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    Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent...
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  • Giovanni Battista Pozzi was an Italian painter, born at Milan towards the end of the 17th century. He decorated a large number of buildings in the Piedmont...
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    to a Vercelli violinist, hangs on the slender thread of a date of uncertain hand on a manuscript of uncertain origin.] Viotti, Giovanni Battista. "Six...
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    The massacre at the Vercelli Psychiatric Hospital was the summary execution - by partisans of the 182nd Garibaldi Brigade "Pietro Camana" - of a group...
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    Bertolotti 1540 - 1609 called Gasparo da Salò Giovanni Paolo Maggini 1580 - 1630 pupil of Gasparo da Salò Giovanni Battista Rogeri 1642-1710 Amati family of...
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    theological works of Battista da Crema [it], later condemned by the Inquisition. He entered in conflict with the archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Angelo Arcimboldi...
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    Giambattista Canevesi, was named Bishop of Vercelli. In a decree issued in Paris on 25 January 1805, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Caprara, the papal legate and archbishop...
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    Lorenzo da Viterbo, Il Pastura became the most important Viterbese painter of the time. He created frescoes in Viterbo such as Santi Giovanni Battista, Girolamo...
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    by Bishop Eusebius of Vercelli and brought to Vercelli in the 4th century AD The image was brought by Saint Eusebius of Vercelli from the Middle East,...
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    (1771–1795) Giovan Battista Aloardi (1795–1819) Giovanni dell'Oro (1820–1830) Giovan Battista Redaelli (1830–1854) Giovan Battista Gadola (1855–1865)...
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