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Other known artists of the Gherardini family were Tommaso Gherardini, Stefano Gherardini, Melchiorre Gherardini, and Niccolò Gherardini, a friend of Galileo Galilei and his personal biographer. [32] Niccolo wrote the first biography of Galileo named Vita del signor Galileo Galilei (Life of Signor Galileo Galilei), and was a relative of Pope ...
Lord Edward FitzGerald (1763–1798), Irish aristocrat and revolutionary, was a cousin of Charles James Fox, fought on the British side during the American War of Independence Lady Edward FitzGerald , known as "Pamela" (c. 1773–1831), wife of Lord Edward FitzGerald, adopted daughter of comtesse Stéphanie Félicité , family fled France ...
Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːza del dʒoˈkondo]; née Gherardini [ɡerarˈdiːni]; June 15, 1479 – July 14, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany.
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Devon Island, in the Canadian North, is the world's largest uninhabited island. Northeast Greenland National Park, which is the world's largest terrestrial protected area, has had a census population of 0 for many years since the only mine in the region closed. Nevertheless parts of this remote area can see seasonal use: 31 people and about 110 ...
Gherardini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gherardini family of Montagliari, aristocratic family of Florence; Alessandro Gherardini ...
Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there were three openings to the aristocracy, with the aggregation of one hundred and thirty-four families such as the Medicis and the Gherardinis, (a not inconsiderable contribution, given that the nobility had been suffering from a serious demographic crisis for some time).
The Genoese map is a 1457 world map. The map relied extensively on the account of the traveler to Asia Niccolo da Conti , rather than the usual source of Marco Polo . [ 1 ] The author is not known, but is a more modern development than the Fra Mauro world map , with fairly good proportions given to each continents.