San Donato
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San Donato is the Spanish
and Italian
form of Saint Donatus. It can refer to:
It is also a place-name:
Churches
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
form of Saint Donatus. It can refer to:
- Saint Donatus of Arezzo (d. 362 AD)
- Saint Donatus of FiesoleSaint Donatus of FiesoleSaint Donatus of Fiesole was an Irish teacher and poet, and Bishop of Fiesole, about 829-876.-Biography:According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, in an ancient collection of the Vitae Patrum, of which an eleventh century copy exists in the Laurentian library of Florence, there is an account of the...
(9th century)
- Dukedom of San DonatoDukedom of San DonatoDuke or Duchess San Donato was a noble title, first created in 1602 by the Spanish King Philip III for the Sanseverino family. The duchy was traditionally based on estates and territories held in San Donato di Ninea, Calabria. The first creation, however, lasted only 52 years...
, noble title
It is also a place-name:
- San Donato di LecceSan Donato di LecceSan Donato di Lecce is a town and comune of 5,837 inhabitants in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy. It includes the frazione of Galugnano....
- San Donato di NineaSan Donato di NineaSan Donato di Ninea is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.In 1602 the Spanish King Philip III, invested it as a dukedom to the Sanseverino dynasty, founded by the Princes of Bisignano and Princes of Salerno, direct descendants of the Norman Kings,...
- San Donato MilaneseSan Donato MilaneseSan Donato Milanese is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 10 km southeast of Milan.-History:...
- San Donato Val di CominoSan Donato Val di CominoSan Donato Val di Comino is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located in the Comino Valley about 110 km east of Rome and about 40 km east of Frosinone...
- Villa San DonatoVilla San DonatoThe Villa San Donato is a Palladian palace built by Russian industrialist Nikolay Demidov on 42 hectares of marshland to the north of Florence at Polverosa which he had bought from the Catholic church, after he was made Russia's ambassador to the court of Tuscany. The first stone was laid on 27...
Churches
- Church of Santa Maria e San DonatoChurch of Santa Maria e San DonatoThe Church of Santa Maria e San Donato is a religious edifice located in Murano, northern Italy. It is known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and is said to contain the relics of Saint Donatus of Arezzo as well as large bones behind the altar said to be the bones of a dragon slain...
- San Donato (Genoa)San Donato (Genoa)San Donato is a church in Genoa, Northern Italy.It dates from the 12th century and is in Romanesque style. It became a parish under archbishop Siro il Porcello, and was consecrated on May 1, 1189....