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 Tommaso Redi
The Italian composer Tommaso Redi (c.1675 — 20/07/1738) wrote one Requiem mass for two choirs (four voices each choir) for strings and basso continuo, in 1713.
From 1719 to 1727 and from 1732 to 1737 Geminiano Giacomelli was maestro di cappella of the court of Parma and the church of the Madonna della Steccata, serving jointly with his aged teacher Capelli; in the intervening years (1727--32) he held the same position at S Giovanni in Piacenza.
In 1737 he directed performances of his opera Cesare in Egitto in Graz before succeeding Tommaso Redi as maestro di cappella of the Santa Casa, Loreto, on 24 November 1738.
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 artnet.com: Resource Library: Redi, Tommaso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The son of Lorenzo Redi, an employee of the Medici court, he was apprenticed at 18 years of age to Anton Domenico Gabbiani, the painter who was most favoured by Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and by the Florentine nobility.
A letter of 6 October 1690 from Redi to Gabbiani indicates that Redi was in Rome from that date, with a stipend from Cosimo III, for further training under Maratti and Ciro Ferri.
Redi and his fellow students Benedetto Luti and Antonio Balestra drew together every day, and then took the results to Maratti for his criticism.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Italian Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Three Jesuits are among the chief prose writers of the century, combining devotion and learning with a literary style which, though far less free than Galileo's from the faults of the age, is unsurpassed by any of their contemporaries.
The same ideals inform his masterpiece, "I Promessi Sposi" (1827), a realistic romance with a historical background, as admirable in characterization and description, in pathos and in humour, as it is lofty in its idealism.
To the school of Manzoni, similarly combining fervent Catholicism with nationalistic enthusiasm, belong Tommaso Grossi (1790-1853), poet and novelist; Silvio Pellico (1789-1854), whose "Le Mie Prigioni" describes with pathetic detail and Christian resignation his cruel imprisonment at the hands of the Austrians; and Cesare Cantù (1804-95), better known for his later voluminous works on history.
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 Biography of GUARIENTO d'Arpo in the Web Gallery of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the first years of his life he lived in Imola, where he was sent to study (1708) with the local painter Francesco Chiusuri.
After the family moved to Florence, Ferretti was taught there by Tommaso Redi and Sebastiano Galeotti.
Later he spent five years in Bologna, an important centre for the practice and teaching of academic painting, where he absorbed that city's well-known style of studying and drawing from nature.
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 The State Hermitage Museum: Information
Rossi appears to be the author of the well known bas reliefs and stucco statues which decorate the Church of the Omen in Dubrovtsy, as well as the stylistically similar heir names with concrete sclreliefs in the Church of the Apparition of God Monastery and the Church of Archangel Gabriel in Moscow.
Chapter three examines the history of the invitation to Russia of the Italian painters Alessandro Grevenbruck and Tommaso Redi.
It is quite remarkable that the correspondence of the Russian agent with Redi finds confirmation in a biography of the artist compiled shortly after his death.
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Tommaso Maria Fusco, a nineteenth-century Italian priest, missionary, and religious founder.
Teresa Margaret was born in Arezzo, Tuscany; her baptismal name was Anna Maria Redi.
She took the name Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart on entering the Discalced Carmelites.
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