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Francesco Rossi ( ?Bari 1625 – ? after 1699) was an Italian composer, organist and Maestro di Cappella.
Rossi was born in Bari in 1625. He is recorded as student in the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana in Naples. In 1669 he is Maestro di Cappella in the same institute, position held till 1672, and organist at Bari's Cathedral. He became a canon of Bari Cathedral and on 16 January 1677 was appointed Maestro di cappella. From 1681 he shared the position with his rival Alonzo Ramirez. He moved to Venice in 1686 where he was known as 'abate pugliese'. In Venice he wrote operas for the Teatro San Moisè and published his Salmi et messa a cinque voci op.1 (Venice, 1688). On 22 July 1689 he was appointed maestro di cappella of the Venetian Ospedale dei Mendicanti. He retired on 8 January 1699.
Francesco Rossi (born 31 August 1977) is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Cjarlins Muzane.
Rossi almost spent entire career in Italian Lega Pro (ex- Serie C).
Born in Portogruaro,Veneto, (some reported in Motta di Livenza, a town 20 km away), Rossi started his professional career at A.C. ChievoVerona, a Veneto team based in Verona. He played his only league match for Chievo on round 38 (last round) of 1994–95 Serie B, as starting keeper. That season he was the backup of Marco Borghetto and Enzo Zanin, but in the round 37, Chievo already secured a place for next season as mathematically had higher points than Acireale.
After graduated from the youth team at age of 20, he spent 3 seasons in 3 difference Serie C teams, namely Sassari Torres, Tempio and Brescello. The latter one was a Serie C1 team, which he only played 5 times as the understudy of Andrea Sardini.
He was sold to Serie C2 club Fasano in 2000 in co-ownership deal, where he brought his usual performance in that league, played 31 times. In June 2001, despite both clubs failed to form an agreement, Chievo bought back Rossi by made a higher bid in the auction mechanism set up by FIGC. That season (2000–01 Serie B), Chievo also won promotion to Serie A.