The present day Branciforte Small Schools Campus ( BSSC ) building is located at what was the center of the Villa de Branciforte.

A California State historical marker, number 469, is located outside of the building, too, at the corner of Water Street and Branciforte Avenue.

The Branciforte Creek watershed is a major sub-basin of the San Lorenzo catchment-basin.

The surname is today Lanza Branciforte.

When Bouchard arrived, he did not sack Santa Cruz but instead it was the residents of Branciforte who looted and stole from the mission even the clothes from the saints adorning the church.

Following devastating floods in December 1955, the Army Corps of Engineers built flood control measures along the San Lorenzo River and Branciforte Creek through downtown Santa Cruz.

Belden was living in Branciforte ( now Santa Cruz ), when the USS United States, under the command of Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, captured the near-by Presidio of Monterey on October 20, 1842.

Spanish colonial settlers, who later established the secular pueblo of Villa de Branciforte on the east side of the San Lorenzo, ran their herds of cattle and horses in the " common lands " of this area.

His elder half-brother, Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke ( 1791 – 1862 ), had chosen to live in exile in Paris after a disastrous marriage in 1814 ( annulled 1818 ) to a Sicilian princess, Ottavia Spinelli ( 1779 – 1857 ), widow of Prince Ercole Branciforte di Butera, and daughter of the Duke of Laurino, and a subsequent liaison with Alexina Gallot, which resulted in four illegitimate children.

The Mission was ransacked, not by the Pirate Bouchard, but by unruly citizens of neighboring Branciforte.

Branciforte or as it was named originally, Villa de Branciforte, was a secular pueblo established by the Spanish in the of Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, in 1797 on the eastern bluff overlooking the San Lorenzo River.

Villa de Branciforte was founded under the direction of Las Californias Governor Diego de Borica and the Viceroy of New Spain Miguel de la Grúa Talamanca y Branciforte, marqués de Branciforte, after whom the settlement was named, and was founded as part of Spain's strategy to protect upper California against other European countries such as Russia, England, and France that were trying to gain this Californian territory by luring retired soldiers and settlers to this province.

In the end the Villa de Branciforte never resembled the neatly laid out plans for streets and buildings its planners envisioned.

After this, the citizens of the Villa de Branciforte began to spread over the country.

In 1818, when the pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard threatened to attack the California coast in support of the independence struggles raging in the Americas, the residents of Branciforte were reluctantly called upon to defend the Mission against sacking while the padres and neophytes took flight in other Missions further inland.

By 1831 however, Branciforte had a population of about two hundred people which was mostly made up of merchants, explorers, and retired soldiers.

General Nicolò Pollari was SISMI's second last director ; he resigned on 20 November 2006 after being indicted in the Imam Rapito affair, so Prime Minister Romano Prodi replaced him with Admiral Bruno Branciforte.

Admiral Bruno Branciforte was SISMI's last director, in charge until 3 August 2007.

The fifth book of madrigals was dedicated to Nenna's patron, Fabritio Branciforte, while the sixth was dedicated to Diana Vittoria Carafa, the spouse of the seducer of Gesualdo's wife.

The union produced a daughter, Ana María de Berrio y Campa, who married Pedro de Moncada y de Aragón Branciforte.

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