Ippazio Antonio Bortone National Parliament; bust of Gino Capponi for a hall of the city Hall of Florence; and a bust of the illustrator of Dante's works, Giambattista Giuliani. Ippazio Antonio Bortone Ippazio Antonio Bortone (Ruffano, 1847- Lecce, 1938) was an Italian sculptor, active for many years in Florence. He was born in Ruffano, near the city of Lecce in the Province of Lecce in the region of Apulia in Southern Italy. He completed his study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, and became honorary professor of that Academy, as well as the Academies of Florence and Lecce. He was also
Joan of Taranto Joan of Taranto Joan of Taranto (died March 1323) was a Queen consort of Armenia by marriage to Oshin, King of Armenia. She was daughter of Philip I, Prince of Taranto, and his first wife Thamar Angelina Komnene. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou. Joan was possibly born in about 1297, and was the eldest daughter of five children, having had two older brothers, Charles and Philip, and two younger sisters, Margaret, who married Walter VI of Brienne and Blanche, who married Ramon Berenguer of Aragon. Joan's parents did not have a good relationship: Philip suspected