Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola
Francesco Bussone, often called Count of Carmagnola[1] (c. 1382 – 5 May 1432), was an Italian condottiero.
Culture[edit]
Alessandro Manzoni made Francesco Bussone the subject of a poetical drama, Il Conte di Carmagnola (1820).
An opera Le Comte de Carmagnola with a book by Eugène Scribe and music by Ambroise Thomas was produced at the Paris Opéra on 19 April 1841. A soprano showpiece from the opera has been recorded by Elizabeth Vidal on Talent DOM 2910 77.
Carmagnola is a character in Rafael Sabatini's Bellarion, though he is portrayed as swaggering and self-important, and becomes a minor antagonist.
A sculpted porphyry head widely thought to represent Justinian, on the exterior facade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, has been nicknamed Carmagnola following Bussone's beheading.