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19 unusual facts about Piacenza


Domenico Palmieri

Domenico Palmieri (born in Piacenza, Italy, 4 July 1829; died in Rome, 29 May 1909) was an Italian Jesuit theologian.

Federico Ghizzoni

Ghizzoni’s has spent his entire career at UniCredit, with his first role as customer relations manager at a branch in his town of origin, Piacenza.

Ferrari 125 S

Although preceded by Enzo Ferrari's Auto Avio Costruzioni 815 of 1940, the 125 S was the first vehicle to bear the Ferrari name when it debuted on May 11, 1947 at the Piacenza racing circuit.

The 125 S debuted at the Circuito di Piacenza, driven by Franco Cortese, but was unable to finish the race, despite a favorable showing against the strong Maserati 6CS 1500s.

Fulk of Pavia

Then, after his studies in Paris, he became archpriest and bishop of Piacenza.

Girolamo Parabosco

He was born in Piacenza, the son of a famous organist, Vincenzo Parabosco.

Giulio Romano Vercelli

There are collections of his art in Buenos Aires, Curitiba, Genoa, Gualeguay, Montecatini Terme and Piacenza.

Guy Pallavicini

He was the second son of the Marquis Guglielmo Pallavicino (also known as Pelavicino), a descendant of the Obertenghi of Liguria, who ruled over a series of fiefs in the area between Parma and Piacenza which were known collectively as the Pallavicino State.

Il Cromuele

In contemporary times, Il Cromuele has been represented in Piacenza in the theatre season 1996/97 by Piacenza's Company Gli Infidi Lumi, directed by Stefano Tomassini, music by Massimo Berzolla.

Italian campaign of 1524–25

Medici was seriously wounded and withdrew to Piacenza to recuperate, forcing Francis to recall much of the Milan garrison to offset the departure of the Black Band; but the fighting had little overall effect.

Jagdbombergeschwader 32

On 17 July 1995 Tornado ECRs of JaBoG 32 transferred to San Damiano Air Base in Italy, from where they flew SEAD missions in support of NATOs Operation Deliberate Force over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Michał Głogowski

The following year he entered the W.A.K.O. World Cup 2005 held in Piacenza, Italy.

Pallavicini family

A number of lines descended from Guglielmo (died 1217), possessor of a series of fiefs between Parma and Piacenza and a descendant of the Lombard Obertenga family (along with the Este, the Cavalcabò and Malaspina).

Piffero

It is used to play music in the tradition of the quattro province, an area of mountains and valleys in the north-west Italian Apennines which includes parts of the four provinces of Alessandria, Genoa, Piacenza and Pavia.

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.

Prospero Zannichelli

Prospero Zannichelli (1698-1772) was a painter from Reggio Emilia, Italy, who was active in Reggio Emilia, Alessandria, Piacenza, and Turin.

Second Punic War

Scipio, severely injured in the battle, retreated across the River Trebia with his heavy infantry still intact, and encamped at the town of Placentia to await reinforcements.

Sonia Bo

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

Vacarius

It is to Vacarius that we owe most of the information that has come down to us about Speroni, a heretic from Piacenza.


103rd Motorised Division Piacenza

The 103rd Motorised Division Piacenza was a Motorised Infantry Division of the Italian Army during World War II.

Agostino De Fondulis

His other works include statues of the Apostles for the dome of Santa Maria presso San Celso (1502), the Palazzo Landi in Piacenza, the Sanctuary of the Misericordia in Castelleone (1513) and the church of Mary Magdalene in Crema.

Antonio Prati

He began his art studies at the Istituto Gazzola at Piacenza, under professor Pietrogiorgi (Giuseppe Badiaschi), then moved to Parma under the professor Simone Cantoni.

Bardi, Emilia-Romagna

In 1269 the castle was stormed by the Guelphs, and the commune of Piacenza held it until 1307, when Emperor Henry VII gave it back to Umbertino II Landi.

In 1257 the Ghibelline Landi of Piacenza acquired it, remaining lord of Bardi for the following four centuries.

Berle Sanford Rosenberg

In Italy, Rosenberg performed for RAI television in various concert and opera productions, including Petite Messe Solennelle (Piacenza), Rigoletto (Milan Conservatory), In 1989, Berle went to the Minsk Symphony, to perform in the Eurovision production of the Verdi Requiem, in memoriam of the fifth anniversary of the Cernobyl atomic power plant tragedy.

Clastidium

Clastidium (modern Casteggio), was a village of the Anamares, in Gallia Cispadana, on the Via Postumia, 5 miles east of Iria (modern Voghera) and 31 miles west of Placentia.

Claudio Veggio

Little is known about his life except for a brief period during the 1540s, when he was employed as a composer and harpsichordist for Count Federico Anguissola of Piacenza, at the Castell'Arquato.

Fortunato Chelleri

After the early death of his parents, he grew up with his uncle Francesco Maria Bazzani in Piacenza, who trained him as a musician.

Giovanni Bernardino Pollinari

He also painted the sipario (stage curtain) of the Teatro Filodrammatico di Piacenza, depicting: Alessandro Farnese receives ambassadors from the city during the Siege of Antwerp completed by commission of the società d'incoraggiamento di Parma.

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).

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.

Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages

Meanwhile, "Juan de Gages" as he was usually called by his Spanish-Neapolitan soldiers, fought against the Austrians in the Milanese and Piedmont, Parma and Piacenza supported by the Genoese.

Joseph, Duke of Parma

Joseph, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (Italian: Giuseppe Maria Pietro Paolo Francesco Roberto Tomaso-d'Aquino Andrea-Avellino Biagio Mauro Carlo Stanislao Luigi Filippo-Neri Leone Bernardo Antonio Ferdinando di Borbone-Parma e Piacenza; 30 June 1875 Biarritz – 7 January 1950 Pianore, Lucca, Italy) was the head of the House of Bourbon-Parma and the pretender to the defunct throne of Parma from 1939 to 1950.

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 Respighi

Born at Cortemaggiore, Piacenza, he studied mathematics and natural philosophy, first at Parma and then at the University of Bologna, where he obtained his degree ad honorem in 1845.

Lucas Simón

On 10 July 2011, Simón joined to Chilean Primera División club Unión La Calera for play the Clausura Tournament of that season, after of put end to his contract with Piacenza.

Luigi Gorrini

On 30 August, Gorrini claimed another B-17 "Flying Fortress" over Frascati and the same day he was mentioned on Bollettino di Guerra: "Sergente Maggiore Luigi Gorrini da Alseno (Piacenza) of 3o Stormo Caccia has distinguished himself during the aerial battles of the 27th and 29th, during which he has shot down two four-engined bombers and a twin-engined fighter."

Margherita Farnese

On 2 March 1581 she married Vincenzo Gonzaga, the future duke of Mantua, probably with the political aim of creating an anti-Florentine alliance between the Gonzaga and Farnese families, after their long feud since 1547, when Ferrante Gonzaga had organised a plot against Pier Luigi Farnese first duke of Parma and Piacenza.

Obertenghi

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

Paolo Longo

He has also earned second prizes and special mentions in Rome (Premio Valentino Bucchi), Piacenza (Egidio Carella Competition), Geneva (Prix Reine Marie José), Urbana-Champaign (Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award), Angoulême, Cuneo, Auckland and many others.

Piacenza railway station

The station entered service on 21 July 1859, together with the rest of the Bologna–Piacenza section of the Milan–Bologna railway.

Pietro Giordani

He traveled a great deal and settled, at various times, in Piacenza, Bologna and, finally, in Milan, where he became an editor, along with Vincenzo Monti, Giuseppe Acerbi and the geologist Scipione Breislak, of the classicist magazine La Biblioteca Italiana.

Pippo Santonastaso

Born in Castel San Giovanni, Piacenza, Santonastaso created an original comic duo with his younger brother Mario (b. 1937), performing successfully in their region and soon also on television, in several RAI variety shows.

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.

Silvio Oddi

Silvio Angelo Pio Oddi (14 November 1910 in Morfasso, near Piacenza, Italy – 29 June 2001 in Cortemaggiore) was a diplomat in the service of the Holy See and a cardinal.

Tino Petrelli

Valentino Petrelli (Fontanafredda, Province of Pordenone, 1922 – Piacenza, September 8, 2001), better known as Tino, was an Italian photographer, well known for his documentary photography.

Venezuela national baseball team

Italy (Bollate, Bologna, Codogno, Florence, Macerata, Milano, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, San Marino, Torino, Trieste, Verona & Vicenza) and Netherlands (Rotterdam, Haarlem & Amsterdam) serve as hosts of the sixteen teams of the second round (September 14–20), and therefore receive first round byes.

Zenon Caravella

Following Caravella's stint at Omniworld, various media outlets reported him to being chased by various Serie B clubs in Italy, namely Bari and Piacenza.