On 28 September 1350 at Rivoli, Bianca and Galeazzo were married, he was sixteen years her senior.
During Chlothar's reign, the Franks had made an attack on northwestern Italy, but were driven off by the Lombard king Grimoald near Rivoli.
Two years later, on 13 January 1155, Guigues was in Rivoli, near Turin, to recognise the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, for his lands.
Although unproven by archaeological and historical sources, it is thought that before the Roman conquest the area of Rivoli was inhabited by the Taurini, a tribe of the Ligures, who, after the 4th century, were most likely joined by a Celt migration from southern France.
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Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli (1802–1887) was the wife of Francois Victor Massena, 2nd Duke of Rivoli.
On 15 April 1923, she appeared in a short film, "From Far Seville", made by Lee de Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process, and shown at the Rivoli Theater in New York City.
Notable users of the Epiphone Rivoli in the 1960s include Chip Hawkes (The Tremeloes), Chas Chandler (The Animals, John Entwistle (The Who), Tony Jackson (The Searchers), Karl Green (Herman's Hermits), Paul Samwell-Smith and Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds), Peter Birrell (Freddie and the Dreamers), and Scott Walker (The Walker Brothers).
As purveyor of arms to kings he brings in an extremely prestigious clientele, Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vincence, baron Gaspard Gourgaud, the marshall Emmanuel de Grouchy, General Charles de Flahaut, the marchioness Catherine Dominique de Pérignon, the marshall André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, baron Daru, General Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, the parfumeur Jean-François Houbigant.
He played many recitals in Great Britain for war charities, and then he moved to the US, where he played the Austin organ in the Rialto Theater in New York City, and then to the Rivoli theater.
The Slaty-tailed (Massena) Trogon and Magnificent (Rivoli's) Hummingbird were named in his honor.
Rivoli Theatre, a roadshow movie theater, formerly located at 1620 Broadway in New York City, opposite the Brill Building
The strong positions around Rivoli, which command the approaches from the County of Tyrol and the upper Adige into the Italian plain, have always been celebrated in military history as a formidable obstacle, and Charles V and Prince Eugene of Savoy preferred to turn them by difficult mountain paths instead of attacking them directly.
Subsequently he was associated with Samuel Roxy Rothafel in the management of Broadway's Rialto and Rivoli theaters.