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Biagio Agnes
Biagio is an Italian male given name. It may also refer to: People * Biagio (archbishop), Archbishop of Torres * Biagio Antonacci, Italian singer-songwriter * Biagio Betti, Italian painter * Biagio Black, American painter * Biagio Brugi, Italian jurist * Biagio Ciotto, American politician * Biagio d'Antonio, Italian painter * Biagio Falcieri, Italian painter * Biagio Marin, Italian poet * Biagio Marini, Italian violinist *Biagio Messina, American filmmaker and TV producer * Biagio Pelligra, Italian actor * Biagio Pupini, Italian painter * Biagio Rebecca, Italian painter * Biagio Rossetti, Italian architect * Luigi Di Biagio, Italian soccer player * Saint Blaise, known in Italy as San Biagio * Vlaho Getaldić, Croatian writer also known as Biagio Ghetaldi Places * Monte San Biagio, Italian town * San Biagio, Venice, church in Venice, Italy * San Biagio della Cima, Italian village * San Biagio di Callalta, Italian town * San Biagio Platani, Italian village * San Biagio Saracinisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biagio (archbishop)
Biagio (or Blaise, Latin ''Blasius'') was the Archbishop of Torres from 1 December 1202 to his death late 1214 or early 1215. He was originally from the diocese of Nevers. He went to Rome and became a subdeacon and then a papal notary before 1200. By the influence of Pope Innocent III, he was elected to the vacant see of Porto Torres in 1202. He was consecrated sometime before 7 March 1203. One of his first acts was to order the ''giudici'' to punish the murderers of the bishop of Ploaghe, the abbot of Tregu, and the vicar of Camaldoli. On 10 March 1203, the pope put Comita III of Torres, Comita III of Logudoro under the protection of Biagio and not of Archdiocese of Pisa, Pisa in light of the invasion of Giudicato of Logudoro, Logudoro by William I of Cagliari. On 22 March, with papal consent, he gave Christian burial to Comita's father, Constantine II of Torres, Constantine II, who had died excommunicate. In a letter dated that same day to Comita, William, and Hugh I of Arborea, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biagio Rebecca
Biagio Rebecca (1731–1808) was an Italian artist, active mainly as a decorative painter in England. Life Rebecca was born at Osimo, near Ancona, in the Marches, and served his apprenticeship in Rome. In England he became known for Neoclassicism, neoclassical scenes from mythology, often working on decorative schemes in collaboration with Robert Adam, for example at Harewood House and at Kedleston Hall. He also decorated Heaton Hall in Prestwich, near Bury, Lancashire and frescoed a ceiling at the Marine Pavilion (Brighton, England), Marine Pavilion at Brighton. With Angelica Kauffman, he painted the old lecture room at Somerset House, then home of the Royal Academy. He also designed a set of stained glass windows in the chapel at New College, Oxford. He was employed to do some painting at Audley End House by John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, Sir John Griffin. In late 1772 Ann White, a servant at the house, gave birth to his illegitimate son, John Biagio Rebecca. Rebec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Biagio Platani
San Biagio Platani ( Sicilian: ''San Mrasi or San Brasi'') is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Agrigento in the Italian region Sicily, located about south of Palermo and about north of Agrigento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,689 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. San Biagio Platani is famous for its "Easter Arches" (Gli Archi di Pasqua.) San Biagio Platani borders the following municipalities: Alessandria della Rocca, Casteltermini, Sant'Angelo Muxaro, Santo Stefano Quisquina. The village has substantial diaspora populations in Chicago, Berazategui, and Pforzheim. History The origins date back to 1635, the year in which Giovanni Battista Gerardi obtained the licentia populandi. Gaetano Di Giovanni, in his work "Notizie storiche su Casteltermini e il suo territorio", attributes the foundation of the urban settlement to Mariano Gianguercio in 1648. Mentioning in his " ''Cedolario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Biagio Di Callalta
San Biagio di Callalta is a comune (municipality) in the province of Treviso, Veneto, north-eastern Italy. It is the birthplace of Pierre Cardin. History Ancient History Today's San Biagio di Callalta was once inhabited by Veneti, an Indo-European population that settled in north-eastern Italy after the middle of the second millennium BCE and developed its own original civilization during the next millennium. During Roman times the Veneto was part of Regio X Venetia et Histria. The territory gained greater importance thanks to the construction of the Via Annia, the Via Postumia and a road that connected them. Artifacts of that period have been found in the hamlets of Rovarè (terracotta fragments) and Spercenigo (funeral urn and a wine amphora) along with a cremation furnace ruin in Ca'Lion. San Biagio di Callalta gets its name from San Biagio (bishop and martyr) and to the military road "Callis Alta", originally built in the 10th or 11th century, after the original ancient route ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
