- Theodore Of Pavia
Saint Theodore of Pavia (d. 778 AD) was bishop of Pavia from 743 until his death. He was repeatedly exiled by the Arian Lombard kings. His feast day is May 20. Along with Syrus (Siro), he is a patron saint of Pavia. - Syrus Of Pavia
Saint Syrus (Sirus) of Pavia is traditionally said to have been the first bishop of Pavia during the 1st century. His legend, according to the 14th century source known as the "De laudibus Papiæ" ("In the Praise of Pavia"), states that Syrus was the boy with the five loaves who appears in the Gospels. - Juventius Of Pavia
Saint Juventius was the bishop of Pavia during the 1st century. Together with Syrus of Pavia he was sent there by Saint Hermagoras. Both Juventius and Syrus are reported to have been the first bishop of Pavia. Juventius has two feast days, 8 February alone and 12 September together with Syrus. - Giacomo Pavia
Giacomo Pavia (1655-1740) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native Bologna. He was a pupil of the painter [[Giuseppe Maria Crespi] - Bernard Of Pavia
Bernard of Pavia was a noted Italian canonist and prelate. - Francesco Sforza
Francesco Sforza, nicknamed "Il Duchetto" ("The Little Duke"; January or February 1491 - 1512) was the eldest son of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, duke of Milan, and Isabella of Naples. He was count of Pavia from 1491 to 1499. In the latter year, as the French troops conquered Milan, he was carried to France by King Louis XII. Francesco died falling from a horse at Angoulême in 1512. - Gian Galeazzo Visconti
Gian Galeazzo Visconti (November 1351 - September 3, 1402), son of Galeazzo II Visconti and Bianca di Savoia, was the first Duke of Milan (1395) and ruled the late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance. He was the great founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing at Pavia the palazzo begun by his father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan. - Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti (also spelled Lucchino, 1287 or 1292 - January 24, 1349) was lord of Milan from 1339 to 1349. He was also a condottiero, and lord of Pavia. Ruler of Pavia from 1315, five years later he was "podestà" of Vigevano, where he erected the castle still visible. In 1323, along with all his family, he was excommunicated with the charge of heresy. He co-ruled in Milan with his nephew Azzone Visconti and his brother Giovanni, … - Ansa
Ansa or Ansia was the wife of Desiderius, King of the Lombards. She was probably a Lombard, the daughter of Verissimo and sister of Arechis and Donnolo. In or around 753, she founded the monastery of S. Michele and S. Pietro at Brescia. It later merged with that of S. Salvatore and S. Maria. After 759, she appeared frequently in Desiderius' diplomas and was probably the architect of his religious policy. - Daniele Crespi
Daniele Crespi (1590 - july 19 1630) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era. He was born in Busto Arsizio, and active mostly in the Milan of Federico Borromeo. A student of Giovanni Battista Crespi and Giulio Cesare Procaccini, he was an excellent colorist, known for the simplistic beauty of his composition. His earliest works show him assisting Guglielmo Caccia in San Vittore. - Felice Casorati
Felice Casorati was an Italian mathematician best known for the Weierstrass–Casorati theorem in complex analysis. He was born in Pavia and died in Casteggio. The theorem, named for Casorati and Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass, describes the remarkable behavior of holomorphic functions near essential singularities. - Beatrice D'Este
Beatrice d'Este (June 29 1475 - January 2 1497), duchess of Milan, one of the most beautiful and accomplished princesses of the Italian Renaissance, was the daughter of Ercole I. d'Este and younger sister of Isabella d'Este and Alfonso d'Este. She was bethrothed at the age of fifteen to Lodovico Sforza (known as il "Moro"), duke of Bari, regent and afterwards duke of Milan, and was married to him in January 1491. - Alboin
Alboin or Alboïn was king of the Lombards, and conqueror of Italy. He succeeded his father Audoin about 565. The Lombards were at that time dwelling in Noricum and Pannonia (the plain of eastern Austria south and east of the Danube, modern-day Slovenia and Istria). In alliance with the Avars, an Asiatic people who had invaded central Europe, Alboin defeated the Lombards' hereditary enemies, the Gepids, a powerful nation on his eastern frontier, … - Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo Cardano or Girolamo Cardano (English Jerome Cardan, Latin Hieronymus Cardanus; September 24, 1501 - September 21 1576) was a celebrated Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer, and gambler. He was born in Pavia, Italy, the illegitimate child of Fazio Cardano, a mathematically gifted lawyer who was a friend of Leonardo da Vinci. - Vincenzo Foppa
Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1430 - c. 1515) was a Northern-Italian Renaissance painter. He was an elderly contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. Born at Bagnolo Mella, near Brescia in the Republic of Venice, he settled in Pavia around 1456, serving the dukes of Milan and emerging as one of the most prominent Lombard painters. Foppa returned to Brescia in 1489. His style shows affinities to Andrea del Castagno and Carlo Crivelli. - Galeazzo Ii Visconti
Galeazzo II Visconti was a member of the Visconti dynasty and a ruler of Milan, Italy. He was the son of Stefano Visconti and Valentina Doria. In 1343 he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Two years later he was ousted from by his uncle Luchino, returning under archbishop Giovanni Visconti, who made him governor of Bologna. In 1356 he fought alongside his brother Bernabò against the Este and the Gonzaga, with Pandolfo II Malatesta as commander of his troops. - Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (ca.1447-August 27 or 28, 1522) was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor. He was born in Pavia. He decorated the funerary chapel of the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni in Bergamo, built shortly after 1470. He was also active for some years in the Certosa di Pavia during 1473-1476. He was then active in the decoration of the Cathedral in Milan. - Antonio Scarpa
Antonio Scarpa (born May 9, 1752, in Lorenzaga di Motta di Livenza; died October 31, 1832, in Pavia) was an Italian anatomist and professor at Pavia and Modena. Scarpa began studying medicine at the age of fourteen. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Marc Antonio Caldani. Under the former, he became doctor of medicine on May 19, 1770; in 1772 he became professor at the University of Modena. - Giuseppe Ferrari
Giuseppe Ferrari (7 March 1812 - 2 July 1876) was an Italian philosopher, historian and politician. He was born at Milan, studied law at Pavia, and took the degree of doctor in 1831. A follower of Romagnosi and Giovan Battista Vico, his first works were an article in the "Biblioteca Italiana" entitled "Mente di Gian Domenico Romagnosi" (1835), and a complete edition of the works of Vico, prefaced by an appreciation (1835). - Tommaso Grossi
Tommaso Grossi (January 20, 1791 - December 10, 1853), Lombard poet and novelist, was born at Bellano, on the Lake of Como. He took his degree in law at Pavia in 1810, and proceeded thence to Milan to exercise his profession; but the Austrian government, suspecting his loyalty, interfered with his prospects, and in consequence Grossi was a simple notary all his life. - Lorenzo Mascheroni
Lorenzo Mascheroni was an Italian mathematician, born near Bergamo, Italy. At first mainly interested in the humanities (poetry and Greek language), he eventually became professor of mathematics at Pavia. In his "Geometria del Compasso" (Pavia, 1797), he proved that any geometrical construction which can be done with compass and straightedge, can also be done with compasses alone. - Authari
Authari (c. 540 - 5 September 590, Pavia) also known as Agilolf, was king of the Lombards from 584 to his death. After his father, Cleph, died in 574, the Lombardic nobility refused to appoint a successor, resulting in ten years interregnum known as the "Rule of the Dukes". In 574 and 575 the Lombards made the blunder of invading Provence, then part of the kingdom of Burgundy of the Merovingian Guntram. - Pope John Xiv
John XIV (died August 20, 984) was Pope from 983 to 984, successor to Pope Benedict VII (974-983) He was born at Pavia, and before his elevation to the papal chair was imperial chancellor of Emperor Otto II (973-983), and was the latter's second choice. His original name was Peter, but he changed it to John XIV avoid being linked to St. Peter himself. Otto II died shortly after his election; his heir, Otto III (983-1002), being only 3 years old. - Antonio de Leyva
Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova was a Spanish general during the Italian Wars. During the Italian War of 1521, he commanded Pavia during the siege of the city by Francis I of France, and took part in the Battle of Pavia in 1525. After the death of Fernando de Avalos, he held further commands in Italy during the War of the League of Cognac and afterwards, finally dying shortly after attempting an invasion of Provence. - Giuseppe Cardone
Giuseppe Cardone (born 3 March 1974 in Pavia) is an Italian footballer. - Magnus Felix Ennodius
Magnus Felix Ennodius (474 - July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia, Latin rhetorician and poet. He was one of four fifth to sixth-century Gallo-Roman aristocrats whose letters survive in quantity: the others are Sidonius Apollinaris, prefect of Rome in 468 and bishop of Clermont (died 485), Ruricius bishop of Limoges (died 507) and Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne (died 518). - Richard de la Pole
Richard de la Pole (died February 24, 1525 in Pavia, Duchy of Milan) was a pretender to the English crown. - Pierre de Ronsard
Pierre de Ronsard, commonly referred to as Ronsard, was a French poet and "prince of poets" (as his own generation in France called him). He was born at the Manoir de la Possonnière, in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Loir-et-Cher. His family is said to have come from the predominantly Romanian provinces to the north of the Danube (provinces with which the Crusades had given France much intercourse) in the first half of the 14th century. - Perctarit
Perctarit (also Berthari; died 688) was king of the Lombards from 661 to 662 the first time and later from 671 to 688. He was the son and successor of Aripert I. He shared power with his brother Godepert. He was a Catholic, Godepert an Arian. He ruled from Milan, Godepert from Pavia. Godepert called up the aid of Duke Grimoald I of Benevento in a war with Perctarit, but the Beneventan had him assassinated and took over the kingdom forcing Perctarit to flee. - Charles de Lannoy
Charles de Lannoy (c. 1487 - September 23, 1527) was a soldier and statesman from the Low Countries in service of the Habsburg Emperors Maximilian I and Charles V. Charles de Lannoy was born the younger son of Jean de Lannoy, Lord of Mingoval, and his wife, Philipotte de Lalaing (c. 1487). He took service with the Emperor Maximilian I and won distinction for bravery and leadership. He was appointed to the council of Charles of Burgundy - later Emperor Charles V. (1515). - Ansprand
Ansprand (c.657-712) was king of the Lombards briefly in 712. Before that he was the duke of Asti and regent during the minority of Liutpert (700-701). He was defeated at Novara by Raginpert and exiled during the subsequent war over the succession, fleeing to the court of Theudebert, duke of Bavaria, in 702. In 711, he returned with a large army from the duke. Many Austrians (the men of Venetia and the east) joined the returning regent and battle ensued near Pavia, … - Carlo Maria Cipolla
Carlo Maria Cipolla (1922-2000) was an Italian economic historian. He was born in Pavia, where he got his academic degree in 1944. Through his study of economic history, he showed a keen interest in the causes that prompted specific economic and social situations during history, instead of focusing on facts and figures. He was noted as well for his work on overpopulation and his essays on human stupidity. - Godepert
Godepert (also "Gundipert", "Godebert", "Godipert", "Godpert", "Gotebert", "Gotbert", "Gotpert", "Gosbert", or "Gottbert") was king of the Lombards (661), eldest son and successor of Aripert I. He was an Arian who governed from the ancient capital, Pavia, while his brother, Perctarit, a Roman Catholic, governed from Milan. - Baldus de Ubaldis
Baldus de Ubaldis was an Italian jurist. A member of the noble family of the Ubaldi (Baldeschi), Baldus was born at Perugia in 1327, and studied civil law there under Bartolus de Saxoferrato, being admitted to the degree of doctor of civil law at the early age of seventeen. Federicus Petrucius of Siena is said to have been the master under whom he studied canon law. Upon his promotion to the doctorate he at once proceeded to Bologna, … - Aripert II
Aripert II (also spelled "Aribert") was the king of the Lombards from 701 to 712. Duke of Turin and son of King Raginpert, and thus a scion of the Bavarian Dynasty, he was associated with the throne as early as 700. He was removed by Liutpert, who reigned from 700 to 702, with the exception of the year 701, when Raginpert seized the throne. After his father's death, he tried to take the throne, too. - Enrico Donati
Enrico Donati is an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth. He studied economics at the Università degli Studi, Pavia, and in 1934 moved to the USA, where he attended the New School for Social Research and the Art Students’ League in New York City. His first one-man shows were in New York in 1942, at the New School for Social Research and the Passedoit Gallery. At this stage he was clearly drawn to Surrealism. - Antonio Ghislanzoni
Antonio Ghislanzoni (25 November 1824 - July 16 1893) was an Italian journalist, poet, and novelist who wrote many librettos for Verdi, among other composers, of which the best known are "La forza del destino" and "Aida". Ghislanzoni was born in Lecco, Lombardy, and studied briefly in a seminary, but was expelled for bad conduct in 1841. He then decided to study medicine in Pavia, … - Salvatore Farina
Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 - 15 December 1918) was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens. Born in the Sardinian town of Sorso, he studied law at Turin and Pavia before moving to Milan and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life. - Gregorio Fontana
Gregorio Fontana (December 7 1735 Villa di Nogaredo - August 24 1803 Milan) was an Italian mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates. His brother was the physicist Felice Fontana (1730-1805). - Bernardino Gatti
Bernardino Gatti was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Parma and Cremona. Born in or near Pavia or Cremona. He is also commonly called il Sojaro. His early apprenticeship is unclear, though he is influenced by the pre-eminent local painters: Pordenone, alongside whose works are many of Gatti’s frescoes, as well as Correggio. Gatti worked for 12 years, 1560-72, in the fresco decoration of the cupola of the duomo of Parma, …
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