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Emilio de' Cavalieri was born in 1550 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He is known for The Son of Joseph (2016), Lamenta (2015) and Cavalieri: La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo (2000). He died on 11 March 1602 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Composer
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Giulio Caccini was born in 1550 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a composer, known for Donnie Darko (2001), Modigliani (2004) and Say Nothing (2001). He died on 10 December 1618 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.- Music Department
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Stefano Landi was born on 26 February 1587 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. Stefano is known for Ava (2017), Aires 06 (2006) and Il Sant' Alessio (2007). Stefano died on 28 October 1639 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Music Department
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Gregorio Allegri was born in 1582 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He is known for Face/Off (1997), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) and The Two Popes (2019). He died on 17 February 1652 in Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire [now Lazio, Italy].- Nicola Francesco Haym was born on 6 July 1678 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. Nicola Francesco was a writer, known for The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006), Prestige de la musique (1963) and Tamerlano de Haendel (2015). Nicola Francesco was married to Joanna Maria. Nicola Francesco died on 31 July 1729 in London, England, UK.
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Pietro Metastasio was born on 3 January 1698 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Great Performances (1971), The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006) and Mozart 22 (2006). He died on 12 April 1782 in Vienna, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire [now Austria].- Charles Stuart was born on 31 December 1720 in Santi Apostoli, Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. Charles was a writer, known for The Queen's Palaces (2011). Charles was married to Louise zu Stolberg-Gedern. Charles died on 31 January 1788 in Santi Apostoli, Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].
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Cesare Sterbini was born in 1784 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Jumanji (1995), Fulltime Killer (2001) and Quartet (2012). He died on 19 January 1831 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Luigi Romanelli was born on 21 July 1751 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for La pietra del paragone (2007), Die Liebesprobe (1963) and De toetsteen der liefde (1964). He died on 1 March 1839 in Milan, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Lombardy, Italy].
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Jacopo Ferretti was born on 16 July 1784 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Cenerentola (1949), La Cenerentola (1982) and La Cenerentola (2017). He died on 7 March 1852 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Constantino Brumidi (July 26, 1805 - February 19, 1880) was a Greek-Italian-American historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work, Apotheosis of Washington, in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Brumidi was born in Rome, his father a Greek from Filiatra in the province of Messinia, Greece, and his mother an Italian. He showed his talent for fresco painting at an early age and painted in several Roman palaces, among them being that of Prince Torlonia. Under Gregory XVI he worked for three years in the Vatican.
- Augustus Hare was born on 13 March 1834 in Villa Strozzi, Rome [now Italy]. Augustus was a writer, known for Famous Gossips (1965). Augustus died on 22 January 1903 in St Leonards, Sussex, England, UK.
- Leo XIII was born on 2 March 1810 in Carpineto Romano, Rome, French Empire [now Lazio, Italy]. He died on 20 July 1903 in Vatican City.
- Asa S. Bushnell was born on 16 September 1834 in Rome, New York, USA. He was married to Ellen Ludlow. He died on 15 January 1904 in the USA.
- Camillo Boito was born on 30 October 1836 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Times Gone By (1952), Black Angel (2002) and Senso (1954). He died on 28 June 1914 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
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M.A. Neff was born in March 1859 in Rome, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Battle of Ballots (1915) and Gaumont Weekly, No. 72 (1913). He died on 6 October 1915 in New York City, New York, USA.- Herbert Dunsey was born on 6 March 1870 in Rome, Italy. He was an actor, known for One Hour (1917), The Impostor (1918) and Lost and Won (1915). He died on 30 May 1917 in New York, New York, USA.
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Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollonaris de Kostrowicki (pseudonyme: Guillaume Apollinaire), born on August 26, 1880, in Rome, Italy. His Russian-born mother, Angelica Kostrovicka, claimed belonging to Polish Szlachta nobility. His father is unknown. His mother was later gambling and living in Monaco. There young Apollinaire received a French college education and assumed the identity of a Russian Prince.
Apollinaire was fluent in French, Russian, and Italian. He settled in Paris at the age of 20, and worked for a bank. In 1903 he founded his own magazines, 'Le Festin d'Esope', and 'La Revue immoraliste', alluding to the 1902 work of his friend André Gide. He also published semi-pornographic books. His first collection of poetry was 'L'enchanteur pourissant' (1909). With the publication of 'Alcools' (aka.. Alcohols) (1913) Apollinaire established his reputation as a highly original voice in modern poetry. 'Alcools' includes poems written over 15 years, ranging from transcriptions of street conversations to classical verse forms in combination with experimental imagery and absence of punctuation. It's opening poem 'Zone' is a depiction of the tormented poet, who is wandering after the loss of his girlfriend.
In 1909 Apollinaire brought Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque together. In 1911 he helped them organize the Cubist room 41 at the Salon des Independants. Living at 'La Ruche' artists community at Monparnasse, he was arranging art shows and writing reviews about his friends, such as Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Ossip Zadkine, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and other artists. He collaborated with writers Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Reverdy, Gertrude Stein. Apollinaire was the artistic adviser to Sergei Diaghilev and worked with the "Ballets Russes" in Paris. He write librettos and collaborated with composers Erik Satie and Francis Poulenc among others.
He had a talent of bringing great people together and producing a lasting impact on the world of art. After his successful introduction of Picasso and Braque, which conceived Cubism, he was instrumental in other productive partnerships. Apollinaire's role in art and literature may be paralleled to that of Gertrude Stein. In 1918, Apollinaire organized the first comparative exhibition of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse on Montparnasse. He also published a Matisse-Picasso catalogue, where he wrote an article about the two artists. Apollinaire stimulated the extraordinary artistic dialogue between Matisse and Picasso, which took a form of a "visual conversation" and a continuous exchange of their paintings with mutual respect.
Apollinaire's unusual personality was an example of disobedience being an essential part of his powerful innovative creativity. He forged a reputation of himself as a dangerous foreigner and thief. He was once detained for a week on suspicion of stealing the Leonaro's Mona Lisa from the Louvre, which was soon found to be untrue. He helped define the movement of Cubism, in his writings about Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Apollinaire also coined the term Surrealism in his program note for the ballet 'Parade' by composer Erik Satie and librettist Jean Cocteau. He wrote his own play ''Les Mamelles de Tiresias' in the style described as surrealist. He also coined the term Orphism in definition of such group of artists as Robert Dalauney, Fernand Leger, Francis Picabia, and Frantisek Kupka. Apollinaire applied the term Metaphysical art to his definition of the early works by Giorgio De Chirico.
Though he never publicly admitted his authorship, Apollinaire wrote the well-known erotic novel 'Les Onze Mille Verges' (The Eleven Thousand Rods, 1907). Various underground printings of it circulated widely for many years, while it was officially banned in France until 1970, then it was made into a film titled 'The 11,000 Sexes' (1975). Apollinaire is also credited for another erotic novel 'Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan' (The Exploits of Don Juan), which was made into an eponymous movie in 1987.
In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, Apollinaire took the Franch nationality and enlisted in the Army with the goal to liberate Poland from Russia. He fought at the front-line and was seriously wounded in the head. After that he became engaged to a schoolteacher named Madeleine Pages. Then he met Jacqueline Kolb (La Jolie Rousse), whom he married in 1918. She was Apollinaire's last romance and the inspiration behind some of his risqué poems. During the war he wrote experimental 'Calligrammes' (1918), also known as "Word Pictures", a collection of his concrete poetry, in which typography and layout adds to the overall effect of his verses.
Guillaume Apollinaire contracted influenza during the 'Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918. He died on November 9, 1918, in Paris, France, and was laid to rest in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise.
Pablo Picasso depicted Apollinaire as 'Pierrot' in several important paintings. Henri Matisse made several portraits of Apollinaire.- Director
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Mario Caserini was born on 26 February 1874 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1913), Capitan Fracassa (1919) and Romeo and Juliet (1908). He was married to Maria Caserini. He died on 17 November 1920 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Lola Visconti-Brignone was born on 24 November 1891 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Nei labirinti di un'anima (1917), Il tredicesimo commensale (1921) and Il cuore dell'altra (1917). She was married to Guido Brignone. She died on 10 June 1924 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Mattia Battistini was born on 27 February 1856 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was an actor, known for Donna Lisa (1917) and Le nozze di Vittoria (1917). He died on 7 November 1928 in Collebaccaro di Contigliano, Lazio, Italy.
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Enrico Cecchetti was born on 21 June 1850 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He is known for Coppélia (1990) and Coppélia, A ballet in three acts (2000). He died on 13 November 1928 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Fausto Salvatori was born on 20 January 1870 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for I Borgia (1920), Redenzione (1919) and Figuretta (1920). He died on 3 June 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Fausto Maria Martini was born on 14 April 1886 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer, known for Satan's Rhapsody (1917), Il rifugio dell'alba (1918) and Il volto del passato (1918). He died on 12 April 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Ugo Falena was born on 25 April 1875 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Il re fantasma (1914), La vagabonda (1918) and Il natalizio della nonna (1924). He died on 20 September 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
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Sartorio was mainly a painter of landscapes and fantasy motifs, mainly based on classic poets, and legends. He was also an art teacher, an illustrator, a writer, an amateur photographer, and an independent film producer and director.
Son and nephew of artists, he became interested in paintings from an early age. He studied painting at the Accademia di San Luca, Rome. As a teenager, he followed the figurative style of Mariano Fortuny.
With the money he earned from his works, by his 20th anniversary he opened his own studio in Rome. In 1883, he worked in the decoration of the detached house of the count Gamberini, and presents in public his major work, "Malaria (Dum Romae consulitur morbus imperat)". The subtitle of the painting, in Latin, has a political message: while Rome has debates, the disease spreads. Co-financed by Pietro Giorgi, Sartorio opens a new studio in in via Margutta. In 1884, Sartorio visits Paris, and contacts Gabriele D'Annunzio. In 1886 befriends artists like Edoardo Scarfoglio and Francesco Paolo Michetti. At the Caffè Greco, in Roma, there was a gathering of artists animated by Angelo Conti, that were creating a new style, the Italian symbolism. Sartorio becomes a member of "In Arte Libertas" [Latin: Freedom through Art], fan association started by Nino Costa, and he will joint exhibits with him often. Still in 1886, he is one of the artists contributing to the "painted edition" of D'Annunzio's poems, published by Isaotta Guttadauro, in which one recognizes the pre-Raphaellite style that dominated the end of the 19th Century in Italian art.
His painting "I figli di Caino" won him the gold medal of the World Expo (Paris 1889). In 1893, Sartorio travels to England, where he has direct access of artists such as Burne-Jones, Rossetti and William Morris.
Karl Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1818 - 1901) invited Sartorio to teach painting at the Weimar Academy, which he accepted from 1896 to 1900. In 1901, Sartorio married Julie Bonn, daughter of Wilhelm Bonn (1843 - 1910) in Villa Bonn (Kronberg in the Taunus, Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany), where the Frankfurt based, Hebrew bankers' lineage had a summer residence since 1864.
Shortly after, the couple moved to Sartorio's home, a rich mansion in a park, the Orti di Galatea, where they lived a few years until their marriage was annulled (1905). Sartorio re-designed the house entirely, both the interiors and the outdoor elements. Julie Bonn would die in 1944.
Sartorio accepted to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 1907; for it he worked very fast, and employing a technique of painting he devised himself, finishing a set of 11 large oil paintings (240 square meters in all) that were exhibited in the main hall of Venezia's Esposizione Internazionale, and remained there until the next Salon, in 1909. He will be present practically in all the Venezian events, from the 1st to the 17th Biennale, as well as in the Montecitorio (1908-1912).
During World War I, Sartorio manages to paint several works featuring episodes of war, but he was a volunteer in the Army, was wounded, and arrested by the enemy.
In 1918, free again, he marries his second wife, Marga Sevilla a younger woman who appeared in some of the earlier photographic and film experiments, Sartorio was an amateur photograph also, and eventually produced a film in which she stars as the mythic Galatea, but also alternating as the fairy Egeria, who appeared and disappeared from the sight of men travelling through the woods. Some say that Il mistero di Galatea (1918) is the best of Sartorio's few cinematic works.
(Thanks to various on line sources, mainly the museum catalog of MUVE - Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia)- Castellani appears mostly in historical films and always plays good characters, except in "Ben-Hur" 1925 film, which comes across in the Golthar pirate clothes. He began his career in 1911 with the short films "Santa Cecilia" and "La sposa del Nilo", playing the title role. In 1913 we see him in the Hungarian film "Quo Vadis?", which plays the role of Ursus, who will play the role again in the film of 1924. In 1919 the cast of "Il toro selvaggio", always in Ursus garments, which in this case is the protagonist of the film. Later appears in "La Sacra Bibbia" (1920), where he plays Cain, "Messalina" (1924), where he plays Tigranes, "Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei" (1926), in Eumolpus cloths, "Quello che non muore" (1926), where he is the protagonist and "La bella corsara" (1928), alongside Rina De Liguori, where he plays the lead role of the pirate. He died of diabetes January 19, 1933 at the untimely age of 52.
- Albert Roccardi was born on 9 May 1864 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was an actor, known for Sunken Silver (1925), Partners in Crime (1928) and Melting Millions (1927). He died on 14 May 1934 in Paris, France.
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Achille Vitti was born on 22 November 1866 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was an actor and director, known for Giovanni Episcopo (1916), Lo scoglio della morte (1916) and La vergine delle ginestre (1915). He died on 1 January 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
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According to his own introduction to Alfredo Nunes de Matos in 1923, when he appeared in Oporto, Portugal, he had been working in films in Italy (1908-1911), for Gaumont in Paris (1911-1914), where he had met Louis Feuillade, and then Copenhaguen and Moscow (1914-1917). During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he fled to Warsaw, Poland, adopting the name Caesar Lupow, starting an acting academy there, and directing several films, until he heard of Oporto production company, Invicta Film. He was immediately accepted - even though his credentials were not documented, mostly because Invicta's director, George Pallu was not wishing to direct Mulheres da Beira (1923). The film knew commercial success, and he stayed to direct several more films. He created an acting academy at Oporto with limited success, where he had a pupil that would become a real master director, Manoel de Oliveira. In Portugal, he was referred to in a few newspaper articles as Rino Lupo Vitalino, due to an error reading his country attribute in 'Rino Lupo, o Italiano'. Since 1930, he is no longer referenced, leaving to speculation of an eventual name change to Roberto Lupo.- Writer
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Ettore Petrolini was born on 13 January 1886 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for Nerone (1930), Il medico per forza (1931) and 47 morto che parla (1950). He died on 29 June 1936 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
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Leopoldo Fregoli (1867-1936) was one of the first vaudeville actors who used film in his acts. Fregoli was famous for his rapid transformation acts, in which he did impersonations of famous artistic and political characters. In 1898 he bought a Cinematographe from the Lumière brothers and started to show shorts, named Fregoligraph, as part of his stage act. They were recordings of his transformation acts.- Carlo Rosselli was born on 16 November 1899 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was married to Marion Catherine Cave. He died on 9 June 1937 in Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, Orne, France.
- Aurelio Coccia was born in 1868 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Argentine Love (1924), Aloma of the South Seas (1926) and The Humming Bird (1924). He was married to Minnie Amata (dancer). He died on 30 September 1938 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
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Lucio D'Ambra was born on 1 November 1880 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Il girotondo degli undici lancieri (1919), La principessa Bebè (1921) and S. E. l'Ambasciatrice (1922). He died on 31 December 1939 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Ida Carloni Talli was born on 31 January 1860 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. She was an actress, known for Camille (1915), The White Sister (1923) and I promessi sposi (1922). She died on 23 April 1940 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Gianna Terribili-Gonzales was born on 5 March 1882 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (1913), Anna Petrowna (1916) and La Gerusalemme liberata (1913). She died on 10 December 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Amleto Palermi was born on 11 July 1889 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for La peccatrice (1940), L'allegro fantasma (1941) and The Old Lady (1932). He died on 20 April 1941 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
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Corrado D'Errico was born on 19 May 1902 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Il cammino degli eroi (1936), Freccia d'oro (1935) and All of Life in One Night (1938). He died on 3 September 1941 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Mario Giannini was born on 1 May 1920 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for La prima donna che passa (1940), L'allegro fantasma (1941) and Disillusion (1940). He died on 24 April 1942 in Falconara Marittima, Marche, Italy.
- Mario Dominici was born on 15 November 1883 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929), Sei tu l'amore (1930) and Olimpia (1930). He died on 29 June 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Ignazio Lupi was born on 11 December 1867 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was an actor and director, known for Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (1913), Ma non è una cosa seria (1921) and Quo Vadis? (1913). He died on 14 December 1942 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Franco Brambilla was born on 25 April 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Aldebaran (1935), L'ebbrezza del cielo (1940) and Vecchia guardia (1935). He died on 17 December 1942 in the Soviet Union.
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Harold Bell Wright was born on 4 May 1872 in Rome, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Shepherd of the Hills (1919), It Happened Out West (1937) and The Californian (1937). He was married to Frances E. Long and Mrs. Winifred Mary Potter Duncan. He died on 24 May 1944 in La Jolla, California, USA.- Actress
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Maria Jacobini was born on 17 February 1892 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Bohème - Künstlerliebe (1923), Joan of Arc (1913) and Maman Colibri (1929). She was married to Gennaro Righelli. She died on 20 November 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Clara Petacci was born on 28 February 1912 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was married to Riccardo Federici. She died on 28 April 1945 in Giulino di Mezzegra, Lombardy, Italy.
- Angelo Ferrari was born on 14 August 1897 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1923), Die Flucht in die Nacht (1926) and Ein Walzer im Schlafcoupé (1930). He died on 15 June 1945 in Niederlehme, Germany.
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Giulio Antamoro was born on 1 July 1877 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for L'avvenire in agguato (1916), Io te uccido! (1919) and Christus (1916). He died on 8 December 1945 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
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Gabriellino D'Annunzio was born on 10 April 1886 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for La nave (1921), Le smorfie di Pulcinella (1921) and La rondine (1922). He died on 8 December 1945 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Guglielmo Sinaz was born on 20 November 1885 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for We the Living (1942), Addio Kira! (1942) and Song to the Wind (1939). He died on 5 February 1947 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.