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	Bernardo Pasquini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernardo Pasquini (December 7, 1637- November 22, 1710), was an Italian composer of opera and church music.
		Pasquini died at Rome, and was buried in the church of S.
		During Alessandro Scarlatti's second stay in Rome (1703-1708), Pasquini and Arcangelo Corelli were frequently associated with Scarlatti in musical performances, especially in connection with the Arcadian Academy, of which all three were members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Pasquini (207 words)

	Bernardo Bertolucci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian writer and film director.
		Bernardo Bertolucci directed his first film at the age of 21 (La commare secca, 1962) which was shortly followed by his acclaimed Prima della rivoluzione (Before the Revolution, 1964).
		Whether this narrowness is Bertolucci's intent merely a symptom of the narrowness some critics accuse him of, he has used the controversy aroused by his films iconoclastically to encourage people to reconsider themselves and their society; he is often considered successful in pushing back the boundaries of propriety.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Bertolucci (1082 words)

	Bernardo Houssay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887–September 21, 1971) was an Argentinian physiologist who received (with Carl and Gerty Cori) the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals.
		Houssay’s worked in many fields of physiology, such as the nervous, digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, but his main contribution, which was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine of 1947, was on the experimental investigation of the role of the anterior hypophysis gland in the metabolism of carbohydrates, particularly in diabetes mellitus.
		Houssay wrote with them the most influential textbook of Human Physiology in Latin America, in Spanish and Portuguese (the later was translated by Covian and collaborators), which, since 1950 has been published in successive editions and used in almost all medical schools of the continent.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Houssay (680 words)

	Bernardo Rossellino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernardo Rossellino, Italian architect and sculptor, was born in Settignano, a village about 7 km east of Florence in 1409 and died in Florence in 1464.
		Bernardo Gamberelli (1409–1464), better known as Bernardo Rossellino, was a Florentine sculptor and architect.
		Pupil and collaborator of L.B.Alberti, he was active in Tuscany and Rome, where worked a lot for the pope Nicolas V, bending in particular his name with the enlarging of the transept and apse in St Peter's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Rossellino (224 words)

	Bernardo Pisano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernardo Pisano (also Pagoli) ( October 12, 1490â“ January 23, 1548) was an Italian composer, priest, singer, and scholar of the Renaissance.
		Pisano's early secular music is typical of Italian music of the first two decades of the 16th century: light, rhythmically active, usually homophonic, containing frequent repetition, and generally for three voices.
		Pisano made the mistake of returning to Florence in 1529, during the three-year period of republican government, the result of a successful coup d'Ã©tat against the Medici.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Pisano (224 words)

	Paul Bernardo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernardo graduated in 1987 from the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
		Bernardo is also believed to have committed rapes in Hawaii while on his honeymoon there; police investigation of his home revealed that he had kept newspaper clippings detailing rapes that had taken place at that time.
		Bernardo and Homolka, dubbed "The Ken and Barbie" murderers by the press, were also responsible for the death of Homolka's younger sister Tammy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Bernardo (747 words)

	Mike Bernardo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mike Bernardo (born 28 July 1967) is a South African professional kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist.
		Bernardo is known as Beru-chan in Japan, where he has taken part in K-1 World GPs since 1994.
		On New Year's Eve of 2004, Bernardo was going to face Nigerian fighter and Japanese-TV personality Bobby Ologun in "K1-Dynamite!" but couldn't take part in the event due to an injury.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Bernardo (171 words)

	Trento - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In addition to the aforementioned Bernardo Clesio and Cristoforo Madruzzo, Giacomo Aconzio was born in Trento.
		Among the famous prince bishops of this time were Bernardo Clesio (who ruled the city 1514-1539, and managed to steer the Council to Trento) and Cristoforo Madruzzo (who ruled 1539-1567, during the Council), both able European politicians and Renaissance humanists, who greatly expanded and embellished the city.
		Kurt von Schuschnigg was born in Riva del Garda, in the Trentino region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trento (1911 words)

	Florence in the sixteenth Century
		Buontalenti's home was near the duke's residence, in Via Maggio, where he ran his school that trained G. Parigi, L. Cigoli, B. Poccetti, G. Silvani and others.
		Buontalenti and Francesco made important changes in both the general concept and the details.
		On the site of the garden-laboratory that dated from the era of Lorenzo the Magnificent, on Via Larga, Buontalenti built the Casino Mediceo for Francesco's workshops (1568-74).
	www.firenze.turismo.toscana.it /apteng/itinerari/500/53.html (1911 words)

	Bernardo Tanucci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marchese Bernardo Tanucci (Stia, near Arezzo, Tuscany, February 20, 1698 - Naples, April 29, 1793) brought enlightened government to the backward Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for Charles III and his son Ferdinand IV.
		Tanucci worked at establishing for Bourbon Naples the kind of controls over the church that were effected by the Gallican church in Bourbon France: revenues of vacant bishoprics and abbeys went to the crown, superfluous convents were suppressed, tithes abolished and the acquisition of new Church property by mortmain was forbidden.
		As prime minister Tanucci was most zealous in establishing the supremacy of a modernized State over the Church, and in abolishing the feudal privileges of Papacy and the nobility in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Tanucci (591 words)

	Galleria degli Uffizi - Ambienti
		He commissioned the project to the architect Bernardo Buontalenti, succeeded to Vasari, dead in 1574, in supervision of construction.
		The theatre was inaugurated on 16 February 1586 on the occasion of the wedding feasts for the marriage of Virginia dei Medici (sister of Francesco I) and Cesare d'Este, Duke of Ferrara: a wonderful performance, L'Amico fido by Giovanni de'Bardi, was staged with six interludes, ingenious sceneries, dresses and production conceived by Buontalenti himself.
		Soon Buontalenti realized a vast room, around 20m high (it raised from the first floor to the ceiling of the second floor) and spreading on the lenght equivalent to the area now occupied by the first fourteen rooms of the Gallery.
	www.uffizi.firenze.it /Ambienti/teatroE.html (591 words)

	Bernardo Strozzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernardo Strozzi (c1581-1644) was an Italian painter born in Genoa.
		In 1598, at the age of 17, he joined a Capuchin monastery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Strozzi (591 words)

	Biography
		Strozzi's interpretation of these trends was highly original and combined with his thorough knowledge of other currents in art, from the Lombard school to the diffusion of Caravaggio 's style.
		Strozzi was successful and prolific in both Genoa and Venice, painting portraits and allegorical and genre scenes (often of musicians) as well as religious works.
		In about 1610 he was allowed to leave his community to look after his sick and widowed mother, and after she died in 1630 he is said to have been pressurized to return, this accounting for his move in 1631 to Venice where he spent the rest of his life).
	www.wga.hu /bio/s/strozzi/biograph.html (591 words)

	ANTONIO ROSSELLINO - LoveToKnow Article on ANTONIO ROSSELLINO
		The style of Antonio and his brother Bernardo is a development of that of Donatello and Ghiberti; it possesses all the refinement and sweetness of the earlier masters, but is not equal to them in vigour or originality.
		Bernardos works as an architect were numerous and important, and he was also a skilful military engineer.
		BERNARDO R0ssELLIN0 (1409-1464), Florentine sculptor, was no less able than his younger brother Antonio.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROSSELLINO_ANTONIO.htm (607 words)

	Karla Homolka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Bernardo was arrested at his home by Metro Sexual Assault Squad and Green Ribbon Task Force detectives for the Scarborough rapes and the murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.
		Although it was originally said that the ban on publication of details of the case was to protect Bernardo's right to a fair trial, the Crown would later reveal, in a memo from the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General [2], that it was really to protect the families.
		On May 29, CBC reported that she chose "Karla Leanne Teale" as her new official name—"Teale" being the name that Paul Bernardo had adopted in honor of the fictional serial killer "Martin Thiel" in the film Criminal Law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karla_Homolka (4136 words)

	Serial Killers A-Z; Paul Bernardo
		Bernardo was arrested and put on trial, the tapes were later discovered, and were nearly unbeatable evidence against the serial killer.
		Despite having claimed just three lives, Paul Bernardo and his accomplice/wife Karla Homolka have achieved notoriety normally reserved for the world's worst of the worst due to their well-documented habit of capturing their disgusting assaults, though not the actual murders, on videotape.
		Bernardo's tapes had not yet been located, forcing authorities to cut the lenient deal with Homolka in return for her testimony.
	www.geocities.com /verbal_plainfield/a-h/bernardo.html (648 words)

	barili_new - pafg13.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Anselmo Mercado VERGARA ( Marcelo, Severina, JuÃ¡n, ManuÃ©l, Juaquin) was born in 1876.
		RamÃ³n Mercado VERGARA ( Marcelo, Severina, JuÃ¡n, ManuÃ©l, Juaquin) was born in 1874.
		Potenciano Mercado VERGARA ( Marcelo, Severina, JuÃ¡n, ManuÃ©l, Juaquin) was born in 1871.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~filipino/barili_new/pafg13.htm (648 words)

	PLAZA BERNARDO HOUSSAY
		Plaza "Bernardo Houssay" with the Faculty of Medicine and the Hospital Clinicas, Buenos Aires.
	www.uottawa.ca /publications/interscientia/postcards/plazahoussay.html (14 words)

	Bernardo Alberto Houssay (www.whonamedit.com)
		Bernardo Alberto was a precocious child who by the age of thirteen had already received his baccalaureate degree with honours from the Colegio Británico, a private school.
		In 1919 Houssay was appointed to the chair of physiology at the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine, and promptly converted the department into a full-fledged Institute of Physiology capable of engaging in experimental investigations.
		Houssay’s devotion to academic and political freedom collided with the military dictatorship ruling Argentina after the 1943 revolution — Houssay voiced the opinion that there should be effective democracy in the country.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/1976.html (1586 words)

	Bernardo Atxaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He received a diploma in economics from the University of Bilbao, and studied philosophy at the University of Barcelona.
		Atxaga generally writes in the Basque language (Euskara), but translates his works into Spanish as well.
		Following the example of Obabakoak, several of his other works have been translated into other languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Atxaga (386 words)

	PEN American Center - Bernardo Atxaga
		Bernardo Atxaga was born in Asteasu, Guipúzcoa, in 1951.
		Atxaga is a poet and novelist, and writes both in Basque and in Spanish.
		The story that began when a group of university students founded Basque Homeland and Liberty, the organization known as ETA, has finally come to an end with its announcement last week of a permanent cease-fire.
	www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/1115 (138 words)

	Bellotto.htm
		Bernardo is documented as being among the inhabitants of the parish of Santa Marina, on the Fondamenta Nuove, where for 60 ducats he rents an apartment for his family composed of his mother, wife and two children.
		Born 20 May Bernardo Francesco Paulo Ernesto Bellotto in Venice, in the parish of Santa Margherita, the son of Lorenzo Antonio Bellotto, administrator of the properties of Marc'Antonio Giustinian, Procurator of San Marco, and Fiorenza Domenica Canal, the sister of Canaletto.
		The brother Pietro Bellotto (a painter of views in Toulouse and Nantes) declares before the same notary to have learned the art of painting from Bernardo.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/arts_culture/painting/painters/Bellotto/Bellotto.htm (2342 words)

	Bernardo Bellotto. Biography - Olga's Gallery
		Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe by Bernardo Bellotto, Irina Artemieva, Charles Beddington, Martina Frank, Bozena Anna Kowalczyk, Andrzej Rottermund, Gregor J. Weber, Edgar Peters Bowron.
		Bernardo Bellotto: A Venetian Painter In Warsaw by Krysztof Pomyan, P. Mrozowski 5 Continents, 2004.
		Canaletto, whose name Bellotto sometimes illegally adopted, especially during his stay in Poland, was his uncle on his mother’s side and had trained the young artist for many years.
	www.abcgallery.com /B/bellotto/bellottobio.html (460 words)

	Worcester Art Museum - The Calling of Saint Matthew
		Strozzi's picture is closely related to an altarpiece of the same subject painted around 1598 in Rome by Caravaggio, the influential painter who popularized the use of dramatic lighting effects.
		Strozzi, a Capuchin monk, was one of the greatest early seventeenth-century Italian painters.
		It is not known whether Strozzi, a native of Genoa, ever traveled to Rome to see the painting by Caravaggio; he may have known it only through copies and reports of other artists.
	www.worcesterart.org /Collection/European/1941.1.html (460 words)

	Bernardo Strozzi and St
		Bernardo, also known for his use in intense and gleaming color, and also used extensive energetic brushstrokes, was recognized for the religious work he did.
		Bernardo Strozzi, also known as “II Capucino” or “ II Prete Genovese”, was a Capuchin monk at the age of seventeen.
		Bernardo painted this picture as if he were there with her during this time.
	www.nhcs.k12.in.us /staff/pbortka/studentwork/arthistory/Strozzi/StrozziH100.htm (460 words)

	Bernardo Strozzi
		Strozzi painted many of the leading Venetians of his day, including Doge Francesco Erizzo and Cardinal Patriarch Federico Corner (G-17).
		Perhaps his acceptance was propelled by his portrait of the composer Claudio Monteverdi, a pioneer of modern opera, who had a wide circle of influential patrons in Venice.
	www.boglewood.com /cornaro/xstrozzi.html (460 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bernardo Strozzi (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Bernardo Strozzi [bernAr´d O strOt´ts E ] Pronunciation Key, 1581–1644, Italian painter, b.
		Bernardo Strozzi, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
		In 1598, Strozzi became a Capuchin monk, thus earning the names "Il Cappucino" and later "Il Prete Genovese." Strozzi was influenced by the work of Rubens, who in 1607 was in Genoa.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/StrozziB.html (460 words)

	Bernardo Provenzano
		Bernardo Provenzano (born January 31, 1933) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) and is suspected of being the head of the Corleonesi, a Mafia Family from the village of Corleone, and as such, de facto capo di tutti capi (Boss of Bosses) of the entire Sicilian Mafia.
		Provenzano has been a fugitive from the law ever since his indictment for murder in 1963 and it is theorized that he has been on the run longer than any other criminal, an unparalleled 42 years as of 2005.
		Provenzano has not been publicly seen since the early 1960s, and when his wife and two grown-up sons came out from hiding in 1992, many suspected that Provenzano was dead, from natural causes or otherwise.
	barber.blogiston.com /Bernardo_Provenzano (888 words)

	Guardian Mafia arrest brings police closer to boss of bosses
		Magistrates who have grown old hunting Bernardo Provenzano punched the air in victory yesterday after a midnight raid netted his lieutenant, Vincenzo Virga, one of the 10 most wanted criminals in Italy, in a cottage on the outskirts of Trapani, on western tip of Sicily.
		The last known photograph of Provenzano, who was convicted in his absence for the 1992 murder of a judge, was taken in 1959 and shows a heavy-set young man with brilliantined hair, a grave expression and wearing a suit.
		Police believe the real damage to Provenzano is the loss of his liaison with a new generation of mobsters who know him only as a ghost, flitting from safe houses to mountain shacks.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4139907-103681,00.html (566 words)

	Corriere della Sera
		Provenzano is said to favour a truce with the state, unlike the strategy relished by the mercurial Riina.
		Provenzano, known as Binnu the Tractor, took over the Mafia in 1993 after the arrest of former boss of bosses, Salvatore (Toto) Riina.
		Sicilian legend Provenzano, now 70, is Italy's most wanted man and has had the police on his trail for 40 years.
	www.corriere.it /english/gallery/2004/05_Maggio/11/provenzano.shtml (96 words)

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