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Da Vinci, Leonardo

(Encyclopedia)Da Vinci, Leonardo: see Leonardo da Vinci. ...

Da Costa, Uriel

(Encyclopedia)Da Costa, Uriel: see Acosta, Uriel. ...

Cino da Pistoia

(Encyclopedia)Cino da Pistoia chēˈnō dä pēstôˈyä [key], 1270–1337?, Italian jurist and poet, whose full name was Guittoncino dei Sinibaldi, or Sighibuldi. A friend of Dante and Petrarch, he wrote treatise...

Estrela, Serra da

(Encyclopedia)Estrela, Serra da sĕrˈrə ᵺə əshtrāˈlə [key], mountain range, central Portugal. It rises to 6,532 ft (1,991 m) in Malhão da Estrela, Portugal's highest peak. The range is an important pastor...

Fiesole, Mino da

(Encyclopedia)Fiesole, Mino da: see Mino da Fiesole. ...

Fabriano, Gentile da

(Encyclopedia)Fabriano, Gentile da: see Gentile da Fabriano. ...

Francesca da Rimini

(Encyclopedia)Francesca da Rimini fränchĕsˈkä dä rēˈmēnē [key], fl. 13th cent., Italian beauty, daughter of Guido da Polenta of Ravenna. She was married by proxy to the hunchbacked lord of Rimini, Gianciot...

Antonello da Messina

(Encyclopedia)Antonello da Messina äntōnĕlˈlō dä mās–sēˈnä [key], c.1430–79, Sicilian painter, b. Messina. Antonello appears to have had early contact with Flemish art. In his deft handling of the oil...

Hinggan Ling, Da

(Encyclopedia)Hinggan Ling, Da, or Great Khingan both: hĭngˈgänˈ [key], mountain range, Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, NE China, extending c.750 mi (1,210 km) from the Amur River south to the Liao River; th...

Giovanni da Fiesole

(Encyclopedia)Giovanni da Fiesole: see Angelico, Fra. ...