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    Giovanni or Gian Battista Sommariva (died 6 January 1826, Milan) was an Italian politician of the Cisalpine Republic and a notable arts patron. Born in...
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    Clerici (the wife of Count Vitaliano Bigli), sold the property to Giovanni Battista Sommariva, a banker and politician who had risen from barber's apprentice...
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    was later sold to powerful banker and Napoleonic politician Giovanni Battista Sommariva. Stendhal was his guest in 1818, and his visit is recalled at...
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  • association football player Emilio Sommariva (1883 – 1956), Italian painter and photographer Giovanni Battista Sommariva (died 1826), Italian politician...
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    Italian patron Giovanni Battista Sommariva, who wanted a work paying homage to the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757–1822). Sommariva fled to France...
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    Haroy Guzman, the Spanish ambassador to Rome, before passing to Giovanni Battista Sommariva. It was acquired in 1823 by Frédéric Reiset and then in 1992...
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    Emilio Sommariva and Carlo Carrà. He helped decorate with frescoes the Palazzo della Borsa, Casa Verdi, and the facade of San Giovanni Battista at Induno...
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    was continued later by Vivant Denon.: 692  Local nobles, like Giovanni Battista Sommariva, used the opportunity of the tumult to enrich their own personal...
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    into the hands of the Milanese collector Comte Masseo conte Giovanni Battista Sommariva and, after his death, to signor d'Aguado. It was acquired by...
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    restricted Committee of Government, composed of three members: Giovan Battista Sommariva, Sigismondo Ruga and Francesco Visconti, reflecting the institution...
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    Zenone (1350–1359) Francesco da Legnano (1363–1371) Giovanni da Mandello (1376–1385) Giovanni di Sommariva (1392–1399) Martino di Canale (1406–1436) Enea Silvvio...
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    d'Anna de Sommariva (d. 1428) (1384, 1426) Giordano Orsini (1360/70–1438) (1405, 1428) Antonio Correr (again) (1369–1445) (1408, 1438) Giovanni Berardi...
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  • portrait miniature. The artist was in relationship not only with Giovanni Battista Gigola [it] but also with Johann Dominik Bossi to whom she sent some...
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    Cavallerleone, Cavallermaggiore, Lombriasco (TO), Murello, Polonghera and Sommariva del Bosco. Its municipal hamlets (frazioni) are Berroni, Canapile, Migliabruna...
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    Francesco Simonini Mario Sironi Ardengo Soffici Giuseppe Solenghi Emilio Sommariva Giovanni Sottocornola Armando Spadini Francesco Speranza Ilario Spolverini...
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    birthplace of John Bona (1609–1674), Italian cardinal and author. Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716–1781), physicist. Francis Vigo (1747–1836), fur trader...
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  • Somaglia Somano Somma Lombardo Somma Vesuviana Sommacampagna Sommariva del Bosco Sommariva Perno Sommatino Sommo Sona Soncino Sondalo Sondrio Songavazzo...
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    de Sommariva, O.S.B.Cam. 1412–1428 vacant 1428–1431 Hugues de Lusignan 1431–1436, † 1442 (Bishop of Frascati 1436–1442) vacant 1436–1444 Giovanni IV Tagliacotio...
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    stable, but reconsecrated on 22 June 1827. St John the Baptist (San Giovanni Battista): Baroque architecture church housing a Madonna of the Graces (1377)...
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    entomologist and collector. Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), mathematician. Giovanni Battista Ceirano (1860) – automobile pioneer, joint founder of Ceirano, Well-Eyes...
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    Italy, the second son of Giuseppe, a clerk at Milan commune, and Matilde Sommariva. In October 1942, after the first bombings of Milan, the family moved...
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    The 2nd armed corps was directed by Ettore De Sonnaz [it], with Giovanni Battista Federici and Mario Broglia [it] commanding its two divisions. The...
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    received numerous new buildings designed by the eclectic architect Giovanni Battista Schellino. Parish church of Santi Quirico and Paolo (1869), designed...
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    which, in the region on Lake Como, had no rival except that of Giovan Battista Sommariva, owner of the villa bearing the same name (nowadays Villa Carlotta)...
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    championship. The squad during these two championship victories included; Giovanni De Prà, Ottavio Barbieri, Luigi Burlando and Renzo De Vecchi. With Genoa's...
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    of the past, worth visiting and revalued. The parish church of San Giovanni Battista dates back to 1600 and it was built by Nicolis di Robilant. Particularly...
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    However, the large First Romanesque bell tower of the church of San Giovanni Battista demonstrates that the village was a centre of some importance already...
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    and to Bozzolo, and to generals Anton Mayer von Heldenfeld and Annibale Sommariva to face Mantua and Peschiera del Garda. Thus it was that the simultaneous...
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    2017 Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista Church of San Michele Church of San Rocco Church of the Saints Sebastiano and Battista Decollato Church of the...
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  • dell'Umiltà Apollonio of Giovanni and Marco del Buono Entry of knights into city Andrea Appiani Portrait of signor Sommariva Jacob Adriaensz Backer Child...
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