On April 15th, 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts, a robbery right outside the Slater-Morrill shoe factory took place. Two men carrying the payroll boxes outside were shot and killed. The robbers retrieved the boxes and sped off in a getaway car, firing wildly at nearby company workers. To this day, it is undetermined who the robbers are. However, two men were tried and convicted: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Unfortunately, both these men suffered the immense pain and mortality of the electric chair. Injustice within the courts, panic during the Red Scare, and influence of the media all impacted the punishments faced by Sacco and Vanzetti.…
Filippo Brunelleschi was born on the year 1377 in Florence, Italy. He died on April 15, 1446 in Florence, Italy. His parents were Giuliana Spin and Brunellesco di Lippo. Even though Filippo Brunelleschi's early life is mainly a mystery we do know many things about him. Like Filippo Brunelleschi was an Italian designer.…
She was born on September 10, 1890 in Rome, Italy. Schiaparelli was the niece of the famous Giovanni Schiaparelli who discovered canals on the planet Mars. After graduation, she attended the University of Rome where she studied philosophy. Schiaparelli published a book of sensual poetry, the book shocked her parents and sent her to the convent because it was so controversial. She did not like this one bit, so she planned to go on a hunger strike at just 22 years old and was released. As soon as she was out she ran off to London and became a nanny. In her free time she went to museums and attended lectures. At one of these lectures is where Schiaparelli actually met her husband, Count William de Wendt de Kerlor. Eventually they moved to New York and had a daughter together, Maria Yvonne Radha de Wendt de kerlor also known as Gogo Schiaparelli. While in New York, Schiaparelli started to sell French fashions at a New York boutique owned by Gaby Picabia. Working there, Schiaparelli made connections like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray.…
In 1806 Benito Juarez was born on March 18th.. Benito was born in the small town of San Poblo, Guelatao. When Benito was 3 years old both of his parents died. Sadly him and is two older sisters had to move into their grandparents house, but unfortunately they died a few years later. By the time Benito’s sisters were old…
To what extent was Austria responsible for the failure of Italian revolutionaries in the years 1820-49?…
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in a farmhouse of the hills of Tuscany just outside of the village of Anchiano otherwise known as Italy. His parents were not married, his mother was a young peasant woman named Caterina but his father,…
Lorenzo de Medici was born on January 1st,1449 in Florence Italy. His parents are Piero de’Medici and Lucretia. From his early years, Lorenzo received the best possible education…
Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy. His full name is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. His father and mother are Leonardo…
Born in Milan to Fermo Merisi and Lucia Aratori, Caravaggio lived an unfortunate life early on. He was orphaned at a young age, and as a result, ended up as an apprentice to Simone Peterzano, to happened to have been a former apprentice of Titian. This eventually led him to become an assistant to various artists in Rome, before setting out on his own.…
Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1975 in Caprese Italy. Instead of going to school, Michelangelo would go and watch the painters at nearby churches and he would draw what he saw. Michelangelo’s father then realized his son had no interest in the family business. Instead of forcing him to pursue a career in something he didn’t like his father allowed him to be an…
Leonardo Bonacci or known as Leonardo Fibonacci was born in the year of 1170. In Pisa, Italy. He died 80 years later, in 1250. His parents are Alessandra Bonacci and Guglielmo Bonacci. He has one brother named Bonaccinghus.…
Leonardo was born in Vinci, Republic of Florence on April 15, 1452. He was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione at the age of fourteen to become a master.…
1519. Leonardo first lived in the little village of Anchiano, right next to Vinci. Then he moved to Vinci with his father, his stepmother, and his grandparents. After living there he was an apprentice of Verrocchio who he lived with for six years. For the rest of his life Leonardo switched between Milan and Florence, but he lived in Rome somewhere in between moving from Milan to Florence. Leonardo was home schooled, his father taught him only simple things.…
When he left Italy early in 1710 , he went to Hanover, where he was appointed Kapellmeister to the elector. But he took leave to take up an invitation to London, where his opera Rinaldo was produced early in 1711. He was extremely popular in England and the upper classes and royalty supported his work. Back in Hanover, he applied for a second leave and returned to London in autumn 1712. Four more operas followed. He also wrote music for the church and for court and was awarded a royal pension. In 1717, he entered the service of the Earl of at Edgware, where he wrote eleven anthems and two dramatic works, the evergreen Acis and Galatea and Esther, for the band of singers and players there.…
Raphael of Urbino, or Raffaello Sanzio as he was known in his day, was born in 1483 in Urbino, Italy. His father was Giovanni Santi, who was a well known artist in Urbino. As a young child, Raphael learned a lot from his father, who died when Raphael was eleven. Raphael then worked in the studio of Perugino for a few years in Perugia. Danto Barmante, the architect for Pope Julius II at that time, told the Pope about Raphael and his works (Turner,1316-1328). At the age of 26, Raphael was called to Rome to paint in the Stanze at the Vatican Palace.…