Francesco
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Francesco is the most common name among males in Italy
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- Francesco BarbaroFrancesco BarbaroFrancesco Barbaro was an Italian politician, diplomat, and humanist from Venice, a member of the patrician Barbaro family. He is interred in the Church of the Frari, Venice.- Family :...
, (1390-1454), Venetian politician. - Francesco Sforza, (1401-1466), Italian condottiero and Duke of Milan
- Francesco BerniFrancesco BerniFrancesco Berni was an Italian poet. He is credited for beginning what is now known as "Bernesque poetry", a serio-comedic type of poetry with elements of satire.-Life:...
, (1497 - 1536), Italian writer; - Antonio Francesco GrazziniAntonio Francesco GrazziniAntonio Francesco Grazzini was an Italian author.-Biography:He was born at Florence of a good family, but there is no record of his upbringing and education. He probably began to practise as an apothecary as a youth...
, (1503-1584) Italian writer; - Francesco PrimaticcioFrancesco PrimaticcioFrancesco Primaticcio was an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France.-Biography:...
, 1504-1570) Italian painter, architect, and sculptor; - Francesco Patrizi, (1529-1597) Italian philosopher and scientist;
- Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of TuscanyFrancesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of TuscanyFrancesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruling from 1574 to 1587.- Biography :...
; (1541-1587) - Francesco Barbaro (Patriarch of Aquileia)Francesco Barbaro (Patriarch of Aquileia)Francesco Barbaro was a Venetian diplomat and an Italian Catholic bishopHe was the great-grandson of Francesco Barbaro and son of Marcantonio Barbaro. From 1578 to 1581 he was ambassador at the court of Savoy...
(1546-1616) - Francesco AlbaniFrancesco AlbaniFrancesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early years in Bologna:Born 1578 in Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he...
, Italian painter; (1578-1660) - Francesco BorrominiFrancesco BorrominiFrancesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.A keen student of the architecture of Michelangelo and the ruins of...
, Swiss sculptor and architect; (1599-1667) - Francesco CavalliFrancesco CavalliFrancesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...
, Italian composer; (1602-1676) - Francesco Maria GrimaldiFrancesco Maria GrimaldiFrancesco Maria Grimaldi was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna....
, Italian mathematician and physicist; (1618-1663) - Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
/designer; (1659-1739) - Francesco BianchiniFrancesco BianchiniFrancesco Bianchini was an Italian philosopher and scientist. He worked for the curia of three popes, including being camiere d`honore of Clement XI, and secretary of the commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a...
, Italian philosopher and scientist; (1662-1729) - Francesco Antonio BonportiFrancesco Antonio BonportiFrancesco Antonio Bonporti was an Italian priest and amateur composer.He was born in Trento. In 1691, he was admitted in the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where he studied theology...
, Italian priest and composer; (1672-1749) - Francesco Scipione, marchese di MaffeiFrancesco Scipione, marchese di MaffeiFrancesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei was an Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays. An antiquarian with a humanist education whose publications on Etruscan antiquities stand as incunabula of Etruscology, he engaged in running skirmishes in print with his rival in the...
, Italian archaeologist; (1675-1755) - Francesco DuranteFrancesco DuranteFrancesco Durante was an Italian composer.He was born at Frattamaggiore, in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and at an early age he entered the Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesù Cristo, in Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano Greco. Later he became a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti at the...
, Italian composer; (1684-1755) - Francesco ManfrediniFrancesco ManfrediniFrancesco Onofrio Manfredini was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician.He was born at Pistoia to a trombonist. He studied violin with Giuseppe Torelli in Bologna, then a part of the Papal States, a leading figure in the development of the concerto grosso...
, Italian composer; (1684-1762) - Francesco GeminianiFrancesco Geminianithumb|230px|Francesco Geminiani.Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.-Biography:...
, Italian violinist and composer; (1687-1762) - Francesco Maria VeraciniFrancesco Maria Veracinithumb|150px|Francesco Maria Veracini.Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.-Life:Francesco Maria Veracini led a turbulent life...
, Italian composer; (1690-1768) - Francesco ZuccarelliFrancesco ZuccarelliFrancesco Zuccarelli was an Italian Rococo painter.He was born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, where he initially apprenticed with Paolo Anesi...
, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 17631763 in art-Events:* Canaletto is elected to the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts.* Francesco Zuccarelli is elected to the Venetian Academy.-Births:* June 26 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes...
; (1702-1788) - Francesco GuardiFrancesco GuardiFrancesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Venetian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting....
, Italian artist; (1712-1793) - Francesco AlgarottiFrancesco AlgarottiCount Francesco Algarotti was an Italian philosopher and art critic.He also completed engravings.He was born in Venice to a rich merchant. He studied at Rome for a year, and then Bologna, he studied natural sciences and mathematics...
, Italian philosopher; (1712-1764) - Francesco Antonio ZaccariaFrancesco Antonio ZaccariaFrancesco Antonio Zaccaria was an Italian theologian, historian, and prolific writer.He joined the Austrian province of the Society of Jesus, in 18 October 1731. Zaccaria taught grammar and rhetoric at Gorz, and was ordained priest at Rome in 1740...
, Italian theologian and historian; (1714-1795) - Francesco CettiFrancesco CettiFrancesco Cetti was an Italian Jesuit priest, zoologist and mathematician.Cetti was born in Mannheim in Germany, but his parents were natives of Como. He was educated in Lombardy and at the Jesuit college at Monza. In 1765 he was sent to Sardinia to help improve the standard of education on the...
, Italian Jesuit scientist; (1726-1778) - Francesco HayezFrancesco HayezFrancesco Hayez was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.-Biography:...
, Italian painter (1791-1882) - Francesco PuccinottiFrancesco PuccinottiFrancesco Puccinotti was an Italian pathologist.Puccinotti was born in Urbino and started his career as the main doctor in Recanati but moved on to Macerata where he became the director of the civil hospital. He went on to teach the history of medicine at the universities of Pisa and Florence...
, Italian pathologist (1794-1872) - Francesco RosiFrancesco RosiFrancesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...
, Italian film maker (1922-) - Francesco MoserFrancesco MoserFrancesco Moser , nicknamed "Lo sceriffo" , is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the dominant riders from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, and won the 1984 Giro d'Italia, the 1977 world road racing championship and six victories in three of the five Monuments...
, Italian cyclist (1951-) - Francesco da MostoFrancesco da MostoFrancesco da Mosto is an Italian architect, author, historian, film maker and television presenter. He presented the three BBC 2 series Francesco's Venice and Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe where he explored the country in his Alfa Romeo Spider and Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage which sees him...
, Italian architect, film maker and TV presenter (1961-) - Francesco AttolicoFrancesco AttolicoFrancesco Attolico is a retired water polo goalkeeper from Italy, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics: 1992, 1996 and 2000.-References:*...
, Italian water polo player (1963-) - Francesco BrunoFrancesco BrunoFrancesco Bruno is an Italian sport shooter. He won a gold medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games, and competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2004....
, Italian sport shooter (1968-) - Francesco PostiglioneFrancesco PostiglioneFrancesco Postiglione is a former swimmer and water polo player from Italy, who represented his native country at four Summer Olympics: 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. At his Olympic debut he competed as a breaststroke swimmer...
, Italian swimmer and water polo player (1972-) - Francesco TottiFrancesco TottiFrancesco Totti, Ufficiale OMRI, is an Italian footballer who is the captain of Serie A club Roma. His primary position is that of a trequartista, though he has also been successfully utilized as a lone striker. Totti has spent his entire career at Roma, is the number-one goalscorer and the most...
, Italian football player for AS Roma (1976-) - Francesco Canova da MilanoFrancesco Canova da MilanoFrancesco Canova da Milano was an Italian lutenist and composer. He was born in Monza, near Milan, and worked for the papal court for almost all of his career. Francesco was heralded throughout Europe as the foremost lute composer of his time...
(Italian lutenist and composer) - Francesco BeschiFrancesco Beschi- Life :Francisco Beschi was born to a railroad worker and his wife in 1951 on the 6th of August in Brescia. He grew up in Brescia and joined the seminary of his diocese in his youth....
, Roman Catholic bishop of Bergamo