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    Lorraine Bracco (born October 2, 1954) is an American actress best known for her performances as psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi on the HBO crime drama series...
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    Konversations-Lexikon vol 5: Dito, p. 47. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon vol 3: Braccio, p. 357. Cardarelli 2003, p. 88. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon vol 12: Miglio...
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    Viola da braccio (from Italian "arm viola", plural viole da braccio) is a term variously applied during the baroque period to instruments of the violin...
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    Braccio da Montone (1 July 1368 – 5 June 1424), born Andrea Fortebraccio, was an Italian condottiero. He was born to the nobleman Oddo Fortebraccio and...
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    The lira da braccio (or lyra de bracio) was a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance. It was used by Italian poet-musicians in court in the...
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    captured Perugia and intended to have it administered by Braccio Fortebracci. However, Braccio vehemently opposed this idea and declined the offer. Nonetheless...
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    century. At the time the name of this family of instruments was viole da braccio which was used to distinguish them from the viol family (viole da gamba)...
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  • The Alfredo di Braccio Award is a prestigious prize for young Italian scientists given by the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Every year a top...
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    against the condottiero Braccio da Montone. The Pope at the time ruled only Rome (when not rebellious) and its environs: Braccio held Umbria, Bologna as...
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    Count of Conio, who later taught military science to condottieri such as Braccio da Montone and Giacomuzzo Attendolo Sforza, who also served in the company...
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    naked and whipped for his presumption "ALTAVILLA, Guglielmo d', detto Braccio di Ferro - Enciclopedia". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-25....
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    Idleness (1894) The Ralstons (1894); sequel to Katharine Lauderdale Casa Braccio (1895); related to Katharine Lauderdale and The Ralstons. Adam Johnstone's...
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    Separating these from other bowed string instruments such as the viola da braccio (viol for the arm) was the instruments' orientation; members of the older...
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    born in Narni, and served a number of Italian city-states: he began with Braccio da Montone, served the Papal States and Florence, as well as the Republic...
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    various 16th- and 17th-century bass instruments of the violin (i.e. viola da braccio) family. They were the direct ancestor of the modern cello. Bass violins...
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    with the Angevines. Joanna hired the condottiero Braccio da Montone. In exchange for his services, Braccio obtained the lordship of Teramo, as well as the...
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    are exhibited several statues, sarcophagi and friezes. The New Wing, or Braccio Nuovo, built by Raffaele Stern, houses statues including the Augustus of...
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    relatively square-shaped, held in the arms, became known as the lira da braccio (arm viol) family; the other, with sloping shoulders and held between the...
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    (central Italy) between the condottiere Braccio da Montone and the troops of Perugia, under Carlo I Malatesta. Braccio's victory resulted in his long-desired...
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    originates from the Italian language. The Italians often used the term viola da braccio, meaning, literally, 'of the arm'. "Brazzo" was another Italian word for...
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    sl, (sd), e-torricelli.it Pesce, Luigi, Marat assassinato : il tema del braccio della morte : realismo caravagesco e ars moriendi in David, s.ed., sl,...
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  • Italy. It started in 1423 as a personal conflict against the condottiero Braccio da Montone and the city of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, but later turned into a...
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    Musicians describes the lirone as essentially a larger version of the lira da braccio, which has a similar wide fingerboard, flat bridge, and leaf-shaped pegbox...
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    instrument known as the Byzantine lyra, came to be called the lira da braccio, in Venice, where it is considered by many to have been the predecessor...
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    Nano Morgante (nickname of Braccio di Bartolo - English: Dwarf Morgante 1600s) was an Italian dwarf who was a famed buffoon and court jester in the court...
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    (neck cello in tenor clef) violoncellos violones (contrabbasso a viola da braccio) viols (in various type) contrabass viols (contrabbasso a viola da gamba)...
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    April 2014). "Ayrton Senna, il racconto della dottoressa: "Così mi morì in braccio"". Libero Quotidiano. Archived from the original on 28 April 2014. Retrieved...
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    large-sized member of viol (viola da gamba) family or the violin (viola da braccio) family. The term "violone" today usually refers to the lowest-pitched...
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    Bascot de Mauléon Astorre I Manfredi Petit Meschin Federico da Montefeltro Braccio da Montone Robert Briquet Fra' Moriale Bernat de Rocafort Hagre l'Escot...
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    kilograms (2,200 lb). The Augustus of Prima Porta is now displayed in the Braccio Nuovo (New Arm) of the Vatican Museums. Since its discovery, it has become...
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