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Pesaro (Marche/Italy)   Quick reference

Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2020
Subject:
Names studies, Social sciences, Regional and Area Studies
Length:
30 words

...Pesaro , Marche/Italy ( Pisaurum ) At the mouth of the River Foglia, the ancient name for which was the Isaurus or Pisaurus, the name means ‘Close to the Isaurus (River)’....

Pesaro

Pesaro   Reference library

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Art & Architecture
Length:
315 words

...dell’archivio di stato di Pesaro—secc. XV–XVII (Bologna, 1986) G. Biscontini Ugolini : Ceramiche pesaresi dal XVIII al XX secolo (Bologna, 1986) P. Bonali and R. Gresta : Girolamo e Lanfranco Dalle Gabicce: Maiolicari a Pesaro nel secolo XVI (Rimini, 1987) C. Giardini : Ceramica pesarese nel XVIII secolo: La manifattura Casali e Callegari (Ferrara, 1995) T. Wilson : Mailoche del tardo Rinascimento dipinte a grottesche: Nuove testimonianze della produzione di Pesaro , Fimantiquari , iv/7 (1995), pp. 33–9 C. Giardini : Pesaro, Museo delle ceramiche ...

Pesaro

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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
472 words

...and gave it to Lorenzo de' Medici ( 1516 ). After the pope's death, Francesco Maria resumed possession of his States and began the new Roveresque dynasty that lasted until 1631 , when Pesaro became part of the Papal States. D. Trebbi , Pesaro: storia dei sobborghi e dei castelli , Pesaro, 1988–1991. D. Trebbi , B. Ciampichetti , Pesaro. Storia di una città , Pesaro, 1984. Paolo...

Domenico da Pesaro

Domenico da Pesaro   Reference library

Denzil Wraight

The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
Music
Length:
410 words

...Domenico da Pesaro [ Dominicus Pisaurensis ] ( fl 1533–75 ). Italian keyboard instrument maker active in Venice . More of his instruments have survived than from any other 16th-century maker, comprising seven harpsichords (including two at 4′ pitch), seven polygonal virginals, and one clavichord. The last, in the Musikinstrumenten-Museum, University of Leipzig, and constructed with a type of octave division apparently based on 1/3 comma meantone, is the earliest surviving dated clavichord (1543), although two undated instruments in the same collection...

Guglielmo Ebreo Da Pesaro

Guglielmo Ebreo Da Pesaro (1420)   Reference library

The International Encyclopedia of Dance

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Performing arts, Dance, Music
Length:
3,026 words

... Mesura et arte del danzare: Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro e la danza nelle corti italiane del XV secolo , edited by Patrizia Castelli et al. Pesaro, 1987. Padovan, Maurizio . La danza di corte del XV secolo nei documenti iconografici di area italiana. In Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro e la danza nelle corti italiane del XV secolo , edited by Maurizio Padovan . Pisa, 1990. Padovan, Maurizio , ed. Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro e la danza nelle corti italiane del XV secolo: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Pesaro, 16/18 luglio 1987 . Pisa, 1990. Pescerelli,...

Pesaro

Pesaro  

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During the Renaissance, the Italian city of Pesaro was one of the most important centres of maiolica production. Important patrons included the Sforza family and Isabella d’Este, who decorated her ...
Guglielmo Ebreo Da Pesaro

Guglielmo Ebreo Da Pesaro  

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Performing arts, Dance
(also known as Giovanni Ambrosio; born c.1420 in Pesaro, Italy, died after 1484), Italian dancing master, theorist, and choreographer. Relatively little is known of the private life of this respected ...
Riccardo Zandonai

Riccardo Zandonai  

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(b Sacco, Trento, 28 May 1883; d Pesaro, 12 June 1944).Italian composer. He studied with Mascagni at the Pesaro Liceo Musicale, of which he was director for the last ...
Pandolfo Collenuccio

Pandolfo Collenuccio  

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(1444–1504).Born in Pesaro and educated in Padua, Collenuccio first served the Sforza rulers of Pesaro, but was dismissed when Giovanni Sforza succeeded in 1483. He moved to the service ...
Alfredo Giuliani

Alfredo Giuliani  

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(1924–2007).Critic and poet. Born near Pesaro, he took a degree at Rome University and has pursued an academic career as professor of contemporary literature. He has published various collections ...
Imperiale, Villa

Imperiale, Villa  

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Pesaro, Italy. The spectacular Renaissance summer palace on the slopes of Mount Bartolo was built by Alessandro Sforza between 1469 and 1472 and later enlarged for Francesco Maria della Rovere ...
F.G. Paci

F.G. Paci  

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(b. 1948).Born in Pesaro, Italy, he immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1952 and grew up in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. His education includes a B.A. (1970), and ...
Ruth Rabbah

Ruth Rabbah  

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Midrashic work on the biblical book of Ruth contained in the medieval anthology Midrash Rabbah; probably compiled in Palestine about 500 ce. It was first published in Pesaro in 1519. ...
Lodovico Zacconi

Lodovico Zacconi  

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(1555–1627),Italian musical theorist in Pesaro, San Severino Marche, and Venice, where he studied counterpoint with Andrea Gabrieli. He supplemented his income as a priest by playing harpsichord, ...
Costanza Varano

Costanza Varano  

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(1426–47)grew up in Pesaro, where she was partly educated by her grandmother, Battista Malatesta da Montefeltro, and became an accomplished Latinist; several letters, orations, and poems are ...
Mario Del Monaco

Mario Del Monaco  

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Music, Opera
(b Florence, 27 July 1915; d Mestre, nr Venice, 16 Oct 1982).Italian tenor. He studied at Pesaro and the Rome Opera School. In 1939 while still a student he ...
Thomas Diplovatatius

Thomas Diplovatatius  

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History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
(1468–1541),Greek jurist and legal historian in Italy. Diplovatatius was a native of Corfu who studied law in Padua from 1486 to 1489 and became a magistrate in Pesaro. Book ...
Moshe Basola

Moshe Basola  

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(died 1560), rabbinic figure in sixteenth-century Italy; scion of a French family. Basola held rabbinic posts in various Italian cities: Fano, Pesaro, and Ancona, where he settled prior to 1540. ...
Maurizio Pollini

Maurizio Pollini  

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Music
(b Milan, 1942).It. pianist and conductor. Début at age of 9. Won Warsaw Chopin Comp. 1960. After that appeared in Europe and USA as recitalist and concerto soloist, working often with conductor ...
Giò Pomodoro

Giò Pomodoro  

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(1930–2002)Italian sculptor and designer, born at Orciano di Pesaro. He was self-taught as a sculptor and like his brother Arnaldo worked as a jeweller early in his career. He settled in Milan in ...

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