Benedetto is a common
Italian name
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English usually refers to:
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Peoples, culture, and language
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Benedict
Benedict may refer to:
People Names
*Benedict (given name), including a list of people with the given name
*Benedict (surname), including a list of people with the surname
Religious figures
* Pope Benedict I (died 579), head of the Catholic Chu ...
. Notable people named Benedetto include:
People with the given name
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Benedetto Accolti (disambiguation) Benedetto Accolti is the name of:
*Benedetto Accolti the Elder Benedetto Accolti (1415 in Arezzo26 September 1464 in Florence) was an Italian jurist, humanist and historian.
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Benedetto Aloi
Benedetto "Benny" Aloi (October 6, 1935 – April 7, 2011) was a New York City mobster who became underboss of the Colombo crime family. Aloi was a main figure in the "Windows Case", Aloi was also a major figure in the Third Colombo War.
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(1935–2011), American mobster
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Benedetto Antelami
Benedetto Antelami (c. 1150 – c. 1230)"Antelami, Benedetto" in ''Encyclopædia Britannica, The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 441. was an Italian architect and sculpture, sc ...
(c. 1150–c. 1230), Italian architect and sculptor
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Benedetto Bonfigli (c. 1420–c. 1490), Italian painter
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Benedetto Bordone (1460–1531), Italian manuscript editor, miniaturist and cartographer
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Benedetto Brin
Benedetto Brin (17 May 1833 in Turin, Piedmont24 May 1898 in Rome, Lazio) was an Italian naval administrator and politician. He played a major role in modernizing and expanding the Italian (Royal Navy) from the 1870s to the 1890s, designing se ...
(1833–1898), Italian naval administrator and politician
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Benedetto Cairoli
Benedetto Cairoli (28 January 1825 – 8 August 1889) was an Italian politician.
Biography
Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy. From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the ''Risorgimento'', as ...
(1825–1889), Italian statesman
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Benedetto Castelli
Benedetto Castelli (1578 – 9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his name in religion on entering the Benedictine Order in 1595.
Life
Born in Brescia, Castelli studied at the University of Padua and l ...
(1578–1643), Italian mathematician
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Benedetto Cotrugli
Benedetto Cotrugli ( hr, Benedikt "Beno" Kotruljević; 1416–1469) was a Ragusan merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist.
Life
Cotrugli was born in the city of Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik), part of the Republic of Ragusa. As a dip ...
(1416–1469), Ragusan merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist
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Benedetto Croce
Benedetto Croce (; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952)
was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a lib ...
(1866–1952), Italian philosopher and politician
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Benedetto da Maiano
Benedetto da Maiano (1442 – May 24, 1497) was an Italian Early Renaissance sculptor.
Biography
Born in the village of Maiano (now part of Fiesole), he started his career as companion of his brother, the architect Giuliano da Maiano. When he r ...
(1442–1497), Italian sculptor
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Benedetto Della Vedova
Benedetto Della Vedova (Sondrio, 3 April 1962) is an Italian people, Italian politician.
A keen pro-Europeanism, pro-Europeanist, Della Vedova is currently president of Forza Europa (2017), Forza Europa (FE) and secretary of More Europe (+EU), t ...
(born 1962), Italian politician
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Benedetto Dei
Benedetto Dei (1418–1492) was an Italian poetry, poet and historian. He spent the majority of his life in Florence, where he was an adjutant to the Medici and to the Portinari family, Portinari, a merchant house.
Dei's most significant work was ...
(1417–1492), Italian poet and historian
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Benedetto Ferrari
Benedetto Ferrari (ca. 1603 – 1681) was an Italian composer, particularly of opera, librettist, and theorbo player.
Ferrari was born in Reggio nell'Emilia. He worked in Rome (1617–1618), Parma (1619–1623), and possibly in Modena at some ...
(c. 1600–1681), Italian composer
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Benedetto I Zaccaria Benedetto I Zaccaria (c. 1235 – 1307) was an Italian admiral of the Republic of Genoa. He was the Lord of Phocaea (from 1288) and first Lord of Chios (from 1304), and the founder of Zaccaria fortunes in Byzantine and Latin Greece. He was, at di ...
(c. 1230–1307), Italian admiral
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Benedetto Justiniani
Benedetto Justiniani (1550 – 19 December 1622) was a Jesuit theologian and Biblical scholar from Genoa, in what is today Italy.
Justiniani entered the Jesuit noviciate at Rome in 1579 and later taught rhetoric in the Roman College, and then ...
(1550–1622), Italian theologian
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Benedetto Luti
Benedetto Luti (17 November 1666 – 17 June 1724) was an Italian painter.
Early life
Luti was born in Florence on 17 November 1666.
Career
In 1691, he moved to Rome, where he was patronized by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, an en ...
(1666–1724), Italian painter
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Benedetto Marcello
Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (; 31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.
Life
Born in Venice, Benedetto Marcello was a member of a noble family and in his compositions he is f ...
(1686–1739), Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher
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Benedetto Pistrucci
Benedetto Pistrucci (29 May 1783 – 16 September 1855) was an Italian gem-engraver, medallist and coin engraver, probably best known for his Saint George and the Dragon design for the British sovereign coin. Pistrucci was commissioned by ...
(1783–1855), Italian engraver
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Benedetto Santapaola
Benedetto Santapaola (; born 4 June 1938), better known as Nitto, is a prominent mafioso from Catania, the main city and industrial centre on Sicily's east coast. His nickname is ''il cacciatore'' (the hunter), because of his passion for shooting ...
(born 1938), Italian mafioso
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Benedetto Spera
Benedetto Spera (; born July 1, 1934) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia and the boss of the Belmonte Mezzagno Mafia family and the '' mandamento'' of Misilmeri in the province of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. He was convicted ''in absentia' ...
(born 1934), Italian mafioso
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Benedetto Stay
Benedetto Stay (1714–1801) was a Ragusan Roman Catholic clergyman, educated by Jesuits, he attended the academic assemblies of Marin Sorgo, beginning the composition of a poem on Alexander Farnese. Later on he published "Saggio sull'uomo", base ...
(1714–1801), Croatian Roman Catholic churchman
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Benedetto Varchi
Benedetto Varchi (; 1502/15031565) was an Italian humanist, historian, and poet.
Biography
Born in Florence to a family that had originated at Montevarchi, he frequented the neoplatonic academy that Bernardo Rucellai organized in his garden, the ...
(c. 1500–1565), Italian humanist, historian, and poet
People with the middle name
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Antonio Benedetto Carpano
Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764, Bioglio (Biella) - 1815, Turin) was an Italian distiller, famous for having invented vermouth and consequently the apéritif.
In 1786, Antonio Benedetto Carpano invented modern Vermouth in Turin, made from white ...
(1764–1815), Italian distiller
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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 16095 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotypi ...
(1609–1664), Italian artist, painter, printmaker, and draftsman
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Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo or Joseph Benedict Cottolengo (3 May 1786 – 30 April 1842) was the founder of the and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
Early life
Joseph Benedict Cottolengo was born on May 3, 1786, into a middle-cla ...
(1786–1842), Italian saint
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Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino
Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino (21 March 1672 – 16 April 1742) was an Italian poet and opera librettist. He was the son of the composer Carlo Pallavicino (1630?-1688). (Their surname Pallavicino is sometimes spelt Pallavicini.)
Biography
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(1672–1742), Italian poet
People with the surname
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Anthony Dominick Benedetto
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American retired singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a painter, having created works under his birth ...
(born 1926), Italian-American singer
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John Benedetto
John Joseph Benedetto (born July 16, 1939) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park and is a leading researcher in wavelet analysis and Director of the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications. ...
(born 1939), American mathematician
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Robert Benedetto
Robert Benedetto (born October 22, 1946 in The Bronx, New York) is an American luthier of archtop jazz guitars. In 1968, he made his first archtop guitar in New Jersey and has handcrafted nearly 850 musical instruments. His guitars appear on many ...
(born 1946), American luthier
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Darío Benedetto
Darío Ismael Benedetto (born 17 May 1990) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Argentine Primera División club Boca Juniors.
Club career
Early career
Darío Benedetto began his career playing for Arsenal de Sara ...
, (born 1990) Argentine footballer
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Enzo Benedetto
Enzo Benedetto (10 November 1905 - 27 May 1993) was an Italian painter.
References
1905 births
1993 deaths
20th-century Italian painters
20th-century Italian male artists
Italian male painters
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(1905-1993), Italian painter
See also
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Di Benedetto Di Benedetto (sometimes spelled DiBenedetto) is an Italian surname. Notable people with this name include:
* (1664–1729), Italian architect
* Antonio di Benedetto (1922–1986), Argentine writer
* (born 1966), Italian jazz singer
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San Benedetto (disambiguation) San Benedetto may refer to:
* Saint Benedict (c. 480-543/547), Italian saint
* Saint Benedict (disambiguation), a number of other Italian saints called San Benedetto (Saint Benedict)
Places of Italy
* San Benedetto Belbo, a municipality in the Pro ...
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