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La donna velata (c. 1516); the pearl (Latin: margarita) adorning her hair may allude to the name of Raphael's mistress and model; her stray curl exemplifies the "studied carelessness" or sprezzatura celebrated in The Book of the Courtier by his friend Baldassare Castiglione; height 82 centimetres (32 in), width 60.5 centimetres (23.8 in); at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence [1] [2] [3]
M. Manila (name) Marcella; Margherita; Maria (given name) Maria Antonietta; Maria Sole; Mariana (given name) Mariella (disambiguation) Marina (given name) Marisa (given name)
Isabella di Morra was born into a noble family in Favale (now Valsinni, in the province of Matera), at the time part of the Kingdom of Naples.She was the daughter of Giovanni Michele di Morra, baron of Favale, and Luisa Brancaccio, a noblewoman belonging to a Neapolitan family.
Billed as Valli for The Third Man (1949), (American theatrical release poster). Alida Maria Laura, Freiin Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli, or simply Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, spanning from the 1930s to the early 2000s.
Bianca Castafiore (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbjaŋka kastaˈfjoːre]), nicknamed the "Milanese Nightingale" (French: le Rossignol milanais), is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. She is an opera singer who frequently pops up in adventure after adventure.
Matilde Serao (1856–1927), Greek-born Italian journalist, novelist; Clara Sereni (1946–2018), autobiographical literature; Ippolita Maria Sforza (1446–1484), letter writer, poet; Gabriella Sica (born 1950), poet; Maria Luisa Spaziani (1923–2014), poet, translator, academic writer; Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554), Renaissance poet
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[1] [6] [10] [13] Lucrezia was buried in the Corpus Domini Monastery, the ancestral mausoleum of the House of Este in Ferrara. Her marriage to Alfonso II was childless, and the widowed Duke married twice more: in 1565 to the Archduchess Barbara of Austria and in 1579 to Margherita Gonzaga. Neither marriage produced children.