Faà di Bruno is the name of an Italian noble family based in the areas of Asti, Casale, and Alessandria, which provided the Counts (later Marquises) of Bruno. Asti is a city and Comune in the Piemonte or Piedmont region, in north-western Italy, about 55 kilometres east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro Casale Monferrato is a town in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the Province of Alessandria. Alessandria ( Lissandria in Piedmontese) is a city in Piedmont Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. Bruno is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km southeast of Turin Prominent members included:
- Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno was a musician of some importance from Casale who published two books of madrigals as well as vespers, psalms, motets and settings of the Magnificat. [1] He was invested as first Count of Bruno in 1588.
- Camilla Faà di Bruno, (c. Camilla Faà di Bruno, also di Casale, also Camilla Faà Gonzaga (c 1599–1662), a society beauty who was married secretly, briefly and morganatically to Ferdinando I the Gonzaga Duke of Mantua and Monferrato; her memoirs have been described as the first prose autobiography written by an Italian woman. A morganatic marriage is a type of Marriage which can be contracted in certain countries usually between people of unequal Social rank, which prevents the passage Ferdinando I Gonzaga ( April 26, 1587 - October 29, 1626) was Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat from 1612 until his The Gonzaga family ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708. The Duchy of Mantua was a Duchy in Lombardy, Northern Italy, subject to the Holy Roman Empire. The Marquises and Dukes of Montferrat were the rulers of a territory in Piedmont south of the Po and east of Turin called Montferrat.
- Ferdinando Faà di Bruno became the first Marquis of Bruno when the county was elevated into a marquisate on 31 March 1652.
- Ortensio Faà di Bruno (fl. 1686) was Abbot of Carentini, which enabled him to pursue his criminal tendencies in a state of legal immunity.
- Antonino Faà di Bruno (bishop) (1762–1829), Bishop of Asti.
- Alessandro Faà di Bruno, an innovator in the field of agriculture.
- Emilio Faà di Bruno (1820–1866), officer of the Regia Marina; as commander of the frigate “Re D’Italia” he died at the Battle of Lissa during the Third Italian War of Independence. The Regia Marina ( Italian Royal Navy) dates from the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 after Italian unification. The Third Italian War of Independence was a conflict which paralleled the Austro-Prussian War, and was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire
- The Beato Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825-1888), brother of Emilio, was a mathematician and priest. Francesco Faà di Bruno ( 29 March, 1825 – 27 March, 1888) was an Italian Mathematician and Priest, born He is best known for Faà di Bruno's formula. Faà di Bruno's formula is an identity in Mathematics generalizing the Chain rule to higher derivatives named in honor of Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825&ndash1888
- Antonino Faà di Bruno (actor) (1910–1981) appeared in films by Pasolini (Porcile), Fellini (Amarcord) and Comencini (La donna della domenica). Pier Paolo Pasolini ( March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian Poet, Intellectual, Film director Pigpen (Porcile is a 1969 Italian language film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marco Ferreri Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( January 20 1920 &ndash October 31 1993) was an Italian Film Amarcord (1973 directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi- Autobiographical coming-of-age tale that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy Luigi Comencini ( June 8, 1916 - April 6 2007) was an Italian Film director.
Notes and references
- ^ Iain Fenlon, ‘Faà di Bruno, Giovanni Matteo [Horatio, Orazio]’, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
- Scrivanti Franco, Bruno, www. ilmonferrato. info. (Italian)
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