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Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia , 1480-1519, Italian noblewoman, famous figure of the Italian Renaissance; daughter of Pope Alexander VI . Her first marriage (1492) to Giovanni Sforza of Pesaro was annulled in 1497, and she was married to Alfonso of Aragón, illegitimate son of Alfonso II of Naples. Her... Read more |
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Lucrezia Bori
Lucrezia Bori , 1887-1960, Spanish soprano, whose real name was Borja (Ital. Borgia ). She made her debut (1908) in Rome as Micaela in Carmen, later sang Manon Lescaut opposite Caruso in Paris (1910), and was long a leading performer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City (1912-15;... Read more |
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Borgia
Borgia , Span. Borja , Spanish-Italian noble family, originally from Aragón. When Alfonso de Borja, cardinal-archbishop of Valencia, was pope as Calixtus III (1455-58), several relatives followed him to Rome. His nephew Rodrigo became pope as Alexander VI , and Rodrigo's illegitimate... Read more |
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Montserrat Caballe
Montserrat Caballé , 1933-, Spanish soprano, b. Barcelona. After voice study with Eugenia Kemeny and Conchita Badia in Barcelona, she made her operatic debut in Basel, Switzerland, in 1956, singing Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. She became an overnight success with American audiences... Read more |
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Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti , 1797-1848, Italian composer. He studied music in Bergamo and Bologna and achieved success with his first opera, Enrico di Borgogna (1818). His early work was influenced by Rossini, but he later developed his own pleasantly melodic, often sentimental, style. Most popular of his... Read more |
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Alexander VI
Alexander VI 1431?-1503, pope (1492-1503), a Spaniard (b. Játiva) named Rodrigo de Borja or, in Italian, Rodrigo Borgia; successor of Innocent VIII. He took Borja as his surname from his mother's brother Alfonso, who was Pope Calixtus III. Rodrigo became cardinal (1456), vice chancellor of... Read more |
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Barnabe Barnes
Barnes, Barnabe (1571–1609), attempted, in 1598, to kill the recorder of Berwick with poisoned claret, but he successfully evaded sentence. He published a sonnet sequence, Parthenophil and Parthenophe: Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies, and Odes (1593), notable as one of the first of such... Read more |
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Bisceglie
Bisceglie , city (1991 pop. 47,408), Apulia, S Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. It is a seaport, resort, and commercial center. Conquered by the Normans in the late 11th cent., the city later developed a prosperous merchant and military fleet. The duchy of Bisceglie was (16th cent.) a fief of Alfonso of... Read more |
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Calixtus III
Calixtus III Callixtus III, or Callistus III, 1378-1458, pope (1455-58), a Spaniard (b. Játiva) named Alonso de Borja or, in Italian, Alfonso Borgia; successor of Nicholas V. He acted as arbitrator between his friend Alfonso V of Aragón and the papacy, and for this he was made... Read more |
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Pinturicchio
Pinturicchio or Pintoricchio [Ital.,=little painter], c.1454-1513, Umbrian painter whose real name was Bernardino di Betto. A prolific and facile painter, he was influenced by Perugino, with whom he collaborated on the frescoes for the Sistine Chapel. Pinturicchio worked chiefly in Perugia,... Read more |
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