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Vecchietta, Il
(Encyclopedia)Vecchietta, Il: see Lorenzo di Pietro. ...Vecchio, Il
(Encyclopedia)Vecchio, Il: see Amato, Giovanni Antonio d'. ...Sodoma, Il
(Encyclopedia)Sodoma, Il ēl sôˈdōmä [key], c.1477–1549, Sienese painter, whose real name was Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Born in Vercelli, Piedmont, he went to Rome c.1508. Commissioned by Pope Julius II, he pai...Calabrese, Il
(Encyclopedia)Calabrese, Il: see Preti, Mattia. ...Bronzino, Il
(Encyclopedia)Bronzino, Il ēl brōntsēˈnō [key], 1503–72, Florentine painter, an important mannerist (see mannerism), whose real name was Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano. Bronzino was a pupil and adopted son of J...Cerano, Il
(Encyclopedia)Cerano, Il: see Crespi, Giovanni Battista. ...Kim Il Sung
(Encyclopedia)Kim Il Sung kĭm jông ĭl [key], 1941?–2011, was groomed as his successor. Active in the Korean Workers' party leadership from 1964, Kim Jong Il became secretary of its central committee in 1973. I...Kim Jong Il
(Encyclopedia)Kim Jong Il: see under Kim Il Sung. ...Brescia
(Encyclopedia)Brescia brāˈshä [key], city, capital of Brescia prov., Lombardy, N Italy. It is a commerci...Eco, Umberto
(Encyclopedia)Eco, Umberto əmbĕrˈtō ĕcō [key], 1932–2016, Italian novelist, essayist, and semiotics scholar. His first novel, the best-selling Il nome della rosa (1980; tr. The Name of the Rose, 1983, film ...Browse by Subject
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