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August 15, 2018
August 15th is the Feast Day of the Assumption of the Virgin.

March 5, 2018
Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio after his hometown, died there on 5 March in 1534.

January 11, 2018
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (better known as Parmigianino) was born 11 January 1503.

November 13, 2017
Lodovico Carracci Died on 13 November 1619 in Bologna.

October 15, 2017
Publius Vergilius Maro – better known as the Roman poet Virgil – was born 15 October 70 BCE.

November 14, 2016
Rediscovered hand-drawn portraits in Vasari’s Lives As a result of a study conducted leafing through 85 copies of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives in Italy, USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Belgium, and Spain, the website ‘Letteratura artistica.

March 8, 2016
Yale University Press publishes In the Courts of Religious Ladies: Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents by Giancarla Periti.

August 16, 2015
The House of Gonzaga came to power on 16 August 1328, when Ludovico I (Luigi) Gonzaga seized power from the Bonacolsi Family.

June 29, 2015
29 June is the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the patron saints of Rome who were both martyred in the Eternal City.