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Its finest ornament is a portico built by the Matteis in the sixteenth century from the designs of Raffaellino del Colle.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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A report of his performances of this kind being made to his teacher Matteis, he desired to hear them for himself, which he did with much surprise, and asked the boy whether he could write them down.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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A woman was examined, who deposed that her husband was thrown into prison and ill-treated by Matteis because he would not give some false evidence that he required of him; that she went to Matteis and entreated him to release him, and that he told her he would if she would bring her daughter to him, which she refused, and he was put to death.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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The bugbear of the Court is Carbonarism, and Matteis pretended that there was a Carbonari plot on foot, in which several persons were implicated.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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The accused are five in number; the principal of them, Matteis, was an _intendente_, or governor, of a province; 2nd, the advocate-general of the province; 3rd,
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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Their counsel are assigned by the Court, and it is not one of the least extraordinary parts of this case that the advocate of Matteis is his personal enemy, and a man whom he displaced from an office he once held in the province.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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Matteis believed each performer should play according to his or her fancy, and that's precisely the approach Daniel Hope and his colleagues take on this whimsical piece.
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Matteis, administrator of the California Farm Bureau Federation, one of 27 agricultural and business groups that had urged the governor to veto the bill.
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It was Matteis who helped English audiences develop a taste for the newer Italian style of violin playing.
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It was Matteis who helped English audiences develop a taste for the newer Italian style of violin playing.
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