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unusual facts about Gonzaga, Lombardy


Bruno Coppi

Bruno Coppi (born 19 November 1935 in Gonzaga, Lombardy, Italy) is an Italian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics.


A.S.D. MapelloBonate Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica MapelloBonate Calcio or simply MapelloBonate is an Italian association football club, based in Mapello and also representing Bonate Sopra, Lombardy.

Abbadia

Abbadia Cerreto, a municipality in the Province of Lodi, Lombardy

Alojzy Żółkowski

Alojzy Gonzaga Jazon Żółkowski (1814-1889), Polish actor, singer, son of Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga

Andrea Belotti

Born in Calcinate, Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Belotti started his career at the second largest team of the province, then-Serie B club AlbinoLeffe.

Angelo Motta

Angelo Motta was born in the Lombardy commune of Gessate in 1890 and in the early years of the twentieth century served an apprenticeship in Treviglio and Milan as a pasticceria artisan (a pastry baker).

Ardennes classics

Later in the year, there are two similar 'trebles' in Italy: the Trittico Lombardo with the Tre Valli Varesine, Coppa Ugo Agostoni and Coppa Bernocchi in the Lombardy Region, and the Trittico di Autunno (Autumn Triptych) with Milano–Torino, Giro del Piemonte and Giro di Lombardia.

Aurora Seriate Calcio

Aurora Seriate Calcio or simply Aurora Seriate is an Italian association football club, based in Seriate, Lombardy.

Battle of Sirmium

The centre, which had constituted the rearguard on the march, was commanded by Kontostephanos himself, and consisted of the imperial guards units, including the Varangians and Hetaireiai, units of Italian mercenaries from Lombardy (probably lancers) and a unit of 500 armored Serbian allied infantry, as well as the Vlach cavalry.

Besozzi

Besozzi is the surname of an ancient and noble family of Western Insubria still present in Lombardy and Ticino, with dozens of family strains.

Bonarda

Croatina or Bonarda dell'Oltrepò Pavese, grown in Lombardy, around Pavia

Cannero Riviera

Cannero Riviera borders the following municipalities: Aurano, Cannobio, Oggebbio, Trarego Viggiona; and across the lake in the Lombard Province of Varese: Brezzo di Bedero, Germignaga, Luino.

Casorate

Casorate Sempione, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 40 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Varese.

Clipper Smith

Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1898–1984), coach at Gonzaga, Santa Clara, Villanova, San Francisco, and Lafayette and for the Boston Yanks of the NFL

Cosio

Cosio Valtellino, an Italian municipality in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy

Count Manfred Beckett Czernin

His second mission took place in March 1945 when he parachuted in Lombardy, taking command of the operations that led to the surrender of Bergamo.

Crespi d'Adda

Crespi d'Adda is a historical settlement in Capriate San Gervasio, Lombardy, northern Italy.

Davide Luppi

Born in Trescore Balneario, Lombardy, Luppi started his career at Emilian club Bologna.

Education in Spokane, Washington

Higher education institutions in Spokane include two private universities, Gonzaga and Whitworth, Washington State University and Eastern Washington University at the Riverpoint Campus, and the public Community Colleges of Spokane system as well as an ITT Tech campus.

Emilia Galotti

The absolutist prince of Guastalla, Hettore Gonzaga, becomes obsessed with the idea of making Emilia his lover after their first meeting.

Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Mary (1609–1660); married 1627 Charles II of Gonzaga (1609–1631), Duke of Rethel en Nevers

Gian Giacomo Medici

Gian Giacomo Medici (25 January 1498 – 8 November 1555) was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy.

Gianni Bugno

He ran for a seat in Lombard Regional Council in the Lombard regional election, 2010 for the centre left coalition of political parties but he was not elected.

Giovanni Gonzaga

As the lords of Vescovato, they started a branch of the Gonzaga family that survived until the 1990s.

Giuseppe Baldrighi

Born in the town of Stradella, in Lombardy, he initially trained with an unknown painter in Naples, where his family lived.

Gonzaga Cameo

Young Peter Paul Rubens, then in the employ of the Mantuan Duke, admired the Gonzaga cameo as the finest in existence.

Greg Wiltjer

His son, Kyle Wiltjer, played two seasons at the University of Kentucky, serving as a key role-player in 2011–12 on their way to capturing the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, before transferring to Gonzaga after the 2012–13 season.

Heinrich von Brentano

The Brentano family, of Italian (Lombard) origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim.

Hieronymus Medices

He first distinguished himself as professor of philosophy and theology in various houses of the Province of Lombardy, whence he was advanced to a professorship in the more important theological school at Bologna.

Iseo

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

Jean Roemer

At the close of the war he visited the great military establishments of France, Prussia, and Austria, and completed his studies in Lombardy under the guidance and auspices of Field-Marshal Count Radetzky.

John W. Collins

There has been a long-held belief that Collins was Fischer's teacher and coach, as well as a teacher and coach for William Lombardy, Robert Byrne, Donald Byrne, Raymond Weinstein, Salvatore Matera, and Lewis Cohen.

Limits of the Five Patriarchates

Christians ever crowd until Ravenna, Lombardy, and Thessalonika, Slavic, and Scythians, and Avars until Danube river, the ecclesiastical border, and Sardinia, Megara, Carthage, and part of Balearic Islands, and part of Sicily and Calabria, where the winds blow nasty, from the north, from the south, from the west-south, and from the east-south.

Luigi Fenaroli

His bequeathed a broad scientific legacy, including a large Herbarium and photographic archive, as well as his family's botanical garden, in the municipality of Tavernola Bergamasca, on the shore of the pre-alpine Lake Iseo, where he grew plants and crops exotic to the Lombardy region.

Matteo Maria Boiardo

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.

Monasterolo

Monasterolo del Castello, a municipality in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy

Okanagan Falls Provincial Park

In the 1950s, non-native tree species like Chinese elm, Norway maple, Red ash and Lombardy poplar were planted in the park.

Olivia Byington

In her career, Olívia has released several albums: Anjo vadio (1980), Identidad (1981), Para Viver um Grande Amor (1983), Música (1984), Encontro (1984) (Chiquinha Gonzaga Award), Melodia Sentimental (1986), Olivia Byington and João Carlos Assis Brasil (1990) and A Dama do Encantado (1997), the former in tribute to Aracy de Almeida.

Palazzo Castiglioni

The Castiglioni were a prominent family from the Lombard aristocracy since the 10th Century.

Perceval Doria

Between 1228 and 1243 he assumed the character of a podestà in several Provençal and north Italian cities, such as Arles, Avignon, Asti, and Parma.

Porrettana railway

On 14 March 1856, an agreement was signed in Vienna between the Austrian Empire, the Duchy of Parma and Modena, The Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Papal States for the construction of the Central Italian Railway (Italian: Strada Ferrata dell'Italia Centrale) from Piacenza to Pistoia, with a branch to Mantua and anticipating strategic links with the existing lines of Lombardy and Veneto and extensions to Rome.

Princess Leopoldina of Brazil

Leopoldina Teresa Francisca Carolina Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga was born at the Palácio de São Cristóvão ("Palace of St Christopher") in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Rideau Lakes, Ontario

Rideau Lakes contains many villages and hamlets, including Chaffeys Lock, Chantry, Crosby, Daytown, Delta, Elgin, Forfar, Freeland, Harlem, Jones Falls, Lombardy, Morton, Newboro, Newboyne, Phillipsville, Plum Hollow, Portland, Rideau Ferry, and Scotch Point.

Ruggero Bonghi

At Turin he resumed his philosophic studies and his translation of Plato, but In 1858 refused a professorship of Greek at Pavia, under the Austrian government, only to accept it in 1859 from the Italian government after the liberation of Lombardy.

Saint-Félix-Lauragais

In 1167 the Cathars held a Council here, attended by many local figures and also by the Bogomil papa Nicetas, the Cathar bishop of (northern) France and a leader of the Cathars of Lombardy.

Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec

Another version would be that Cardinal Louis-Nazaire Bégin would have wanted to honour his patron saint, Aloysius Gonzaga.

SEA Group

SEA Group (Italian - Societa' Europea Autocaravan; pronounced "sayer") is an Italian head quartered motorcaravan manufacturer, based in Trivolzio, Lombardy.

Silvio Poma

Silvio Poma (Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, 1840 – Turate, Como, 1932) was an Italian painter, mainly painting land and lake-side seascapes of the Lombardy lake district.

The Bashful Lover

In his new magnanimity, Lorenzo allows Matilda a free choice among her three suitors — himself, Hortensio, and a prince of Parma named Uberti; but in eavesdropping on a conversation between Hortensio and Matilda, Lorenzo and Gonzaga come to recognize Hortensio as her worthiest choice.

Torrevecchia

Torrevecchia Pia, a municipality in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy

Varzese-Ottonese-Tortonese

The Varzese-Ottonese-Tortonese is a breed of cattle from the Italian region of Lombardy and neighbouring mountainous areas in Emilia Romagna, Liguria and Piedmont.


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