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ANIMUCCIA. GIOVANNI. Italian musical composer, was born at Florence in the last years of the 1 5th century. At the request of St Filippo Neri he composed a number of Laudi, or hymns of praise, to be sung after sermon time, which have given him an accidental pr ...

PAOLO ANIMUCCM, a brother of Giovanni, was also celebrated as a composer; he is said by Fctis to have been maestro di capella at S. Giovanni in Laterano from the middle of January 155° until 1552, and to have died in 1363.

ARTUSI. GIOVANNI MARIA. Italian composer and musical theorist, was born in Bologna, and died on the i8th of August 1613. He was canonico regutare at the church of San Salvatore in his native city. He is chiefly famous in the history of music for his attacks up ...

... which bear no signs of ever having been incarnate; sun gods and moon goddesses, ANIMUCCIA— ANJOU gods of fire, wind and water, gods of the sea, and above all gods of the sky, show no signs of having been ghost gods at any period in their history. They may.it i ...

... sques, chiefly executed for Raphael by Giulio Romano, Gian Francesco Penni, and Giovanni da Udine, though beautiful as works of painting, are often very extravagant in their composition, ludicrous and sometimes aesthetically offensive; as are also many of the ...

... eus in mentioning his experiments gives the stone the name of lapis eleltricus. Giovanni Caraffa, duca di Noja (1715-1768), was led in 1758 to purchase some of the stones called tourmaline in Holland, and, assisted by L. J. M. Daubenton and Michel Adanson, he ...

... s, are as follows: — (i) Bologna (147,898), Imola (33.144), Budrio (17,077), S. Giovanni in Persiceto (15,978), Castelfranco (13,484), Castel •The obvious misprint of Dromeicus in this author's work (Analyte, &c., p. 54) was foolishly followed by many naturali ...

... eared at Venice in 1482, printed by Erhardus Ratdolt, and dedicated to the doge Giovanni Mocenigo. This edition represents Euclid very inadequately; the comments are often foolish, propositions are sometimes omitted, sometimes joined together, useless cases ar ...

... b of John Young (in terracotta) in the Rolls chapel (1516). Another Italian was Giovanni da Maiano, who was also a Florentine, who modelled the busts of the emperors in the terra-cotta medallions over the entrance gates at Hampton Court, and probably the panel ...

... ree-part writing. It is a little faster than the stately minuet in Mozart's Don Giovanni, but it is never so quick as the lively minuets of Haydn's quartets and symphonies which led to the Beethoven scherzo; and it invariably begins, unlike many later minuets, ...

... a at the north extremity of the Gulf of Oristano, now marked by the tower of S. Giovanni di Sinis. It was 12 m. W. of Othoca (Oristano) by the coast road, which went on northward to Cornus (a milestone of it is given in Corp. Inscr. Lat. x. 8009), and thence t ...

... ified town of great strength. The cathedral has a fine portal by the Florentine Giovanni Rosso (1435), and contains the remains of S Nicholas of Tolentino (d. 1309), whose Renaissance tomb and frescoes illustrating the life of the saint by Lorenzo and Jacopo d ...

... resting churches and medieval houses, including the birthplace of the historian Giovanni Lucio (Lucius of Trau), author of Deregno Dalmaliae et Croatiae (Amsterdam, 1666). The loggia, built by the Venetians, is a fine specimen of a 16th-century court of justic ...

... sidence of the patriarchs of Aquileia, and now used as a prison, was erected by Giovanni Fontana in 1517 in place of the older one destroyed by an earthquake in 1511. The Romanesque cathedral contains some interesting examples of native art (by Giovanni Martin ...

... arishes, Olivolo or Castello, St Raffaello, St Salvadore, Sta Maria Formosa, S. Giovanni in Bragora, the Apostoli and Sta Giustina. Tradition has it that the earliest church in Venice was S. Giacomo di Rialto, 1 Secretary to Theodoric the Great, in a letter da ...

VERGA, GIOVANNI (1840- ), Italian novelist, was born at Catania, Sicily. In 1865 he published Storia di una peccalrice and / Carbonari della montagna, but his literary reputation was established by his Eva and Storia di una capinera (1869). Other novels follow ...