Conrad Grayson

Conrad Grayson is a fictional character and a major antagonist on the ABC television show "Revenge". He is portrayed by actor Henry Czerny.
Overview.
Czerny was cast in the role in March 2011.
Conrad Grayson is the CEO of Grayson Global and head of the Grayson family. He is Victoria's husband and father of Daniel and Charlotte (although not Charlotte's biological father). A shrewd and successful tycoon, Conrad is well-feared among his peers in both business and Hamptons’ society but operates with questionable moral integrity. He is ruthless and willing to do whatever it takes to emerge unscathed from difficult situations.
25 years before season one's events, Conrad was already married to Stevie Pruitt. Victoria stated in Episode 7 (season 1) that when she met Conrad 25 years ago, she too was lonely and insecure, (just like Lydia). Conrad also once "gave up everything to show how much he loved Victoria".
Eight years before the show's main timeline, Conrad was involved in laundering money for the Americon Initiative, A terrorist group which used the money in a terrorist attack that brought down a plane, Flight 1-9-7. After the disaster, Conrad worked with Frank and a reluctant Victoria to frame David Clarke, her lover and his employee. The FBI stormed David's house and arrested him for treason, while his daughter Amanda was taken into foster care for at least eight years, never seeing her father again. Sixteen years later, she returns to her hometown, calling herself Emily Thorne, intent on avenging her father and destroying the Graysons.
Conrad's affair with Victoria's best friend, Lydia, further damages the couple's strained relationship and leads to divorce proceedings. Initially close to his daughter, Conrad is devastated when a DNA test reveals she is not his biological child and belongs to the hated David Clarke. He exposes Victoria at a family dinner and blackmails her lover, Dominik, into leaving her. In the first season finale, Conrad warns Victoria not to get on a plane but she appears to disregard him. After the plane is destroyed, he believes Victoria has died but she eventually calls him to ask for help with Murphy. Conrad helps Victoria with a scheme to make it appear she was kidnapped and held hostage by Murphy. He eventually asks Victoria to remarry him, explaining that it will prevent them from having to testify against each other. At their second wedding, Conrad is arrested, wrongly, for the murder of Gordon Murphy. Helen, a member of the Initiative, arranges his release on bail.
After Daniel replaces Conrad as the CEO of Grayson Global, Conrad decides to run for Governor and spends the rest of Season 2 doing whatever he has to achieve his goal. He makes a deal with Nate Ryan, which puts Jack Porter's business, the Stowaway at risk. Amanda steals Emily's laptop and uses it to blackmail Conrad. Nate goes after Jack and Amanda in retaliation, and both Nate and Amanda end up dead and Jack in the hospital, severely injured.

Ferdinando Cesarini

Ferdinando Cesarini (c. 1606–1646) was an Italian poet and physicist
Life.
Born in Rome in a noble family. Brother of the better-known Virginio Cesarini (1596–1624) to whom Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) addressed "Il Saggiatore" [The Assayer] (Rome, 1623) in the form of a letter. Ferdinando Cesarini, as a "referendarius utriusque signaturae" and patron, corresponded with Benedetto Castelli (1577/8-1643), who described the Galilean thermoscope to him in a letter of September 20, 1638.
Father Castelli also invited him to spread the "Discorso sulla calamita" [Discourse on the loadstone], also dedicated to Cesarini, within a limited circle of "trust" people. Fundamental was the ascending of Cesarini, who pushed Castelli to turn his thoughts around the most "noble fields of the philosophizing".
Cesarini also had contacts with Giovanni Ciampoli, who presented him in a poem and with whom, in the late nineteenth century, he was counted among the prelates of his era inclined "to promote the progress of science".
As a poet he mostly distinguished himself in the satirical poetry; he was also the author of a Latin oration in memory of St. Aloysius Gonzaga that he declaimed, fifteen, in the presence of several cardinals, and of a Latin poem, recited in Jesuits' Roman College, for the election of the Emperor Ferdinand II.
Cesarini died at age forty-two, leaving as his executor and heir Cardinal Federico Sforza.