozzi's Idea della Architettura Universale, were followed in the 17th century by French treatises with further refined engraved models, such as Perrault's.

* Derrida and Ferraris ( 1997 ) I Have a Taste for Secret, 1993-5 conversations with Maurizio Ferraris and Giorgio Vattimo, in Derrida and Ferraris A Taste for the Secret, translated by Giacomo Donis

Though he often cooperated in fresco painting with Lanfranco, for example in Annibale designed series the San Diego Chapel in San Giacomo degli Spagnoli ( 1602 – 1607 ) and in Palazzo Costaguti ( Nessus and Deianeira ), Badalocchio never received the same recognition as his peer.

In 1714 and 1716 two reports of the Ottoman Empire Turkish method of inoculation were made to the Royal Society in England, by Emmanuel Timoni, a doctor affiliated with the British Embassy in Constantinople, and Giacomo Pylarini.

Rigoletto premiered on 11 March 1851 to a sold out La Fenice as the first part of a double bill with Giacomo Panizza's ballet Faust.

It was not until 1917, after meeting with Giacomo Balla in Rome, and with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Naples ( who later enthusiastically praised Conti's book Imbottigliature which was about to be printed ) that Conti became part of the Futurist movement.