Castagno, Andrea
Florentine painter, b. near Florence, 1390; d. at Florence, 9 August, 1457.
Castellammare di Stabia
The seat of the diocese is an industrial city, situated on the Bay of Naples, on a slope of Monte Gauro, and famous for its health-giving mineral springs.
Castellanos, Juan de
Soldier, priest, and epic poet, born in Spain in the first half of the sixteenth century; date of death unknown.
Castelli, Benedetto
Mathematician and physicist; b. at Perugia, Italy, 1577; d. at Rome, 1644.
Castelli, Pietro
Italian physician and botanist, b. at Rome in 1574; d. at Messina in 1662.
Castello, Giovanni Battista
Italian painter, sculptor, and architect; b. at Gandino, in the Valle Seriana, in the territory of Bergamo, in 1509 (some writers state 1500 or 1506); d. at Madrid in 1579.
Castiglione, Baldassare
Italian prose-writer, b. at Casatico, near Mantua, 6 December, 1478; died at Toledo, Spain, 7 February, 1529.
Castiglione, Carlo Ottavio
Philologist and numismatist, b. of an ancient family at Milan, Italy, 1784; d. at Genoa, 10 April, 1849.
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto
Painter and etcher, b. at Genoa, Italy, 1616; d. at Mantua, 1670.
Castile and Aragon
The united kingdom which came into existence by the marriage (1469) of Isabella, heiress of Castile, with Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Aragon.
Castillejo, Cristóbal de
Spanish poet, b. in Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca), 1491; d. in Vienna, 12 June, 1556.
Castracane degli Antelminelli, Francesco
Naturalist, b. at Fano, Italy, 19 July, 1817; d. at Rome 27 March, 1899.
Castro y Bellvis, Guillen de
Spanish dramatic poet, b. of a noble family at Valencia in 1569; d. at Madrid in 1631.
Castro, Alphonsus de
Friar Minor and theologian, b. in 1495 at Zamora, Leon, Spain; d. 11 February 1558, at Brussels.
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