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Campanella, Tommaso
(Encyclopedia)Campanella, Tommaso tōm–mäˈzō kämpänĕlˈlä [key], 1568–1639, Italian Renaissance philosopher and writer. He entered the Dominican order at the age of 15, and although he was frequently in ...Grossi, Tommaso
(Encyclopedia)Grossi, Tommaso tôm-mäˈzō grôsˈsē [key], 1791–1853, Italian novelist and poet. Imitating his friend Manzoni, he wrote romantic historical novels, among them Marco Visconti (1834, tr. 1836). O...Guidi, Tommaso
(Encyclopedia)Guidi, Tommaso: see Masaccio.Tittoni, Tommaso
(Encyclopedia)Tittoni, Tommaso tōm-mäˈzō tēt-tôˈnē [key], 1855–1931, Italian statesman. As minister of foreign affairs (1903–5, 1906–9), he sought closer ties with the Western powers, while remaining ...Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
(Encyclopedia)Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso fēlēpˈpō tōm-mäˈzō märēnĕtˈtē [key], 1876–1944, Italian poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known as the founder of futurism (1909), on which he wrote and ...Tommaso da Modena
(Encyclopedia)Tommaso da Modena, c.14th–15th cent., Italian painter. He painted 40 panels for a Dominican chapter house (San Nicolo, Treviso) that depicted monks engaged in reading, writing, and prayer. On a comm...Finiguerra, Maso
(Encyclopedia)Finiguerra, Maso or Tommaso mäˈzō, tōm–mäˈzō fēnēgwĕrˈrä [key], 1426–64, Florentine goldsmith and engraver during the Renaissance. In the 1450s he joined with Antonio Pollaiuolo. It is...Giottino
(Encyclopedia)Giottino jōt-tēˈnō [key], early Florentine painter of the school of Giotto. He is supposed to have lived in the first half of the 14th cent. and has been variously identified as Giotto di Stefano,...Masaniello
(Encyclopedia)Masaniello mäzänyĕlˈlō [key], 1620?–1647, Neapolitan revolutionist, whose original name was Tommaso Aniello. A fisherman, he led a revolt of the lower classes, burdened by high taxes, against t...Telesio, Bernardino
(Encyclopedia)Telesio, Bernardino bĕrnärdēˈnō tālāˈzyō [key], 1509–88, Italian philosopher, one of the leaders in the attack on that part of Aristotelian philosophy that had furnished the foundation for ...Browse by Subject
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