Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (; 22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi". Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he successfully developed his work in the realistic "verismo" style, of which he became one of the leading exponents. Puccini's most renowned works are "La bohème" (1896), "Tosca" (1900), "Madama Butterfly" (1904), and "Turandot" (1924), all of which are among the important operas played as standards. Puccini was born Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria
Giacomo di Grassi Giacomo di Grassi Giacomo di Grassi was an Italian fencing master who wrote the fencing treatise "Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'Arme, si da offesa come da difesa" in 1570..The text was later translated into English and published again in 1594, as " Di Grassi, His True Arte of Defence". The translation of Di Grassi was one of the three premiere fencing texts known from Elizabethan England. His main teachings were that weapons of the same length are used similarly, the thrust is preferred to all other attacks, as well as specifics on how to thrust and handle specific weapons. Digrassi