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November 1st
1512: Michelangelo’s ceiling frescoes, in the Sistine Chapel, were unveiled to the public. November 2nd 1975: Murder of the film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (b. 1922). November 4th 1921: Burial of the Ignoto Militi (Unknown Soldier) at the Monument to King Victor Emanuel II. On this day in 1918, warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary came to an end, with the loss of 650,000 Italian lives. November 9th 1778: Death of the Venetian print-maker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (b. 1720), who is buried in Santa Maria del Priorato, the only church he designed. November 10th 1549: Death of Pope Paul III (r. 1534-49), who built Palazzo Farnese. November 11th 1417: Election of Pope Martin V (r. 1417-31). November 16th 42 BCE: Birth of the Emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37). 1729: Death of the Roman architect Alessandro Specchi (b. 1668). November 18th 1626: Consecration of St Peter's Basilica. |
November 19th
1534: Election of Pope Clement VII (r. 1523-34). 1665: Death of the French painter Nicholas Poussin (b. 1594), who is buried in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina. November 20th 1977: Death of the artist Giorgio de Chirico (b. 1888), who is interred in the church of San Francesco a Ripa. November 23rd 1682: Death of the French painter Claude Lorrain (b. 1600), who is buried in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi. November 25th 1985: Death of the writer Elsa Morante (b. 1912), whose most famous novel is La Storia (History). November 27th 8 BCE: Death of the Latin poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65 BCE), known in English as Horace. November 28th 1680: Death of the sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini (b. 1598), who is interred in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. 1907: Birth of the writer Alberto Moravia (d. 1990), whose most famous novel is, perhaps, Il Conformista (The Conformist). November 30th 1647: Death of the painter Giovanni Lanfranco (b. 1582), who painted the frescoes in the dome of the church of Sant' Andrea della Valle. |