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    influence with Catherine of Valois-Courtenay, widow of Philip I of Taranto. Acciaioli later became a counselor to Queen Joanna I of Naples and, eventually, her...
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  • 20 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (b. 1426) September 23 – Peter Courtenay, English bishop and politician October 12 – Piero della Francesca, Italian...
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    February 1224 he concluded an agreement with Latin Emperor Robert of Courtenay which confirmed the economic privileges the Venetians enjoyed in the Latin...
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    Alberto Sordi (category David di Donatello Career Award winners)
    1920. His father Pietro Sordi (1879-1941) was a music professor, he played tuba contrabbasso in the orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. His mother...
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    lords including: the Courtenay or Cortinaccio, Philip I of Flanders, the Maramonte, the Counts of Monteodorisio, king Ferdinand I of Naples and the Colonna...
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    Gian Maria Volonté (category Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni)
    Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979). Among other accolades, Volonté won two David di Donatello Awards and three Nastro d'Argento Awards. He won the Best Actor...
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    kingdom but won nothing but ridicule. In 1301, Charles married Catherine of Courtenay, titular Empress of Constantinople, but he was lost in the complexity...
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    Podrecca and Francesco Musoni, the Polish linguist Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, the Slovenes Simon Rutar and Henrik Tuma. After 1870, when Italy conquered...
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    prospects seemed to open before him when Honorius crowned Peter II of Courtenay as Latin Emperor of Constantinople in April 1217, but the new Emperor...
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    at the Venice Film Festival and is named in honor of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, the founder of the Venice Film Festival. The name and number of...
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