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Credi, Lorenzo di

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Giovanni, Bertoldo di

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Duccio, Agostino di

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Buoninsegna, Duccio di

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Cambio, Arnolfo di

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Lido di Venezia

(Encyclopedia)Lido di Venezia lēˈdō dē vānĕˈtsyä [key], long, narrow, sandy island in Venetia, Italy, separating the lagoon of Venice from the Adriatic. It has a beautiful beach and is one of the most fashi...

Giovanni di Paolo

(Encyclopedia)Giovanni di Paolo jōvänˈnē dē päˈōlō [key], c.1403–1483, major Italian painter of the Sienese school. Typical of the Sienese painters of his era, he paid scant attention to the artistic inn...

Lorenzo di Pietro

(Encyclopedia)Lorenzo di Pietro pyāˈtrō [key], c.1412–1480, Sienese painter, sculptor, and goldsmith, called Il Vecchietta. He painted a group of frescoes and a relic press in the hospital at Siena; four ceili...

Reggio di Calabria

(Encyclopedia)Reggio di Calabria rĕdˈjō dē käläˈbrēä [key], city (1991 pop. 177,580), capital of Reggio di Calabria prov., Calabria, extreme S Italy, on the Strait of Messina opposite Sicily. An impoverish...

Rustico di Filippo

(Encyclopedia)Rustico di Filippo ro͞oˈstēkō dē fēlēpˈpō [key], 13th cent. Italian poet. He was perhaps one of the first to use the Tuscan dialect in literature. Some 60 of his sonnets, most of them in a bu...