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Cola Montano
Cola Montano, also known as Nicola Capponi, (born circa 1440 and executed 1482) was an Italian writer and humanist scholar who helped incite the ''Congiura dei Lampugnani'' or ''Conspiracy of the Lampugnani'' that succeeded in murdering the Duke of Milan, Galeazzo Maria Sforza. While not present at the murder, Cola Montano was captured by the Lorenzo de' Medici government of Tuscany, and hung from a window in the Bargello. Biography Nicola Capponi was born in Gaggio Montano near Bologna. By 1462, he had been named professor of Latin for the public school of Milan. Among his students was Pietro Grassi. But it is also reputed that Cola taught Latin to much of the Milanese aristocracy, including the future Duke Galeazzo himself. Cola was active in sponsoring printers of various Latin classics, but appeared to have fleeting collaborations with the businesses. After the murder of the Duke, one of the conspirators, Girolamo Olgiati, rapidly fingered his teacher Cola as fostering th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galeazzo Maria Sforza
Galeazzo Maria Sforza (24 January 1444 – 26 December 1476) was the fifth Duke of Milan from 1466 until his assassination a decade later. He was notorious for being lustful, cruel, and tyrannical. He was born to Francesco Sforza, a popular condottiero and ally of Cosimo de' Medici who would gain the Duchy of Milan in 1450, and Bianca Maria Visconti. He married into the Gonzaga family; on the death of his first wife Dorotea Gonzaga, he married Bona of Savoy. Cruel and vengeful, he was "a man who did great follies and dishonest things not to write." Life Galeazzo Maria Sforza was born in Fermo, near the family's castle of Girifalco, the first son of Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti. At the death of his father (8 March 1466), Galeazzo was in France at the head of a military expedition to help King Louis XI of France against Charles I of Burgundy. Called back home by his mother, Galeazzo returned to Italy by an adventurous trip under a false name. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassins Of Heads Of State
An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder. Assassin may also refer to: Origin of term * Someone belonging to the medieval Persian Ismaili order of Assassins Animals and insects * Assassin bugs, a genus in the family ''Reduviidae'' * Assassin spiders, a genus in the family ''Archaeidae'' Literature * ''The Assassin'' (play), a 1945 play by Irwin Shaw * ''Assassin'' (Cain novel), a 2008 thriller novel by Tom Cain, the third Samuel Carver book * ''Assassin'' (Myers novel), a 2006 historical fiction novel by the children's author Anna Myers * ''Assassins'' (LaHaye novel), a 1999 novel in the ''Left Behind'' series by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye * '' Krondor: The Assassins'', a 1999 novel by Raymond E. Feist * "The Assassin", a character in the 2006 '' Noble Warriors'' book trilogy * The Assassin, novel by Harlan Ellison * "The Assassin", story by Guy De Maupassant * ''The Assassini'', a 1990 novel by Thomas Gifford * ''The Assassins'' by Elia Kazan * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Executed By Florence
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience and awareness of internal and external existence. However, the lack of definitions has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debates by philosophers, theologians, linguisticians, and scien ... or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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