# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/senesino
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:50:52.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/senesino"
name: "Senesino"
slug: "senesino"
description: "Francesco Bernardi, known as Senesino, was an Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel. He was also involved in a public scandal with the soprano Anastasia Robinson in 1724, which was circulated widely by the satirist Jonathan Swift, and inspired a number of anonymously-written obscene, misogynistic, and at times sexually subversive epistles written between 1724 and 1736 which have become a topic of study among scholars of Restoration literature."
tagline: "Italian castrato (1686-1758)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francesco_Bernardi_detto_il_Senesino_(Fitzwilliam_Object_no._P.10512-R).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1686-10-31"
deathDate: "1758-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.681108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Senesino"
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    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senesino"
    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senesino"
    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senesino"
    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Senesino"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "세네지노"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Senesinus"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senesino"
    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senesino"
    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senesino"
    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senesino"
    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сенезино"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Senesino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senesino"
    title: "Senesino"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433838"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump