Carlo Gesualdo, also known as the Prince of Venosa, was an Italian composer, lutenist, and murderer. He was born on March 30, 1566 in Venosa, Italy . His parents, Fabrizio II Gesulado and Girolama Borromeo, were feudal landowners who had quite the riches to own many palaces. In addition, he had one older brother named Luigi who died in 1584 which put a burden on Gesualdo’s shoulders because he was then responsible for the success of his family heir. In terms of his musical life, Carlo Gesualdo became interested in music when he was a young boy. He learned to sing and play the lute and harpsichord. At the age of 20, he married Donna Maria d’Avalos. Apparently, she was his cousin who had two children from two former husbands prior to marrying Carlo. After they married, they soon had a son and named him Emmanuele. For a few years, Carlo focused his attention on his wife and set aside his musical hobbies. Unfortunately, his passion for music overpowered his interest in his wife. As a result, his wife had an affair with Don Fabrizio Carafa, also known as the Duke of Andria. Carafa was also married with four children. It is said that both Donna Maria and Don Fabrizio bribed their servants to keep the affair a secret. However, Carlo’s uncle, Don Guilio, soon exposed Donna Maria’s unfaithfulness to her husband. Donna Maria was advised to stop meeting with Don Fabrizio to let things settle down, but she was stubborn and continued to meet with Don Fabrizio indiscreetly. It is believed that Carlo Gesualdo staged the murders of his wife and her lover. According to old stories, Carlo pretended to be on a hunting trip only to lure Don Fabrizio to come over to his house while he was gone. Carlo then broke the bedroom door down only to find that...
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... murders and unusual rituals. Towards his death, it is said that he made arrangements to be whipped by hired ten young male servants at least 3 times day. He somehow found comfort through the beatings and preferred that they inflict extreme pain as to the point that he cannot stand or sit. According to Ross, “He found it soothing to receive blows on the temple and other parts of the body.” Overall, Gesualdo had nothing to be proud of except for his musical accomplishments. He was either betrayed or he himself ruined his own interpersonal relationships. According to Lumis, sources claim that Gesualdo had the pine trees around his house cut down so that he could see potential attacks from people especially those avenging the murders against Donna Maria and Don Fabrizio. At the time, Gesualdo could not be arrested by authorities due to his rank as the Prince of Venosa.
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Matteo Carcassi was a famous Italian guitarist and composer. Carcassi first studied the piano, but learned guitar when still a child. He spent most of his time in Paris, but in 1823 he performed concerts that made him famous as a guitarist and a teacher. His talents were not recognized in Paris partly due because Fedinando Carulli was there at the time.
Charles Ponzi was born Carlo Ponzi in Lugo, Italy. His parents were far from wealthy but had an enormous reputation which placed them in aristocracy. From an early age, Ponzi’s mother placed high expectations on him. She had hoped he would restore the family to its former social and financial rank (Zuckoff, 20).
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With the earliest recordings coming from the Fifth Century B.C., streptococcus pyogenes, and more frequently, its symptoms have been prevalent among doctors and historians for hundreds of years. The first mentioning of streptococcus pyogenes is to be credited to Hippocrates, in which he describes the relative symptoms of the flesh-eating bacteria in its early stages. Then depicted by Billroth in 1874, patients carrying erysipelas were determined to have this certain bacterial infection. In 1883, the chain-forming bacteria were isolated by Fehleisen; and in the following year, Rosenbach applied the S. pyogenes name. Further advances in hemolytic and non-hemolytic studies were made by Lancefield in the 1930’s, in which the alpha, beta, and gamma subgroups of the hemolytic structures – detailed and defined by Schottmueller and Brown - were divided into serotypes.
Born in 1556, Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer who worked for the St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice. During his time there, he composed works for separate choirs for both vocal and instrumental performers. One of his most famous pieces comes from his Sacrae Symphoniae completed in 1597; the Sonata Pian e Forte. Gabrieli was both a composer and organist in Renaissance and Baroque transitional period which caused elements of both periods to be demonstrated within his compositions. With instrumental music becoming more popular, it was becoming quite common during this time to have a composer who also played an instrument, especially the piano or organ. Sonata Pian e Forte gained fame from being a work that demonstrated a few characteristics and ideas about sound that had yet to be seen or often used.
According to popular belief, Lucrezia Borgia murdered several of her lover’s, but, this is entirely mistaken. When Lucrezia was only a young girl, her father searched for someone for her to wed. After examining two beneficial candidates, he arranged for her to marry Giovanni Sforza. “Lucrezia was betrothed to a Spanish gentleman, the marriage, however, never took place” (James). Shortly after the marriage, Pope Alexander VI and Cesare Borgia decided they were unsatisfied with the couple and deemed Giovanni useless. They claimed, to the public, that Giovanni was not completing his duties in the relationship. Giovanni was forced to confess to this; therefore, he was exiled from Rome and forced to annul his marriage with Lucrezia. Her second lover, who lasted shorter than Giovanni, was Pedro Calderon. Th...
Born in 1474, the eldest child of the Duke Ercole I and his Duchess Leonora of Aragon. All of Ferrara rejoi...
Claudio Monteverdi was born on May 15, 1567, in Cremona Italy, Monteverdi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and the Early Baroque, and is known as the first great composer of the operas. Monteverdi is often view as a composer of the Renaissance and of the Baroque, there is a similar pattern in that is continuous that is often viewed through his work in both styles. Monteverdi often was known as a dramatic composer, while bringing a tremendous meaning from the text he set that often turned each of his pieces into a believable musical and also produced a dramatic statement.
Randolfo Carlo III is the only one in his family to graduate. He has been through the worst and the best times of life. He was born in NY and lived in almost every borough in NY. He has moved over 28 times in his life. “You will always have struggles, but you need to overcome adversity to be where you want to be”.
On returning to Italy Cardano lived in Pavia. He gained a reputation for being: a heavy gambler, a cheat, and other accusations. Cardano was said to have cut on of his sons ears off in a fit of rage and another son’s head cut off for the crime of murder. Cardano then later took the chair at Bologna University. On October 14 1570 Cardano was sent to jail for the charge of sorcery for predicting the horoscope of Jesus Christ. On the request of the Pope Cardano was then released from prison, the only catch to this was that he was to never teach again in the states of Papal States. In 1571 Cardano moved to Rome on the request of the Pope. His job in Rome was to give predictions to the Pope on his behalf. He was given pension for his service until his death in 1576 on the 21st of September. This was 3 days short of his 75th birthday, (AS HE PREDICTED). It was said that Cardano starved himself to death in order to ensure that his prediction came true.
Being very conscious of his son’s talents, Ser Piero moved to Florence with Leonardo and his wife (not Leonardo’s mother, as he was illegitimate and never took his father’s name) to utilise them professionally. Being a friend of the artist and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-88), Ser Piero convinced him to recruit Leonardo as an apprentice by the promise shown in his work. Verrocchio strongly encouraged da Vinci, and his admiration of his student's talents convinced Verrocchio to allow Leonardo to participate in the creation of his own paintings and sculptures.
Despite the prejudice of society not allowing Carlo Guercio to live as freely as a homosexual as he would wish, his goodness triumphs as he is able to care for those he loves. When his love, Francesco, dies, Guercio's kind and loving nature comes through as he buries him with his mouse and goes to his mother to tell her of her son's death. He is kind enough to spare her from the truth about the brutality of her son's death, saying that "he died with a smile on his lips". Despite losing his loved one, Guercio's strong character and goodness allow him to go on and love again. This time the object of his affection is Captain Corelli, for whom he eventually sacrifices his life.
There are many popular artists in the world well known for their style in paintings and artwork. One well-known artist, which is very appealing, is Leonardo Da Vinci. He was one of the best creators and artist. He was born in Vinci, Italy just outside Florence in 1452 on April 15 and then later died at age 67 in Amboise, France, in the year of 1519 May 2. His mother was a peasant woman and his father was a notary. His father took custody of him shortly after his birth, while his mother married someone else. With all the children added up from his two birth parents were a total of 17 half sisters and brothers. Leonardo has long been looked upon as the archetypal Renaissance Man (Richter.) Leonardo Da Vinci was described as a man with “great personal appeal, kindness, and generosity.” He was generally well loved by his contemporaries.