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.

La Scala produced the opera for the first time on 30 March 1873, with Campanini as Lohengrin, Gabrielle Krauss as Elsa, Philippine von Edelsberg as Ortrud, Victor Maurel as Friedrich, and Gian Pietro Milesi as Heinrich.

Giambologna was an important influence on later sculptors through his pupils Adriaen de Vries and Pietro Francavilla who left his atelier for Paris in 1601, as well as Pierre Puget who spread Giambologna's influence throughout Northern Europe, and in Italy on Pietro Tacca, who assumed Giambologna's workshop in Florence, and in Rome on Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Alessandro Algardi.

The latter has a major historic value, because it was one of the quarries that Gian Lorenzo Bernini selected material from to build the famous ( colonnato di Piazza S. Pietro ) The Colonnade of St. Peter's Square in Rome in 1656-1667.

* Gian Pietro Carafa ( 1476-1559 ) ( 1536, 1553, elected Pope Paul IV in 1555 )

In the Piazza di Spagna at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia (" Fountain of the Old Boat "), built in 1627-29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is recently said to have collaborated on the decoration.

At the foot of the stairs, you will find the famous Barcaccia Fountain, the work of Pietro Bernini and his son, Gian Lorenzo.

It features important sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers ( 1651 ) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, topped by the Obelisk of Domitian, brought here in pieces from the Circus of Maxentius the church of Sant ' Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini, Girolamo Rainaldi, Carlo Rainaldi and others ; and the aforementioned Pamphili palace, also by Girolamo Rainaldi, that accommodates the long gallery designed by Borromini and frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.

Designed by Pirro Ligorio in 1559, the tomb of Gian Pietro Carafa, who became Pope Paul IV in 1555, is also in the chapel.

Pietro Pomponazzi was born in 1462, Marcello Adriani Virgilio in 1464, Baldassare Castiglione in 1468, Niccolò Machiavelli in 1469, Pietro Bembo in 1470, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Ariosto in 1474, Jacopo Nardi in 1476, Gian Giorgio Trissino in 1478, and Francesco Guicciardini in 1482.

During these two centuries, it has educated many of Italy's most important musicians, including Marco Stroppa, Luca Francesconi, Stefano Gervasoni, Giacomo Puccini, Arrigo Boito, Giovanni Bottesini, Alfredo Catalani, Riccardo Chailly, Amelita Galli-Curci, Vittorio Giannini, Bruno Maderna, Pietro Mascagni, Gian Carlo Menotti, Francisco Mignone, Riccardo Muti, Kurken Alemshah, Italo Montemezzi, Alceo Galliera, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Mario Nascimbene, Maurizio Pollini, Ludovico Einaudi, Antonino Fogliani, Vittorio Parisi, Riccardo Sinigaglia and Claudio Abbado.

* Gian Pietro Carafa, who became Pope Paul IV

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* December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome ( died 1680 )

He was inspired by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and by the Venetian sculptural school of the 17th century and thus became a great propagator of the Italian-provenience sculpture in the Central-European context.

The paintings which decorate the church's ceiling were painted by Emvin Cremona during the 1960s while other works of art date back to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries mostly painted by famous Maltese artists ; Gian Nikol Buhagiar, Francesco Zahra, Rokku Buhagiar and Ganni Vella above others.

Also in the 20th century, American composers like Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Carlisle Floyd began to contribute English-language operas infused with touches of popular musical styles.

The Tramontano Castle, begun in the early 16th century by Gian Carlo Tramontano, Count of Matera, is probably the only other structure that is above ground of any great significance outside of the sassi.

Around the middle of the 16th century, some Italian critics such as Gian Giorgio Trissino complained that the poem failed to observe the unity of action as defined by Aristotle, by having multiple plots rather than a single main story.

In the early 16th century it was briefly ruled by the condottiere Gian Giacomo Medici.

The piano concerto form survived through the 20th century into the 21st, with examples being written by Arnold Schoenberg, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Medtner, Alexander Tcherepnin, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Michael Tippett, Charles Wuorinen, York Bowen, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinů, Peter Mieg, Heinrich Sutermeister, Dmitri Shostakovich, Samuel Barber, Witold Lutosławski, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Peter Mennin, György Ligeti, Elliott Carter, Selim Palmgren, Leroy Anderson, and others.

From the 15th century, another classic of Italian erotica is a series of bawdy folk tales called the Facetiae by Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini.

In the beginning of the 15th century, instability in the Lombard region caused by the political and military crisis, coupled with the untimely death of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, induced the teaching staff of the Universities of Pavia and Piacenza to propose to Ludovico di Savoia-Acaia the creation a of new Studium generale.

Also in the 20th century, American composers like George Gershwin, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Carlisle Floyd began to contribute English-language operas infused with touches of popular musical styles.

The Triton Fountain ( Italian Fontana del Tritone ) is a seventeenth century fountain in Rome, by the well-known Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Giani Gian Singh claims that the full copy of the Dasam Granth was in possession of the Budha Dal, an 18th century Sikh army, at the Battle of Kup and was lost during the Second Sikh Holocaust ( 1762 )

In the second half of the fifteenth century stands in the field of dialect literature Gian Giorgio Allioni of Asti, poet, playwright and writer who knowing poetry in French and Italian, wrote several farces in dialect, expressing " an Astezan " and providing a vivid picture of customs and life of the period and the Italian theater of the sixteenth century, often steeped in satire and mockery.

Among the artists active in the Monferrato, noteworthy are Gian Martino Spanzotti of Casale and painter of the Renaissance, Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit painter and architect active in the seventeenth century, the painter Pier Francesco Guala ; Macrino d ' Alba, a contemporary of Spanzotti, whose works are in private and public collections in the United States and Turin.

In the late 15th century 12 statues of the Apostles were added in the apse, while the bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl is attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

It is not, as is popularly supposed, enclosed in Gian Lorenzo Bernini's bronze chair, but is kept under triple lock and exhibited only once in a century.

* Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, 16th century Italian humanist and botanist

The Chigi chapel, the second on the left-hand side of the nave, was designed by Raphael as a private chapel for his friend and patron Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, then completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini more than a century after Raphael's death in 1520.

The interior has works by Gian Paolo Cavagna, Camillo Procaccini and other, but its most notable feature is the polyptych of Madonna with Saints by Bernardo Zenale and Bernardino Butinone ( 1485 ), considered one of the masterworks of 15th century Lombard art.

There is, however, an uninterrupted literary tradition of Ligurian poets and writers that goes from the 13th century to the present, such as Luchetto ( the Genoese Anonym ), Martin Piaggio and Gian Giacomo Cavalli.

The communal independence ended in 1335, when the city surrendered to Gian Galeazzo Visconti, whose family held the city until the end of the century.

Designers and artists whose work is on display in the galleries include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Grinling Gibbons, Daniel Marot, Louis Laguerre, Antonio Verrio, Sir James Thornhill, William Kent, Robert Adam, Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Canova, Thomas Chippendale, Pugin, William Morris.

The founding members of the Novecento ( Italian: 20th-century ) movement were the critic Margherita Sarfatti and seven artists: Anselmo Bucci, Leonardo Dudreville, Achille Funi, Gian Emilio Malerba, Piero Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi, and Mario Sironi.

He was the father of one the most famous artists of Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Martin Feinstein succeeded London as General Director from 1980 to 1995 and " spent the next 16 years luring artists of the stature of Gian Carlo Menotti ( who directed La Boheme ), Daniel Barenboim ( who conducted Cosi Fan Tutte ) and Placido Domingo ( who debuted in Washington in 1986 with Menotti's Goya " Feinstein brought in many young singers long before their first appearances at the Metropolitan Opera.

During 1965, Lamborghini's three top engineers, Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani, and Bob Wallace put their own time into the development of a prototype car known as the P400.

Unable to construct their own car, Lucchini brokered a deal with Dallara owner Gian Paolo Dallara to construct a new car based on their experience as a Formula 3000 entry.

The nobleman Gian Antonio Ghetti and some of Caterina's own children formed a conspiracy.