Flashcards: Death in Rome

Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of Araguaia (August 13, 1811 – July 10, 1882), was a Brazilian poet, playwright, medician and diplomat.

Karl Julius Beloch (January 21, 1854 in Nieder-Petschkendorf – February 1, 1929 in Rome) was a German classical and economic historian.

Cesare Ripa (c. 1560, Perugia – c. 1622) was an Italian iconographer who worked for Cardinal Anton Maria Salviati as a cook and butler.

Galvano Della Volpe (24 September 1895, in Imola – 13 July 1968, in Rome) was an Italian professor of philosophy and Western Marxist theorist.

Paul the Apostle (Latin: Paulus; Greek: Παῦλος, translit. Paulos; c. 5 – c. 67), commonly known as Saint Paul, and also known by his native name Saul of Tarsus (Hebrew: שאול התרסי‎, translit. Sha'ul ha-Tarsi‎; Greek: Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, translit. Saulos Tarseus) was an apostle (though not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of the Christ to the 1st-century world.

Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (Italian pronunciation: [loˈrɛntso ˈvalla]; c.1407 – 1 August 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator.

Joseph Sembratovych (Ukrainian: Йосиф Сембратович, Polish: Josyf Sembratowycz; 8 November, 1821, Krynica-Zdrój – 23 October, 1900) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1870 until his resignation in 1882.

Antonio Barluzzi (26 September 1884 – 14 December 1960) was an Italian Franciscan monk and architect.

Pietro Santi Bartoli (also Sante or Santo; 1635 – November 7, 1700) was an Italian engraver, draughtsman and painter.

Jan van Mieris (17 June 1660 – 17 March 1690), was a Dutch painter.

Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome (Hebrew: נתן בן יחיאל מרומי; Nathan ben Y'ḥiel Mi Romi according to Sephardic pronunciation) (c. 1035 – 1106) was a Jewish Italian lexicographer.

Renato Fasano (Naples, August 21, 1902 – Rome, August 3, 1979) was an Italian conductor and musicologist particularly associated with 18th-century Italian works.

Francesco Gasparini (19 March 1661 – 22 March 1727) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England.

Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 1625 – 15 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner.

Tullio Serafin (1 September 1878 – 2 February 1968) was an Italian conductor.

Stjepan "Stijepo" Gradić or Stefano Gradi (Latin: Stephanus Gradius; March 6, 1613 – May 2, 1683) was a philosopher, scientist and a patrician of the Republic of Ragusa.

Pope Clement XII (Latin: Clemens XII; 7 April 1652 – 6 February 1740), born Lorenzo Corsini, was Pope from 12 July 1730 to his death in 1740.

Ettore Ximenes (April 11, 1855, Palermo – December 20, 1926, Rome) was an Italian sculptor.

Pierre Le Gros (12 April 1666 – 3 May 1719) was a French sculptor, active almost exclusively in Baroque Rome.

Bartolomeo Sacchi (Italian: [ˌbartɔlɔˈmɛɔ ˈsakki]; 1421 – 21 September 1481), known as Platina (in Italian il Platina [il ˈplatina]) after his birthplace (Piadena), and commonly referred to in English as Bartolomeo Platina, was an Italian Renaissance humanist writer and gastronomist.

Walter Audisio (June 28, 1909, Alessandria – October 11, 1973, Rome) was an Italian partisan and communist politician.

Oliviero Carafa (10 March 1430 – 20 January 1511), in Latin: Oliverius Carafa, was an Italian cardinal and diplomat of the Renaissance.

Cesare Sterbini (born 1784 in Rome – January 19, 1831) was an Italian writer and librettist.

Mario Rossi (March 29, 1902, Bitetto– June 29, 1992, Rome) was an Italian conductor, noted for his solid and meticulous readings of a repertory ranging from Italian classics to Russian moderns such as Prokofiev, to the German operatic classicist Christoph Willibald Gluck.

Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel (born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel, Italian name variations: Gaspare Vanvitelli [ˈɡaspare vaɱviˈtɛlli], Gasparo degli Occhiali [ˈɡasparo deʎʎ okˈkjaːli]; 1652 or 1653, Amersfoort – September 13, 1736, Rome) was a Dutch painter who made a career in Rome where he played a pivotal role in the development of the genre of topographical painting known as veduta.

Adelaide Ristori (29 January 1822 – 9 October 1906) was a distinguished Italian tragedienne, who was often referred to as the Marquise.

John of Capua (fl. 1262-1269) was an Italian Jewish convert to Christianity, and a translator.

Virgilio Marchi (1895–1960) was an Italian architect and art director.

Victor Lvovich Zaslavsky (Russian: Виктор Львович Заславский; 26 September 1937 - 26 November 2009) was a professor of political sociology who taught at institutions such as LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli), the Leningrad State University, Memorial University of Newfoundland in St.

Johannes Carsten Hauch (12 May 1790 – 4 March 1872) was a Danish poet.

Bernardo Dovizi or Bibbiena (4 August 1470 – 9 November 1520) was an Italian cardinal and comedy writer, known best as Cardinal Bibbiena, for the town of Bibbiena, where he was born.

Mario Praz KBE (Italian: [ˈmaːrjo prats]; September 6, 1896, Rome – March 23, 1982, Rome) was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature.

Raimondo D'Inzeo (8 February 1925 – 15 November 2013) was an Italian show jumping rider, an Olympic champion and double world champion.

Ercole Ferrata (1610 – 10 July 1686) was an Italian sculptor of the Roman Baroque.

Jacob Moleschott (9 August 1822 – 20 May 1893) was a Dutch physiologist and writer on dietetics.

Francesco Barberini (23 September 1597 – 10 December 1679) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.

Gottfried Semper (German: [ˌɡɔtfriːt ˈzɛmpɐ]; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841.

Italo Insolera (Turin, February 7, 1929 – Rome, August 27, 2012) was an Italian architect, urban and land planner, and historian.

Laura Troschel (3 November 1944 – 29 September 2016) was an Italian actress, singer and model.

Saint Nicola Saggio was an Italian Roman Catholic professed oblate of the Order of Minims.

Ruth Milles (19 April 1873 – 11 February 1941) was a Swedish sculptor and writer.

Ezio Marano (6 August 1927, Brescia – 26 April 1991, Rome) was an Italian actor.

William Henry Herriman (7 February 1829 – 26 July 1918) was an expatriate American art collector in Rome who on his death left important works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Brooklyn Museum.

Carlo Gimach (2 March 1651 – 31 December 1730) was a Maltese architect, engineer and poet who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Piero Ciampi (Livorno, 28 September 1934 – Rome, 19 January 1980) was an Italian singer-songwriter.