On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

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Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur ( Tivoli ) was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d ' Este who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d ' Este.

The original garden was heavily influenced by the Italian Renaissance garden at Villa d ' Este.

Marini succeeded Martini as professor at the Scuola d ’ Arte di Villa Reale in Monza, near Milan, in 1929, a position he retained until 1940.

* July 6 – Nestor de Villa, Filipino actor ( d. 2004 )

* June 5 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary ( d. 1923 )

In mid-1815, Caroline bought a house, Villa d ' Este, on the shores of Lake Como, despite the fact that her finances were stretched.

By August 1817, Caroline's debts were growing, so she sold Villa d ' Este and moved to the smaller Villa Caprile near Pesaro.

The comune includes the frazioni of Bagnaia, Bosco, Capanne, Casa del Diavolo, Castel del Piano, Cenerente, Civitella Benazzone, Civitella d ' Arna, Collestrada, Colle Umberto I, Cordigliano, Colombella, Farneto, Ferro di Cavallo, Fontignano, Fratticiola Selvatica, La Bruna, La Cinella, Lacugnano, Lidarno, Migiana di Monte Tezio, Monte Bagnolo, Monte Corneo, Montelaguardia, Monte Petriolo, Mugnano, Olmo, Parlesca, Pianello, Piccione, Pila, Pilonico Materno, Ponte della Pietra, Poggio delle Corti, Ponte Felcino, Ponte Pattoli, Ponte Rio, Ponte San Giovanni, Ponte Valleceppi, Prepo, Pretola, Ramazzano-Le Pulci, Rancolfo, Ripa, Sant ' Andrea delle Fratte, Sant ' Egidio, Sant ' Enea, San Fortunato della Collina, San Giovanni del Pantano, Sant ' Andrea d ' Agliano, Santa Lucia, San Marco, Santa Maria Rossa, San Martino dei Colli, San Martino in Campo, San Martino in Colle, San Sisto, Solfagnano, Villa Pitignano.

Baccio d ' Agnolo also planned the Villa Borgherini and the Palazzo Bartolini, with other fine palaces and villas.

The film was shot in the Villa d ' Este in Tivoli, Italy.

The film consists entirely of a woman dressed in eighteenth-century clothes who wanders amidst the garden fountains of the Villa d ' Este (" a Hide and Seek in a night-time labyrinth "), until she steps into a fountain and momentarily disappears.

Anger used a short actress to suggest a different sense of scale, whereby the monuments seemed bigger ( a technique he said was inspired by etchings of the gardens in the Villa d ' Este by Giovanni Battista Piranesi ).

Because of the fame of the gardens of the Villa d ' Este there ( and of their namesake in Paris ), the name has also been applied to other entities:

* Jardin de Tivoli, Paris, a garden and park open between 1766 and 1842, made to resemble the gardens of the Villa d ' Este in Tivoli, Italy

The most famous of these is the Villa d ' Este, a World Heritage Site, whose construction was started in 1549 by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este and which was richly decorated with an ambitious program of frescoes by famous painters of late Roman Mannerism, such Livio Agresti ( a member of the " Forlì painting school ") or the Zuccari brothers.

Tivoli's reputation as a stylish resort and the fame of the gardens of the Villa d ' Este have inspired the naming of other sites after Tivoli.

* Villa d ' Este, part of the UNESCO World Heritage site list since 2001

* Roman Temple of the Tosse, located near the Temple of Hercules and the Villa d ' Este and dating perhaps to the early 4th century AD.

There are terraced gardens in the Italian style, an arboretum, and a fountain inspired by one at the Villa d ' Este, near Rome.

They include the fresco The Dispute over the Body of Moses ( circa 1574 ) in the Sistine Chapel ; frescoes in the Villa d ' Este in Tivoli and the Villa Mondragone in Frascati.

6, Decca 410 803-2 CD: Venezia e Napoli ( 3 pieces: Gondoliera, Canzone, Tarantella ); Les jeux d ' eau a la Villa d ' Este ; Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude ; Ballade No. 2. in Kingsway Hall, London, 10 / 1983 ; piano: Bechstein.

They performed at various Parisian venues, such as Le Fiacre, La Villa d ' Este, the Européen and the Alhambra.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

" Doc " was approached by Gen. Saturnino Cedillo, governor of the state of San Luis Potosí and one of the last remaining lieutenants of Pancho Villa.

Charlton, still only 19, was selected for the game, which saw United goalkeeper Ray Wood carried off with a broken cheekbone after a clash with Villa centre forward Peter McParland.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

In 1938 the highest attendance to date at the ground was recorded at over 75, 000 for a FA Cup match against Aston Villa.

The Armistice with Austria-Hungary was signed in the Villa Giusti, near Padua, on November 3.

Historian Brian Loring Villa concluded that Mountbatten conducted the raid without authority, but that his intention to do so was known to several of his superiors, who took no action to stop him.

The first, the ' little tin idol ', was used from the inception of the Cup in 1871 – 72 until it was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by Aston Villa on 11 September 1895, and was never seen again.

Huerta ordered Villa's execution, but Madero commuted the sentence and Villa was sent to the same Santiago Tlatelolco prison as Reyes from which he escaped on Christmas Day 1912.

In the film Villa Rides ( 1968 ), Madero was portrayed by Alexander Knox.

Byron was also the host of the celebrated ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816.

After his death, a mausoleum was created in the Villa Puccini and the composer is buried there in the chapel, along with his wife and son who died later.

This house was designed by colonial architect William Buckland and modeled on the Villa Pisani at Montagnana, Italy as depicted in Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell ' architettura (" Four Books Of Architecture ").

Harleys had already been used by the military in the Pancho Villa Expedition but World War I was the first time the motorcycle had been adopted for combat service.

His wife Bertha ( not to be confused with their granddaughter ), was unwilling to remain in polluted Essen in Villa Hügel, the ungainly but fireproof castle which Krupp designed.

It was Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye ( 1929 – 1931 ) that most succinctly summed up his five points of architecture that he had elucidated in the journal L ' Esprit Nouveau and his book Vers une architecture, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s.

Villa Ariadne, Evans home there, was now part of the school.

A similar attendance was also recorded for a friendly match against Gorton Villa on 5 September 1889.