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  • 61Carl Heinrich Graun — (May 7, 1704 August 8, 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time. [ The New Grove Dictionary of Opera vol. 2 p.519]… …

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  • 62Federico Sclopis — di Salerano (10 January 1798 ndash; 8 March 1878) was an Italian statesman and jurist, best remembered for his role in the unification of Italy and his adjudication in the Alabama claims.LifeBorn Turin, to a noble family, Sclopis graduated in law …

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  • 63Cosa — Coordinates: 42°24′39″N 11°17′11″E / 42.410919°N 11.286503°E / 42.410919; 11.286503 …

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  • 64Gustavus Brander — (1720 1787), English naturalist, who came of a Swedish family, was born in London in 1720, and was brought up as a merchant, in which capacity he achieved success and became a director of the Bank of England. His leisure time was occupied in… …

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  • 65David Wilkins (orientalist) — For other people named David Wilkins, see David Wilkins (disambiguation). David Wilkins (1685–1745), originally named Wilke or Wilkius, was a Prussian orientalist, born in Memel, who settled in England.[1] His 1716 publication of the Coptic New… …

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  • 66Cesare Cremonini (philosopher) — Cesare Cremonini Full name Cesare Cremonini Born 22 December 1550 Cento (then in the Papal States), Province of Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy Died …

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  • 67Nicola Francesco Haym — Marco Ricci s ca. 1709 painting of Nicola Francesco Haym at the harpsichord. Nicola Francesco Haym (6 July 1678 – 31 July 1729) was an Italian opera librettist, composer, theatre manager and performer, and numismatist. He is best remembered for… …

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  • 68Gregorio Leti — (1630–1701) was an Italian historian and satirist from Milan, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Abbe Gualdi, L abbé Gualdi, [Jewett, Charles Coffin. On the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries, and their Publication by Means of… …

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  • 69Samuel Lysons — FRS (1763 June 1819) was a notable English engraver and antiquary of the late 18th and early 19th century, who with his older brother, Daniel published the four volume The Environs of London (published 1792 to 1796). He was also one of the first… …

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  • 70Joseph Macleod — Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod (1903 1984) was a British poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC Newsreader. He also published poetry under the pseudonym Adam Drinan. Biography Joseph Macleod was the son of Scottish… …

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