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Jacopo Riccati
PersonJacopo Francesco Riccati was a Venetian mathematician and jurist from Venice, known for his widely influential work on solving differential equations. He is best known for having studied the equation that bears his name.

Marco Polo
Person…look into China, Persia, India, Japan, and other Asian societies. Born in Venice, Marco learned the mercantile trade from his father and his uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, who travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned…

Pope Benedict XI
Person…entered the Order of Preachers in his native Treviso. He studied at Venice and Milan before becoming a teacher in Venice and in other Dominican houses. He served two terms as Provincial Prior of Lombardy, before being elected Master…

Min Bahadur Bham
Person…the milestone of being the first Nepali film to screen at the Venice Film Festival. His debut feature, The Black Hen (2015), received the FEDEORA Best Film Award at Venice and was selected as Nepal's official entry for the Academy Awards.…

Pope Innocent IX
Person…the service of the influential Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. As papal legate to Venice, he helped negotiate the formation of the Holy League, an alliance of Spanish and Italian maritime powers to challenge the Ottoman Empire’s control…

Mehmed I
Person…the Ottoman presence in Europe through the conquest of Dobruja in 1419. Venice destroyed his fleet off Gallipoli in 1416 when the Ottomans lost a naval war.

Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
Person…the Ottoman Empire than such major European powers as the Republic of Venice and Habsburgs. Sahaidachny reportedly took part in 60 battles without losing a single one.

Pope Lucius III
Person…Sicily, and other regions. He was involved in negotiating the Treaty of Venice in 1177, and was elected pope in 1181. During his papacy, Lucius III faced disputes with the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I over the territories of the late…

Pope Alexander VIII
Person…pope to take the pontifical name "Alexander". Born in the Republic of Venice, Ottoboni earned a doctorate in canon and civil law from the University of Padua. He was made a cardinalate by Pope Innocent X, and Ottoboni was elected pope…

Pope Urban VII
Person…Trent. Later, he was appointed as the Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and Venice and served as the Papal legate to Flanders and to Cologne. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1583 by Pope Gregory XIII. Upon the death of Pope Sixtus V,…

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