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1. Johann Maria Farina – Giovanni Maria Farina was an Italian-born perfumier from Germany who created the first Eau de Cologne. Farina settled in Cologne, Germany, in the year 1709 where he founded Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz GmbH and his subtle fragrance Eau de Cologne became rapidly famous worldwide and in the 18th century was an indispensable accessory at all royal courts. The perfume maker chose to call his perfume after his new town so as to honour it. Indeed, at the time when Farina first moved to Cologne, Farina was granted citizenship and, in order to show off his gratitude, he named his very first creation Eau de Cologne. This perfume, being a real sensation at the time, contributed to Cologne’s global fame, being the very first perfume of its kind on the market, the word Cologne quickly became a brand awareness|household name. Cologne refers to a perfume which is usually light, unisex with a citrus-based head note. Counterfeits of the perfume only appeared at the end of the 18th century, after the French Revolution, Napoleons troops occupied Cologne for a number of years and introduced freedom of trade. Back then, registered trademarks did not exist, which explains why there were so many counterfeits, Farina died on 25 November 1766 in Cologne, Germany. Today the 8th generation of the Farina family still produces the original Eau de Cologne
2. Paolo Troubetzkoy – Prince Paolo Petrovich Troubetzkoy was an artist and a sculptor who was described by G. B. Shaw as the most astonishing sculptor of modern times and he is the son of Russian diplomat Prince Peter Petrovich Troubetzkoy. He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy and he was a self-taught artist, although he learned sculpture from Giuseppe Grandi. He is associated with impressionism, due to his ability to grasp sketchy movements in his bronze works and he was heavily influenced by the work of Auguste Rodin and Medardo Rosso. He depicted the society of the Belle Époque, few of his bronzes are still available in the market. Quite famous is the 35 cm high portrait of Constance Stewart-Richardson called The Dancer, the largest and best known of his works is the monumental equestrian statue of the Russian Tsar Alexander III in St. Petersburg, Russia. The monument was opened in 1909 on the Nevsky Prospekt near the Moskovsky Vokzal terminal, after the Russian revolution of 1917, the Soviet government removed the monument from the main street to the backyard of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. His vegetarian friend Bernard Shaw remarked, “Troubetzkoy is a gigantic, trubetskoy, a Russian educated in Italy, did some splendid little statues of Tolstoy – one of him on horseback. Father was very fond of him, a sweet and childlike person in addition to his great gifts, he read practically nothing, spoke little, all his life was wrapped up in sculpture. As a convinced vegetarian he would not eat meat but cried, “Je ne mange pas de cadavre. ”In his studio in St. Petersburg there was a zoo, a bear, a fox, a horse. Troubetzkoy once said “As I cannot kill I cannot authorize others to kill. If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill — kill helpless, dumb creatures, in, AIC De Young Museum Biennale di Venezia 1922. Galleria Nazionale WWAA1938 Troubetzkoy Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, The Belle Epoque Captured in Bronze, Paolo Troubetzkoy, images by Google Paolo Troubetzkoy exhibition catalog
3. Elisa Longo Borghini – Elisa Longo Borghini is an Italian professional road cyclist. She won the medal at the 2012 World Championships in the Womens road race event. She is the daughter of cross country skier Guidina Dal Sasso and her older brother Paolo Longo Borghini is also a racing cyclist. On September 30,2014, it was announced she would ride for Wiggle–Honda in the 2015 season, DNF = Did not finish DNE = Race did not exist — = Did not compete Elisa Longo Borghini profile at Cycling Archives LONGO BORGHINI Elisa profile at Cycling Quotient
4. Pope Innocent IX – Pope Innocent IX, born Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, was Pope from 29 October to 30 December 1591. Prior to his papacy, he had been a canon lawyer, diplomat. Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, whose family came from Crodo, in the diocese of Novara and he was the son of Antonio Facchinetti and Francesca Cini. He studied at the University of Bologna - which was pre-eminent in jurisprudence - where he obtained a doctorate in civil and canon law in 1544. He was later ordained to the priesthood on 11 March 1544 and was appointed a canon of the church of Saints Gervasio and Protasio of Domodossola in 1547 and he was also made the Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura in 1559 and held that post for a year. In 1560, Facchinetti was named as the Bishop of Nicastro, in Calabria and he was the first bishop to actually reside in the diocese in three decades. Pope Pius V sent him as nuncio to Venice in 1566 to further the papal alliance with Spain and Venice against the Turks. He was recalled from Venice in 1572 and was made the Prior Commendatario of S. Andrea di Carmignano in the diocese of Padua from 1576 to 1587. Relinquishing his see to pursue his career in Rome in 1575 and also because of health reasons and he occupied that post until he was made a cardinal. Pope Gregory XIII made him a cardinal on 12 December 1583 as the Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati and he was to receive the red hat, Pope Gregory XIV made him the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in 1591. Even before Pope Gregory XIV died, Spanish and anti-Spanish factions were electioneering for the next pope, philip II of Spains high-handed interference at the previous conclave was not forgotten, he had barred all but seven cardinals. It took three ballots to him as pope. The cardinal protdeacon Andreas von Austria crowned Innocent IX as pontiff on 3 November 1591 and he elevated two cardinals to the cardinalate in the only papal consistory of his cardinalate on 18 December 1591. Death, however, did not permit the realisation of Innocent IXs schemes and his great-nephew Giovanni Antonio Cardinal Facchinetti de Nuce, juniore, was one of two cardinals appointed during the weeks of Innocent IXs pontificate. A later member of the Cardinalate was his great-grandnephew Cesare Facchinetti, Innocent IX died in the early morning of 30 December 1591. He was buried in the Vatican grottoes in a simple tomb, cardinals created by Innocent IX Popes named Innocent Herbermann, Charles, ed. Pope Innocent IX
5. Baldassare Verazzi – Baldassare Verazzi was an Italian painter. He studied at the Academy of Brera at Milan from 1833 to 1842, then under the Venetian Romantic painter Francesco Hayez in 1851 and he took his inspiration from history and religion. His masterpiece is considered to be Episodio delle Cinque Giornate - known in English as Episode from the Five Days, heavily involved in the Risorgimento, he was hunted down by the Austrian authorities in 1848 and forced to live under severe proscriptions. He left for Argentina in 1856, where he taught and painted local personalities, scenes of everyday life and history paintings of political or military events. He returned to Italy and installed himself near Lake Maggiore, tullio Manacorda, Los pintores del Museo Historico. Baltasar Verazzi, in ”Revista Historica”, tomo X, n, ezio Brambilla, Baldassare Verazzi, in ”Le Vie dItalia e dellAmerica Latina”,1929. ”, in ”Antiquarium Medionovarese”, II, Arona 2007, pp. 429-442. Fabio Copiatti et Valerio Cirio, L’opera di Baldassare Verazzi, pittore verbanese, nella chiesa di San Martino a Malnate, in ”La Cava 2007”, Varese,2007, biography of Baldassare Verazzi on the Magazzeno storico Verbanese site
6. Luigi Capello – Luigi Capello was an Italian army officer. He took part to the Italo-Turkish War, where he distinguished himself, during World War I he was the commander of several Army Corps, then, since June 1917, of the II Army, and led the Italian troops that captured Gorizia and the Bainsizza Plateau. Later, he was removed from command after the Italian defeat at the Battle of Caporetto, after the war, at first he joined the National Fascist Party, from which he was expelled in 1923 due to his Masonic connections. Later he was involved in the planning of an attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1925 and he was released in 1936, after serving a total of eleven years. Luigi Capello at First World War. com Capello, Luigi