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Cosimo is the Italian form of the Greek name ''Kosmas'' (latinised as ''Cosmas''). Cosimo may refer to: Characters * Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, hero of Italo Calvino's 1957 novel ''The Baron in the Trees'' Given name Medici family * Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464), ruler of Florence, Italy * Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (other), any of several people of the same name * Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519–1574) * Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590–1621) * Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723) Other people * Cosimo Antonelli (1925–2014), Italian water polo player * Cosimo Bartoli (1503–1572), Italian diplomat and humanist * Cosimo Boscaglia (c.1550–1621), Italian professor of philosophy * Cosimo Caliandro (1982–2011), Italian middle distance runner * Cosimo Cavallaro (born 1961), Italian-Canadian artist * Cosimo Commisso (soccer), Canadian soccer player * Cosimo Daddi (died 1630), Italian painter * Cosimo Fa ...
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Cosimo III De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany
Cosimo III de' Medici (14 August 1642 – 31 October 1723) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Cosimo's 53-year-long reign, the longest in Tuscan history, was marked by a series of laws that regulated prostitution and May celebrations. His reign also witnessed Tuscany's deterioration to previously unknown economic lows. He was succeeded by his elder surviving son, Gian Gastone, when he died, in 1723. He married Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, a cousin of Louis XIV. The marriage was solemnized by proxy in the King's Chapel at the Louvre, on Sunday, 17 April 1661. It was a marriage fraught with tribulation. Marguerite Louise eventually abandoned Tuscany for the Convent of Montmartre. Together, they had three children: Ferdinando in 1663, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine, in 1667, and Gian Gastone, the last Medicean ...
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Cosimo De' Medici
Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (27 September 1389 – 1 August 1464) was an Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as effective rulers of Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance. His power derived from his wealth as a banker, and inter-marriage with other powerful and rich families. He was a patron of arts, learning and architecture. He spent over 600,000 gold florins (approx. $500 million inflation adjusted) on art and culture, including Donatello's David, the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity. Despite his influence, his power was not absolute; Florence's legislative councils at times resisted his proposals throughout his life, and he was viewed as first among equals, rather than an autocrat.Martines, Lauro (2011). ''The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390–1460''. University of Toronto Press. p. 8. Biography Early life and family business Cosimo de' Medici was born in Florence to Giovanni di Bicci de' Med ...
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Cosimo I De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany
Cosimo I de' Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second Duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death. Life Rise to power Cosimo was born in Florence on 12 June 1519, the son of the famous condottiere Ludovico de' Medici (known as Giovanni delle Bande Nere) and his wife Maria Salviati, herself a granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent. He was the grandson of Caterina Sforza, the Countess of Forlì and Lady of Imola. Cosimo came to power in 1537 at age 17, just after the 26-year-old Duke of Florence, Alessandro de' Medici, was assassinated. Cosimo was from a different branch of the Medici family, descended from Giovanni il Popolano, the great-grandson of Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, founder of the Medici Bank. It was necessary to search for a successor outside of the "senior" branch of the Medici family descended from Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici, since the only male child of Alessandro, ...
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Piero Di Cosimo
Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 – 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He is most famous for the mythological and allegorical subjects he painted in the late Quattrocento; he is said to have abandoned these to return to religious subjects under the influence of Savonarola, the preacher who exercised a huge sway in Florence in the 1490s, and had a similar effect on Botticelli. The High Renaissance style of the new century had little influence on him, and he retained the straightforward realism of his figures, which combines with an often whimsical treatment of his subjects to create the distinctive mood of his works. Vasari has many stories of his eccentricity, and the mythological subjects have an individual and quirky fascination. He trained under Cosimo Rosselli, whose daughter he married, and assisted him in his Sistine Chapel frescos. He was also influenced by Early Netherlandish painting, and busy landscapes feat ...
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Cosimo Tura
Cosimo is the Italian form of the Greek name ''Kosmas'' (latinised as ''Cosmas''). Cosimo may refer to: Characters * Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, hero of Italo Calvino's 1957 novel ''The Baron in the Trees'' Given name Medici family * Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464), ruler of Florence, Italy * Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (other), any of several people of the same name * Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519–1574) * Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590–1621) * Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723) Other people * Cosimo Antonelli (1925–2014), Italian water polo player * Cosimo Bartoli (1503–1572), Italian diplomat and humanist * Cosimo Boscaglia (c.1550–1621), Italian professor of philosophy * Cosimo Caliandro (1982–2011), Italian middle distance runner * Cosimo Cavallaro (born 1961), Italian-Canadian artist * Cosimo Commisso (soccer), Canadian soccer player * Cosimo Daddi (died 1630), Italian painter * Cosimo ...
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Cosimo II De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany
Cosimo II de' Medici (12 May 1590 – 28 February 1621) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until his death. He was the elder son of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Christina of Lorraine. For the majority of his twelve-year reign, he delegated the administration of Tuscany to his ministers. He is best remembered as the patron of Galileo Galilei, his childhood tutor. Biography Cosimo's father Ferdinando I took care to provide him with a modern education. Indeed, Galileo Galilei was Cosimo's tutor between 1605 and 1608. Ferdinando arranged for him to marry Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, daughter of Archduke Charles II, in 1608. Their marriage was celebrated with an elaborate display on the Arno, which included a performance of the ''Argonautica'', in which Jason sailed around an artificial island and presented Maria Maddalena with six red apples, alluding to the Medici family symbolic balls, or palle. Cosimo and Maria Maddalena had eight children ...
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Cosimo Matassa
Cosimo Vincent Matassa (April 13, 1926 – September 11, 2014) was an American recording engineer and studio owner, responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings. Life and career Matassa was born in New Orleans in 1926.Komorowski, Adam. Liner notes. ''The Cosimo Matassa Story'' (CD). In 1944 he began studies as a chemistry major at Tulane University, which he abandoned after completing five semesters of course work. In 1945, at the age of 18, Matassa opened the J&M Recording Studio at the back of his family's shop on Rampart Street, on the border of the French Quarter in New Orleans. In 1955, he moved to the larger Cosimo Recording Studio on Gov. Nichols Street, nearby in the French Quarter. As an engineer and proprietor, Matassa was crucial to the development of the sound of R&B, rock and soul of the 1950s and 1960s, often working with the producers Dave Bartholomew and Allen Toussaint. He recorded many hits, including Fats Domino’s " The Fat Man" (a contende ...
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Cosimo Rosselli
Cosimo Rosselli (; 1439–1507) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in his birthplace of Florence, but also in Pisa earlier in his career and in 1481–82 in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where he painted some of the large frescoes on the side walls. Though generally regarded as a lesser talent in comparison to Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, and Domenico Ghirlandaio, who were all also active at the Sistine Chapel, Rosselli was still able to win large and important commission throughout his career, a testament to his high level of activity in his native Florence. Important local commissions include a fresco in the cloister of Santissima Annunziata, Florence and those in the Chapel of the Holy Blood in Sant'Ambrogio, Florence. Biography Cosimo Rosselli was born in Florence. In 1453, at the age of fourteen, he became a pupil of Neri di Bicci, who also trained Cosimo's cousin Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli.
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Cosimo Fancelli
Cosimo Fancelli (c.1620 – 3 April 1688) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He worked on a number of commissions with Pietro da Cortona from 1647 until Cortona's death in 1669. Gian Lorenzo Bernini considered him one of the best sculptors in Rome. Life Cosimo Fancelli was born in Rome, the son of Carlo Fancelli, a stonecutter from Settignano. Like his older brother, the sculptor Giacomo Antonio Fancelli, he began his career as an assistant in the studio of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Around 1645 he did a relief of "Christ and the mother of SS. Giacomo ex Giovanni" for Santa Maria Portae Paradisi. Around 1646 Fancelli sculpted the statue of "Justice" in the Cappella della Sacra Famiglia at the Church of the Gesù. In 1647-48 he created with his brother the stucco figures of ''Clemenza'' and ''Contemplazione'' on the pendentives of the second arch to the right of the central nave of St. Peter's Basilica and collaborated on the ornamentati ...
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Cosimo Piovasco Di Rondò
Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò or simply Cosimo is the protagonist in the Italian novel'' The Baron in the Trees'' (1957, ''Il Barone Rampante'') by Italo Calvino. Cosimo climbs in a tree at the beginning of the novel and will spend the rest of his adventurous life in trees. Family tree Cosimo is the son of Arminio Piovasco, who has strong intentions to rule the region on the Liguria Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...n Coast in the eighteenth-century when the regions of Italy haven't united yet. *Grandparent: Head General of the War of Succession (father of Corradina) **Parents: Arminio Piovasco (father) and Corradina Von Kurtewitz (mother) ***Children: Battista (elder sister), Cosimo, Biagio (younger brother) Viola Cosimo leaps across the wall to the opposite tree ...
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Cosimo Commisso (soccer)
Cosimo Commisso (born November 28, 1965) is a Canadian former soccer player who earned five caps for the national team in 1988. In 1982, he played in the National Soccer League with Toronto Italia, and was drafted by the Toronto Blizzard in 1983. He returned to former club Toronto Italia for the 1986 season. He played club football for the Hamilton Steelers and North York Rockets The North York Rockets were a professional soccer team based in North York, Toronto, Ontario that competed in the original Canadian Soccer League. They were one of four teams to participate in every season of the CSL. Upon the demise of the CSL, .... References Canadian National Soccer League players Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992) players Canada men's youth international soccer players Canada men's international soccer players Canadian men's soccer players Canadian sportspeople of Italian descent Hamilton Steelers (1981–1992) players North York Rockets players Toronto Itali ...
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Cosimo Pinto
Cosimo Pinto (born 14 March 1943) is a retired Italian light heavyweight Light heavyweight, also referred to as junior cruiserweight or light cruiserweight, is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the division is above and up to , falling between super middleweight and cruise ... boxer who won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. Contrary to most of his teammates he remained an amateur and later won a bronze medal at the 1967 European championships. 1964 Olympic record Below are the results of Cosimo Pinto, an Italian light heavyweight boxer who competed at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo: * Round of 32: bye * Round of 16: defeated Rudie Lubbers (Netherlands) by decision, 5-0 * Quarterfinal: defeated Jurgen Schlegel (Unified Team of Germany) by decision, 4-1 * Semifinal: defeated Alexander Nicolov (Bulgaria) referee stopped contest * Final: defeated Aleksei Kiselyov (Soviet Union) by decision, 3-2 (won gold medal) References 1943 bi ...
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