- Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto by Brendan West
1610?–1670, Italian painter and engraver of the Genoese school, called Il Grechetto. In his later years Castiglione was court painter at Mantua. He is best known for his landscapes and rural scenes with animals, but he also painted portraits and religious works, such as the Nativity (Genoa). His pictures are full of life and movement ...
- Courtesy by Kevin Sanders
Boy Scoutsyouth organization, ever ready to perform good deeds. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 59]Castiglione, Baldassare(1478–1529) author of The Courtier., Renaissance bible of etiquette. [Ital. Lit.: Plumb, 316–319]Dickonone of “nature’s gentlemen.” [Children’s Lit.: The Secret Garden. ]Post, Emily(1873–1960 ...
- Montefeltro by Mallory Strickland
... 1508, lost and regained (1502–3) the duchy from Cesare Borgia. Guidobaldo's court was a center of Renaissance culture, and he provided the model for The Courtier. Of Baldassare Castiglione.
- Castiglione Delle Stiviere by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
a city in Northern Italy, Lombardy, Mantua Province. During Napoleon’s Italian Campaign of 1796–97, his troops defeated the Austrian army of Field Marshal D. Wurmser near Castiglione (Aug. 5, 1796). In late July the Austrian forces left Tirol in order to raise the blockade of the fortress of Mantua, which was besieged by the French troops. The offensive was conducted by two columns. The column of ...
- Pierre François Charles Augereau by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Oct. 21, 1757, in Paris; died June 12, 1816, in La Houssaye. Marshal of France (1804); duke of Castiglione (1806). Son of a butler.Augereau served from 1774 in the French, Prussian, and Neapolitan armies. He entered the national guard in 1790 and the revolutionary army in 1792 and was promoted to brigadier general in 1793 and ...