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Shortly afterwards she was involved in a scandal involving her alleged relationship with Pedro Calderón, a Spaniard generally known as Perotto. His body was found in the Tiber on February 14, 1498, along with the body of one of Lucrezia's ladies.
Bartolomeo Passarotti or Passerotti (1529–1592) was an Italian painter of the mannerist period, who worked mainly in his native Bologna. His family name is also spelled Passerotti or Passarotto. His family name is also spelled Passerotti or Passarotto.
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Giovanni Borgia (March 1498 – 1548), known as the Infans Romanus ("the Roman child"), was born into the House of Borgia in secret and is of unclear parentage. Speculations of the child's parentage involve either Lucrezia Borgia with her alleged lover, Perotto Calderon or Cesare Borgia, or Pope Alexander VI as his father. [1]
Portrait of a Woman by Bartolomeo Veneto, traditionally presumed to be Lucrezia Borgia. Signature of Lucrezia Borgia in a letter to her sister-in-law Isabella Gonzaga, March 1519 She is described as having heavy blonde hair that fell past her knees, a beautiful complexion, hazel eyes that changed colour, a full, high bosom, and a natural grace ...
Niccolò Perotti, also Perotto or Nicolaus Perottus (1429 – 14 December 1480) was an Italian humanist and the author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars. Born in Sassoferrato (near Fano), Marche, Perotti studied with Vittorino da Feltre in Mantua in 1443, then in Ferrara with Guarino. [1] He also studied at the University of ...
Calculator (programmable): the Programma 101, one of the first desktop electronic programmable calculators, was designed by a small team led by Pier Giorgio Perotto of Olivetti, between 1962 and 1964 and launched in 1965. [49] [50] Dipped candle: Romans made candles using rendered animal fat (called tallow), beginning around 500 BC. [51]
Bartolomeo Pareto was a medieval priest and cartographer from Genoa who is best known for his sole surviving work, a 1455 nautical chart of the known world. [1] The chart is highly ornate and is notable for its depiction of Antillia , a phantom island said to exist in the Atlantic Ocean .