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Guelfo is a masculine given name. It may refer to: * Leonardo da Pistoia (1502–c. 1548), Italian painter also known as Guelfo dal Celano in Naples * Guelfo Cavanna (1850–1920), Italian entomologist * Guelfo Zamboni Guelfo Zamboni (1896–1994) was an Italian diplomat who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. Early life Guelfo Zamboni was born in Santa Sofia, then part of Tuscany on 22 October 1896. The last of eight sons, he belonged to a family ... (1897–1994), Italian diplomat who saved hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust {{given name Masculine given names ...
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Leonardo Da Pistoia
Leonardo da Pistoia, also known as Leonardo Grazia, (1502 – ca. 1548) was an Italian painter of the Mannerism school. Biography Da Pistoia was born in the city of Pistoia, Tuscany, and died in Naples. According to Benezit, he is often confused with Leonardo di Francesco di Lazzaro Malatesta (ca. 1483 – after 1518). Both men were known as "Leonardo da Pistoia" or as "Malatesta." In Naples, da Pistoia was also known as "Guido da Napoli" or as "Guelfo dal Celano." Early in his career, da Pistoia worked in Rome under Gianfrancesco Penni (also known as "il Fattore"). He was a copyist of Raphael's paintings. He and Penni later relocated to Naples. While there, da Pistoia painted for the churches of Santa Maria del Parto a Mergellina, San Domenico Maggiore, and Monte Oliveto. His pupils in Naples included Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta and Francesco Curia Francesco Curia (1538–1610) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his hometown of Napl ...
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Guelfo Cavanna
Guelfo Cavanna (27 February 1850, in Ferrara – 18 December 1920, in Florence) was an Italian entomologist. Biography Cavanna was a teacher at the University of Florence and secretary of the Società Entomologica Italiana from 1875 to 1892. In 1880 he worked on the insect fauna of the then unexplored regions of Vulture and Pollino in southern Italy. Many specialists worked on the insects collected (now in La Specola The Museum of Zoology and Natural History, best known as La Specola, is an eclectic natural history museum in Florence, central Italy, located next to the Pitti Palace. The name '' Specola'' means observatory, a reference to the astronomical obser ...) and the results were published aNarrazione della escursione fatta al Vulture ed al Pollino nel luglio del 1880da A. Biondi, C. Caroti e G. Cavanna, pp. 3–30; Parte II. Catalogo degli animali raccolti al Vulture, al Pollino ed in altri luoghi dell’Italia meridionalee centrale, pp. 31–87; ''Bullettino ...
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Guelfo Zamboni
Guelfo Zamboni (1896–1994) was an Italian diplomat who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. Early life Guelfo Zamboni was born in Santa Sofia, then part of Tuscany on 22 October 1896. The last of eight sons, he belonged to a family devoted to handicrafts. His parents wanted him to become a clergyman, but they died early in his life and left him an orphan. He decided to attend school when he grew up, facing the hardship of earning a living while studying. At 19 he fought as an infantryman in World War I, from 1916 to 1918, and was honored with a Bronze Medal of Military Valor and a War Merit Cross as he had been seriously wounded. After the war he received a degree in Economics and Trade. In 1925 he took the exam that began him in his diplomatic career. Traditionally, the Italian Foreign Ministry had been dominated by the aristocracy and Zamboni was one of the first Italian diplomats to come from a modest background. Zamboni had been able enter the diplomatic corps ...
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