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  1. Ariprando Visconti's family is believed to have pre-existed in Milan and obtained the title of viscount, which became hereditary throughout the male descent. [3] [4] In the years following 1075, Ottone Visconti is shown in the proximity of the Salian dynasty 's sovereigns, Henry IV and his son Conrad .

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  2. Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo ( Italian: [luˈkiːno viˈskonti di moˈdroːne]; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism, but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty ...

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  4. Tony Visconti. Anthony Edward Visconti (born April 24, 1944) [3] is an American record producer, musician and singer. Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers. His first hit single was T. Rex 's "Ride a White Swan" in 1970, the first of many hits in collaboration with Marc Bolan.

  5. One of seven children, Visconti was born in Milan into a noble and wealthy family, one of the region's richest. His father Giuseppe Visconti di Modrone was the Duke of Grazzano. In his early years he was exposed to art, music and theatre, and met the composer Giacomo Puccini, the conductor Arturo Toscanini, and the writer Gabriele d'Annunzio. During World War II Visconti joined the Italian ...

  6. Visconti dynasty. A noble family of northern Italy who ruled the duchy of Milan and whose members were important patrons of the early Renaissance in that important city. In the twelfth century the clan was granted the title of viscount, which they adopted as the family name. Oddone Visconti, the archbishop of Milan, became ruler of the city by ...

  7. Mar 17, 2016 · Luchino Visconti di Modrone is one of the few film directors who also had the distinction of calling himself a genuine aristocrat. Born in 1906 to a noble family in northern Italy, his well-bred background and international art education only seemed to enable his subversive tendencies. Visconti was both a Marxist and openly homosexual at a time ...

  8. Sep 17, 2006 · The Aristocrat. The noble director Luchino Visconti in 1970 on the set of ‘‘Death in Venice,’’ with Bjorn Andresen, who played the teen androgyne Tadzio. Mario Tursi. In “The Leopard ...

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