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Francesco Negri (other)
Francesco Negri may refer to: * Francesco Negri (Antitrinitarian) (1500–1563), Italian ex-Benedictine monk in Poland * Francesco Negri (travel writer) (1623–1698), Italian priest traveller in Scandinavia * Francesco Negri (photographer) (1841–1924), mayor of Casale Monferrato and lawyer * Francesco Negri (composer), 17th-century Italian composer {{hndis, Negri, Francesco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Negri (Antitrinitarian)
Francesco Negri (1500 in Bassano – 1563) was an Italian Protestant reformer and exile in Switzerland, then Poland. He was first a Benedictine at the Monastery of Santa Giustina in Padua then in 1525 left for Germany. He was then Calvinist, finally an Antitrinitarian.Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation: Volume 2 Hans J. Hillerbrand - 1996 ... after his escape he traveled to join Biandrata in 1562 in Poland, where he became a member of a small Italian antitrinitarian community in Pinczow that included himself and Biandrata plus Alciati and Francesco Negri (1500-1563). His main work is the drama ''The Free Will'' 1546. Biography Francesco Negri was born of a noble and ancient family in Bassano, in the Republic of Venice, in 1500. Gifted with an active and penetrating mind, he became an excellent student. He entered the Order of Benedictines. The principles of the Reformation preached in Germany and Switzerland penetrating Italy at this time, Negri came forward as one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Negri (travel Writer)
Francesco Negri (; 27 March 1623–27 December 1698) was an Italian Catholic priest who, during 1663–1666, travelled in Scandinavia. In 1670, he published an account of his travels entitled ''Viaggio settentrionale''. Biography Negri was born in Ravenna, then part of the Papal States, and left his home city in 1663 to set out on his travels. When the middle-aged priest left his hometown of Ravenna and undertook a three-year voyage in Scandinavia, he became the first. Thus he was seen as unusual for an Italian by the Scandinavians in travelling independently, reflecting the contemporary image of his compatriots by other nations. As an example, King Frederick III of Denmark expressed surprise at seeing him so far from home. Negri wrote often with a scientific perspective, examining the flora and fauna of the region, and made a series of anthropological Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Negri (photographer)
Francesco Negri (18 December 1841 – 21 December 1924) was an Italian photographer known not only as a pictorialist but for his innovative work in photomicroscopy, in the development of the telephoto lens, and for his early experiments in Louis Ducos du Hauron’s techniques of colour photography. His scientific and cultural pursuits included botany and local history: in both fields his publications remain significant. He served as Mayor of Casale Monferrato. In the meantime by profession he was a lawyer. Biography Negri was born in Tromello in Lomellina ( PV) to Angelo Maria Negri and Maria Magnaghi who were well-off and well-connected.Samuel Butler recounts thatCavaliere Negri, at Casale-Monferrato, told me not long since that when he was a child, during the troubles of 1848 and 1849, the King was lunching with his (Cav. Negri’s ) father who had provided the best possible luncheon in honour of his guest. The King said: “I can eat no such luncheon in times like these - give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
