Famous People with Name Francesco

Francesco Cetti            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Francesco Cetti: was an Italian Jesuit priest, zoologist and mathematician.Cetti was born in Mannheim in Germany, but his parents were natives of Como. He was educated in Lombardy and at the Jesuit college at Monza. In 1765 he was sent to Sardinia to help improve the standard of education on the island. In 1766 he was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics at the University of Sassari, holding that position until his death.Cetti took long excursions in the vicinity of Sassari, collating his discoveries in the Storia Naturale di Sardegna (Natural History of Sardinia) (1774-7). This has four volumes, covering quadrupeds, birds, fish, and insects and fossils respectively.

Francesco Redi            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Francesco Redi: was an Italian physician.He is most well-known for his experiment in 1668 which is regarded as one of the first steps in refuting "spontaneous generation" - a theory also known as Aristotelian abiogenesis. At the time, prevailing wisdom was that maggots formed naturally from rotting meat. In the experiment, Redi took eight jars, which he divided in two groups of four: in the first jar of each group, he put an unknown object; in the second, a dead fish; in the last, raw chunk of veal. Redi took the first group of four jars, and covered the tops with fine gauze so that only air could get into it. He left the other group of jars open. After several days,

Francesco Selmi            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Francesco Selmi: was an Italian chemist and patriot, one of the founders of colloid chemistry.He became head of a chemistry laboratory in Modena in 1840, and a professor of chemical pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Bologna in 1867. He published the first systematic study of inorganic colloids[1], [2], [3], in particular Silver chloride[4], Prussian blue[5], and Sulfur in the period 1845-1850.

Francesco Petrarca            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Francesco Petrarca: known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet, and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists. Petrarch is often popularly called the "father of humanism".[1] Based on Petrarch's works, and to a lesser extent those of Dante Alighieri and Giova

Francesco Albani            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Francesco Albani: was an Italian Baroque painter.In the year 1600, Albani moved to Rome to work in the fresco decoration of the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, being completed by the studio of Annibale Carracci. Rome, under Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592-1605) was exhibiting some degree of administrative stability and renewed artistic patronage. While pope Clement was born from a Florentine family residing in Urbino, his family was allied by marriage to the Emilia-Romagna and the Farnese, since Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma had married Margherita Aldobrandini. Parma, like Bologna, are part of the Region of Emilia-Romagna. Thus it was not surprise that Cardinal Odoarde Farnese, Ranuccio's brother, chose the Carraccis from Bologna for patronage, thereby establishing Bolognese predominance of Roman fresco painting for nearly two decades.

Francesco Pisano            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Francesco Pisano: an Italian football (soccer) defender. He currently plays for Cagliari Calcio. Pisano can play as a Left back or Left Wing Back. His impressive performances this season (and ever present for Cagliari in the league) have earned him a call up to the Italy Under-21 in December and has two caps to his name.Pisano is recognisable for his incredible pace. While at school he competed for Italy not for his football but for his running ability. He featured for the Under 16's and can run 100 metres in under 10.2 seconds. Pisano is a tough tackler and the belief of many is that he could develop into as fine a left back as Paolo Maldini.

Lucas Sebastian De Francesco            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Lucas Sebastian De Francesco: a professional football striker currently playing for Ilioupoli F.C. in the Greek third division.De Francesco scored 12 goals for Kavala in the 2004–05 Greek Gamma Ethniki season.[1]