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Pistocchi
Pistocchi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Francesco Antonio Pistocchi (1659–1726), Italian musician * Giuseppe Pistocchi (1744–1814), Italian architect {{surname Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Antonio Pistocchi
Francesco Antonio Mamiliano Pistocchi, nicknamed Pistocchino (165913 May 1726), was an Italian singer, composer and librettist.Talbot, Michael''The chamber cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi'' Boydell Press, 2006, p. 52. Pistocchino was born in Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan .... He was a boy soprano prodigy, and later made his career as a castrato. From 1696 to 1700 he was ''maestro di cappella'' for the Duke of Ansbach. After 1700 he founded a singing school in Bologna, where he died. He was elected president of the Academia Filarmonica twice, in 1708 and 1710. His pupil was Annibale Pio Fabri. Works * ''Il Leandro'' (libretto by Camillo Badovero, Venice, Teatro alle Zattere, 5 May 1679, then Teatro S. Moisè, 1682, as ''Gli amori fatali'') * ''Il Narciso'', p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Pistocchi
Giuseppe Pistocchi (1744–1814) was an Italian architect of the Neoclassic style, active mainly near his natal city of Faenza. Biography Pistocchi was born in Faenza. His father, a sculptor and stuccoist, sent him to work with the architect Giuseppe Boschi (il Carloncino). A patron, the archbishop Cantoni of Ravenna, arranged for him to travel to Rome in 1762. In 1754 he directed the restoration of the Apostolic palace in Pesaro, and completed the facade of ''Santa Maria degli Angeli'' and restoration of the church ''Sant' Agostino''. Returning to Faenza, he directed construction of the ''Oratorio della Confraternita di S. Matteo''. In 1768 he rebuilt the high altar of the Cathedral. In 1775 he worked in the ''Palazzo Bandini-Spada''. Between 1780 and 1782 he decorated the cupola of the Duomo of Ravenna. Between 1780 and 1787 he directed the construction of the Communal theater in Faenza. Other works include: *1781: design for the New Seminary of Faenza. *1785: Completes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Surname
A name in the Italian language consists of a given name ( it, nome), and a surname (); in most contexts, the given name is written before the surname. (In official documents, the Western surname may be written before the given name or names.) Italian names, with their fixed ''nome'' and ''cognome'' structure, have little to do with the ancient Roman naming conventions, which used a tripartite system of given name, gentile name, and hereditary or personal name (or names). The Italian ''nome'' is not analogous to the ancient Roman ''nomen''; the Italian ''nome'' is the given name (distinct between siblings), while the Roman ''nomen'' is the gentile name (inherited, thus shared by all in a gens). Female naming traditions, and name-changing rules after adoption, for both sexes likewise differ between Roman antiquity and modern Italian use. Moreover, the low number, and the steady decline of importance and variety, of Roman ''praenomina'' starkly contrast with the current number of It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
