Francesco Bernardi (other)
Francesco Bernardi may refer to: * Senesino (1686–1758), Italian castrato singer *Francesco Bernardi (painter) Francesco Bernardi, also known as Bigolaro (flourished first half of the 17th century) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. A native of Verona Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the Adige, River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,13 ...

Senesino
Francesco Bernardi (; 31 October 1686 – 27 November 1758), known as Senesino ( or traditionally ), was an Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel. He was also involved in a public scandal with the soprano Anastasia Robinson in 1724 which was circulated widely by the satirist Jonathan Swift, and inspired a number of anonymously written obscene, misogynistic, and at times sexually subversive epistles written between 1724 and 1736 which have become a topic of study among scholars of Restoration literature. Early life and career Senesino was the son of a barber from Siena (hence his stage-name). He joined the cathedral choir there in 1695 and was castrated at the comparatively late age of thirteen. His debut was at Venice in 1707, and during the next decade he acquired a European reputation and, by the time he sang in Lotti's ''Giove in Argo'' in 1717 at Dresden, a commensurately enormous sa ...
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