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23 unusual facts about Ferrara


Antonio Ravalli

Antonio Ravalli (b. in Ferrara, Italy, 1812; d. at St. Mary's, Montana, USA, 2 October 1884) was an Italian Jesuit missionary, active in the western United States.

Augustinus Olomucensis

On April 16, 1494 he obtained the degree of a doctor in canon law in Ferrara.

Aurelio Saffi

He received an education in jurisprudence in Ferrara, but began political activity in his native city, protesting against the bad administration of the Papal legates.

Bolognese bell ringing art

This method soon spread through the city and its many bell towers, and reached nearby cities such as Ferrara, Modena and Faenza.

Chronica parva Ferrariensis

The Chronica parva Ferrariensis was a short chronicle of the history of Ferrara up to 1264 written by Riccobaldo da Ferrara in the years 1313-17.

Crichton Castle

Francis Stewart, the designer, had travelled to Italy, and was inspired by new styles and technology in buildings there, particularly the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara (c. 1582).

De sphaera mundi

The first printed edition appeared in 1472 in Ferrara, and at least 84 editions were printed in the next two hundred years.

Dietrich Gresemund

In 1498 he received the degree of doctor legum at Ferrara, and in 1499 he matriculated at Heidelberg.

Freeman Etudes

Négyesy also performed the last two books of the Etudes in the same year in Ferrara, Italy.

Giovanni Perrone

From Ferrara, where he was rector of the Jesuit College after 1830, he returned to his teaching work in Rome, being made head of his old college in 1850.

Gittern

Charles V of France's court recorded four, including one of ivory, while the courts of Este and Ferrara recorded the hiring of gittern masters.

House of Bentivoglio

A son of Giovanni II, Annibale II (1469-1540), married Lucrezia d'Este, an illegitimate daughter of Duke Ercole I of Ferrara, in 1487.

Innocentio Alberti

When the Accademia was dissolved in 1560 Alberti went to work for the Este court in Ferrara, where he remained on the court rolls until the court's dissolution in 1598.

Jacquet de Berchem

Some of his music written during this time and the early 1550s is dedicated to Alfonso II d'Este; he may have been looking for employment with the Este court in Ferrara, but no evidence of his employment there has turned up.

Jean-Baptiste de Voglie

Descended from the Ferrara branch of the Bentivoglio, Jean de Voglie entered the Corps of Bridges and Roads in France in 1742 and was appointed under-engineer to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet at Alençon.

Laura Peverara

Alfred Einstein identified Laura as a member of the renowned musica secreta ensemble il Concerto delle donne in Ferrara.

Livia d'Arco

Livia d'Arco (c. 1565–1611) was an Italian singer in the court of Alfonso II d'Este in Ferrara.

Modena Codex

By the mid-1430s, the manuscript had been moved to the Este family library in Ferrara, where it remained until the family library holdings were moved to Modena.

Obertenghi

Eastern Liguria at this time contained the counties of Genoa, Luni, Tortona, Bobbio, Parma and Piacenza, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Ascoli Piceno.

Parisina Malatesta

She married Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, in Ravenna in 1414, whose first wife Gigliola da Carrara died a few years before and was welcomed by a Ferrara ravaged by plague.

Tedald of Canossa

Tedald (died 1012), of the House of Canossa, was the count of Brescia from 980, Modena, Ferrara, and Reggio from 981, and Mantua from 1006.

The Chances

One is led by the Duke of Ferrara, the man Costantia was expecting to meet; the other is led by Petrucchio, the governor of Bologna and Costantia's brother.

Vittoria Colonna

In 1537, we find her at Ferrara, where she made many friends and helped to establish a Capuchin monastery at the instance of the reforming monk Bernardino Ochino, who afterwards became a Protestant.


1583 in music

Cornet virtuoso Luigi Zenobi relocates to Ferrara, becoming the most highly paid musician at the Este court.

Abertijne Malcourt

The only record of his having been a composer is the attribution to "Malcort" in a Ferrarese manuscript of the textless rondeau Malheur me bat; while this Malcort may have been Hendrick Malecourt, who was a singer in Bergen op Zoom around the same time, and worked directly with Obrecht, Abertijne Malcourt is currently considered to be the most likely candidate.

Al Ferrara

In 1974 Ferrara appeared as a contestant on Match Game '74, listing his profession as a "freelance piano dealer." Ferrara played to a zero-zero tie against defending champion Marlena Cruz; Cruz won the game 1–0 in a tiebreaker match.

Aldo Capitini

It was successful and spread to other cities, including Ferrara, Florence, Bologna, Lucca, Arezzo, Ancona, Assisi and Naples, but it failed to establish itself permanently because of the indifference of the Left and the hostility of the Christian Democratic Party.

Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio

The legitimacy of the succession was recognized by the Emperor Rudolph II but not by Pope Clement VIII: thus, as Ferrara was nominally a Papal fief, the city was returned to the Papal States, despite the attempts of the young duke, who sought help from the Major Powers to no avail.

Antonio Brucioli

Having been first denounced in 1548 and found guilty of disseminating heretical materials (but not of heresy), he fled to the tolerant court of Ferrara and the protection of Renata d'Este.

Azzo X d'Este

Born into a cadet branch of the family, he contested the seigniory of Ferrara to the young Niccolò III, an illegitimate son of marquess Alberto d'Este who was under the protection of Pope Benedict IX and Venice.

Bartolomeo Tromboncino

Until around 1500 he lived and worked in Mantua, though he made occasional trips to adjacent cities such as Ferrara, Este, Vicenza, Milan, and Pavia, especially when he was in trouble.

Battle of Elaia–Kalamas

The Italian "Ciamuria" Corps, spearheaded by the 51st Siena and 23rd Ferrara Infantry Divisions, as well as by the 131st Centauro Armoured Division, attacked toward Kalpaki (Elaia), while on its right it was supported by a small brigade-sized "Littoral Group" of ca.

Battle of Polesella

When Duke Alfonso I d'Este entered Ferrara five days later, his wife Lucrezia Borgia was waiting for him with her maids of honour, the court and the jubilant population.

Brian Ferrara

In the same interview, Ferrara says he was inspired to get into the comic book industry by such titles as Heavy Metal, Mad, Wolverine and Punisher from Marvel, Lobo and Batman from DC, Evil Ernie, The Crow, The Tick, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Cardinals created by Gregory XVI

# Gabriele della Genga Sermattei, archbishop of Ferrara – cardinal priest of S. Girolamo degli Schiavoni (received the title on 21 November 1836), died 10 February 1861

Castello Estense

The itinerary of the restoration of the castle has gone through important steps to remember: the exhibition "The Triumph of Bacchus" inaugurated in 2002 by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and the art exposition "The Este in Ferrara" opened on 14 March 2004 by the President of the European Commission Romano Prodi.

Christopher Ferrara

Ferrara and Gruner were invited to speak by the sponsors of the motion, MEPs Mario Borghezio and Lorenzo Fontana.

Eugenio Miccini

He participated in the most important international exhibitions, such as: Biennale di Venezia (four times), Quadriennale of Rome (as commissar), Stedelijik Museum of Amsterdam, Palazzo Forti of Verona, Palazzo Vecchio of Florence, Museums of Marseille, GAM, Palazzo dei Diamanti of Ferrara.

Execrabilis

Encouraged by this decree, a rump of bishops defiantly continued to meet at Basel even after Pope Eugene IV had transferred the main body of the Council of Basel to Ferrara.

Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph

Expelled with other Jews by Pope Pius V, and suffering a loss of 10,000 gold pieces, he went to Pesaro, and thence to Ferrara, where he remained till 1575.

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.

Girolamo Rainaldi

For Francesco d’Este, who, with the loss of the Este seat of Ferrara to the Papal States, concentrated his patronage in his Duchy of Modena, Rainaldi contributed to the construction of the Ducal Palace to supplant the ancient castello, and was in particular charged with the layout and elaborate hydraulics of its gardens, with giochi di acque and a theater clipped in green hedges, 1631-34 (Roganti).

Guido Bentivoglio

A member of the Ferrara branch of the influential Bentivoglio family of Bologna, he was the younger son of marchese Cornelio Bentivoglio and Isabella Bendidio.

HWY: An American Pastoral

HWY: An American Pastoral is a film by Jim Morrison, Frank Lisciandro, Paul Ferrara, and Babe Hill and stars Morrison as a hitchhiker.

Interdict

On 23 June 1482, Pope Sixtus IV decreed an interdict against the Republic of Venice, unless it abandoned within 15 days its siege of Ferrara.

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.

Isabella Bendidio

Isabella Bendidio (Marchesa Bentivoglio) (13 September 1546 – after 1610) was a Ferrarese noblewoman who, along with her sister Lucrezia Bendidio, sang in the first incarnation of the concerto delle donne as part of the court's musica secreta.

John Hothby

He appears to have left England after 1435 but most of the references to him in surviving sources are to the last twenty years of his life, by which time he had taken holy orders as a Carmelite monk and he claimed in his own work to have travelled in Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, before he went to a monastery in Ferrara and then in 1467 took employment in Lucca, probably teaching music at the Cathedral.

Josquin des Prez

Josquin went directly from Ferrara to his home region of Condé-sur-l'Escaut, southeast of Lille on the present-day border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the collegiate church of Notre-Dame on 3 May 1504, a large musical establishment that he headed for the rest of his life.

Juan Ferrara

Due to the novela's overwhelming popularity in Puerto Rico, the network decided to bring Ferrara back in 1985, to film a telenovela called Tanairi.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

The MCO has stable residencies in Ferrara (Ferrara Musica, honorary president: Claudio Abbado), Aix-en-Provence (Festival international d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence), Toblach (Gustav Mahler Musikwochen), Lucerne (Lucerne Festival), Salzburg (Mozartwochen) and Landshut.

Manuel Villegas Piñateli

In the book he talks about the travels by Jesuit father Antonio Possevino (born 1534, Ferrara, Italy; died February 26, 1611) acting as papal legate circa 1580.

Matteo Maria Boiardo

In 1473 he joined the retinue which escorted Eleonora of Aragon, the daughter of Ferdinand I, to meet her spouse, Ercole, at Ferrara.

Up to the year of his marriage to Taddea Gonzaga, the daughter of the Count of Novellara (1472), he had received many marks of favour from Borso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, having been sent to meet Frederick III (1469), and afterwards visiting Pope Paul II (1471) in the train of Borso.

Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae

The revival of classical drama at the court opened the way to a "lively tradition of secular theatre that lasted through the sixteenth century and is significant for the pre-history of opera." During his reign, the architect Biagio Rossetti enlarged the city and built new streets and palazzi making Ferrara the first planned city in Europe.

Popes during the Age of Revolution

The price of persuading the French intruder to head north again, agreed in the Treaty of Tolentino, was a massive indemnity, the removal of many works of art from the Vatican collections and the surrender to France of Bologna, Ferrara and the Romagna.

S.P.A.L. 2013

At the end of the 2012-13 Serie D season the club took back its original denomination: in fact Giacomense a club founded in 1967 of Masi San Giacomo, a frazione of Masi Torello moved to city of Ferrara and changed its name to S.P.A.L. 2013 in order to continue the soccer history of S.P.A.L..

Sonia Bo

After completing her studies, she taught music at universities in Ferrara, Verona, Pesaro and Piacenza.

The Bacchanal of the Andrians

The painting is now held at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, but it was commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este for his Camerini d'alabastro ('chambers of alabaster') in Ferrara.