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    • Ceiling: Part One >
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    • The Last Judgement
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    • Fountain of the Acqua Paola
    • Fountain of the Bees
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    • Fountain of the Seahorses
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      • Cappella Castiglione
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    • Sant' Ignazio di Loyola
    • Sant' Ivo alla Sapienza
    • Santa Caterina dei Funari
    • Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
    • Santa Costanza
    • Santa Croce in Gerusalemme >
      • Chapel of St Helen
    • Santa Francesca Romana
    • Santa Maria degli Angeli
    • Santa Maria del Popolo >
      • Cappella Cerasi
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    • Santa Maria del Priorato
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      • Chigi Chapel
      • Cloister of Bramante
    • Santa Maria della Vittoria >
      • Cappella Cornaro
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      • Cappella Bufalini
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      • Baptistery
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      • Cappella Sistina
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      • Chapel of St Catherine
      • Chapel of St Hyacinth
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    • Temple of Vesta
  • Ancient Monuments
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    • Colosseum
    • Column of Marcus Aurelius
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    • Forum of Augustus
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    • Pantheon
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    • Portico of Octavia
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    • Theatre of Marcellus
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    • Via Appia
  • Obelisks
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  • Mosaics
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  • Galleries & Museums
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  • Miscellaneous
    • A Calendar of Saints
    • Antico Caffè Greco
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    • Vittoriano
  • Rioni
    • Rione I - Monti
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    • Rione III - Colonna
    • Rione IV - Campo Marzio
    • Rione V - Ponte
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    • Rione VII - Regola
    • Rione VIII - Sant' Eustachio
    • Rione IX - Pigna
    • Rione X - Campitelli
    • Rione XI - Sant' Angelo
    • Rione XII - Ripa
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      • Wellheads
      • Winged Lions

Walking Tours of Rome

On This Day in Italy


June


June 1st
1846: Death of Pope Gregory XVI (r. 1831-46).
Statue of Pope Gregory XVI (r. 1831-46) by Rinaldo Rinaldi (1793-1873), church of San Paolo fuori le Mura (St Paul Outside the Walls), Rom
Pope Gregory XVI by Rinaldo Rinaldi, San Paolo fuori le Mura

June 2nd
​1882:  Death of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1807).
​

1946: Italy becomes a republic. 
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi

June 3rd
1977
: Death of the film director Roberto Rossellini (b.1906).  Rossellini was one of the most prominent directors of Italian neo-realist cinema. 

June 4th
1944
: Liberation of Rome by the allied forces. 

June 5th
1898: 
Birth of the shoe-designer Salvatore Ferragamo (d. 1960). 

June 6th
​
1861: Death, in Turin, of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, the first prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy. Cavour, as he is generally known, was fifty years old when he died; he had been PM for less than three months!
Statue of Cavour, Rome
Statue of Cavour, Rome

June 7th
​1422: 
Birth of the condottiero Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (d. 1482), one of the most famous mercenaries of his age. 

​June 8th
​1625: 
Birth of the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (d. 1712). 

1671: Birth of the Venetian composer Tomaso Albinoni (d. 1751). 
​

1768:  Death, in Trieste, of the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (b. 1717). 
Johann Joachim Winckelmann by Anton von Maron
Johann Joachim Winckelmann by Anton von Maron

June 9th
​
68 BCE: Death of the Emperor Nero (r. 54-68). Nero was thirty-years old when he committed suicide. With his death, the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end. 
A bust of the emperor Nero, Capitoline Museums, Rome
Bust of Nero, Capitoline Museums, Rome

June 10th
1654:  Death, in Rome, of the sculptor Alessandro Algardi (b. 1595).  
​

1940: Italy entered the Second World War. 
Bronze statue of Pope Innocent X (r. 1644-55) by Alessandro Algardi, Capitoline Museums, Rome
Pope Innocent X by Algardi, Capitoline Museums, Rome

​June 11th
1591:  Death, in Rome, of the architect Martino Longhi the Elder (b. 1534), who designed, inter alia, the bell tower of Palazzo Senatorio. 
Bell tower, Palazzo Senatorio, Rome
Bell tower, Palazzo Senatorio, Rome

June 12th
The monarchy of the House of Savoy formally ended  and Umberto II, Italy's fourth and final king, left the country and went into exile. He had reigned for little more than a month! 

June 13th
​
1231: Death of St Antony of Padua (b. 1195). St Antony was born in Lisbon but he died in Padua, where he is buried in the basilica that bears his name.
St Antony of Padua, Stained glass window, church of Sant' Antonio dei Portoghesi, Rome
Stained glass window, Sant' Antonio dei Portoghesi, Rome

June 15th
​2019
: Death, in Rome, of the film director Franco Zeffirelli (b. 1923). 

June 16th
​
1313: Birth, in Certaldo, of the writer Giovanni Bocaccio (d. 1375), who penned the Decameron. 

June 18th:
1964
: Death, in Bologna, of the painter Giorgio Morandi (b. 1890). 

June 19th:
1373: Birth of Francesco Foscari, the longest-serving Doge (r. 1423-57) in Venetian history. 
Doge Francesco Foscari by Lazzaro Bastiani
Doge Francesco Foscari by Lazzaro Bastiani

June 21st
​
1527: Death of the Florentine diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469), author of Il Principe (The Prince). 
​

1547: Death of the Venetian painter Sebastiano Luciani, better known as Sebastiano del Piombo (b. 1485). 
Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito
Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito

​June 22nd
​
1633: The Holy Office of the Catholic Church found Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) guilty of heresy and sentenced him to imprisonment. The following day, this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life. 
​

1805: Birth, in Genoa, of Giuseppe Mazzini (d. 1872), politician and leading activist for the unification of Italy. 
Monument to Giuseppe Mazzini, Genoa
Monument to Giuseppe Mazzini, Genoa

June 23rd
​
79 BCE: Death of the Emperor Vespasian (r. 69-79), who commissioned the building of the world's most famous amphitheatre, namely the Colosseum.   
The Colosseum, Rome
The Colosseum, Rome

June 24th
​1519
: Death, in Ferrara, of Lucrezia Borgia (b. 1480), the daughter of Pope Alexander VI (r. 1492-1503) and Vannozza dei Cattanei. 

June 27th
1574: 
Death of the painter and writer Giorgio Vasari (b. 1511), whose book Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori (The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects), which was first published in 1550, led to him being hailed as the world's first art historian.  
Monument to Giorgio Vasari, Arezzo
Monument to Giorgio Vasari, Arezzo

June 28th
1607:  Death, in Naples, of the architect and engineer Domenico Fontana (b. 1543), who, in 1586, was in charge of moving and re-erecting the ancient Egyptian obelisk in St Peter's Square. 
​

1867: Birth of the Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello (d. 1936), who, in 1934, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pirandello's most famous work is, perhaps, the play Six Characters in Search of an Author. 
Obelisk, St Peter's Square, Rome
Obelisk, St Peter's Square, Rome

June 29th
​
1861: Death of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (b. 1806), who is buried in the 'English' Cemetery, in Florence.  
Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning' English Cemetery, Florence
Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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    • Stanza dell' Incendio
  • Sistine Chapel
    • North Wall
    • South Wall
    • East Wall
    • Ceiling: Part One >
      • Ceiling: Part Two
      • Ceiling: Part Three
    • The Last Judgement
  • Fountains
    • Fontana della Barcaccia
    • Fontana di Piazza delle Scole
    • Fountain of Moses
    • Fountain of Neptune
    • Fountains of Piazza Farnese
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    • Fountain of the Bees
    • Fountain of the Cannonball
    • Fountain of the Four Rivers
    • Fountain of the Goddess Roma
    • Fountain of the Moor
    • Fountain of the Naiads
    • Fountain of the Pantheon
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    • Fountain of the Porter
    • Fountains of St Peter's Square
    • Fountain of the Seahorses
    • Fountain of the Triton
    • Fountain of the Turtles
    • Four Fountains
    • Rioni Fountains
    • Street Fountains
    • Trevi Fountain
    • Venice Marries the Sea
  • Churches
    • Chiesa del Gesù >
      • Cappella di Sant' Ignazio
    • Chiesa Nuova
    • Lateran Baptistery
    • San Bartolomeo all' Isola
    • San Carlo ai Catinari
    • San Carlo al Corso
    • San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
    • San Clemente >
      • Cappella Castiglione
    • San Crisogono
    • San Francesco a Ripa >
      • Cappella Altieri
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    • San Giorgio in Velabro
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    • Sant' Andrea delle Fratte
    • Sant' Antonio dei Portoghesi
    • Sant' Ignazio di Loyola
    • Sant' Ivo alla Sapienza
    • Santa Caterina dei Funari
    • Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
    • Santa Costanza
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      • Chapel of St Helen
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    • Santa Maria degli Angeli
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    • Santa Maria del Priorato
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      • Chigi Chapel
      • Cloister of Bramante
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      • Cappella Cornaro
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      • Cappella Bufalini
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      • Cappella Altemps
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      • Baptistery
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      • Cappella Carafa
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    • Santissimo Nome di Maria
  • Palatine
  • Forum
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    • Temple of Saturn
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    • Temple of Vesta
  • Ancient Monuments
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    • Arch of the Money-Changers
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    • Column of Trajan
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    • Forum of Trajan
    • Mausoleum of Augustus
    • Nymphaeum
    • Pantheon
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    • Temple of Hadrian
    • Temple of Hercules
    • Temple of Portunus
    • Theatre of Marcellus
    • Tomb of Caecilia Metella
    • Via Appia
  • Obelisks
    • 'Minerveo' Obelisk
    • 'Flaminio' Obelisk
    • 'Matteiano' Obelisk
    • 'Lateran' Obelisk
    • 'Dogali' Obelisk
    • 'Macuteo' Obelisk
    • 'Solare' Obelisk
    • 'Vatican' Obelisk
    • 'Agonalis' Obelisk
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    • 'Mediceo' Obelisk
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    • 'Mussolini' Obelisk
    • 'Marconi' Obelisk
  • Mosaics
    • S. Agnese fuori le Mura
    • S. Cecilia in Trastevere
    • S. Clemente
    • S. Francesca Romana
    • S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura
    • S. Marco
    • S. Maria in Domnica
    • S. Maria in Trastevere
    • S. Maria Maggiore
    • S. Prassede
    • S. Pudenziana
    • S. Venanzio
    • S. Zenone
    • Ss. Cosma e Damiano
    • Ss. Nereo e Achilleo
  • Gallery
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    • Villa Farnesina
    • Villa Medici
  • Galleries & Museums
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    • Musei Capitolini
  • Piazzas
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    • Piazza del Quirinale
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    • Piazza Navona
    • Piazza San Pietro
    • Piazza Vittorio
  • Miscellaneous
    • A Calendar of Saints
    • Antico Caffè Greco
    • Art of the Cosmati
    • Babington's Tea Rooms
    • Borromini & the Baroque
    • Catacombs
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    • Column of the Immaculate Conception
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    • EUR
    • Fascism
    • House of the Owls
    • Jewish Ghetto
    • Jubilee Years
    • Knights of Malta
    • Mithraism
    • Monumental Complex of S. Spirito in Sassia
    • Ponte Sisto
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    • Quartiere Coppedè
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    • Tiber Island
    • Villa Borghese
    • Vittoriano
  • Rioni
    • Rione I - Monti
    • Rione II - Trevi
    • Rione III - Colonna
    • Rione IV - Campo Marzio
    • Rione V - Ponte
    • Rione VI - Parione
    • Rione VII - Regola
    • Rione VIII - Sant' Eustachio
    • Rione IX - Pigna
    • Rione X - Campitelli
    • Rione XI - Sant' Angelo
    • Rione XII - Ripa
    • Rione XIII - Trastevere
    • Rione XIV - Borgo
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  • Pictures from Italy
    • Florence >
      • A Literary Tour
      • Anna Maria Luisa: Last of the Medici
      • Casa-Galleria Vichi
      • Column of Justice
      • Column of St Zenobius
      • Cosimo I de' Medici
      • Cosimo II de' Medici
      • Costanza Bonarelli
      • David With Fig Leaf
      • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
      • Equestrian Statue of Cosimo I de' Medici
      • Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando I de' Medici
      • Festina Lente
      • Floods
      • Fontana del Bacchino
      • Fontana dei Puttini
      • Fountain of Neptune
      • Fountains of the Marine Monsters
      • Gian Gastone de' Medici
      • Girolamo Savonarola
      • Images of the Annunciation
      • Little Devil
      • Monument to Cellini
      • Palazzo Bartolini-Salimbeni
      • Palazzo Bianca Cappello
      • Palazzo Fenzi
      • Palazzo Viviani
      • Perseus and Medusa
      • Piazza Santa Maria Novella
      • Pope Leo XI
      • Porta della Mandorla
      • Rape of the Sabine Woman
      • Santa Maria Novella
      • Canons' Palace
      • Statue of Dante
      • Theft of the Century
      • Torre del Arnolfo
      • Twelve Good Men
      • Villa Gamberaia
      • Wheel of the Innocents
      • 'Wine Windows'
    • Lazio >
      • Bomarzo: Parco dei Mostri
      • Viterbo: Santa Rosa
    • Tuscany >
      • Arezzo: Giorgio Vasari
      • Lucca: Puccini
      • Pistoia: Ospedale del Ceppo
      • Siena: The Balzana
      • Siena: The Palio
    • Venice >
      • Ab Urbe Condita
      • Acqua Alta
      • Bartolomeo Colleoni
      • Barque of Dante
      • Burano
      • Caffè Florian
      • Daniele Manin
      • Flagpoles
      • Giustina Rossi
      • Gondolas
      • Harry's Bar
      • Henry James
      • House of Three Eyes
      • King Victor Emmanuel II
      • Map of Venice
      • Martinmas
      • Master of the House
      • Palazzo Contarini Fasan
      • Ponte Borgoloco
      • Ponte Chiodo
      • Punta del Dogana
      • Scacciadiavoli
      • Shrine of St Lucia
      • Sior Antonio Rioba
      • The 'Book Shitter'
      • The Lion's Mouth
      • Tommaso Rangone
      • Torcello
      • Venus
      • 'Viennese Oranges'
      • Wellheads
      • Winged Lions