Giovanni Battista Comolli
Italian sculptor. From Wikipedia: After 1816 till about 1820, he moved to London, where despite his prior adulation of Napoleon, he was flattered with repeated commissions. Here he made busts of Lo...
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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Orazio Abbott Corte
Private Orazio Abbott Corte was born as Orazio Corte on 27 December 1891 in Turin, Italy, the son of Ferdinando Corte and Maria Corte née Castagneri, a family that hailed from Andorno, Italy. His m...
War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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Sir Michael Costa
Conductor and composer. Born as Michaele Andrea Agniello Costa in Naples, Italy. Prolific writer of operas, symphonies and cantatas, now all virtually forgotten. He moved to Britain in 1830 and bec...
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War dead, WW1
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Hugo Daini
Sculptor. Born Rome.  The photograph is of his work called 'Nuns'.  Died Caracas, Venezuela.  We've not been able to find a photo of Daini, nor much information.  It would be even less without the ...
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Dante Alighieri
Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. Unusually for the time he wrote in Italian rather than Latin. His Divine Comedy is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and th...
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