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    Nicolò da Ponte (15 January 1491 – 30 July 1585) was the 87th Doge of Venice from 1578 to 1585. He reigned in a fairly quiet period. Da Ponte was born...
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    The Da Ponte Fountain (Slovene: Da Pontejev vodnjak; Italian: fontana Da Ponte) is a fountain in the city of Koper, in southwestern Slovenia. It is located...
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  • Cecolini da Perugia, Niccolò da Tolentino, Guido Torello, Antonia dal Ponte ad Era, and many others. (History of Florence, I,vii]) Ruggiero da Flor (c. 1268–1305)...
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    Giovann'Antonio Lappoli Niccolò Soggi Niccolò detto il Tribolo Pierino da Vinci Baccio Bandinelli Giuliano Bugiardini Cristofano Gherardi Jacopo da Pontormo Simone...
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    Niccolò Franco (13/14 September 1515 – 11 March 1570) was a poet and literato executed for libel. Born in Benevento to a modest family, Franco completed...
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  • active during the early Renaissance (born 1290) 1365: Giovanni da Santo Stefano da Ponte – Italian painter of portraits and devotional subjects (born 1306)...
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  • Correggio (1494–1534) Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905) Niccolò Corso (1446–c. 1512) Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669) Francesco del Cossa (1436–1478) Giovanni...
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  • Niccolò Piccinni, and Joseph Haydn set Goldoni's texts to music. The only operas of this genre that are still frequently staged are Mozart and Da Ponte's...
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    career in Venice Giuseppe Angeli (1712–1798), painter Giovanni da Asola (16th century) Niccolò Bambini (1651–1736), painter Marco Basaiti (c. 1470–1530),...
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    Child) and two marble sculptures by Tino da Camaino (1320–1322). Paolo Uccello, in his father's tomb Niccolò de' Niccoli History of medieval Arabic and...
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  • Antonio da Montefeltro against Carlo, Andrea and Pandolfo Malatesta, and helped Azzo X d'Este in his failed attempt to gain Ferrara from Niccolò III. In...
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    condottiero Braccio da Montone (1368–1424), condottiero Matteo da Perugia (fl. 1390–1416), composer Niccolò Piccinino (1386–1444), condottiero Agostino di Duccio...
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  • 1792) La serva onorata (basato su Le nozze di Figaro di Lorenzo Da Ponte; set by Niccolò Piccinni, 1792) Le fallaci apparenze (set by Gennaro Astarita,...
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    tragicomico in five acts by Antonio Salieri. The libretto was by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Axur is the Italian version of Salieri's 1787 French-language work Tarare...
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    of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. The city attracts millions of tourists...
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    provides a controlled visual structure to the chaos of the battle scene. Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano (probably c. 1438–1440), egg...
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    request for funds was made to the Senate – until his death in 1597, Antonio da Ponte was responsible for the construction of a substantial building with a large...
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    written by Niccolò Machiavelli at the request of the Medicis. In modern times, their name is affiliated with the Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci, as the...
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  • Capponi da Uzzano 1427 Lorenzo di Bicci Palazzo Lenzi-Quaratesi c. 1430 Michelozzo ? Church of Sant'Ambrogio 14th-15th century Church of San Niccolò sopr'Arno...
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    Pescara II°, Pieve Fanonica, Pisenti, Poggiarello, Polveragna, Ponte San Lazzaro, Ponte Santa Lucia, Pontecentesimo, Popola, Rasiglia, Ravignano, Rio,...
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    but lived in Florence since its foundation. They have been described by Niccolò Machiavelli as being one of the most powerful families of its time, and...
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    various other approximate anagrams of Carlo Goldoni, the three Mozart/Da Ponte collaborations, and the comedies of Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti...
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    Giottino Andrea Orcagna Agnolo Gaddi Antonio Veneziano Giovanni da Santo Stefano (Giovanni dal Ponte) Gherardo Starnina Filippo Brunelleschi Lorenzo Ghiberti...
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    ferry was probably constructed here, about ten metres away from the current Ponte Vecchio, but closer to the ford itself. The Etruscans, however, preferred...
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    birthplace of Guglielmo Embriaco, Christopher Columbus, Andrea Doria, Niccolò Paganini, Giuseppe Mazzini, Renzo Piano and Grimaldo Canella, founder of...
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    Niccolò Bonafede (c. 1464–1533) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Chiusi (1504–1533). Niccolò Bonafede was born at (Monte) San Giusto...
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    this period Florence, under the leadership of Maso degli Albizzi and Niccolò da Uzzano was involved in three wars with Milan (1390–92, 1397–98, 1400–02)...
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    battles and sieges by the Florentine troops led by Antonio da Filicaja, Averardo Salviati and Niccolò Capponi were made, but they failed to conquer the city...
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    January and February 1418, for work done in the church of Santo Stefano del Ponte. The first record of Angelico as a friar dates from 1423, the first reference...
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  • the operas of the Italian composer Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800). Libby, Dennis et al. (1992), "Piccinni, Niccolò" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera...
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