That night the Gauls, leaving their cavalry and their camp fires as a decoy, withdrew to the town of Faesulae (modern Fiesole) and built defensive obstacles.
In 539 Justinus, the Byzantine general, captured it and razed its fortifications.
Fiesole | Mino da Fiesole | Donatus of Fiesole | Romulus of Fiesole | Nicodemo Ferrucci, ''Stories of Romulus of Fiesole |
Alessandro Serpieri (b. in San Giovanni in Marignano, near Rimini, 31 Oct., 1823; d. Fiesole, 22 Feb., 1885) was an Italian scientist known for work in astronomy and seismology.
The Badia Fiesolana is an old monastery located in the town of San Domenico, in-between Fiesole and Florence.
Florence War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War II located in Italy near Florence in the locality Girone-Compiobbi (municipality of Fiesole), close to the Arno river.
Maria dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, May 18, 1888 – Aix-en-Provence, August 6, 1976), married firstly in Paris, August 3, 1907 as his second wife Antoine XI, 11th Duc de Gramont (Paris, September 22, 1851 – Paris, January 30, 1925), without issue and secondly in Paris, July 23, 1934 as his first wife François Victor-Hugo (Fiesole, April 30, 1889 – Aix-en-Provence, December 29, 1981), great-grandson of Victor Hugo, without issue
Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), author of The Decameron (1353)—one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), aka Marguerite de Valois, et. alii., author of Heptaméron (1559)—seventy-two original French tales (modeled after the structure of The Decameron).
The ensemble, with the current members since 2002, continued their studies with Piero Farulli of the Quartetto Italiano at the Music School of Fiesole and with Hatto Beyerle of the Alban Berg Quartet.
Prior to his move to Tokyo he served as faculty at the Fiesole School of Music near Florence, Italy, at the Lausanne Conservatory in Switzerland, at the Rotterdams Konservatorium in the Netherlands, and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.
Romulus of Fiesole (fl. 1st century), patron saint of Fiesole, Italy
Ferrucci was born in Fiesole into a family of artists, and was probably trained by his father, Simone di Nanni Ferrucci.