By the end of 1863, at Lincoln's direction, General Lorenzo Thomas had recruited 20 regiments of blacks from the Mississippi Valley.

Upon returning to Vienna following his success in Paris, Salieri met and befriended Lorenzo Da Ponte and had his first professional encounters with Mozart.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

Moreover, the firm of Ricordi had declined the score of the opera, which had been taken up by their rival, Lorenzo Sonzogno, who arranged the first performance in neutral Monaco.

They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.

Vasari's opinion was that Mariotto was not so well grounded in drawing as Bartolomeo, and he tells that, to improve his hand he had taken to drawing the antiquities in the Medici garden, where he was encouraged by Madonna Alfonsina, the mother of Lorenzo de ' Medici.

According to Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de ' Medici, for whom Michelangelo had sculpted St. John the Baptist, asked that Michelangelo " fix it so that it looked as if it had been buried " so he could " send it to Rome ... pass off as an ancient work and ... sell it much better.

Cardinal Raffaele Riario, to whom Lorenzo had sold it, discovered that it was a fraud, but was so impressed by the quality of the sculpture that he invited the artist to Rome.

He also encouraged architecture, and the general improvement of Rome, where houses were razed to straighten and widen streets and where he had the opportunity to be a great patron for Gian Lorenzo Bernini: the decorations of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, titular churches for several of the Chigi cardinals, the Scala Regia, the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica.

Leo had intended his younger brother Giuliano and his nephew Lorenzo for brilliant secular careers.

Henry now had no choice but to put his great matter into Wolsey's hands, who did all he could to secure a decision in Henry's favor, even going so far as to convene an ecclesiastical court in England, with a special emissary, Lorenzo Campeggio from the Pope himself to decide the matter.

They had three children: Francesco Quinn ( March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011 ), Danny ( born April 16, 1964 ), and Lorenzo Quinn ( born May 7, 1966 ).

These three members of the Medici family had great skills in the management of so " restive and independent a city " as Florence, but when Lorenzo died in 1492, his son Piero proved quite incapable, and within two years he and his supporters were forced into exile a republican government replac him.

Ingres and his wife moved to Florence in 1820 at the urging of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, an old friend from his years in Paris, who hoped that Ingres would improve his position materially, but Ingres, as before, had to rely on his drawings of tourists and diplomats for support.

" He now claimed that he had predicted the deaths of Lorenzo de ’ Medici and of Pope Innocent VIII in 1492 and the coming of the sword to Italy — the invasion of King Charles of France.

Pre-Olmec cultures had flourished in the area since about 2500 BCE, but by 1600-1500 BCE Early Olmec culture had emerged centered around the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán site near the coast in southeast Veracruz.

John takes refuge with a few other survivors ( an American couple he had met on the plane to San Lorenzo and Felix Hoenikker's two sons ), and lives in a cave for several months, during which time he writes a memoir revealed to be the novel itself.

Previously, Isaac had been identified as an organist to Lorenzo but the Isaac who served at this post is now known to have been Isaac Argyropoulos.

The book had originally been intended for Giuliano di Lorenzo de ' Medici, young Lorenzo's uncle, who however died in 1516.

The first opera house in the country opened in 1833 in New York through the efforts of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's former librettist, who had immigrated to America.

He and his live-in personal secretary, Lorenzo James, had not spoken much all day.

His father, Lorenzo Barbirolli ( 1864 – 1928 ), was a Venetian violinist who had settled in London with his wife, Louise Marie, née Ribeyrol ( 1870 – 1962 ).

Piero sent Lorenzo on many important diplomatic missions when he was still a youth.

Mozart, in many ways Gluck's successor, combined a superb sense of drama, harmony, melody, and counterpoint to write a series of comedies, notably Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni ( in collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte ) which remain among the most-loved, popular and well-known operas today.

Another noted 18th century librettist was Lorenzo da Ponte, who wrote the libretti for three of Mozart's greatest operas, as well as for many other composers.

A wholesale destruction of many San Lorenzo monuments also occurred circa 950 BCE, which may indicate an internal uprising or, less likely, an invasion.

* Earl McCabe co-founded San Lorenzo and is a marine deserter who ruled San Lorenzo for many years.

* San Lorenzo of the Friars Minor ( 1280 ), in the Gothic style, contains the tombs of many illustrious Vicentines

* Alamut is an art-house fragrance by Lorenzo Villoresi, one of his many inspired by Middle Eastern locations and orientals.

In sculpture the leading Italian artists remained closer to classicism, and were less affected by the movement ; Lorenzo Ghiberti is in many respects close to the style, but already seems infused with Early Renaissance classicism.

In the north the miniatures of the Très Riches Heures Limbourg brothers, in Italy the Adoration of the Magi of Lorenzo Monaco, and sculpture and miniatures in many countries show very stylised tall figures, the older men with imposingly long beards and swaying figures.

Although Lorenzo appealed to the crowd not to exact summary justice, many of the conspirators, as well as many people accused of being conspirators, were killed.

At the museums one can tour the Lorenzo Bevan's 1845 lead mine, ride a 1931 zinc mine train, and view many exhibits on Platteville's mining history as well as Rollo Jamison's personal collection of artifacts.

Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco became one of the most outstanding figures of the new administration, and was regarded by many as the cultural heir of il Magnifico.

Lorenzo Lotto himself left many letters and a detailed notebook ( Libro di spese diverse, 1538 – 1556 ), giving a certain insight in his life and work.

Since then, many monographs and several exhibitions have been dedicated to Lorenzo Lotto, such as the exhibition in Venice in 1953 and one in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, in 1998.

Devil Anse Hatfield's timbering operation was a source of wealth for his family, but he employed many non-Hatfields, and even hired McCoy family members Albert McCoy, Lorenzo Dow McCoy, and Selkirk McCoy.

Lorenzo Dow's Journal, concentrated in One, containing his Experience and Travels from Childhood to 1814 ( 1814 ; many later editions ); this volume also contains " All the Polemical Works of Lorenzo.

In 2009, the party grassroots began to ask him to become PP's candidate for President of Asturias, organizing meetings and a campaign for his nomination all over the country, however the regional party leaders lead by Gabino de Lorenzo rejected him as a candidate and insulted him since he wanted to fire many of the people in charge in the party for decades losing election after election.

According to some sources, many polygamous men in the United States continued to live with their plural wives with the approval of church presidents Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F. Smith.

By the summer of 1984, the Lorenzo team had filled many of the positions downsized during the strike, and employment had reached 9, 000 with a route system served 67 destinations.

" Writing several centuries later, Orestes Brownson, an apologist for Savonarola, mentions artwork only by Fra Bartolomeo, Lorenzo di Credi, and " many other painters ," along with " several antique statues.

Landini knew many of the other Italian composers of the Trecento, including Lorenzo da Firenze, with whom he was associated at Santa Trinità, as well as Andreas da Florentia, who he knew in the 1370s.