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Caccia

Caccia may refer to:

  • Caccia al Re – La narcotici, an Italian television series
  • Caccia Birch House
  • Oboe da caccia, a musical instrument of the oboe family
  • Caccia e Pesca, an Italy-based premium television channel
  • Caccia (music) (from "hunt"), an Italian poetic and musical genre of the 14th and 15th centuries
People
  • Charles Caccia (1930–2008), Canadian politician
  • Diego Caccia (born 1981), Italian cyclist
  • Federico Caccia (1635 – 1699), an Italian diplomat and Roman Catholic prelate
  • Gabriele Giordano Caccia (born 1958), an Italian Catholic prelate and diplomat
  • Guglielmo Caccia, a painter known as "il Moncalvo"
  • Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia (1905 - 1990), a British diplomat
  • Joe Caccia (1899 – 1931), American racecar driver
  • Nicola Caccia (born 1970) Italian professional football player
  • Orsola Caccia, a painter and daughter of Guglielmo
  • Xagħra, a village in Malta known as Caccia to English residents

Usage examples of "caccia".

I had assumed too hastily that this chapel was done just after the 1590 edition of Caccia had been published, and just before Tabachetti left for Crea in 1590 or 1591, whereas it now appears that it was done about 1610, during a short visit paid by the sculptor to Varallo some twenty years after he had left it.

Like the edition of Caccia already referred to, it is dated a year later than the one in which it actually appeared, so that the present custom of post-dating late autumn books is not a new one.

It would be interesting to see the 1565 and 1576 editions of Caccia, and note the changes and additions that can be found in them.

Calvary chapel in the edition of 1576, nor of his other chapels, we should be able to date his arrival at Varallo within a very few years, and settle a question which, until these two editions of Caccia are found, appears insoluble.

He made the plan of the Sacro Monte as it stood in his time, which I have already referred to, and designed the many chapels mentioned in the 1586 edition of Caccia as about to be built.

Nevertheless it is certain that after the end of 1589, to which date the edition of Caccia appears by its preface to belong, Tabachetti reappeared in full force, did one chapel of extreme beauty--the first Vision of St.

Joseph chapel is not mentioned at all in either the 1586 or 1590 editions of Caccia, and was evidently not yet even contemplated, whereas the Visit of Mary to Elizabeth, over which he is supposed to have gone mad, is given in both as completed.

Tabachetti on the Sacro Monte, but how much earlier it is than 1586 cannot be known till the missing editions of Caccia are found.

Both Fassola and Torrotti say that Tabachetti had just begun to work on this chapel when he lost his reason, but as the work is described as complete in the 1586 edition of Caccia, it is evident, as I have already shown, that his insanity was only temporary, inasmuch as he did another chapel after 1590.

The work is mentioned in the 1586 edition of Caccia as completed, but there is nothing to show whether or no it was a restoration.

It is mentioned in the 1586 and 1590 editions of Caccia, but we may be tolerably sure that Tabachetti had nothing to do with it.

In the 1586-7 edition of Caccia the chapel itself is alone given as completed.

It is mentioned in the 1586 edition of Caccia, and it is added that the water of the fountain would be brought there shortly so as to imitate the Jordan.

This chapel is given as completed in the 1586 edition of Caccia, and had probably been by this time reconstructed by Tabachetti, to whom the work is universally and no doubt justly ascribed.

This chapel is given as completed in the 1586 edition of Caccia, so that Bordiga and Cusa are wrong in dating it 1598.