library remains a rich archival repository. Three successive maestri di cappella marked the great age of music at San Petronio: Maurizio Cazzati (1657–71)...

demolition of the old cathedral. It kept the relics of Saint Valentine. The Cappella Sistina (Sistine Chapel), adjacent to the cathedral and built 1480–1483...

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo di lodoˈviːko ˌbwɔnarˈrɔːti siˈmoːni]; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously...

VII (1278). The following year, the town was declared a possession of the people of Milan. In 1312, Monza adhered to the Ghibelline faction. Enrico Aliprandi...

Charles III (Italian: Carlo III di Borbone, Duca di Parma e Piacenza; 14 January 1823 – 27 March 1854) was the duke of Parma from 1849 to 1854. He was...

Siena Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and...

statues, paintings, polychrome marble, and gold leaf. The Cappella della Beata Vergine di Lourdes (Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes) was completed in 1907...

(1568–1570) Luigi Cornaro (1570–1584) Filippo Guastavillani (1584–1587) Enrico Caetani (1587–1599) Pietro Aldobrandini (1599–1621) Ludovico Ludovisi (1621–1623)...

Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari (1677–1754), a musical composer and maestro di cappella at Pistoia. Alessio Corti (born 1965), mathematician Rustichello da Pisa...

Chapel, otherwise the Baptistery (Italian: Cappella Montemirabile, Cappella di San Giovanni Battista, Cappella del battistero) is the first side chapel...