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San Giorgio (Genoa Metro), a metro station on the Genoa Metro; Italian cruiser San Giorgio, an armored cruiser of the Regia Marina in the early 20th century; San Giorgio class amphibious transport dock, an Italian Navy amphibious landing ship; Viadotto Genova-San Giorgio, a viaduct in Genoa, Italy.
Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio [1] (died 14 March 1509) was an Italian canon lawyer and Cardinal. [2] Agostino Oldoino calls him the leading jurisconsult of his age. [3] Kenneth Pennington has called him one of the ‘last two great commentators on feudal law’.
He also authored the major history of the Venerable English College at Rome. He was created Cardinal-deacon in 1914 with the titular church of San Giorgio in Velabro. He was conferred the titular church of Santa Maria in Portico in 1915. In 1917, he was appointed Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives.
One of the defining aspects of San Giorgio's history in the 17th century was the infeudation. During this century the Spanish government put many lands up for auction where the buyer, who thus became a feudatory, had the prerogative of claiming political, economic, and social rights over the fiefdom. Communities had the option to redeem the ...
Eusebio da San Giorgio or Eusebio di Jacopo di Cristoforo da San Giorgio (c. 1470 – c. 1550) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Biography [ edit ]
Hearder, Henry, and D. P. Waley; A Short History of Italy: From Classical Times to the Present Day (1963) online edition Archived 2008-06-21 at the Wayback Machine; Holmes, George. The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy (2001) excerpt and text search; Killinger; Charles L. The History of Italy (2002) online edition; Mack Smith, Denis.
Born in Milan, Sangiorgio studied at the city's Accademia di Brera.During his early career he worked for the Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano; later he received numerous commissions for large public sculptures in places including Turin (a Castor and Pollux for the Palazzo Reale), Milan, Brescia and Casale Monferrato (an equestrian portrait of Charles Albert of Piedmont-Sardinia).
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...