Gaetano Mares [SEP] date of birth
Gaetano Mares
Gaetano Mares (1793–1862) was an Italian conductor. He notably conducted the world premieres of Giuseppe Verdi's "Ernani" (1844), "Attila (opera)" (1846), "Rigoletto" (1851) and "La traviata" (1853) at La Fenice in Venice.
Bassi was born in Bologna, into the family of a prosperous lawyer. The date of her birth is given in various different sources in a range between 29 October and 31 October 1711.
Bassi was privately educated, for seven years from the age of thirteen by Gaetano Tacconi. She and Tacconi began to drift apart after Bassi discovered an interest in Newtonian science, despite Tacconi’s preference for her to focus on the less controversial Cartesian teachings. One of her cousins, Father Lorenzo Stegani, was her tutor in Latin