For information on specific theorists, see Johannes Tinctoris, Franchinus Gaffurius, Heinrich Glarean, Pietro Aron, Nicola Vicentino, Tomás de Santa María, Gioseffo Zarlino, Vicente Lusitano, Vincenzo Galilei, Giovanni Artusi, Johannes Nucius, and Pietro Cerone.

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Its principal aim is to teach how to improvise in a fugal style, but to get to that point, difficult to the most accomplished musicians of any age, he includes detailed treatments of the rudiments of music, the eight church modes, ornaments, touch, articulation, fingering, and counterpoint, including a categorization of four-note chords, rather similar to what Pietro Aron had written several decades before in Italy ( which work he may have used as a source ).

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The most significant feature of the Dodecachordon ( literally, " 12-stringed instrument ") is Glarean's proposal that there are actually twelve modes, not eight, as had long been assumed, for instance in the works of the contemporary theorist Pietro Aron.

According to Pietro Aron, Busnois may have been the composer of the famous tune L ' homme armé, one of the most widely distributed melodies of the Renaissance, and the one more often used than any other as a cantus firmus for mass composition.

It was one of two antiquities of Hamilton's collection drawn for him by Francesco Progenie, a pupil of Pietro Fabris, who also contributed a number of drawings of Mount Vesuvius sent by Hamilton to the Royal Society in London.

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.

Her father, Pietro Agnesi, also married twice more after Maria's mother died, so that Maria Agnesi ended up the oldest of 21 children.

His preferred architect was the sculptor and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini but he also gave architectural commissions to the painter and architect Pietro da Cortona.

Piero ( also Perino, Pietro ) Tomacelli came of an ancient but impoverished baronial family of Casarano in the Kingdom of Naples.

Pope Saint Celestine V ( 1215 – 19 May 1296 ), born Pietro Angelerio ( according to some sources Angelario, Angelieri, Angelliero, or Angeleri ), also known as Pietro da Morrone, was elected Pope in the year 1294 in the last non-conclave papal election in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

Under Clement VIII he himself was made protonotary and nuncio to the French court ; Paul V also employed him in a similar capacity, afterwards raising him, in 1606, to Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio and appointing him the papal legate to Bologna.

Buccaporci was the son of a shoemaker ( also named Pietro ).

His nephew Pietro Riario also benefited from his nepotism.

The libretto for Edipo Re was written by Giovacchino Forzano, who also wrote Il piccolo Marat for Pietro Mascagni and two of the one-act operas for Puccini's Il trittico.

Otto III also strengthened the Empire's relation with the Venetian Doge Pietro II Orseolo.

The Doge and his young, also named Pietro, were killed in the blaze, but their bodies were later recovered and respectfully buried.

Domenico's younger brother Pietro Filippo also became a musician.

Notable also the many mansions of the Plain, where are the agricultural villages of San Pietro, Santa Marina ( the two most populous, inhabited by about 2000 people each ), and then Scaccia, San Marco, Park, Grazia, Fiumarella and Olivarella ( the latter shared with the City of San Filippo del Mela ).

He also wrote television sketches for Beppe Grillo at the beginning of Grillo's career, and one of these sketches – called " Pietro Longo = P2 " – caused the Psdi to ask the RAI commission to remove Grillo from RAI TV ; their request was denied.

It passes from these balconies: Santa Croce, San Frediano, San Martino, San Pietro / Battisti, San Salvatore, La Libertà / Cairoli, San Regolo, San Colombano, Santa Maria, San Paolino / Catalani, and San Donato ; also pass over these gates: Porta San Donato, Porta Santa Maria, Porta San Jocopo, Porta Elisa, Porta San Pietro, and Porta Sant ' Anna.

1339 – 1410 ) ( also Pietro Di Candia, later Pope Alexander V )

* Italian Social Republic ( 1943 – 1945, known also as the Republic of Salò )-General Pietro Badoglio and King Victor Emmanuel III withdrew Italy from the Axis Powers and moved the government in southern Italy, already conquered by the Allies.

This success continued in 1979, when he won the European Cup 200 metres in Turin, Italy, beating the new World record holder Pietro Mennea on his home ground ; he also finished 3rd in the 100 metres.

" Another review in the same paper also commended the " simple beauty of the story itself " and also praised Beban's performance :" George Beban, who has the difficult role of Pietro Donnetti, gives a piece of character work that is truly marvelous.

Pietro d ' Abano also known as Petrus De Apono or Aponensis ( c. 1257 – 1316 ) was an Italian philosopher, astrologer and professor of medicine in Padua.

There is also on display a fresco by Pietro Perugino dated 1522 from the church of Castello at Fontignano ( Perugia ) and is amongst the painter's last works.

Salieri met Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi better known as Metastasio and Christoph Willibald Gluck during this period at the famous Sunday morning salons held at the home of the Martinez family.

Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France.

The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.

The first known family member is one Bobone, in the early 11th century, father of Pietro, in turn father of Giacinto dei Boboni ( 1110 – 1198 ), who in 1191 became pope as Celestine III.

* 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.

He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later Cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there.

Here were found the medieval codes known as Condaghe di san Pietro in Silki.

Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi, ( March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949 ), commonly known as Charles Ponzi, was an Italian businessman and con artist in the U. S. and Canada.

Pietro Carnesecchi, ( 24 December 1508 – 1 October 1567 ), burned by the Inquisition in 1567, who had known Valdés at Rome as " a modest and well-bred courtier ," found him at Naples ( 1540 ) " wholly intent upon the study of Holy Scripture ," translating portions into Spanish from Hebrew and Greek, with comments and introductions.

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 text of this work was the first by the soon-to-be-famous Pietro Trapassi ( known as Metastasio ), who became a lifelong friend of the singer-Farinelli remarked that the two of them had made their debuts on the same day, and each frequently referred to the other as his (" dear twin ").

In addition to the bronze statue of Perseus and the medallions already referred to, the works of art in existence today are a medallion of Clement VII commemorating the peace between the Christian princes, 1530, with a bust of the pope on the reverse and a figure of Peace setting fire to a heap of arms in front of the temple of Janus, signed with the artist's name ; a signed portrait medal of Francis ; a medal of Cardinal Pietro Bembo ; and the celebrated gold, enamel and ivory salt-cellar ( known as Saliera ) made for Francis I of France at Vienna.

The artist of this work, Pietro Paolini, studied Caravaggio, who was known for a strong use of chiaroscuro.

Ariosto had sought stylistic advice from the humanist Pietro Bembo to give his verse the last degree of polish and this is the version known to posterity.

His final work was often considered one of his best pieces: an exquisite set of twenty-one madrigali spirituali known as the Lagrime di San Pietro (" Tears of St. Peter "), which he dedicated to Pope Clement VIII, and which was published posthumously in 1595.

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, ( January 3, 1698 – April 12, 1782 ) was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

There is also an altar panel at the Alte Pinakothek in Berlin, done by Pietro Perugino, known as The Virgin appearing to St. Bernard.

Attractions on the island include the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato ( known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and said to house the bones of the dragon slain by Saint Donatus ), the church of San Pietro Martire with the chapel of the Ballarin family built in 1506 and artworks by Giovanni Bellini, and the Palazzo da Mula.

Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza ( 26 January 1852-14 September 1905 ), was a Italo-French explorer, born in the Papal States and later naturalized as a Frenchman.