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50 unusual facts about Brescia


Åke Ohlmarks

Åke Joel Ohlmarks (June 3, 1911 in Kristianstad, Sweden – 1984 in Crist di Niardo, Brescia, Italy) was a Swedish author, translator and scholar of religion.

Alahis

Alahis (or Alagis) was the Arian duke of Trent and Brescia before becoming king of the Lombards after his successful rebellion in 688.

Alberto Randegger

In 1854 he composed another opera, Bianca Capello, at Brescia.

Alessandro Zampedri

Alessandro Zampedri (born 3 October 1969 in Brescia) is an Italian race car driver.

Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau

The 328 was a dominant sports car in late 1930s Europe and winner of the 1940 Mille Miglia race in Brescia, Italy.

Antoine-Nicolas Bailly

His best-known work overall, although not the most admired, is the Tribunal de commerce de Paris (Commercial Court of Paris) on the Île de la Cité, completed in 1865, which Napoleon III had requested be designed in the style of the town hall of Brescia.

Æthelred of Wessex

In 853 his younger brother Alfred went to Rome, and according to contemporary references in the Liber Vitae of San Salvatore, Brescia, Æthelred accompanied him.

Bartolomeo Maranta

But theriac was a controversial drug; in the 1570s, two physicians were expelled from the College of Physicians in Brescia for overprescribing it, and Maranta had to fend off criticism for substituting an ingredient in the formula.

Berlin Victory Column

The column itself, inspired to Heinrich Strack by the "torre faro" of Rodolfo Vantini (which stands in the monumetal cemetery of Brescia), consists of four solid blocks of sandstone, three of which are decorated by cannon barrels captured from the enemies of the aforementioned three wars.

BMS Scuderia Italia

Named after the original Latin name for the team's base of Brescia, Brixia Motor Sport campaigned an Alfa Romeo GTV6 in the Italian Rally Championship before replacing it with a Lancia 037 in 1985.

Brescia Mechanized Brigade

Along with the Cremona Brigade in Brescia and the 6th Field Artillery Regiment it formed the 6th Division of the Line.

Brooklands Trust Members

Construction of Brooklands motor racing circuit began in 1906 after the land owner, Hugh Fortescue Locke-King, visited the Targa Florio and Brescia, Italy and wanted to create a place in England where motor racing could occur away from normal public roads.

Carlo Giannini

Carlo Giannini (10 July 1948, Brescia – 11 September 2004, Pavia) was an econometrician and mathematical economist who taught at the Universities of Ancona, Bergamo, Calabria, Milan and Pavia during the period 1976–2004.

Clive Burgess

Born in Manmoel on 25 November 1950, Robert Clive Burgess joined Ebbw Vale from Croesyceiliog RFC and was a superb servant to the Eugene Cross Park club, for whom he made more than 200 appearances, before finishing his career in Italy with Brescia.

Cunipert

Soon after his assumption of the sole kingship, Cunincpert was ousted by Alahis, duke of Brescia (who had previously been duke of Trento).

Curtiss No. 2

After Reims, Curtiss took the aircraft to Italy, where he won events at a competition at the Air Show in Brescia in September.

Delfo Zorzi

In the meanwhile, Hagen has been investigated and sent to a higher court for the Piazza della Loggia bombing in Brescia, a crime of which he is still accused of.

Eastern Lombard grammar

The present day situation sees a large number of varieties, roughly identifiable by the area where a particular variety is spoken (so, you may encounter a Bergamasque, Brescian, a Camunic variety, etc.).

Ezio Gamba

Ezio Gamba (born 2 December 1958 in Brescia) is a retired judoka from Italy, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics (1976, 1980, 1984 and 1988).

FNAB-43

The first prototype was built in 1942 and the 7,000 built by the FNA-B (Fabbrica Nazionale d'Armi di Brescia, "Brescia National Arms Factory", hence the name) were issued to German and Italian RSI (Repubblica Sociale Italiana) units fighting in Northern Italy.

Francesco Maria Preti

He trained in the University of Brescia, and returned to rebuild San Liberale, the cathedral of Castelfranco.

Gherardo III da Camino

A guelph exponent, in 1278 he signed an alliance with Padua, Cremona, Brescia, Parma, Modena and Ferrara against the Ghibelline Verona.

Giulio Bevilacqua

Giulio Bevilacqua, Orat (November 14, 1881 – May 6, 1965) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of Brescia from 1965 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

On February 15, 1965, Bevilacqua was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brescia and Titular Archbishop of Gaudiaba by Paul VI, in advance of his elevation to the College of Cardinals.

Great Hall of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

In addition to this main hall, there are others located in the satellite campuses (Rome, Brescia, Piacenza and Campobasso).

Heiichiro Ohyama

Ohyama has always been in demand as a violist and has performed throughout the United States and abroad as recitalist and chamber musician at festivals including Casals Festival, Kuhumo International Festival (Finland), Johannesen International Music Festival (Canada), Okinawa Moon Beach Music Festival (Japan), Brescia and Bergamo Festivals (Italy), Chamber Music Northwest, Sarasota Music Festival and Caramor Chamber Music Festival.

History of the violin

Many archive documents testify that from 1485-95 Brescia was the cradle of a magnificent school of string players and makers, all called with the title of "maestro" of all the different sort of strings instruments of the Renaissance: viola da gamba (viols), violone, lyra, lyrone, violetta and viola da brazzo.

Irisbus Arway

In Italy, it is in service with public transport companies at Piacenza, Ferrara, Brescia and Lodi and in Spain can be found in public transport companies of, for example, Madrid.

Jacobus Malvecius

c. 1432) was a Renaissance-era doctor and historiographer of Brescia.

Jacques Pierre Abbatucci

He studied at the Jesuit collège in Brescia, before graduating with a doctorate in medicine from the university of Padua in 1746.

Jimmy George

An indoor stadium in Italy was dedicated in his memory at Montichiari, Brescia, and an annual junior tournament is organized in his memory.

Johannes Pramsohler

Pramsohler plays on a 1713 Pietro Giacomo Rogeri made in Brescia and previously owned by Reinhard Goebel.

Khoi Ratta

Aqib Hussain belongs to Darbaar Mai Totti and presently living in Brescia-Italy having own business of Autolavaggio.

Liège-Brescia-Liège

The Royal Motor Union of Liège, Belgium, organisers of the Liège-Rome-Liège Rally (and later the Liège-Sofia-Liège and other events), under its Commissaire-Général Maurice Garot, decided to create a rally specifically for these tiny cars, to test them thoroughly and find out which, if any, were really capable of transporting two people at a good speed over all types of road conditions.

Marc Iavaroni

Iavaroni also played professionally in Brescia, Forlì and Málaga before retiring in 1992, playing a total of six seasons in Italy and Spain: four after his college career and two following his NBA career.

Massimo Bonomi

Massimo Bonomi (born Brescia, 22 June 1967) is a former Italian rugby union player and a sports manager.

Bonomi played for Rugby Brescia (1985/86-1989/90), Amatori Rugby Milano (1990/91-1997/98), where he won 4 titles of the Italian Championship, in 1990/91, 1992/93, 1994/95 and 1995/96, and the Cup of Italy, in 1994/95, being a key player for the team, Amatori Calvisano (1998/99-2002/03), and Poncarale (2003/04-2006/07), where he would finish his career, aged 40 years old.

Matteo Alberti

Matteo Alberti (born 4 August 1988 in Brescia, Italy) is an Italian footballer, who is currently a free agent after he was released by Queens Park Rangers.

Mauring, Duke of Spoleto

He succeeded his father in Brescia as count (Brixiae comes) in 822 and, following the brief reign of Adelard, in Spoleto as duke in August 824.

Nova Bréscia

Nova Bréscia is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, settled by Italian immigrants from Brescia.

Odoardo Tabacchi

He also completed a larger than life marble, later bronze, statue of Arnaldo da Brescia, exhibited in Turin in 1880.

Phil Bayton

Together they finished third behind Felice Grimondi and Martin Rodriguez in front of 50,000 fans in the Brescia football stadium.

Pierluigi Magri

Pierluigi Magri (born 14 March 1940 in Brescia) is a retired Italian footballer that played in the role of central midfielder.

The Aeroplanes At Brescia

It describes an airshow in the Italian town Brescia, which Kafka saw with two of his friends (Max and his brother Otto Brod) during their journey to Italy.

Uberto Gambara

Uberto Gambara was born in Brescia on January 23, 1489, the son of Gianfrancesco Gambara and Alda Pio di Carpi.

Ursulines of Quebec

The Ursulines are a Roman Catholic (Christian) religious order founded at Brescia, Italy by Saint Angela de Merici in 1535, primarily for the education of girls and the care of the sick and needy.

Valentino Siani

Valentino Siani (c.1595–1672) was an Italian violinmaker who worked in Brescia and Florence.

Versus de Verona

The anonymous poet, in competition with Milan, lists some Milanese saints (lines 63–64) and some cities which praise Verona, "the gateway to the bounds of Liguria": Aquileia, Mantua, Brescia, Pavia, Rome, and Ravenna; Milan is notably omitted.

Yasmin Le Bon

Each year, the three-day event passes through nearly 200 Italian towns from Brescia to Rome and back, recreating the original races which took place between 1927 and 1957.

Zoe Incrocci

Born in Brescia, Incrocci was the older sister of the screenwriter Age.


Acciaioli family

Descent can be traced in an unbroken line from one Gugliarello Acciaioli in the 12th century; family legend says that Gugliarello (a name possibly derived from It. guglia, needle) migrated from Brescia to Florence in 1160 because they were Guelphs and fled Barbarossa's invasion of Northern Italy.

Ada Sari

Between 1912 and 1914 she had major successes at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi, the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, the Teatro Dal Verme, the Teatro Regio di Parma, the Teatro del Giglio, the opera house in Brescia and the Teatro di San Carlo.

Città di Brescia International Violin Competition

The violinists who have obtained the acknowledgement are Dora Schwartzberg, USA, winner of the first edition in 1979, Luca Fanfoni, Italy (1988), Silvia Simionescu, Romania (1990) Gabriele Pieranunzi, Italy (1993), Anton Sokorow, Russia (1999), Alexis Nagovitsyn, Russia (2001) (who died a few days after his performance in Brescia) and Yusuke Hayashi, Japan (2010).

Crime in Italy

Cities such as Turin, Milan, Monza Brescia, Padua, Vicenza, Venice( Mestre ), Verona, Bologna, Genoa in the North frequently suffer a wide diversity of frequent offences ranging from extensive drug trade, homicides, etc.

Domenico Brescia

In 1926, Brescia worked with writer George Sterling to compose the music for Sterling's Grove Play entitled Truth.

Franciacorta DOCG

The still wines from this area have ancient traditions, referred to by Virgil and Pliny the Elder, and documented in Brescia City council books as "Franzacurta" as far back as in 1277, but were not called Franciacorta until 1957, when Guido Berlucchi released a white wine named Pinot di Franciacorta.

Giovanni Paolo Maggini

Giovanni Paolo Maggini (c. 1580 - c. 1630), was a string maker born in Botticino (Brescia), Italy.

Iseo

Lake Iseo, a lake in the Provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, Lombardy

Jason Michael Brescia

During the production of the film, the producers asked Brescia to write in roles for Andy Milonakis, Kevin Nash, Jason Mewes, G. W. Bailey, and Mindy Sterling, to help ensure that the film be sold.

Lauren Liebenberg

She attended Brescia House School, an independent Catholic day school for girls situated in Bryanston.

Lombard League

Formed at Pontida on 1 December 1167, the Lombard League included—beside Verona, Padua, Vicenza and Venice—cities like Crema, Cremona, Mantua, Piacenza, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Vercelli, Lodi, Parma and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and Ezzelino da Romano.

Luigi Maifredi

Born in Lograto (Province of Brescia), over the course of his career Maifredi has managed at several clubs such as Bologna, Brescia and others, though he is most noted for his short spell with Juventus, where he lost six games in a row and got sacked.

Marco Tasca

He entered the Order at Camposampiero on September 29, 1968, where he attended lower Primary school before going to the Seraphic Seminary of Pedavena (Belluno), and then to Brescia for his last years at the Lyceum-Minor Seminary.

Mille Miglia

Together with a group of wealthy associates, they chose a race from Brescia to Rome and back, a figure-eight shaped course of roughly 1500 km — or a thousand Roman miles.

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

Niccolò experienced further tragedy in 1512 when the French invaded Brescia during the War of the League of Cambrai.

Paolo Brescia

Paolo Brescia is an Italian architect and founder of Open Building Research.

From 1998, Brescia worked with Renzo Piano till the establishment of the Open Building Research in 2000.

Pioltello-Limito railway station

Pioltello-Limito is served by the lines S5 and S6 of Milan suburban railway network, by the regional trains MilanBrescia, and by the RegioExpress trains MilanBergamo and MilanVerona.

Stefan Marinković

Already a member of the Switzerland U-17 national team at age 16, Ajax won the young player over ahead of Juventus, Sampdoria, Brescia, Nancy and Valenciennes, all who were in running for the young defender.

Visovac Monastery

The rich monastery library includes particularly rare incunabula of Aesop's fables (Brescia 1487) printed by the Lastovo printer Dobrić Dobričević (s. Lastovo), a collection of documents (the sultan'sedicts) and a sabre belonging to Vuk Mandušić, one of the best-loved heroes of Serbian epic poetry.