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47 unusual facts about bologna


1646 in music

Giovanni Battista Granata – Caprici armonici sopra la chittarriglia spagnuola..., a collection of music for the treble guitar, published in Bologna.

1965–66 FIBA European Champions Cup

Simmenthal defeated Slavia PRague 77–72 in the final of the first ever Final four held in the competition, with two venues used:a venue in Milan and the Palazzo dello sport arena in Bologna, Italy.

2013 Asia Series

Fortitudo Baseball Bologna was invited to participate as the winners of the 2013 European Cup, a similar tournament in Europe.

Aldrovandi

Aldrovandi is a family name of the Emilia-Romagna in Italy, and especially from Bologna.

Anders Sunesen

A nephew of Absalon and a member of the religious and political elite, Sunesen was well-traveled, having received his education in theology and philosophy in Paris, France, and his legal education in Bologna, Italy and at Oxford, England.

Andy Sinton

His last appearance for his country came the following month, in the 7–1 rout of San Marino in Bologna.

Avvenire

It was founded in 1968 in Milan through the merger of two Catholic magazines: L'Avvenire d'Italia of Bologna and l'Italia of Milan.

Barium

Smooth pebble-like stones of mineral barite found in Bologna, Italy, were known as "Bologna stones."

Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics

16 nations were admitted into the Olympic tournament, with many others being eliminated in a pre-Olympic tournament held earlier in the year from 13 to 20 August 1960 at the Sports Palace at Bologna.

Bertagni

The birth of "Pastificio Bertagni" was in 1882 in the workshop of Luigi Bertagni in Bologna.

Biancamaria Furgeri

After completing her studies, Furgeri taught music in Ferrara and Padua, and in 1969 took a teaching position at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini in Bologna.

Bologna School of music

Bologna School is a term for the group of composers active in Bologna in the mid-late 17th century; most were associated with the church of Saint Petronio or the Accademia Filarmonica.

Caduti della Direttissima

Caduti della Direttissima refers to the workers that died during the construction of the BolognaFlorence railway (Direttissima).

Confraternities of the Cord

When, after the canonization of St. Nicholas of Tolentine, it came into general use among the faithful, Pope Eugene IV in 1439 erected the Confraternity of the Cincture of St. Monica, St. Augustine, and St. Nicholas of Tolentine, in the Church of St. James at Bologna.

Craig Minetto

Unable to find a job in American baseball, Minetto signed with Fortitudo Baseball Bologna sponsored by Grappa del Cannonier, a professional team in Bologna, Italy.

Davide Gualtieri

In the match, which took place in Bologna, Italy, San Marino had the kick-off and the ball was quickly played through the inside-right channel.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Dimitris Kolovos

At the beginning of 2012/13 season under the coaching of Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos became a full time member of the team, ensuring the interest of the Italian club Bologna, as well as the interest of the greek giants AEK and PAOK.

Gianni De Fraja

He was born in Bologna, where he spent the first five years of his life, before moving to Bassano del Grappa and then on to Mestre, near Venice, where he lived until he was eighteen.

Giuliano Hazan

Although born in the United States, Giuliano spent much of his childhood in Italy, and got his first taste of teaching as a teenager, working at his mother's School of Classic Italian Cooking in Bologna(5), where he committed himself to mastering the simple, genuine flavors of Italian cuisine.

Giuseppe Maria Jacchini

Giuseppe Maria Jacchini (1663 in Bologna – 2 May 1727) was an Italian cellist and composer.

Jacchini became a member of the prestigious "Accademia Filarmonica" on 16 December 1688.

Goito Mechanized Brigade

The remaining units were distributed among other brigades: the 4th Tank Battalion and 18th Bersaglieri Battalion joined the Legnano Mechanized Brigade, while the 10th Bersaglieri Battalion had already moved to Bologna and joined the Trieste Mechanized Brigade on 1 March 1991.

Henry II of Niemodlin

Since his early years, he was destined to the Church career and had to study at the University of Bologna.

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.

Hochschule Harz

By converting the course offer into internationally recognized Bachelor's degree programs and introducing Master's degree programs, the Bologna Process is taken into account by Hochschule Harz.

Idee Stupide

Fabri Fibra used to answer a new version of Oh Yeah Mr. Sympatia, performed live on the stage of MTV Day 2006, in Bologna.

Ionuț Rada

He spent a month under treatment at the Isokinetic clinic in Bologna.

Julián Alonso

After this very promising start, however, his career is considered underwhelming; he only won one more title (Bologna, 1998) and retired in 2001 after one and a half years playing only Challengers.

Konrad II the Hunchback

Shortly after these events, Konrad was sent to Bologna, Italy to study in order to take important ecclesiastical posts in the future.

Laurance Reed

Reed served his National Service with the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1958, and from 1963 to 1966 worked and studied at Brussels, Bruges, Leyden, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Paris, Rome, Bologna and Geneva.

Lousewies van der Laan

Between 1990 and 1991 she studied international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University at Bologna.

Maksimilijan Vrhovac

Vrhovac studied in Vienna and Bologna, and then became a vice-rector, and later rector, at the seminary in Zagreb, as well as a professor of dogma at the Academy in Zagreb.

Maria Armanda

The song was chosen to represent Portugal, in Bologna, in the 1980 edition of the Zecchino d'Oro, a festival of little known songs with profits going to the well-known charity UNICEF, with Armanda Maria emerging victorious with a song entitled "Ho visto un rospo".

Marta Grandi

Marta Grandi (3 July 1915, Bologna – Bologna, 6 October 2005, Bologna ) was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Ephemeroptera.

Max Angelelli

Massimiliano Angelelli (born 15 December 1966 in Bologna) is an Italian race car driver.

Osteria del Cappello

The "Osteria Del Cappello" or "Al Cappello Rosso" is one of the oldest inns in Bologna, and it is still nowadays in

Passacaglia über Heidelberg

It was performed again by the Ensemble Octandre in Bologna on 29 March 2000 and on 8 November 2000.

Pittura infamante

Konrad von Landau, painted on the walls of Bologna for treachery; in response Landau created his own "pittura infamante" on the saddle of his horse, depicting the local politicians hung upside down by their feet in the hand of a giant whore.

Rudi Hansen

Although she was to start further training as an actress and had been admitted to the New Theatre's drama school, he withdrew completely from the limelight to follow Harald to Bologna in Italy where he played professional football.

Sacred Poet

The film is part of the permanent collection at the Pier Paolo Pasolini Archives in Bologna, Italy.

Samuel Woodforde

Two years later, Woodforde died of fever at Bologna where he is buried in the cemetery of La Certosa.

Sushruta Samhita

In Renaissance Italy, the Branca family of Sicily and Gasparo Tagliacozzi (Bologna) became familiar with the techniques mentioned in the Sushruta Samahita.

Tiscali

Between 2007 and 2008, Tiscali briefly operated an IPTV service in Italy (available in the cities of Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Turin and Trieste).

Typhlops fornasinii

Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, p. 183.

Vpered

The Vperedists created experimental proletarian universities on the Isle of Capri from August to December 1909, and then in Bologna from November 1910 to March 1911.

William Charles Windeyer

On his way to Europe Windeyer accepted a temporary judicial appointment in Newfoundland, but died suddenly while at Bologna, Italy.


8266 Bertelli

It is named in memory of Francesco Bertelli (1794-1844), Italian astronomer at the observatory of Bologna and professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna.

Aldrovanda

The genus is named in honor of the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi, the founder of the Botanical Garden of Bologna, Orto Botanico dell'Università di Bologna.

Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio

The palace was built quickly, between 1562 and 1563, by order of Saint Charles Borromeo, then pontifical legate in Bologna.

Antonio Vallisneri

He studied at Bologna, Venice, Padua and Parma and held the chairs of Practical Medicine first and Theoretical Medicine later at the University of Padua between 1700 and his death.

Apuani

Although they extended eastwards along the chain of the Apennines to the frontiers of the Arretines and the territory of Mutina (modern Modena) and Bononia (modern Bologna), the upper valley of the Macra about Pontremoli, an area later known as Lunigiana, and the adjoining Upper Garfagnana were their center.

Betti reaction

Betti worked at many universities in Italy, including Florence, Cagliari, Siena, Genoa and Bologna, where he was the successor of Giacomo Ciamician.

Crime in Italy

Cities such as Turin, Milan, Monza Brescia, Padua, Vicenza, Venice( Mestre ), Verona, Bologna, Genoa in the North frequently suffer a wide diversity of frequent offences ranging from extensive drug trade, homicides, etc.

Davide Luppi

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

Federico Rodríguez

Federico Martín Rodríguez Rodríguez (born 3 April 1991) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Montevideo Wanderers on loan from Bologna.

Filadelfo Simi

In 1883, he was nominated a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he became Honorary Academic In Florence (1884), Bologna (1888) and the Brera Academy in Milan (1895).

Filippo Scannabecchi

His father was Dalmasio Scannabecchi (sometimes referred to as pseudo-Dalmasio), a Bolognese painter from a minor noble family who migrated to Pistoia during a period of Guelph rule in Bologna.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Francesco Carboni

Among his works are noted : a Crucifixion, with St. Theresa and Maggiore, and other Saints for S. Martina in Bologna; an Entombment of Christ for S. Paolo; and for the Servite fathers, a Decollation of St. John the Baptist.

Franco Mezzena

He plays a 1695 Stradivarius, an instrument by Roberto Regazzi (Bologna, 1998) and instruments made by Ornella Ceci (Bari 2009) and Giuseppe Leone (Ceglie Messapica 2012).

Geoffrey of Trani

He was a student at Bologna of Azo before becoming a professor at Naples, then at Bologna.

Gigi e Andrea

Gigi Sammarchi (Bologna, 2 November 1949) and Andrea Roncato (San Lazzaro di Savena, 7 March 1947) are an Italian former comedy duo who worked on stage, films and television as Gigi e Andrea.

Giovanni Antonio Fumiani

Born in Venice in 1645, he trained in Bologna under Domenico degli Ambrogi, a specialist in quadratura, but by 1668 he was back in Venice, where he painted a Virgin and Saints in San Benedetto.

Giovanni Battista Conforti

Giovanni Battista Conforti (fl. 1550–1570) was an Italian composer, born either in Bologna or Parma.

Giovanni Bentivoglio

Giovanni I Bentivoglio (died 1402), first ruler of Bologna from the Bentivoglio family

Herbert Mayr

Mayr studied sport in Bologna during the mid-1960s, at the end of the 1970s was a professor at the University of Innsbruck and from 1987 until 1994 was the chairman of the sports club SSV Bozen.

History of rhinoplasty

In Italy, Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546–1599), professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Bologna, published Curtorum Chirurgia Per Insitionem (The Surgery of Defects by Implantations, 1597), a technico–procedural manual for the surgical repair and reconstruction of facial wounds in soldiers.

Ibson

Ibson Barreto da Silva, simply known as Ibson (born 7 November 1983 in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Bologna, in Italy, as a central midfielder.

Kappa Sigma

William Grigsby McCormick, George Miles Arnold, John Covert Boyd, Edmund Law Rogers Jr. and Frank Courtney Nicodemus established the fraternity based on the traditions and of the ancient order in Bologna.

Leonardo Grosso della Rovere

He accompanied the pope on his expeditions against the House of Bentivoglio in Bologna and the Baglioni family of Perugia.

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.

Niccolò Ludovisi

He was the son of Orazio Ludovisi, patrician of Bologna and commander-in-chief of the Papal Army (as well as brother of Pope Gregory XV), and Lavinia Albergati.

Peter Mayo

He sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several international journals including International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Transformative Education (Sage), Policy Futures in Education (Symposium), Encylopaideia (ClueB, Bologna) and Educational Philosophy and Theory (Wiley-Blackwell).

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.

Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

The academy was one of several Thomist foundations in places such as Bologna, Fribourg (Switzerland), Paris and Lowden.

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.

Rimini railway station

It was opened, in the presence of the then Prince Umberto of Savoy (later Umberto I of Italy), on 4 October 1861, together with the rest of the Forlì–Rimini section of the Bologna–Ancona railway.

Soldo

It quickly became widespread in Italy where it was coined in Genoa, Bologna and numerous other cities.

The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center

The Director of the Bologna Center is Kenneth H. Keller, Professor of International Policy and President emeritus, University of Minnesota.

Unipol Arena

Unipol Arena (previously known as Futureshow Station and PalaMalaguti) is an indoor sporting arena located in Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy.