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October 12, 2020
Today is Columbus Day, a national holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492.

April 14, 2019
Sculptor, Augusto Rivalta, died on April 14, 1925 in Florence.

December 30, 2018
Galeazzo Alessi was born in 1512 and died on December 30, 1572.

November 18, 2018
Luca Cambiaso was born in Genoa on 18 November 1527.

August 2, 2018
Today, 2 August, is the anniversary of the death of Bernardo Strozzi (1581/2-1644).

June 4, 2018
Italian architect Giancarlo De Carlo died 4 June 2005 in Milan.

February 9, 2018
On February 9, 1941, the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa was bombed by Allied troops during Operation Grog.

November 16, 2017
Furniture-maker Giuseppe Maggiolini Died on 16 November 1814.

July 23, 2017
Filippo Parodi died in Genoa on July 22, 1702.

May 8, 2017
Baroque painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as il Baciccio, was born on 8 May 1639 in Genoa.