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Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi , 1807-82, Italian patriot and soldier, a leading figure in the Risorgimento . He remains perhaps the most popular of all Italian heroes of the Risorgimento, and a great revolutionary hero in the Western world. In South America Garibaldi was born at Nice and as a youth entered... Read more
Giuseppe Mazzini Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini , 1805-72, Italian patriot and revolutionist, an outstanding figure of the Risorgimento . His youth was spent in literary and philosophical studies. He early joined the Carbonari , was imprisoned briefly, and went into exile. In Marseilles he founded the secret society Giovine... Read more
Giuseppe di Lampedusa Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Giuseppe di Lampedusa , 1896-1957, Italian novelist. A wealthy Sicilian prince, Lampedusa drew on his family's history for his internationally acclaimed work, Il gattopardo, published posthumously in 1958 (tr. The Leopard, 1960). In urbane, elegant style, Lampedusa depicts the demise of an old,... Read more
Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi
Marconi, Guglielmo Italian Physicist 1874–1937 Known as the father of radio, Guglielmo Marconi was born April 25, 1874 in Bologna, Italy. He was the younger son of an Italian landowner, Giuseppe Marconi, and Anne Jameson, whose father was the... Read more
Luigi Cadorna Luigi Cadorna
Luigi Cadorna , 1850-1928, Italian field marshal. His father, Raffaele Cadorna, was a general in the wars of the Risorgimento and took Rome in 1870. Luigi Cadorna, a count, became the head of the army general staff and reorganized the Italian army before World War I. Until the Italian defeat at... Read more
Pierre Terrail seigneur de Bayard Pierre Terrail seigneur de Bayard
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Giuseppe Maria Crespi , 1665-1747, Italian painter of the Bolognese school, called Lo Spagnuolo. He is well represented in and around Bologna. His best-known works are the imposing paintings of the Seven Sacraments (1712; Dresden), but he is also noted for his spontaneous rendering of genre... Read more
Giuseppe Cesari Giuseppe Cesari
Giuseppe Cesari called Cavaliere d'Arpino , 1568-1640, Italian late mannerist painter. Cesari's outstanding works are the frescoes in the Capitol and in the Borghese Chapel, Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. Other works are Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise (Louvre); a self-portrait... Read more
Giuseppe MarcAntonio Baretti Giuseppe MarcAntonio Baretti
Baretti, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio (1719–89), born at Turin, came to London in 1751, taught Italian, and became a friend of Dr Johnson. Baretti's standard work, A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages (1760), was clearly influenced by Johnson's dictionary. He also published An... Read more
Giovanni Battista Passeri Giovanni Battista Passeri
Passeri, Giovanni Battista (b Rome, c.1610/15; d Rome, 22 Apr. 1679). Italian painter and writer on art. He is of no significance as a painter, but he is important for his collection of biographies of contemporary artists, Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti che anno lavorato in Roma morti dal... Read more

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