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Domenico Angelo
Domenico Angelo (1717 Leghorn, Italy – 1802, Twickenham, England), was an Italian sword and fencing master, also known as Angelo Domenico Malevolti Tremamondo. The son of a merchant, he was the founder of the Angelo Family of fencers. He has been praised as "the first to emphasize fencing as a means of developing health, poise, and grace. As a result of his insight and influence, fencing changed from an art of war to a sport." Travels He moved to Paris at the age of 27, with an eye to taking over the family business, but instead gained fencing skills under a master there, Teillagory. He also had an affair with the English actress Peg Woffington, and went with her to London and Dublin. However, the affair cooled and on 5 February 1755 he instead married the 17-year-old Elizabeth Johnson (1738–1805), with whom he had several children. Fencing tuition In England, Angelo gained the patronage of Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, and three years later of the dowager Prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Domenico Malevolti Fencing Print, 1763
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Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the ''Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the '' Goldberg Variations'' and ''The Well-Tempered Clavier''; organ works such as the '' Schubler Chorales'' and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the '' St Matthew Passion'' and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Male Fencers
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1802 Deaths
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1717 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador to the Kingdom of Great Britain, is arrested in London over a plot to assist the Pretender to the British throne, James Francis Edward Stuart. * January 4 (December 24, 1716 Old Style) – Great Britain, France and the Dutch Republic sign the Triple Alliance, in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17) 1716. * February 1 – The Silent Sejm, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, marks the beginning of the Russian Empire's increasing influence and control over the Commonwealth. * February 6 – Following the treaty between France and Britain, the Pretender James Stuart leaves France, and seeks refuge with Pope Clement XI. * February 26–March 6 – What becomes the northeastern United States is paralyzed by a series of blizzards that bury the region. * March 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giampaolo Zennaro
Giampaolo Zennaro (born October 19, c. 1940) is an Italian Opera director and stage designer. Biography Zennaro started working with Teatri Emiliani ATER in 1967, following his apprenticeship with Gianrico Becher. He directed over one hundred operas, including ''Aida, Traviata, Otello, Rigoletto, La Cenerentola, Don Giovanni, La bohème, Tosca, Turandot'', as well as some less performed operas, such as ''La Fanciulla del West and Guglielmo Ratcliff''. His productions have been performed in several Opera houses worldwide. Of particular note at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Sferisterio in Macerata, the Opera Festival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Zennaro has worked with some of the most well known operatic singers of the 20th century: tenors Mario Del Monaco, Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Bona
Alberto Bona (born 7 November 1978) is an Italian actor, playwright and film director. Biography Alberto Bona started his career as a cartoonist in Italy, before moving to London, where he started to work within theatre and independent film productions. He wrote and starred in the surrealistic play ''Salvador!'' staged at the Barons Court Theatre in 2004, where he played surrealist Salvador Dalí. This play led the photographer Marco Sanges to ask Bona to pose for a series of portraits. It began a creative collaboration culminating with the art film ''Circumstances'', awarded as 'Best Art Film' at the Portobello Film Festival in 2008. With Sanges, Bona co-directed ''Pondering of a lonely wonderer'' and ''La Sonnambula''. Together, they have also worked at the Hackney Empire devising the surrealistic art exhibition Big Scenes. Bona wrote and starred in the play " Tremamondo - The Angel of Fencing", directed by Giampaolo Zennaro, staged at the Teatro Carlo Goldoni (Livorno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Joseph Drury
William James Joseph Drury (1791–1878) was an English cleric and schoolmaster, who became chaplain to Leopold I of Belgium, and tutor to his son, the future Leopold II. Early life He was the son of the Rev. Mark Drury, a cleric and schoolmaster, brother of Joseph Drury of Harrow School, and an unsuccessful candidate to succeed Joseph in the post in 1805, losing out to George Butler. Like his father, William Drury suffered from a genetic disorder leading to obesity. His mother was Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Domenico Angelo. Drury matriculated in 1808 at Trinity College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1811, M.A. in 1814. After Oxford, Drury himself became one of the "Drury clan" teaching at Harrow School, rising to be fifth master there. John Allen Giles, who knew Drury later, commented "He belonged to a family of scholars, mostly connected with Harrow, all of them wits, but not economists and therefore poor like Sheridan." In his time at Harrow, Drury was on good terms wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Drury
Joseph Drury (11 February 1750 – 9 January 1834) was Head Master of Harrow School 1785–1805, and first of a dynasty of Drurys to teach at Harrow. Life Drury was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Admitted to Trinity in 1768, he was unable to continue at Cambridge due to lack of means, and in 1769 became an assistant master at Harrow School. In 1771, Drury turned down the chance to join Samuel Parr's breakaway school at Stanmore. He was ordained deacon in 1773 and priest in 1779. He was re-admitted to Trinity in 1774 as a " ten-year man", graduating B.D. in 1784 and D.D. in 1789. Drury succeeded Benjamin Heath the younger, his brother-in-law, as headmaster of Harrow School in 1785. Family In 1775 Drury married Louisa Heath, daughter of Benjamin Heath. Of their three sons Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778–1841) was a master at Harrow, and Benjamin Heath Drury (1782–1835), became an assistant-master at Eton College; and their daughter Louisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrow School
Harrow School () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Independent school (United Kingdom), independent boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon (school founder), John Lyon, a local landowner and farmer, under a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I. The school has an enrolment of about 820 boys, all of whom boarding school, board full-time, in twelve boarding houses. It is one of the Public Schools Act 1868, original nine public schools listed in the 1868 parliament act. Harrow's uniform includes morning dress, morning suits, Boater, straw boater hats, top hats and walking stick, canes. Its list of distinguished alumni includes seven former Prime minister, British Prime Ministers: George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Spencer Perceval, Perceval, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Goderich, Robert Peel, Peel, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Palmerston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Charles Angelo The Younger
Henry Charles Angelo the Younger (1780-1852) was a British master of fencing, part of the Angelo Family of fencers. Early life Henry was born in 1780''Paths of Glory'', The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, London, 1997, p. 10. to Henry Angelo (1756-1835). He was the grandson of Domenico Angelo Malevolti Tremamondo (1716 or 1717 to 1802), the founder of the dynasty. Career The younger Henry took over his father's fencing academy in Bond Street from his father in 1817. He subsequently moved it to St. James's Street (1830-1896). He was superintendent of sword exercise to the British Army and the Royal Navy (1833-1852). Death Henry died in 1852. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of Queens Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. Inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, it was founded by the barrister George Frederick .... Selected publications *The Infantry Sword E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Angelo
Henry Charles William Angelo (1756–1835) was an English memoirist and fencing master, as a member of the Angelo family of fencers and son of the Italian master, Domenico Angelo. As the leader of his father's Angelo School of Arms from 1780 to 1817, he consolidated its status among London's high society, with upper class patronage and a cult of celebrity. He also maintained his family's reputation, reissuing his father's seminal fencing manual and composing several memoirs and a single work on fencing, himself. Biography Henry Charles William Malevolti was born on 5 April 1756 at St James's Place, Piccadilly, London. His baptismal surname was Malevolti, but in the late 1750s, he became known as Angelo, following his father's adoption of the surname. Angelo was born to the Italian-born fencing master, Domenico Angelo (1717–1802), and his wife, Elizabeth '' née'' Johnson (1738–1805). This placed Angelo in the second generation of the Angelo Family, a dynasty of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
