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The orphanage was established to raise girls who would be useful to society. Babies would be dropped off through a secret opening barely large enough for them, first created in 1696. She was called Anna Maria, though later known as Anna Maria dal Violin and Anna Maria della Pietà. By the time she was eight her musical prowess had brought her ...
Yacht chartering is the practice of renting, or chartering, a sailboat or motor yacht and traveling to various coastal or island destinations. There are three main kinds of charter: bareboat, skippered and crewed. Bareboat charters require the client to skipper the boat themselves, while skippered charters include both boat and a professional ...
The four great Venetian Ospedali (Ospedali Grandi, also referred to as the Ospedali Maggiori) - the Ospedale della Pietà, the Ospedale degl'Incurabili, the Ospedale di Santa Maria dei Derelitti, and the Ospedale di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti - were charitable hospices, which provided a wide range of services for the needy of Venice.
Santa Maria della Pietà The Cappella Sansevero (also known as the Cappella Sansevero de' Sangri or Pietatella ) is a chapel located on Via Francesco de Sanctis 19, just northwest of the church of San Domenico Maggiore , in the historic center of Naples , Italy .
The project, commissioned from the architects Fisola and Cadorin, called for the doubling in width of the Schiavoni bank, with the construction of a second row of buildings, for the time modern, facing the San Marco basin, as well as the doubling of the Ponte della Paglia, Ponte del rio di Vin, Ponte dei Greci and ponte della Ca' di Dio bridges.
Title page of the libretto, 1722. Li zite 'ngalera (The Newlyweds on the Galley) [1] is a commedia per musica in three acts by the Italian composer Leonardo Vinci, first performed at the Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, on 3 January 1722.
The Naples Conservatory of Music is a music school located in Naples, Italy.It is situated in the complex of San Pietro a Majella.. It was originally located in the church of the former monastery of San Sebastiano and was called the Conservatorio di San Sebastiano, formed in 1807 by the merger of the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, the Conservatorio di Sant' Onofrio in Capuana, and the ...
Other sources believe the church gained this name after the Trajanic Arco della Pietà, now lost but still surviving in ruins in the 14th century. This church in turn may be identifiable with that known as San Salvatore de Sere in some medieval documents.