Tommaso Manzuoli (a.k.a. Maso da San Friano)

So the answers, provided by all three of you, were:

Antonio Meucci, telephone inventor, who was a good friend of the patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, was born in San Frediano, which was also the birthplace of the artist Tommaso Manzuoli, who painted a portrait of Frederico I de' Medici, which is now located in the town hall of Prato.

I think Ger got the key answers, but if one of the other two is ready to post a quickie puzzle that might be solved before Ger gets here, that's probably OK.

Oh, it's Frederico and not Ferdinando?

How did you get 10 letters then?

Ok, an easy one, and it's especially easy if you follow the news and/or pay attention to classical music news.

He (8, 4) recently resigned from the legendary opera house (2, 5, 3rd and 5th letters = "a").

Yes, it's an Italian clue!

After this Ger can come back with her clue.

Riccardo Muti
la Scala

TOOOOO easy 111op :)

I am up to my eyes for the next few days. Can anyone else jump in with a clue?

Regards Ger

Well, cmt wanted a really easy one -- I'm glad you got it, so now you have to give us <b> two </b> clues. :-)

I'll check again tomorrow. If someone hasn't posted a new one maybe I'll try to give another one.

No, it's Ferdinando. My fingers typed Frederico when my brain wasn't looking.

Hi guys!

Hope you won't mind if I post a clue. Maybe a bit odd...

This unusual instrument (6 letters), decorated with an animal head, was used widely over 2000 years ago as a war horn.

One was unearthed near this inlet (5,5) in the northeastern part of this &quot;country&quot; (8).

Apparently, there is only 1 person in the world right now who plays this instrument.

&quot;M&quot; from Muti is the 1st letter of the inlet name.

That was interesting.

the instrument: carnyx
found in the Moray Firth in Scotland

That's correct!
For a picture/article of the carnyx, see this link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...ixartleft.html

It has quite a personality, doesn't it? Here's a closeup: http://www.marcmarnie.com/music/mgall12/carnyx1.htm

This will be a geography place-name question. Ten letters. The &quot;i&quot; from Firth is in sixth place.

There's one of these in Bolivia, and in the USA, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania all have one. But the most famous one is in France.

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Marseilles?

Versailles?

Versailles it is.

This (6 letters-Eng. --or French translation)in the village of (9-2-5)still has blood stains from WW II. There is a monument outside this building which honors two American (6) who established an aid station there.

The &quot;A&quot; in Versailles is the first letter of the second word of the village.

BTW, you must know that we here in W.Pa pronounce our Versailles as &quot;Ver-sales&quot;. :-)

Clues: the building is a church (or an eglise), and these events took place early in June, 1944.

I suspected so, and I figured that the honored had to be nurses, when I Googled this morning I didn't find anything, and I just gave up.

Would have thought that the town is X sur Y, but since it's two letters, it could be &quot;en&quot; or &quot;le&quot; or &quot;la.&quot;

But I'm not sure what the answer is.

Some of your assumptions are incorrect, but you can still google the answer with the info you now have.