Which work was created first, Manon Lescaut or La liberazione di Ruggiero?
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Manon Lescaut Manon Lescaut ("L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut") is a novel by French author Abbé Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of "Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité" ("Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality"). It was controversial in its time and was banned in France upon publication. Despite this, it became very popular and pirated editions were widely distributed. In a subsequent 1753 edition, the Abbé Prévost toned down some scandalous details and injected more moralizing disclaimers.
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La liberazione di Ruggiero La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina ("En." "The Liberation of Ruggiero from the island of Alcina") is a comic opera in four scenes by Francesca Caccini, first performed 3 February 1625 at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale in Florence, with a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli, based on Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso". It is the first opera written by a woman, and was long considered to be the first Italian opera to be performed outside of Italy. It was performed to celebrate a visit from Prince Władysław of Poland during Carnival 1625, and it had a revival in Warsaw in 1628. The work was commissioned by Regent Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, wife of Cosimo II de' Medici, for whom Caccini worked. "Ruggiero" was printed under the protection of Maria Magdalena in 1625, only five years after the first printed opera in Italy. It is the only opera by Francesca Caccini to survive.
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Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales The Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales is the first of two settings of the Ordinary of the Mass by Josquin des Prez using the famous "L'homme armé" tune as their cantus firmus source material (for the other, presumed later, setting see Missa "L'homme armé" sexti toni). The setting is for four voices. It was the most famous mass Josquin composed, surviving in numerous manuscripts and print editions. The earliest printed collection of music devoted to a single composer, the "Misse Josquin" published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1502, begins with this famous work.
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Sculptures by Ligier Richier Ligier Richier was a 16th-century religious sculptor working in Lorraine, France and known in particular for his depictions of scenes from the "Passion of Christ". The various episodes of the Passion, between the arrest and the crucifixion of Christ, as recounted in the Gospels (Matthew 27, Luke 22, Mark 15, John 19), were increasingly subject to representation in the Arts towards the end of the Middle Ages, in tandem with the growing popularity of the staging of theatrical mystery plays.
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Liberazione (newspaper) Liberazione is an Italian left-wing newspaper. The paper was founded in 1991 as the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Refoundation Party.
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Manon Lescaut (1940 film) Manon Lescaut is a 1940 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring  Alida Valli, Vittorio De Sica and Lamberto Picasso. It is an adaptation of the Abbé Prévost's novel of the same title.
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Finalmente libero! Finalmente libero! (i. e. "Finally free!") is a 1954 Italian comedy film written and directed by Mario Amendola and Ruggero Maccari and starring Carlo Dapporto and Nadia Gray.
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Leggo Leggo is an Italian newspaper and was the first free daily newspaper published in Italy.
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Roberto Ferruzzi Roberto Ferruzzi (] ; 16 December 1853 – 16 February 1934) was an Italian artist. He is best known for the painting "Madonnina" that won the second Venice Biennale in 1897.
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The Last Savage The Last Savage is an opera in three acts by composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Menotti wrote his own libretto, originally in the Italian language ("L'ultimo selvaggio"). The opera was translated into French ("Le dernier sauvage") by Jean-Pierre Marty for the work's first (private) performance at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 21 October 1963, followed the next day by the public premiere. George Mead translated the work into English for the opera's American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera the following year.
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Queen of the Night (1931 Italian-language film) Queen of the Night (Italian:La donna di una notte) is a 1931 French comedy film directed by Marcel L'Herbier, assisted by Amleto Palermi and Guido Brignone, and starring Francesca Bertini, Ruggero Ruggeri and Romano Calò. It was filmed in Germany as the Italian-language version of the French film "La Femme d'une nuit", also directed by L'Herbier. In the early years of sound it was common to remake films in different languages. A German-language version was also released the same year directed by Fritz Wendhausen.
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Cesira Ferrani Cesira Ferrani (May 8, 1863 in Turin – May 4, 1943 in Pollone) was an Italian operatic soprano who is best known for debuting two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì in the original 1896 production of Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" and the title role in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" in its 1893 world premiere. Ferrani sang a wide repertoire that encompassed not only verismo opera but the works of composers like Verdi, Gounod, Wagner, and Debussy.
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Una Vita Una vita is the first novel of Italo Svevo, the author of the seminal modernist novel, "Zeno's Conscience". Originally titled "Un inetto" – "inetto" may be translated as 'inept,' unfit', 'unsuitable' or 'incapable' – this name was rejected by the publisher, who requested that it be changed to "Una vita" – 'A Life' – which is also the name of a famous Maupassant novel. The first draft was submitted in 1888. It was refused by the publishing house Treves, and wasn't published until 1892 by Vram, at the expense of Svevo himself.
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Fountain of Diana Fountain of Diana "(Diane d'Anet, Diana with a Stag)", c. 1549, is a marble Mannerist sculpture of Diane de Poitiers as goddess Diana in the Louvre (Louvre MR 1581 MR sup 123). Formerly known as Jean Goujon's work, it is now thought more likely to have been the work of Germain Pilon or someone else (see below).
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La Périchole La Périchole (] ) is an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the French-language libretto based on the 1829 one act play "Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement" by Prosper Mérimée, which was revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français. Offenbach was probably aware of this production, as he conducted the orchestra of the Comédie-Française from around this time. Another theatrical creation that pre-dates Offenbach's opéra bouffe and may have influenced the piece is a farce by Desforges and Théaulon given on 21 October 1835 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.
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Roger Freeing Angelica (Ingres) Roger Freeing Angelica or Ruggiero Freeing Angelica is an 1819 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, inspired by "Orlando Furioso" by Ariosto. An oil painting on canvas measuring 147 x 199 cm, it is owned by the Louvre. Ingres subsequently painted several variants of the composition.
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Enrico Manca Enrico Manca (November 27, 1931 – July 5, 2011) was an Italian Socialist Party politician. He was also a member of the Socialist Party (Italy, 1996), Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, the Democratic Party (Italy) and Propaganda Due. He was born in Rome, Kingdom of Italy. He served in the Chamber of Deputies of Italy in Legislature VI of Italy, Legislature VII of Italy, Legislature VIII of Italy, Legislature IX of Italy, Legislature X of Italy and Legislature XI of Italy. He served in the Government of Italy in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Cossiga and Forlani. He died in Rome.
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Ludovico Ariosto Ludovico Ariosto (] ; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic "Orlando Furioso" (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato", describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work.
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Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de Croismare Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de Croismare, Marquis of Lasson (Normandy, 1694 – 3 August 1772, parish of Saint-Roch in Paris), was a French dilettante, mostly known for having inspired "The Nun" to Denis Diderot. He also was depicted as "M. le Marquis de Roquemaure" by Italian economist Ferdinando Galiani, in his "Dialogues sur les commerce des blés" (1770).
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Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo (1602 – 1659) was an Italian educator, author, and poet. During her life she created two lay conservatories, "Il Conventino" and "La Quiete". Her work has played a large role in the evolution of education for women.
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Louis Chéron Louis Chéron (2 September 1660 – 26 May 1725) was a French painter, illustrator and art tutor.
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Guido Ruggiero Guido Ruggiero is a notable microhistorian and professor and chair of the University of Miami History Department. His most notable work is "Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance".