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16 unusual facts about Cremona


Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat

Boniface joined the Cremona League, while the two cities joined the League of Milan.

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.

Henry de Cure

His breakthrough year was in 2008 when he participated in Junior Division at the 2008 Invacare World Team Cup in Cremona, Italy.

Hugh of Italy

A young page educated at Hugh's court at the traditional Lombard capital, Pavia, grew up to be Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, the liveliest chronicler of the 10th century; his loyalty to the memory of Hugh may have helped fuel some of his partisan bitterness in chronicling Hugh's heirs.

J. D. Watt

The native of Cremona, Alberta was originally drafted by the Flames in the 4th round (111th overall) of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.

John-Baptist Hackett

Meetings with Hacket at Milan and Cremona was believed to have influenced Lord Philip Howard, afterwards cardinal, to enter the order of St. Dominic.

Joshua dei Cantori

Joshua dei Cantori was a converted Italian Jew who attacked the Talmud at Cremona in 1559.

Loeiz Honoré

Loeiz Honoré (born 26 January 1961 at La Guerche de Bretagne, France) is a violin maker living in Cremona, Italy since 1978.

Luigi Cremona

His first appointment was as elementary mathematical master at the gymnasium and lyceum of Cremona, and he afterwards obtained a similar post at Milan.

Luisa Vania Campagnolo

She was the founding member of the "Antonio Stradivari" Violin and Bow Makers Consortium of Cremona.

Marco Platania

Marco Platania (born Cremona, 6 May 1973) is a former Italian rugby union player.

Remo Lauricella

Upon his death, his antique Vesuvio Stradivarius (ex antonio brosa) violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1727, was left to the Italian town of Cremona.

Robert Frimtzis

In the DP camps in Cremona, Italy, he discovered ORT schools, where he and two others, out of 400 applicants throughout Italy, were accepted into the Central ORT Institute in Anieres near Geneva, Switzerland.

Second Punic War

The first objective of the insurgents were the Roman colonies of Placentia and Cremona, causing the Romans to flee to Mutina (modern Modena), which the Gauls then besieged.

Transfer of panel paintings

The practice evolved in Naples and Cremona in 1711-25, and reached France by the middle of the eighteenth century.

Trio Ceresio

The concerts held in Italy, the Summer Festival of Verona, Cremona and Switzerland to Schubertiade Festival of Freiburg and in Switzerland, have all had a great success.


1520s in music

Andrea Amati, Italian violin maker, who stands as the first of the Cremona school (d. c.1578)

Agnese del Maino

On 25 October 1441, Bianca Maria was married, in a magnificent ceremony at the Abbey of San Sigismondo in Cremona, to Francesco Sforza, a renowned Condottiero and member of the Condottieri Sforza family.

Akkademja tal-Malti

Initially it was known as L-Għaqda tal-Kittieba tal-Malti (Association of Writers of Maltese), Malta's oldest literary society whose earliest activities go as far back as the early nineteen twenties, led by literary giants like Dun Karm, Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi and Ninu Cremona, it spearheaded the cause of the Maltese language.

Albert Frost

He assisted with the British contribution to the 1987 exhibition of Stradivari instruments in Cremona to commemorate the great violin maker's 250th anniversary; and in 2005 he helped the Royal Academy of Music to purchase the "Viotti ex-Bruce" Stradivarius.

Alessandro Cagno

They competed at the Piacenza Trotting track (Pista del Trotto) and in the Piacenza-Cremona-Borgo-Piacenza road race.

Benedetto Accolti the Younger

He was promoted bishop of Cadiz on 24 July 1521, before reaching canonical age of 27, so he was named administrator after his uncle.Then he was transferred to Cremona on 16 March 1523 again after his uncle and then named Secretary of Pope Clement VII the same year.

Brescia Mechanized Brigade

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

Cremona–Fidenza railway

It was electrified at the end of the 1970s, in order to provide an alternative route (via Treviglio, Cremona and Fidenza) for the freight trains from Milan to the south.

Gaetano and Pietro Sgarabotto

Indeed the activity of the Sgarabotto makers was very influential in the violin making school of Parma, Cremona and elsewhere.

Giovanni Battista Pagliari

In 1810, he restored the Martyrdom of St Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury (1657), originally by Giovanni Battista Natali, found at the church of San Pietro in Cremona.

Giovanni Lucchi

Giovanni Lucchi (born 21 August 1942, Cesena, Italy; died 2 August 2012, Cremona, Italy) was an Italian bow maker noted for founding the first school of bow making in Italy.

Giovanni Stefano Menochio

He was successively superior of Cremona, Milan, and Genoa, rector of the Roman College, provincial of the provinces of Milan and Rome, assistant of Italy, and admonitor to the Fathers-General Caraffa and Piccolomini.

Goito

It was founded as a Roman colony in the early 2nd century BC as a defensive outpost on the Mincio crossing along the Via Postumia from Cremona to Verona.

Guy, Margrave of Tuscany

In order to counter the influence of Pope John X (whom the hostile chronicler Liutprand of Cremona alleges was one of Marozia lovers), Marozia subsequently married his opponent Guy of Tuscany, who loved his beautiful wife as much as he loved power.

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.

Lorenzo Tiepolo

In 1270, an important treaty of peace was signed with Genoa at Cremona, confirming the Venetian predominance in the Adriatic Sea; however, in that same year a war broke out between Venice and a league of Italian cities including Bologna, Treviso, Verona, Mantua, Ferrara, Cremona, Recanati, and Ancona due to commercial disputes.

Luigi Cremona

In 1848, when Milan and Venice rose against Austria, Cremona, then only seventeen, joined the ranks of the Italian volunteers.

Mantova railway station

The most important destinations are Monselice, Rovigo, Verona Porta Nuova, Modena, Milano Centrale, Codogno and Cremona.

Mathijs Heyligers

He studied at the International School of Violin Making of Cremona and at the Violin Making School of Parma under the guidance of Renato Scrollavezza.

Nougat

The first, and most common, is white nougat, made with beaten egg whites and honey; it appeared in Cremona, Italy in the early 15th century and in Montélimar, France, in the 18th century.

Paulus Barbus

Paulus Barbus (Paul Soncinas) (b. at Soncino, Lombardy, from where comes the name of Soncinas which appears at the head of his books; d. at Cremona, 4 August 1494) was an Italian Dominican philosopher and theologian.

Sabbioneta

The church and the summer palace contain frescoes by artists of the Campi family of Cremona.

Salimbene di Adam

He then led a life of wandering, avoiding his father who did not wish him to join the Order, and visited Pisa and other Italian towns; then in 1247 he was sent to Lyon, and visited Paris, Ferrara Cremona, Troyes, Florence, Ravenna, Genoa, Reggio and the friary of Montefalcone (near San Polo d'Enza in the region of Emilia-Romagna).

Sebastiano Galeotti

Sebastiano Galeotti (1656–1746) was a peripatetic Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Florence, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Codogno, Lodi, Cremona, Milan, Vicenza, Bergamo, and Turin.

Sicard of Cremona

In 1205 Sicardo returned to Cremona where he supported Frederick II against the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV of Braunschweig.

Strunal CZ, a.s.

: Parallel to Cremona, A plant in Blatná, the Drevokov cooperative, was experimenting with electric stringed instruments leaded by Josef Ruzicka.

Via Postumia

From Cremona the road ran eastward to Bedriacum, the current town of Calvatone, where it forked, one branch running to the right to Mantua, the other to the left to Verona, crossing the Adige river on the Ponte Pietra, the only bridge on the Adige river at that time, and ending at Aquileia, important military frontier town since Republican times.

Virgin Steele

This tour included the headliner performance at the Biker festival "Motorock" in Cremona (Italy).

William VII, Marquess of Montferrat

Having become the military leader of various Lombard cities, including Pavia, Vercelli, Alessandria, Tortona, Genoa, Turin, Asti, Alba, Novara, Brescia, Cremona, and Lodi, he was also elected head of the anti-Angevin coalition.