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Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome. Pier Luigi Farnese (19 November 1503 – 10 September 1547) was the first Duke of Castro from 1537 to 1545 and the first Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1545 to 1547. He was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (who later became Pope Paul III). He became a soldier and participated in the sack of Rome in ...
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) [n 1] was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School , with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria , Palestrina is considered the leading composer of late 16th-century Europe.
Pierluigi Mancini (born in Rome, Italy) is an Italian sculptor and artist operating predominantly in Italy and Japan. Under the artistic alias Pierluigi Manciniart , he incorporates elements from nature and the animal kingdom into his creations, using materials like iron, brass, and bronze.
Trinità dei Monti is a think tank headquartered in Rome, Italy. Established by Pierluigi Testa and 50 other founding members in February 2012, it operates as a discussion group that gathers at the Spanish Steps in Rome. Trinità dei Monti focuses in economics, financial markets, banking, as well as Italian and European politics.
While the Roman School is considered to be a conservative musical movement, there are important exceptions. Rome was the birthplace of the oratorio, in the work of Giovanni Francesco Anerio and Emilio de' Cavalieri; the score for Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo is the earliest printed score which uses a figured bass.
Pier Luigi Cardinal Carafa died on 15 December 1755, at 8:30 p.m. in Rome. His remains were transferred the following day to the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte in Rome where the capella paplis took place on 18 December 1755, and he was buried in the chapel of Saint Francis de Sales .
Musicians of the academy posing before the concert they gave at the Palazzo Doria Pamphili, Rome. Giuseppe Branzoli, seated in the foreground, holds a mandolone. During the first century of existence, the Congregation was the workshop of a number of prominent musicians and composers of the day, including Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
It was produced on the artist's return to Venice from Rome in 1546. Its subject was a son of Pope Paul III , dressed in the armour and accoutrements of a papal gonfaloniere . He was stabbed to death in 1547 in a plot instigated by the Landi and Anguissola families on the advice of the duke of Milan Ferrante I Gonzaga .