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October 2, 2016
Andreas Vesalius died on 2 October 1564 at age 49.

June 2, 2016
Founder of the kinetic art movement “ Gruppo ENNE ”, Alberto Biasi was born on this day, June 2, 1937 in Padua.

April 5, 2016
Painter Lazzaro Bastiani died on 5 April 1512.

March 11, 2016
Sir John Hawkwood (d. 1394) led Paduan forces against the Veronese at the Battle of Castagnaro, fought on 11 March 1387.

January 29, 2016
Giovanni Rubino, also known as “Dentone” (“Big Teeth”), is first documented in Padua on 29 January 1513, when he entered workshop of Giovanni d’Antonio Minello.

September 11, 2015
Italian naturalist and antiquarian Ulisse Aldrovandi was born in Bologna on 11 September 1522.

October 11, 2014
North Italian painter and draughtsman Bartolomeo Montagna died on 11 October 1523 in Vicenza.

October 9, 2014
Word of the day: aia (Italian)

September 28, 2014
Giusto di Giovanni de’ Menabuoi died on 28 September 1390, according to a tomb inscription in Padua Baptistery, which he decorated with frescoes starting in 1375.

August 14, 2014
Jacopo da Montagnana was dead by this day in 1499.