Definition & Meaning | English word MAFFEO

Definitions of MAFFEO

1. A surname.

Examples of Using MAFFEO in a Sentence

• Born in Venice, Marco learned the mercantile trade from his father and his uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, who travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan.
• The 17-year-old Marco Polo departs from Venice with his father and uncle Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, to set off for Asia – to meet the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan (the grandson of Genghis Khan) – at his court in Beijing in China.
• The fascist government utilized austerity policies to prevent the democratization of Italy following World War I, with Luigi Einaudi, Maffeo Pantaleoni, Umberto Ricci and Alberto de' Stefani leading this movement.
• In 2000, Maffeo released the album The Union Themes, a collaboration with Brendan Canty of Fugazi that was two years in the making.
• Over the years, the station has had many former DJs go onto more considerable fame, such as Victoria Hart Glavin (Victoria Barreca) hip hop journalist and founder of PileDriving Records, Bruce Pavitt (founder of Sub Pop Records), Chris Scofield (founder of Strange Attractors Audio House Records), Tobi Vail, Lois Maffeo, Mark Hosler (of Negativland), Arrington de Dionyso (of Old Time Relijun), Steve Fisk (producer and musician), Jeff Jacoby (sound artist & producer of The Traveling Radio Show), Tom Hood (founder of Hood's Woods Music), Calvin Johnson (of Beat Happening and founder of K Records), and John Foster (founder of OP Magazine).
• Vittore Barbaro, son of Maffeo, was Provveditore of the Army against Milan in 1426 and Captain of Rovigo and Polesine in 1428.
• The theater was built in 1871 at the behest of Prince Maffeo Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, who decided to entrust the project to the architect Giulio De Angelis, assisted by his colleague Francesco Marra (or Morra).
• Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore as Dulcamara (Ciano, Tagliavini, Maffeo; Ino Savini,19/27 August 1968) Supraphon/Fratelli Fabbri.
• His Jesuit friend and priest Maffeo Franzini helped him revive the Secular Ursulines in his parish and so Franzini sent from Milan the former Canossian religious Leopoldina Paris to aid him in this.
• Maffeo Barberini was elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623 and during his pontificate, Falconieri became the relator of the Sacred Consulta and commissary general of Umbria and Romagna.
• Among other things, in 1778 he painted a series of 168 smallRitratti di dogi, dogaresse, veneti patriarchi, cardinali e pontefici in oil on copper for the bibliophile Maffeo Pinelli; those paintings went lost, even though some of them could be found in the antiques market.
• Best Paper Award: Yoshito Otake, Carneal Catherine, Blake Lucas, Gaurav Thawait, John Carrino, Brian Corner, Marina Carboni, Barry DeCristofano, Michale Maffeo, Andrew Merkle and Mehran Armand.
• Porro established himself as a starter under Eusebio Sacristán, becoming first choice ahead of Aday Benítez and replacing departed Pablo Maffeo.
• On 11 July 1438 the Senate ordered Giorgio, who had left Chioggia to go to the Adige near Legnago, to send Maffeo Molin, captain of the armed boats.
• He was among the senators adhering to the Parliamentary Fascio for National Defence promoted by the nationalist Maffeo Pantaleoni after the battle of Caporetto to overcome the political crisis and continue the war until victory.
• This preeminent position assumed by Maffeo Olivieri finally lapses in 1977, when Camillo Boselli, in the Regesto artistico dei notai roganti in Brescia dall'anno 1500 all'anno 1560, the result of research in the then unfathomable notarial fund of the State Archives of Brescia, partially reconstructs the Cairano family tree and publishes the series of fundamental documents, presented in the chapter on the history of the monument; they reconstruct the Martinengo mausoleum commission, starting from the 1503 contract between Bernardino delle Croci and the brothers Francesco and Antonio II Martinengo of Padernello, to the two acts of economic disputes, to the last contract of 1516.
• When Francesco died, the property remained entirely in the hands of his nephew Maffeo, at that period a protonotary apostolic and chamber cleric and by then launched toward a rapid career as a prelate due in part to the considerable finances left to him by his uncle (calculated at more than 100,000 scudi of movable property, in addition to houses at the Giubbonari and two farmhouses near Rome).

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