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Gāius Salvius Līberālis
Gāius Salvius Līberālis, more commonly known as Salvius, was a Roman aristocrat. He is perhaps best known through the Cambridge Latin Course Book II-V. Salvius was born in central Italy at some point in the first century AD, but soon moved to Rome. After a successful career as a lawyer, he was m..
Giubilanti d'amore fraterno
Giubilanti d'amore fraterno was the San Marino national anthem until 1894. Giubilanti d’amore fraterno, Salutiam la natale pendice! Salutiam questa rupe felice Vaga gemma dell’ Italo suol. Liberta nostre case tutela Liberta le nostr’ alme ristora Liberta, liberta sol c’infiora Di dolcezza,..
Giudecca
The Giudecca is an island in the Venetian Lagoon lying immediately south of the central islands, from which it is separated by the Giudecca Canal. Originally known as the Spinalunga, the island may have been renamed for the Jewish people who settled there. Historically an area of large palaces wit..
Giudicárie line
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Giudicati
Giudicati were Sardinian medieval autochthonous regions which existed from about 900 AD. Originally they were Byzantine districts that became independent during the Arab war against Byzantium. Their governors were the Iudikes (it.: Giudici), elected by the Corona de Logu (Parliament). Their names we..
Giuditta Pasta
Giuditta Pasta (October 28, 1798 - April 1, 1865), born in Saronno, Italy was a soprano considered among the greatest of opera singers. She studied in Milan but her appearances in Brescia in 1815 and London in 1817, were both failures. Further studies with Scappa were followed by a successful de..
Giuffria
Giuffria Giuffria was an AOR band that appeared in the wake of Journey's success. Despite bearing a similar sound, Giuffria never duplicated their success and disappeared after a minor hit ("Call to the Heart") in 1984. Giuffria was formed in the early ’80s, by keyboardist Gregg Giuffr..
Giuga number
A Giuga number is a composite number n such that each of its distinct prime factors pi is a divisor of [ - 1]. Another test is if the congruence [nB_ \equiv -1 \pmod n] holds true, where B is a Bernoulli number. The Giuga numbers are named after the mathematician Giuseppe Giuga, ..
Giugliano in Campania
Giugliano in Campania is a town in the province of Napoli, Campania, Italy. History In 5th-4th century BCE the territory of Giugliano was settled by the Osci. According to a tradition, the city was founded by a group of colonists from Cuma in 421 BCE, who called it Lilianum ("Land of the lilies")...
Giuiria
Giuiria is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Giuiria unica Strand, 1906 (Ethiopia) ..
GIUK gap
The GIUK gap The GIUK gap is an area in the northern Atlantic Ocean that forms a naval warfare chokepoint. Its name is an acronym for Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, the gap being the open ocean between these three landmasses. The term is typically used in military topics. The GIUK..
Giuleşti
For the commune of Giuleşti, see: Giuleşti, Maramureş. Giuleşti (pronounced /ʤju.leʃtʲ/) is a neighbourhood in northwestern Bucharest. Its name is probably derived from the personal name Giula (of Hungarian origin, from Gyula) with suffix -eşti. The Giuleşti Stadium, Giuleşti Theatre, Pod..
Giuleşti Stadium
The Giuleşti stadium is a Football (soccer) stadium in Bucharest, Romania, being the home stadium of Rapid Bucureşti. The stadium was originally named for Valentin Stănescu, the coach who won the first title for Rapid Bucureşti in 1967, but is now commonly called simply Giuleşti Stadium after..
Giuliana DePandi
Giuliana DePandi (born August 17, 1975 in Naples, Italy) is an American celebrity news personality. DePandi was raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, received a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland, and a master's degree in Journalism from American Universit..
Giuliana Salce
Giuliana Salce (born June 16, 1955) is a retired race walker from Italy. Her greatest achievement was the 1985 World Indoor gold medal. Major achievements Year Tournament Venue Result Extra 1985 World Indoor Championships Paris, France 1st 3000 metres walk 1987 European Indoor Championships A..
Giuliana Sgrena
Giuliana Sgrena Giuliana Sgrena (born December 20, 1948) is a well-known Italian journalist and author who works for the Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto and the German weekly Die Zeit. While working in Iraq, she was kidnapped by insurgents on 4 February 2005. After her release on Mar..
Giuliana Weston
Peruvian (born. 1983 in Lima, Peru) is an international supermodel. She has appeared on various magazines in the world: Maxim (magazine)H (magazine)Variedades (magazine) ..
Giulianova
Giulianova is a coastal town in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy. It is located at around [42°45′0″N, 13°56′60″E]. Abruzzo · Communes of the province of Teramo Alba Adriatica | Ancarano | Arsita | Atri | Basciano | Bellante | Bisenti | Campli | Canzano | Cast..
Giulianova Calcio
Giulianova Calcio is an Italian football club, based in Giulianova, Abruzzo. The club was founded in 1924. Giulianova currently plays in Serie C1/A. External links [Official site] Serie C1/A Cittadella | Fermana°° | Genoa** | Giulianova | Lumezzane°° | Monza | Novara | Padova |..
Giuliano Amato
Giuliano Amato (born May 13, 1938) is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution. He is commonly nicknamed d..
Giuliano Belluzzi
For other persons with the name, see Giuliano Belluzzi (disambiguation). Giuliano Belluzzi was a Captain Regent of San Marino during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He held the position eight times. ..
Giuliano Bonfante
Giuliano Bonfante (born August 6, 1904 in Milan, Italy; died September 9, 2005 in Rome, Italy) was a linguistics scholar and expert on the language of the Etruscans and other Italic peoples. Bonfante collaborated with his daughter, Larissa Bonfante, in his study of the Etruscan language. Bibliogra..
Giuliano Celenza
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Giuliano Celenza born December 20, 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland is a forward on the Baltimore Blast, an indoor s..
Giuliano da Sangallo
Portrait by Piero di Cosimo, c. 1500-1520. Giuliano da Sangallo (c.1443-1516) was a Florentine sculptor, architect, and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Ant..
Giuliano de' Medici
There were two Medici known as Giuliano de' Medici: Giuliano di Piero de' Medici (1453-1478) (younger brother of Lorenzo il Magnifico, assassinated in the Pazzi Conspiracy)Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici (1479-1516) (third son of Lorenzo il Magnifico, Duke of Nemours) This is a [disambiguationd..
Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici
Giuliano de' Medici (March 12, 1479–March 17, 1516, Florence), created Duke of Nemours in 1515, was one of three sons of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Piero, Giovanni and Giuliano. His older brother Piero was briefly the ruler of Florence after Lorenzo's death, until the republican faction drove o..
Giuliano di Piero de' Medici
Portrait by Sandro Botticelli. The dove on the dead branch and the half-open door have suggested that this is a memorial portrait. The stiff features and nearly-closed eyelids suggest that it may have been made from Giuliano's body or a death mask. Giuliano de' Medici (1453 – 26 April, 1..
Giuliano Finelli
Giuliano Finelli was an Italian Baroque sculptor who emerged from the workshop of Bernini, and when he felt slighted by the commission of Saint Helena for the Vatican, left for Naples. Born in Carrara in 1601 from a family of marble masons, he died in Rome in 1657. He is known best for a number of p..
Giuliano Giannichedda
Giuliano Giannichedda (born 21 September 1974 in Pontecorvo, Frosinone) is an Italian football (soccer) player, currently playing for Juventus. He is a midfielder, but can also play as a Defender. He started his professional career with Sora of Serie C2, where he played for three seasons and gained..
Giuliano Gozi
For other persons with the name, see Giuliano Gozi (disambiguation). Giuliano Gozi was Captain-Regent of San Marino from October 1941 to April 1942. He served his term with Giovanni Lonfernini (I). ..
Giuliano Grazioli
Giuliani Grazioli is a striker raised in London of Italian origin. He was born on May 19 1978. He scored in Stevenage Borough's fourth round FA Cup game against Newcastle United in the 1997/98 season to leave the game at 1-1 and force a replay. He has also had spells at Bristol Rovers, Swindon Town ..
Giuliano Kremmerz
Giuliano M. Kremmerz (1861-1930) aka Ciro Formisano, was an Italian occultist and alchemist working within the tradition of hermeticism. In 1896, Kremmerz founded the Confraternita Terapeutica e Magica di Myriam (Therapeutic and Magic Brotherhood of Myriam). ..
Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo (born February 22, 1930 in Genoa) is an Italian film director. While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi! (1950). Following this experience he began an apprenticeship as an a..
Giuliano Preparata
Giuliano Preparata, (Padova, Italy, 1942 - Frascati, Italy, 2000) was an Italian physicist. He attended the High School Umberto I of Rome (the same of Enrico Fermi), and he graduated in Theoretical Physics, with honor, in 1964. The successive year he was in Florence with a CNR grant, then he beca..
Giuliano Sangiorgi
Giuliano Sangiorgi (born on January 24, 1979 in Nardò, LE, Italy) is the vocalist, one of the guitarists and pianists of the Italian rock band Negramaro. He is also the lyricist of the group. He started as a simple guitarist, but soon developed great abilities as a singer and pianist, becoming one..
Giuliano Teatino
Giuliano Teatino is a comune and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy Abruzzo · Communes of the province of Chieti Altino | Archi | Ari | Arielli | Atessa | Bomba | Borrello | Bucchianico | Canosa Sannita | Carpineto Sinello | Carunchio | Casacanditella | Casa..
Giuliano Zaccardelli
Giuliano Zaccardelli, COM is the current Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as of September 2, 2000. He was born in Italy and grew up in the Montreal area, mainly in Saint Leonard. He joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1970 and was posted to Alberta following recruit traini..
Giulia de' Medici
Giulia di Alessando de' Medici (ca. 1535 - ??), the illegitimate daughter of Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence. She has become somewhat famous for a portrait by Pontormo whish shows Maria Salviati and a child; some scholars think that the child is Cosimo I de' Medici, but it is now generally..
Giulia Farnese
Giulia Farnese was one of the mistresses of the Pope Alexander VI. She was known as Giulia la bella, which in Italian means "Giulia the Beautiful". Lorenzo Pucci described her as "most lovely to behold". Cesare Borgia, the son of Alexander VI, described her as having "dark colouring, black eyes, rou..
Giulia Gam
Giulia Gam (born December 28, 1966) is an Italian-born Brazilian actress. Granddaughter of a Dane, she became famous in Brazil after performing the young Jocasta in the Soap opera "Mandala" and since then started a meteoric career in television, despite being one of the most seminal thespians of Bra..
Giulia Gonzaga
Giulia Gonzaga (1513 - April 16, 1566) was an Italian noblewoman of Renaissance age. Biography Giulia was born in Gazzuolo (near Mantova) in 1513. In 1526 (at age 13) she was married to count Vespasiano Colonna (1480-1528), count of Fondi and duke of Traetto (present-day Minturno). After her husba..
Giulia Grisi
Giulia Grisi (1811–November 29, 1869), was an Italian opera singer. Born in Milan, she was the daughter of one of Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian officers. She came from a musically gifted family, her maternal aunt Giuseppina Grassini (1773–1850) being a favourite opera-singer both on the contine..
Giulietta Masina
La Strada - 1954 Giulietta Masina (22 February, 1921 - 23 March, 1994) was an acclaimed Italian motion-picture actress, and the wife of film director Federico Fellini. Biography Born Giulia Anna Masina in San Giorgio di Piano, Italy, Masina initially studied literature but later turned ..
Giulietta Simionato
Giulietta Simionato The Italian mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato (born 12 May 1910) was one of the great singers of the post-war operatic stage. Her career spanned from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966. Simionato was much admired for vibrant singing in a remarkably wide repertoire, exc..
Giulietti
The Giulietti family is a group of prominent Italians who immigrated to Montreal in 1954. The members of the family have been bestowed with numerous professional and governmental honors including a 1986 award from Bell Canada and the Canadian Governor General's award of excellence in 2000. Being ..
Giulietto Chiesa
Giulietto Chiesa (born on 4 September 1940 in Acqui Terme, province of Alessandria) is an Italian journalist and politician, Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Independent - Di Pietro-Occhetto List Civil Society, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and ..
Giulino di Mezzegra
Giulino di Mezzegra is a quarter of the city of Mezzegra, in the province of Como, which has passed into history because it is the place where Benito Mussolini and his lover Claretta Petacci were assassinated. The execution was carried out by local resistance fighters (partigiani), who had captu..
Giulio Alberoni
Cardinal Alberoni Giulio Alberoni (May 30, 1664 OS - June 26 NS, 1752), Italian cardinal and statesman in the service of Philip V of Spain, was born near Piacenza, probably at the village of Fiorenzuola d'Arda in the Duchy of Parma. Contents 1 Early years2 Middle years3 Lat..
Giulio Alenio
Giulio Alenio (often spelled Giulio Aleni; Chinese: 艾儒略; 1582 - 1649), Italian Jesuit missionary, was born at Brescia. He entered the Society of Jesus and was sent to the East. He landed at Macau in 1610, and while waiting a favourable opportunity to penetrate into China busied..
Giulio Alfieri
Giulio Alfieri (Parma, July 10 1924 - Modena, March 20 2002), dott.ing. was an italian automobile engineer, affiliated with Maserati in Modena, Italy since 1953, where he was central to the development of racing and production cars in the 1950s and 1960s. After graduating the Politecnico di Milano,..
Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti (born in Rome, 14 January 1919) is an Italian political figure, among the most powerful in post-war Italy. He has been accused of having Mafia contacts, and was eventually convicted, even though he avoided formal conviction because of statutory limitations. He is often considered t..
Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860-1932) was an Italian painter. His most famous works are: Diana of Ephes and the slaves, Gorgon and the Heroes (1895-99) and a frieze in the Palazzo di Montecitorio. He also collaborated with Gabriele D'Annunzio in a magazine entitled "The Banquet" (1895-98). ..
Giulio Ascoli
Giulio Ascoli (January 20, 1843 – July 12, 1896), was an Italian Jewish mathematician who taught at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He made contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable and to Fourier series. See also Arzelà-Ascoli theorem External links [Biography..
Giulio Belli
Giulio Belli (c.1560 – 1621 or later) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a prolific composer during the transitional time between the two musical eras, and worked in many cities in northern Italy. Life He was born in Longiano, near Forlì, southwe..
Giulio Cabianca
Giulio Cabianca ..
Giulio Caccini
Caccini, Le Nuove musiche, 1601, title page Giulio Caccini (c.1545 – December 10 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most ..
Giulio Campi
Giulio Campi (1500-1572), Italian painter and architect, eldest of a family prominent in Cremona as painters. Giulio was born at Cremona, son of a painter, Galeazzo Campi (1475-1536), under whom he took his first lessons in art. In 1522, in Mantua, he studied painting, architecture, and modelling ..
Giulio Cantoni
Giulio Leonardo Cantoni ( - 25 July 2005) was the director of the United States' National Institutes of Health's Laboratory of Cellular Pharmacology, later renamed the Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry. Contents 1 Early life2 Scientific career3 Research4 Ref..
Giulio Carlo Argan
Giulio Carlo Argan (1909, Turin - 1992, Rome) was an Italian art historian and politician. He was the first Communist mayor of Rome between 1976 and 1979. Bibliography Studi e note, Roma 1955;Salvezza e caduta nell’arte moderna, Milano 1964;Progetto e destino, Milano 1965;Storia dell’arte come ..
Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano
Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi, (December 6, 1682 Sinigaglia - September 26, 1766) was an Italian mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic functions. Work He is best known for investigations on the length and division of arcs of ce..
Giulio Cesare
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. The libretto was written by Nicola Frecesco Haym. It was first performed in London on February 20, 1724. The opera was an immediate success. Handel revived it (with changes) in 172..
Giulio Cesare (disambiguation)
Giulio Cesare is an opera by Handel first performed in 1724. Other uses: Julius Caesar, called Giulio Cesare in ItalianGiulio Cesare Martinengo (c.1568–1613), composer and teacher of the late Renaissance and early Venetian SchoolGiulio Cesare la Galla (1576–1624), professor of philosophy at the..
Giulio Cesare Brancaccio
Giulio Cesare Brancaccio (born c. 1515-1520) was a courtier, cavalier, actor, writer, and singer in a number of northern Italian courts throughout the sixteenth century, most notably the court at Ferrara. He was born in Naples to a noble but poor family. He first appears in the historical record a..
Giulio Cesare la Galla
Giulio Cesare la Galla (1576–1624) was a professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy. (His name is also given as Julius Cæsar Lagalla or Giulio Cesare Lagalla.) He was born in PaduaPadula , at that time part of the Kingdom of Naples. Lagalla was educated in philosophy and medicin..
Giulio Cesare Martinengo
Giulio Cesare Martinengo (1564 or c. 1568 – July 10, 1613) was an Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance and early Baroque Venetian School. He was the predecessor to Claudio Monteverdi at St. Mark's. He probably came from Verona, and was the son of composer Gabriele Martinengo...
Giulio de' Medici
There were two Medici known as Giulio de' Medici: Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici (1478-1534) (Pope Clement VII)Giulio di Alessandro de' Medici (ca. 1533 - 1600) (illegitimate son of the last ruler of Florence from the "senior" branch of the Medici, Alessandro de' Medici) This is a [disambiguati..
Giulio di Alessandro de' Medici
Giulio de' Medici (ca. 1533-1537 [link] - 1600) was the illegitimate son of Alessandro de' Medici, the Duke of Florence. Aged no more than four at the time of his father's assassination, he was passed over as a choice for the succession in favour of Cosimo I de' Medici, the first of the "..
Giulio Douhet
General Giulio Douhet (30 May 1869 - 15 February 1930) was an Italian air power theorist and contemporary of the 1920s air warfare advocates Billy Mitchell and Sir Hugh Trenchard. Born in Caserta near Naples, Giulio attended the Genoa Military Academy and was commissioned into the artillery. Later h..
Giulio Falcone
Giulio Falcone (born 31 May 1974 in Atri, Teramo) is an Italian footballer. ..
Giulio Gabrielli the Younger
His eminence Giulio Gabrielli (the younger) (born 14th November 1746 in Gubbio in Italy, died 26th September 1822 in Albano Laziale) was of the Catholic Church's cardinals. He was part of The Roman Curia, and later archbishop of Sinigaglia 1808–1816. The French arrested and deported him in ..
Giulio Giglioli
Giulio Quirino Giglioli (born 1886; died 1956) was an art historian of classical Roman and Etruscan art and was associated with Fascism in Italy. Giglioli was a student of and assistant to both Emanuel Löwy and Rodolfo Lanciani. He fought in World War I, during which time he published the newly d..
Giulio Lasso
Giulio Lasso (died 1617) Little is known of him other than he was a 17th century Florentine architect, best know for his work in Palermo, Sicily. He was responsible for the "Quattri Canti" in the centre of Palermo. This eight sided piazza which is actually a crossroads (hence the name). It is on..
Giulio Mancini
Giulio Mancini (1558 - 1630) was a noted physician, art collector and writer on a range of subjects. A native of Siena, he came to Rome in 1592 and quickly made a brilliant medical career, becoming personal physician to pope Urban VIII in 1623. In his private life the pope's doctor "moved in lib..
Giulio Monteverde
Giulio Monteverde (1837‑1917) was an Italian naturalist and sculptor. ..
Giulio Natta
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemist, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers. He was born in Imperia on February 26, 1903. He graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1924. In 1927 he passed the exams for becoming a professor th..
Giulio Pace
Giulio Pace of Beriga (also known by his Latin name Julius Pacius of Beriga) (1550-1631), born in Vicenza, Italy, studied law and philosophy in Padua, becoming a well-known Aristotelian and legal theorist. He was deeply moved by the Reformation. Unsurprisingly, the Catholic Church considered him im..
Giulio Pontedera
Giulio Pontedera (1688 – 1757) was an Italian botanist. He was professor of botany at Padua, and director of the botanical garden there. Although he rejected Carolus Linnaeus' system, Linnaeus was a correspondent of Pontedera's, and named the genus Pontederia after him. ..
Giulio Prisco
Giulio Prisco is the Director of the futurist consulting consortium FutureTag. He is former physicist and computer scientist, and former manager in the European Space Agency. Prisco is based in Madrid, Spain, where he founded the Spanish transhumanist group FASTRA. He also serves on the Board of Dir..
Giulio Racah
Giulio (Yoel) Racah (1909 - August 28, 1965) was an Israeli physicist and mathematician. Born in Florence, Italy, he took his PhD from the University there in 1930, and later studied in Rome with Enrico Fermi. In 1939 Racah immigrated to Palestine, and was appointed Professor of Theoretical Phys..
Giulio Regondi
This article is part of the Classical guitar series (Please move this template to the end of the page) [[Portal:Classical guitar|Classical guitar Portal]] - Classical guitar - History of the classical guitar - Vihuela - Baroque guitar - Early romantic guitar - Romantic guitar - Modern classical..
Giulio Ricordi
Giulio Ricordi (Milan 1840-1912) was an Italian editor and musician. With the nickname Jules Burgmein, Ricordi contributed a very great deal to the prestige of the Casa Ricordi, publishing company of his family. This firm also produced several magazines (La gazzetta musicale, Musica e musicisti and..
Giulio Risi
Giulio Risi Italian born pianist, keyboardist, composer and novelist. Born in Salerno in 1972, he moved to London UK in 1997 where he currently lives. Hailed as one of the best European Pianist / Keyboardists he alternates studio productions to worldwide live performances both with the Giulio Ris..
Giulio Romano
Fire in the Borgo, fresco in Raphael Rooms in Vatican City. Giulio Romano (c. 1499? – November 1, 1546) was an Italian painter, architect, and decorator. A prominent pupil of Raphael, his deviations from high Renaissance classicism helped define the 16th century style known as Mannerism...
Giulio Tremonti
Giulio Tremonti (born August 18, 1947) is an Italian politician and economist, and was the former Italian Minister of Economy and Finance in the government of Silvio Berlusconi. Career Tremonti was born in Sondrio, Lombardy. A former professor of law at the University of Pavia, he first ran for th..
Giulio Variboba
Giulio Variboba (1724-1788), known in Albanian as Jul Variboba, is the first Arbëresh poet of real talent and is regarded by many Albanians as the first genuine poet in all of Albanian literature. Variboba was born in San Giorgio Albanese (Alb. Mbuzati) in the province of Cosenza to a family ori..
Giuli Alasania
Giuli Alasania is the mother of Georgian politician and current president Mikheil Saakashvili. She is a professor, and is involved in human rights issues and education. ..
Giungi
Giungi (Gyongy in Hungarian) is a very small village located in Satu Mare county, Transylvania. It is at 40 km from Satu Mare city. Coordonates: 47.5667 lat.; 22.7833 long.Present village population: under 1000. It has a Greco-Catholic and an Orthodox church; between the two churches, in the center..
Giunta Pisano
Giunta Pisano (also named Giunta da Pisa or Giunta Capitini) was an Italian painter, he is the earliest Italian painter whose name is found inscribed on an extant work. He is said to have exercised his art from 1202 to 1236. He may perhaps have been born towards 1180 in Pisa, and died in or soon a..
Giuoco Piano
tright The Giuoco Piano is a chess opening characterized by the moves 1. [[Wikibooks:Opening_theory_in_chess/1._e4|e4]] [[Wikibooks:Opening_theory_in_chess/1._e4/1...e5|e5]] 2. [[Wikibooks:Openi..
Giurgiu
Giurgiu (Bulgarian: Гюргево (Gyurgevo); Genoese: San Giorgio; Turkish: Yerkoekoe) is the capital city of Giurgiu County, Wallachia, Romania in the region once called Vlaşca. It is situated amid mud-flats and marshes on the left bank of the Danube. Three small islands face the city, and a l..
Giurgiu-Ruse Friendship Bridge
The Giurgiu-Ruse Friendship Bridge (Bulgarian: Мост на дружбата, Most na druzhbata or more commonly Дунав мост, Dunav most; Romanian: Podul prieteniei) is a steel truss bridge over the Danube River connecting the Bulgarian south bank to the Romanian north bank and the cities ..
Giurgiu County
Giurgiu County Facts Development region: ..
Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola
Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola (fl. 1731) was an Italian natural philosopher and is best known for her translation of René Descartes Principles of Philosophy in Italian. Reference Oglive, M. B. 1986. Women in Science. The MIT Press. ISBN 026215031 ..
Giuseppe (Joseph) Pignatelli
Giuseppe Maria Pignatelli, also known as St. Joseph Pignatelli (December 27, 1737 - November 11, 1811) was a priest born in Saragossa, Spain. His family was of Neapolitan descent and noble lineage. After finishing his early studies in the Jesuit College of Saragossa, he entered the Society of Jesus..
Giuseppe Abbamonte
Giuseppe Abbamonte (1759-1818) was a Neapolitan statesman who became secretary-general of the Cisalpine Republic in 1798 and a member of the executive commission at Naples. Upon the restoration of the king in 1709 he moved to Milan where he continued in his job until 1805. ..
Giuseppe Acerbi
Giuseppe Acerbi. Giuseppe Acerbi (May 3, 1773 - August 25, 1846) was an Italian explorer. In 1798 Acerbi travelled to Lapland, publishing his experiences in Travel through Sweden, Finland and Lapland to the North Cap in the years 1798 and 1799 (1802). ..
Giuseppe Agnelli
Giuseppe Agnelli was a Roman Catholic author, chiefly known for his catechetical and devotional works, b. at Naples, 1621; d. in Rome, 17 October, 1706. He entered the Society of Jesus, in Rome, in 1637. He was professor of moral theology, and rector of the colleges of Montepulciano, Macerata, and A..
Giuseppe Agostino Orsi
Giuseppe Agostino Cardinal Orsi (1692-1761) was a churchman, theologian, and ecclesiastical historian Biography He was born as Agostino Francesco Orsi at Florence, 9 May, 1692, of the aristocratic Florentine family Orsi. He studied grammar and rhetoric under the Jesuits, but entered the Dominican Or..
Giuseppe Andrews
Giuseppe Andrews (born Joey Andrews on April 25, 1979, in Key Largo, Florida) is an American actor-writer-director best known for his roles in Detroit Rock City and as a bizarre sheriff in Cabin Fever, small role in Never Been Kissed, as well as appearances in the Smashing Pumpkins videos "1979" and..
Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi
Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (August 1, 1755 - March 28, 1818) was a violinist and composer. Both the music and the name of Capuzzi, the composer, are now forgotten. Yet this same man came to England some 130 years ago and met with tremendous success. His Concerto for the Double Bass was found in the B..
Giuseppe Apolloni
Giuseppe Apolloni was a composer born in Vicenza, Italy on April 8, 1822. He composed a total of 5 operas, only one of which, L'ebreo was successful. He died in Vicenza on December 31, 1889. ..
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Self-portrait "Vertemnus", a portrait of Rudolf II Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 in Milan, Italy - 1593) was a distinctive and eccentric painter who is best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books -- that is, he painte..
Giuseppe Arzilli
Giuseppe Arzilli (born February 20 1941 in San Marino) was Captain Regent of San Marino. He served the six-month terms from October 1986 to April 1987, from October 1999 to April 2000, and from October 2004 to April 2005. He is a member of the San Marinese Christian Democratic Party. ..
Giuseppe Asclepi
Giuseppe Maria Asclepi (1706 – 1776), Italian astronomer and physician. He was a Jesuit and director of the observatory at the Collegio Romano. His works include: De veneris per solem transitu exercitatio astronomica habita in Collegio Romano (Rome, 1761). De objectivi micrometri usu in pl..
Giuseppe B. Cottolengo
Saint Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo (3 May 1786 – 30 April 1842) was the founder of the Societies of the Little House of Divine Providence and is a saint of the Roman Catholic church. He was born in Bra (CN), in the Kingdom of Sardinia, and became a canon in Turin. He died in Chieri. He was..
Giuseppe Baini
Giuseppe Baini (October 21, 1775 – May 21, 1844) was an Italian priest, music critic and composer of church music. He was born at Rome. He was instructed in composition by his uncle, Lorenzo Baini, and afterwards by G. Jannaconi. In 1814 he was appointed musical director to the choir of the p..
Giuseppe Baresi
Giuseppe Baresi (born February 7, 1958 in Travagliato, Italy) was an Italian football (soccer) player, who played 559 times for Internazionale, scoring 13 goals. His more famous brother Franco played for bitter rivals A.C. Milan. ..
Giuseppe Bergman
Giuseppe Bergman is the Candide-like protagonist of the works of Italian cartoonist Milo Manara. The anti-heroic Italian youth stars in four graphic novels (comic books) which are an ironic deconstruction of adventure stories and comic books as a medium. The first adventure, later collected for p..
Giuseppe Bergomi
Giuseppe Bergomi (born December 22, 1963 in Milan) is a former Italian football (soccer) player, who spent his entire career at Internazionale and was a key member of the Italian national team in the 1980s and 1990s. His nicknamed is "Lo zio" ("the uncle"), earned because of the moustaches he had wh..
Giuseppe Biancani
Giuseppe Biancani (in Latin, Josephus Blancanus) (1566-1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the Blancanus crater, on the Moon, is named. He was a native of Bologna. His Aristotelis loca mathematica ex universes ipsius operibus collecta et explic..
Giuseppe Bonecchi
Giuseppe Bonecchi - was an Italian poet and opera librettist. He was brought to Russia in 1740 by Francesco Araja, an Italian composer working in Russia. His opera Il Bellerofonte, which was written for the coronation of Elizabeth of Russia, praised the virtues of the Empress. A Russian translatio..
Giuseppe Bonno
Giuseppe Bonno (January 29, 1711 – April 15, 1788) was a composer. He was born in Vienna and studied music in Naples under Francesco Durante and Leonardo Leo. He later moved back to Vienna, becoming a court composer there, and working as Kapellmeister to the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen in t..
Giuseppe Bossi
Giuseppe Bossi (August 11, 1777 - 15 November 1815) was an Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art. He ranks among the foremost figures of Neoclassical culture in Lombardy, along with Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Andrea Appiani or Manzoni He was born in the village of Busto Arsizio,..
Giuseppe Bottai
Giuseppe Bottai (September 3 1895 —January 9 1959) was an Italian lawyer, economist, journalist, and member of the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini. Contents 1 Fascism2 Opposition to Mussolini3 Works4 References Fascism Born in Rome, he served as a volunteer i..
Giuseppe Calì
This article is about the Maltese painter. For the Italian golfer see Giuseppe Cali. Giuseppe Calì (Valletta, August 14, 1846 - Valletta, March 1, 1930) was a Maltese painter, born of Neapolitan parents and educated at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Naples under Giuseppe Mancinelli. He was a pr..
Giuseppe Cali
There have been at least two notable people called Giuseppe Cali: For the Maltese painter see Giuseppe CalìFor the Italian golfer see Giuseppe Cali This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may..
Giuseppe Cali (golfer)
Giuseppe Cali (born 28 September 1952) is an Italian golfer. He turned professional in 1971 and has won twelve professional tournaments in his home country, including five in 1988. Cali played on the European circuit from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s - sometimes on the European Tour itself and ..
Giuseppe Calò
Giuseppe 'Pippo' Calò (born September 30, 1931 in Palermo) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was referred to as the "Mafia's Cashier" because he was heavily involved in the financial side of organized crime, primarily money laundering. Contents 1 Boss of the Porta Nuova Mafia Family2&..
Giuseppe Cambini
Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (February 13?, 1746 - 1825?) Italian composer and violinist. Born in Livorno, Cambini first studied violin with Filippo Manfredi. A legend says that after one of his operas flopped in Naples, Cambini and his fiancee left on a ship that was captured by pirates. A ri..
Giuseppe Campani
Giuseppe Campani (1635-1715) was an Italian optician and astronomer who lived in Rome during the latter half of the 17th century. His brother, Matteo Campani-Alimenis, and he were experts in grinding and polishing lenses, especially those of great focal length and slight curvature. These lenses wer..
Giuseppe Campari
Giuseppe Campari, born June 8, 1892 - died September 10, 1933, was an Italian opera singer and Grand Prix motor racing driver. Giuseppe Campari Born Cavaliere Giuseppe Campari near the city of Lodi southwest of Milan, as a teenager he went to work for the Alfa Romeo automobile company. Campar..
Giuseppe Campora
Giuseppe Campora (born Tortona, Italy, 30 September, 1923, died there 5 December, 2004), was an operatic tenor. Campora was without a doubt one of the greatest Puccinian tenors of his generation. With his striking blue eyes and histrionic talent, his unique connection with his audience was much ta..
Giuseppe Cantarelli
Giuseppe Cantarelli is a songwriter who co-wrote the song "I Still Believe". ..
Giuseppe Carcani
Giuseppe Carcani was an Italian composer of 18th century music. He was born roughly in 1703 in Crema, and died circa 1779, in Piacenza. He composed works for instruments, organ, and voice. During his career, Carcani held positions in at least one cathedral of Italy. Few of his works have survived. ..
Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio
Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio (November 15, 1914 - October 15, 2005), was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He held the post of President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See before he retired in 1990. He had been the internuncio, then pro-nuncio, to China from 1959..
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri (20 May 1906 - 2 May 1989) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Biography Born in the parish of S. Maria Immacolata in Genoa, Italy, his parents were Nicolò Siri and Giulia Bellavista. Siri entered the Minor Seminary of Genoa on 16 October 1917, Genoa's Ma..
Giuseppe Cardone
Giuseppe Cardone (born 3 March 1974 in Pavia) is an Italian footballer. ..
Giuseppe Caron
Giuseppe Caron was an Italian Christian Democratic Party politician who was a Minister in successive governments in the 1950s to the 1970s, and a European Commissioner. He was elected to the Italian Senate in all legislative elections from the Italian general election, 1948 to the Italian general e..
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (17 September 1774 – 15 March 1849) was an Italian Catholic cardinal and famed linguist and hyperpolyglot. Born and educated in Bologna, he completed his theological studies before he had reached the minimum age for ordination as a priest; he was ordained in 1797. In the..
Giuseppe Castiglione
Giuseppe Castiglione may refer to: Giuseppe Castiglione (1688 - 1766), Italian painter and Jesuit missionaryGiuseppe Castiglione (born 1963), Italian politician ..
Giuseppe Castiglione (politician)
Giuseppe Castiglione (born on 5 October 1963 in Bronte, Sicily) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. He is a subst..
Giuseppe Castiglione (reverend)
The Qianlong Emperor Viewing Paintings, 1746-c.1750 Rev. Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J. (}; }) (July 19 1688 – 1766) was an Italian painter, court artist and Jesuit missionary to China. Born in Milan's San Macellino district, Castiglione studied painting in Italy with Carlo Cornara of the ren..
Giuseppe Cerutti
Giuseppe Antonio Giachimo Cerutti (June 13, 1738 - February 3, 1792) was a French-Italian author and politician. He was born at Turin. Having joined the Society of Jesus, he became professor at the Jesuit college at Lyon. In 1762, in reply to the attacks on his order, he published an Apologie gén..
Giuseppe Cesare Abba
Giuseppe Cesare Abba (October 6, 1838-November 6, 1910), was an Italian patriot and writer. He was born in Cairo Montenotte (Liguria), and died in Brescia. As a participant on the expedition of i Mille he fought next to Giuseppe Garibaldi. Biography His literary work is limited to revolutionary me..
Giuseppe Cesari
Cavalier d'Arpino: the Passion of Christ, in the church of San Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari, Rome. Giuseppe Cesari (c. 1568 - july 3, 1640) was an Italian Mannerist painter, also named Il Giuseppino and called Cavalièr d'Arpino, because he was created a Cavalière di Cristo by his patron Pope ..
Giuseppe Colombani
Giuseppe Colombani is known as l'Alfier lombardo (the Pride of Lombardy. It's unrelated to Francesco Alfieri - the Italian word l'Alfier(e) means "the standard bearer".) He wrote a treatise on martial arts, published in 1711. It is the latest known treatise discussing the spadone, or longsword, befo..
Giuseppe Colombo
For the Italian politician, see Giuseppe Colombo (politician). Giuseppe Colombo (1920-1984), better known by his nickname Bepi Colombo, was an Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua, Italy. He is best known for his work on the planet Mercury, and it was his calcula..
Giuseppe Colosi
Giuseppe Colosi (March 29, 1892 – October 20, 1975) was an Italian zoologist specialized in the study of crustaceans and mysids in particular. From 1920 to 1924, he taught in Turin, and he was the head of the zoological institute of the University of Florence from 1940 to 1962. References &..
Giuseppe Crespi
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (born 1665 in Bologna, Italy; died 1747), called Lo Spagnuolo, was a late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. He was nicknamed "the Spanish One" because of his habit of wearing tight clothes. He was an eclectic painter, who worked with or under Angelo Toni, Domenico Maria..
Giuseppe D'Urso
Giuseppe D'Urso (born 1969) is a former Italian 800 metres runner who won a silver medal at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. In addition he won a silver medal at the 1996 European Indoor Championships. ..
Giuseppe d' Annibale
Giuseppe d' Annibale (September 22, 1815 - July 18, 1892) was a Cardinal and theologian. He was appointed professor in the Seminary of Rieti and later vicar-general of the diocese. He was preconized Titular Bishop of Caryste by Leo XIII, 12 Aug., 1881, was created Cardinal-Priest of Sts. Boniface a..
Giuseppe DeNatale
Giuseppe DeNatale Career Snapshot Born May 12,1973 Died - Total Fights 21 Won 16 Lost 5 Drew 0 Knockouts 14 Titles Won K-1 Milwaukee GP champion(2002) Giuseppe "THE GOD FATHER "DeNatale (born May 12,1973-) is a Canadian kickboxer. Record Kickboxing: 21 Fights 16 Wins 14 KOs 5 Lo..
Giuseppe De Nittis
Giuseppe De Nittis (February 25, 1846 – August 12, 1884) was an Italian painter whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism. De Nittis was born in Barletta, where he first studied under Giovanni Battista Calò. After being expelled in 1863 from the Instituto di Belle Arti in N..
Giuseppe De Santis
Giuseppe de Santis (February 11 1917 - May 16 1997) was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealistic filmmakers of the 1940s, he made films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform. He was the brother of Italian cinematographer Pasqualino de Santis. Biography De Santis w..
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Giuseppe Di Stefano The Italian tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano (born 24 July 1921) is a famous opera singer whose career spanned from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. He is best known for his long association with Maria Callas, with whom he performed and recorded many times and with whom he was b..
Giuseppe Di Vittorio
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti (August 12 1892, Cerignola—November 3 1957, Lecco), was an Italian syndicalist trade unionist and communist politician, one of the most influential leaders of the labor movement after World War I. Early activities He differed fro..
Giuseppe Donati
Giuseppe Donati (1836-1925) is credited with being the inventor of the modern Italian-style ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator. Legend has it that a 17 year-old Giuseppe created his first "little goose" ("ocarina" in Italian dialect) in 1853 whils..
Giuseppe Donizetti
Giuseppe Donizetti ( d. Constantinople, 1856) became, in 1828, Instructor General of the Imperial Ottoman Music at the court of Sultan Mahmud II (1808—39). His younger brother Gaetano Donizetti was a famous Italian opera composer. Born in Italy, Constantinople became a second home for the elder D..
Giuseppe Dossena
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Giuseppe Dossetti
Giuseppe Dossetti (Genoa, February 13 1913 - December 15 1996) was an Italian jurist, a politician and starting from 1958 a Catholic priest. Contents 1 The antifascist and politician2 The Priest3 Books by Giuseppe Dossetti (in ..
Giuseppe Enrici
Giuseppe Enrici (January 2, 1898 - September 1, 1968) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall wins in the 1924 Giro d'Italia. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Giuseppe Fanelli
Giuseppe Fanelli (1826-1877) came to Spain in 1868 on a journey planned by anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in order to recruit members for the First International. He was born in Naples, Italy. He was active in the revolutionary enterprises in Lombardy and Rome in 1848 - 1849. He went on to fight along..
Giuseppe Farina
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Giuseppe Favalli
Giuseppe Favalli (born January 8 1972 in Orzinuovi, Province of Brescia) is an Italian football (soccer) player at the position of defender. He currently plays for AC Milan He started his career at Cremonese at that time in Serie B. His performance makes Lazio sign him at the summer of 1992. He i..
Giuseppe Ferrari
Giuseppe Ferrari (7 March 1812 - 2 July 1876) was an Italian philosopher, historian and politician. He was born at Milan, studied law at Pavia, and took the degree of doctor in 1831. A follower of Romagnosi (d. 1835) and Giovan Battista Vico, his first works were an article in the Biblioteca Italia..
Giuseppe Fioroni
Giuseppe Fioroni (born 14 October 1958 in Viterbo), often nicknamed Beppe, is an Italian politician, member of the Daisy—Democracy is Freedom party and currently the Italian Minister of Education. A graduate in medicine, Fioroni was first elected as deputy in 1996, being re-elected for the third ..
Giuseppe Forti
Giuseppe Forti is an Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids. ..
Giuseppe Furino
Giuseppe Furino (Palermo 5 luglio 1946) is a retired football player. His role was defensive midfielder. After some years in minor leagues, he signs for Juventus in 1969. In the black and white side he'll become one of the most rapresentative players for over 10 years, winning 8 scudetto, 2 Coppa..
Giuseppe Galderisi
Giuseppe Galderisi (born March 22, 1963 in Salerno) is a former Italian football (soccer) forward and currently an unemployed football manager. On the club level, Galderisi played for Juventus (1980-83), Hellas Verona (1983-86, 1988-89), AC Milan (1986-87), Lazio (1987-88), and Padova (1989-95). He..
Giuseppe Gargani
Giuseppe Gargani (born April 23, 1935 in Morra de Sanctis) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament, and a lawyer. He was elected on the Forza Italia ticket and sits with the European People's Party group. He was chairman of the Avellino provincial administration (1970-1972). Subsequently he..
Giuseppe Garibaldi
This article is about the Italian patriot. For the aircraft carrier, see Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi. Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought abou..
Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 speech to the soldiers
Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 speech to the soldiers was made as he left Naples after ceding his control of the province to King Victor Emmanuel. References [The World’s Famous Orations] at bartleby.com ..
Giuseppe Garibaldi II
Giuseppe Garibaldi II (1879- ) was an Italian soldier, son of Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Melbourne, Australia. He took part in the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 and afterwards fought with the revolutionaries in Venezuela, and in other conflicts in South America. He served in the Balkan Wars in 1912, ..
Giuseppe Gazzaniga
Giuseppe Gazzaniga (October 5, 1743 - February 1, 1818) was an Italian composer. There he became composing operas, the most successful of which was his Don Giovanni (1787). Born at Verona, he was intended for the priesthood, but studied music at Venice and Naples (where he was a pupil of Niccola P..
Giuseppe Genco Russo
Giuseppe Genco Russo (Mussomeli, January 26, 1893 – March 18, 1976) was the Mafia boss of Mussomeli in the Province of Caltanissetta. Genco Russo, also known as “Zi Peppi Jencu”, was a uncouth, sly, semi-literate thug with excellent political connections. A vulgar man – he used to spit ..
Giuseppe Gené
Giuseppe Gené (December 7, 1800 - July 14, 1847) was an Italian naturalist and author. Gené was born at Turbigo in Lombardy and studied at the University of Pavia. He published a number of papers on natural history, particularly entomology. In 1828 he became an assistant lecturer in natural histo..
Giuseppe Gentile
Giuseppe Gentile (born 4 September 1943 in Rome) is a retired Italian triple jumper, who won a bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Achievements Year Tournament Venue Result Extra 1963 Mediterranean Games Napoli, Italy 2nd 1967 Mediterranean Games Tunis, Tunisia 2nd Universiade T..
Giuseppe Giacosa
Giuseppe Giacosa Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October, 1847 – 1 September, 1906) was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist. He was born in Colleretto Parella, near Turin. His father was a magistrate. Giuseppe went to the University of Turin and gained a degree in law, but did not pursue th..
Giuseppe Giannini
Giuseppe Giannini, (born August 20 1964 in Rome), is a former Italian international footballer. He spent the majority of his 16-year playing career with A.S. Roma. Career Giannini began his career as a youngster with Frattocchie, a club based in Marino. From a young age he attracted the attention o..
Giuseppe Gibilisco
Giuseppe Gibilisco (born January 5, 1979 in Siracusa) is an Italian pole vaulter who won the 2003 World Championships with a personal best of 5.90m. The 2004 Olympic bronze is another of his greatest accomplishments. Achievements Year Tournament Venue Result 2003 World Championships Paris, Fra..
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
Monument to Belli in the popular quarter of Trastevere, in Rome. Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (March 7, 1791 - December 21, 1863) was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, a Roman dialect. Biography Giuseppe Gioachino Belli was born in Rome to a family of the little bourgeoisie. ..
Giuseppe Giusti
Giuseppe Giusti (May 12, 1809 – May 31, 1850), Tuscan satirical poet, was born at Monsummano, a small village of the Valdinievole, now in the province of Pistoia. His father, a cultivated and rich man, accustomed his son from childhood to study, and himself taught him, among other subjects, t..
Giuseppe Gori
Giuseppe Gori is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Since 1997, he has been the leader of the Family Coalition Party, a small, socially conservative organization. Gori has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in Italy (1973). He worked as an Assistant Professor at Pisa for three ..
Giuseppe Grisoni
Giuseppe Pierre Joseph Grisoni also known as Grifoni or Grison (bapt. October 24, 1699 - 1769) was a Flemish/ Italian painter and sculptor, noted for his landscapes and historical tableaux. Born in Mons, he studied in Florence under Tommaso Redi, abandoning his Flemish influences for the Italian tr..
Giuseppe Guarneri
Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù (August 21, 1698 - October 17, 1744), more commonly known as Joseph Guarneri, is the only violin maker to rival Antonio Stradivari in the respect accorded to his instruments. The most illustrious member of the Guarneri family of violin makers, he was the son o..
Giuseppe Guerini
Giuseppe Guerini (born February 14, 1970 in Gazzaniga, Bergamo province, Italy) is a professional road bicycle racer. He rides with the T-Mobile Team and has done so since 1999 (though the team was then called Team Telekom). He has, however, been a professional cyclist since 1993 - being a member ..
Giuseppe Impastato
Giuseppe Impastato (Cinisi, January 5, 1948 – Cinisi, May 9, 1978) was a political activist who opposed the Mafia that ordered his murder in 1978. Giuseppe Peppino Impastato was born in Cinisi in the province of Palermo, into a Mafia family. His father Luigi Impastato had been sent into intern..
Giuseppe Lanza
Giuseppe Lanza, Duke of Camastra was 17th century, Sicilian nobleman who in his capacity as Viceroy of Sicily representing the Spanish rulers of Sicily oversaw the reconstruction of many Sicilian towns and cities following the earthquake of 1693. He was created 1st Duke of Camastra, and Prince of S..
Giuseppe Lauricella
Giuseppe Lauricella (1867-1913) was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today for his contributions to analysis and the theory of elasticity. Born in Agrigento (Sicily), he studied at the University of Pisa, where his professors included Luigi Bianchi, Ulisse Dini and Vito Volterra. He taugh..
Giuseppe La Farina
Giuseppe La Farina (1815-1863) was an influential leader of the Italian Risorgimento. MInister of Cavour, was highly involved in garibaldi's departure for sicily. Apparently sent by Cavour to dissuade Garibaldi from going, in fact did little of the sort. Nationalist at heart, believed to be one ..
Giuseppe Lepori
Giuseppe Lepori (June 2, 1902 - September 6, 1968) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 16, 1954 and handed over office on December 31, 1959. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. During his time in office he held the Department of Pos..
Giuseppe Lugli
Giuseppe Lugli (b. 1890; d. 1967) was Professor of Roman topography at the University of Rome. Lugli's career was prolific, although among his many significant contributions, several are paramount. In his topographical career, Lugli compiled the landmark Fontes ad topographiam veteris urbis Romae ..
Giuseppe Luigi Assemani
200px Giuseppe Luigi Assemani (Born 1710 on Mount Lebanon Tripoli - Died February 9, 1782) in Rome, Lebanese orientalist, and a Professor of Oriental languages at Rome. Assemani came from a well known family of Lebanese Maronites that included several notable Orientalists. His brother was Arc..
Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti
Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (april 24, 1719 - may 5, 1789) was an Italian critic. Biography Baretti was born at Turin. He was intended by his father for the profession of law, but at the age of sixteen fled from Turin and went to Guastalla, where he was for some time employed in a mercantile hou..
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (December 13, 1790 – February 19, 1836), the chief conspirator in the attempt on the life of Louis Philippe in July 1835, was a native of Murato in Corsica. He served under Murat, then returned to Corsica, where he was condemned to ten years imprisonment and perpetual s..
Giuseppe Mariggiò
Giuseppe Mariggiò (born 1975) is an Italian journalist and expert in communications and has worked as a journalist since 1996. Focusing in ITC brand new development, he attempts to guide the reader’s point of view about the market and its business impact. In 1998, he created the first Italian f..
Giuseppe Martucci
Giuseppe Martucci (January 6 1856, near Capua, Campania – June 1 1909, Naples) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a conductor he helped introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy, conducting the first Italian performance of Tristan und Isolde. He also conducted perhap..
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini. Giuseppe Mazzini (June 22, 1805 – March 10, 1872) was an Italian patriot, philosopher and politician. Mazzini's efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the nineteen..
Giuseppe Meazza
For the stadium named after this man - which is more commonly known as San Siro - see Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. Giuseppe Meazza. Giuseppe Meazza (August 23 1910 – August 21 1979) was an Italian footballer playing mainly for Inter in the 1930s, scoring 243 goals in 361 games for the club. He..
Giuseppe Medici
Giuseppe Medici (Sassuolo, October 24, 1907 - Modena, August 21, 2000) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Christian Democracy. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Giuseppe Melfi
Giuseppe Melfi (born June 11 1967) is an Italian mathematician. He got his PhD in mathematics in 1997 at the University of Pisa. After some years spent at the University of Lausanne, he works now at the University of Neuchâtel, where is a lecturer. His major contributions are in the theory of pract..
Giuseppe Mercalli
Giuseppe Mercalli, an Italian volcanologist, was born on May 21, 1850 in the Italian city of Milan. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest and soon became a professor of the Natural Sciences at the seminary of Milan. He was removed from the professorship when he was suspected of liberalism for op..
Giuseppe Montanelli
Giuseppe Montanelli (January 1, 1813 – June 17, 1862) was an Italian statesman and author. Biography Montanelli was born at Fucecchio, then part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and in 1840 was appointed law professor at Pisa. He contributed to the Antologia, a celebrated Florentine review, an..
Giuseppe Motta
Giuseppe Motta (December 29, 1871 - January 23, 1940) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 14, 1911, and died in office on January 23, 1940. He was affiliated with the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland. While in office he held t..
Giuseppe Occhialini
right Giuseppe Occhialini (b. December 5, 1907 in Fossombrone, Pesaro, Italy; d. December 30, 1993) , Italian physicist, contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell (Nobel Prize for Physics) External links [Giuseppe "Beppo..
Giuseppe Olivi
Giuseppe Olivi (1769 - 1795) was an Italian naturalist. Olivi was born at Chioggia. He was the author of Zoologia Adriatica (1792). He died in Padua. ..
Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni
Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (March 18, 1657 – February 1, 1743) was an Italian composer born at Rieti. He came to Rome as a boy and sang in the choir of SS Apostoli. Francesco Foggia gave him instructions in counterpoint, and he became maestro di Cappella, first at Terra di Rotondo and later (1673) a..
Giuseppe Pagano
Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig (1896–1945) was an Italian architect. Pogatschnig was born in Parenzo (Poreĉ, Croatia), after attending the Italian language Lyceum in Trieste, he fled to join the Italian army at the onset of the First World War, adopting the Italian translation of his name, Paga..
Giuseppe Pancaro
Giuseppe Pancaro (born 26 August 1971 Cosenza, Italy) is an Italian football defender, currently plays for Torino. Giuseppe Pancaro started his career with Cagliari Calcio in 1992. After Cagliari were relegated in 1997, he transferred to S.S. Lazio. In summer 2003, Pancaro transferred to A.C. Milan..
Giuseppe Papadopulo
Giuseppe Papadopulo (born February 2, 1948 in Casale Marittimo, Pisa) is an Italian football manager. A former footballer of S.S. Lazio, Papadopulo started his coaching career in 1984 with A.S. Cecina, a minor amateur team of Tuscany. Then, after two years as assistant coach for Casertana, he deb..
Giuseppe Paratore
Giuseppe Paratore (1877 - 26 February 1967) was an Italian attorney and politician. He was President of the Italian Senate from 26 June 1952 to 24 March 1953. President Giovanni Gronchi appointed him senator for life on 9 November 1957. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Giuseppe Parini
Giuseppe Parini (Bosisio, now in Lecco province, May 23, 1729 - Milan, 1799) was an Italian satirist and poet. ..
Giuseppe Patanè
Giuseppe Patanè (born Naples, 1 January 1932, Italy - died Munich, 29 May 1989) was an Italian opera conductor. He was the son of the conductor Franco Patanè (1908-1968) and studied in Naples, where he also made his debut in 1951. He died suddenly while conducting a performance of Il Barbieri di ..
Giuseppe Peano
Giuseppe Peano. Giuseppe Peano (August 27, 1858 – April 20, 1932) was the leading Italian mathematician of his day, whose work is of exceptional philosophical value. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed muc..
Giuseppe Pella
Giuseppe Pella (April 18 1902 - May 31, 1981) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1953 to 1954. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956 after the death of Alcide De Gasperi. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style..
Giuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone is an Italian artist, concerned with establishing a contact between man and nature. Penone started working professionally in 1968 in the Garessio forest near where he was born. Critics group his art work with Land Art, and Process Art. His most famous work is the 1970 photograph "To ..
Giuseppe Perrucchetti
Giuseppe Domenico Perrucchetti, creator of the Alpini corp, was born in Cassano d'Adda, in the Milan province in Lombardy, on 13 july 1839. He studied architecture in the university of Pavia, but when he was 20 he fled from Lombardy (at the time under Austrian domination) to enroll in the Piedmont a..
Giuseppe Persiani
Giuseppe Persiani (born circa 1799-1805, died in Paris 13 August, 1869) was an Italian opera composer. His wife was the celebrated soprano Fanny Tacchinardi, however it was Maria Malibran who created the role of Ines de Castro in his most famous opera of the same name. Major work Ines de Castro (1..
Giuseppe Petrilli
Giuseppe Petrilli (1913? – May 13 1999?) was an Italian professor and European Commissioner. He was a non-politican[PDF Analysis of Political Experience of Commission Membership] appointed as the first Italian European Commissioner on the Hallstein Commission from January 1958 with ..
Giuseppe Pettazzi
Giuseppe Pettazzi was a famous Italian Art Deco architect of the 1930's. He built many buildings in Eritrea during Italian Colonial Rule, including the most famous Fiat Tagliero Building. ..
Giuseppe Piazzi
Giuseppe Piazzi. Giuseppe Piazzi (July 7 1746 - July 22 1826) was an astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina (Valtellina) , and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo. Asteroids discovered: 1 1 Ceres January 1 1801 On January 1, 1801, Piazzi discovered a stell..
Giuseppe Pinelli
Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli (1928-1969) was an Italian railway worker and anarchist activist. He was also the secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross. On December 12th, 1969 a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84 . Pinelli was picked up,..
Giuseppe Pisanu
Giuseppe Pisanu (born January 22, 1937 in Ittiri, Sassari) has been an Italian Minister of the Interior. He is a member of Forza Italia and in the past has been in the Christian Democracy. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Giuseppe Pitrè
Giuseppe Pitrè (December 21, 1841 – April 10, 1916) was an Italian folklorist credited with extending the realm of folklore to include all the manifestations of popular life. He was also a forerunner in the field of medical history. He was born in Palermo. After serving as a volunteer in 186..
Giuseppe Pizzardo
The signing of the Reichskonkordat on July 20, 1933 in Rome. From left to right: German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, Cardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo, Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, and German ambassador Rudolf Buttmann. Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo (July 13, 1877 ..
Giuseppe Prina
Giuseppe Prina (20 July 1766 in Novara - 20 April 1814) was an Italian statesman killed in the Milan riots of 1814. Giuseppe Prina gave early evidence of his rare talent. After studying at the University of Pavia, he became a doctor of law in 1789. He worked in his native town, Novara, for some yea..
Giuseppe Pulie
Giuseppe Pulie (born 1959) is a former Italian cross country skier who competed from 1988 to 1996. He won a silver medal in the 4 x 10km relay at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Pulie's best finish at the Nordic skiing World Championships was 14th in the 10km event in 1991. His best finis..
Giuseppe Rava
Giuseppe Rava (born July 16 1963) is an Italian painter and sculptor from Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. Rava illustrates military history as well as sculpts miniature figures. External links [Official site] ()[MilitaryArt.it] ..
Giuseppe Rossi
--> Giuseppe Rossi (born February 1, 1987 in Clifton, New Jersey) is an Italian-American football player. He plays for the English side Manchester United. Rossi signed for Manchester United on July 7, 2004 from the Italian side Parma F.C. for £200,000. He has represented the Italian national tea..
Giuseppe Sabbatini
Giuseppe Sabbatini (b. May 1, 1957, Rome, Italy) is a lyric tenor. His opera repertoire includes Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Don Giovanni, Linda di Chamounix, La Favorita, L'elisir d'amore, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, Lucrezia Borgia, I Puritani, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Fa..
Giuseppe Sacconi
Giuseppe Sacconi (1854-1905) was an Italian architect. He is best known as the designer of the monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, in the centre of Rome. He was born in Montalto delle Marche. He worked with Carimini on the restoration of the Basilica di Loreto. He won the competition to design the V..
Giuseppe Said
Prince (Shahzada) "Principe" Giuseppe Said, (b. 1949), married Mary-Doris Vassallo, Baroness di Frigenuini of Malta and Sicily, in 1971 at Sydney, Australia. He received acknowledgement in 2002 of his lineal descent from the Ottoman Empire Imperial House of Osmanli from His Majesty Prince Ertuğru..
Giuseppe Sammartini
Giuseppe Sammartini (1693/95?, Milan – abt. 1750, London), was an Italian composer and an oboist. He started playing the oboe in Milan. In 1727 he moved to London. He composed concertos and sonatas. He was the brother of Giovanni Battista Sammartini. External links [MusicWeb entry on G..
Giuseppe Sammartino
Giuseppe Sammartino (1720 – 1793) was a Neapolitan Rococo sculptor. His first dated work is The Veiled Christ, commissioned from the Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini who did not live to complete the work. Sammartino interpreted his sketches freely to create a masterful sculpture which can b..
Giuseppe Saracco
Giuseppe Saracco (October 6, 1821–January 19, 1907) was an Italian politician and financier, and knight of the Annunziata Biography Giuseppe Saracco was born at Bistagno (province of Alessandria). After qualifying as an advocate, he entered the Piedmontese parliament in 1849. A supporter of..
Giuseppe Saragat
Giuseppe Saragat ['sa:ragat] (September 19, 1898, Turin - June 11, 1988, Rome) was the foreign minister of Italy from 1963 to 1964, and the President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971. He was a moderate socialist, who split from the Italian Socialist Party in 1947, out of concern o..
Giuseppe Saronni
Giuseppe Saronni (born 22 September 1957), also known as Beppe Saronni, is a former Italian cyclist. Born in Parabiago, Lombardy, Saronni turned professional in 1977. During his career, that lasted until 1989, he won 129 races. In Italy he gave birth to another famous rivalry with Francesco Moser..
Giuseppe Sarti
Giuseppe Sarti (December 28, 1729 - July 28, 1802), was an Italian opera composer. He was born at Faenza, educated by Padre Martini, and appointed organist of the cathedral of Faenza before the completion of his nineteenth year. Resigning his appointment in 1750, Sarti devoted himself to the study..
Giuseppe Scurto
Giuseppe Scurto (born 5 January 1984 in Alcamo) is an Italian footballer, as of 2006 plays for A.C. ChievoVerona for defender role, on loan from A.S. Roma. Scurto capped for Italy every youth levels, and call-up to UEFA U-21 Championship 2006. Teams and clubs 2004-2005: Roma2005-present: Chievo c..
Giuseppe Serembe
Giuseppe Serembe (March 6, 1844-1901), Italo-Albanian lyric poet, known in Albanian as Zef Serembe, was a restless soul destined to bear the heavy burden of human suffering. The atmosphere of despair and tragedy that haunted him throughout his life surfaces time and time again in his verse. Serembe..
Giuseppè Sergi
Giuseppè Sergi (1841, Messina – 1936, Rome) was an influential Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, notable for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of ancient Mediterranean peoples. According to Sergi, the Mediterranean race arose from primal popu..
Giuseppe Signori
Giuseppe Signori (born February 17, 1968 in Alzano Lombardo) is an Italian football (soccer) striker, one of the top scorers in Serie A history. On the club level, Signori played for Leffe (1984-86), Piacenza (1986-87 and 1988-89), Trento (1987-88), Foggia (1989-92), Lazio (1992-97), Sampdoria (199..
Giuseppe Simone Assemani
Giuseppe Simone Assemani, (1687 - 1768), Lebanese orientalist, was a Maronite of Mount Lebanon. When very young he was sent to the Maronite college in Rome, and was transferred thence to the Vatican library. In 1717 he was sent to Egypt and Syria to search for valuable manuscripts, and returned wit..
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Giuseppe Sinopoli (November 2, 1946 - April 20, 2001) was a conductor and composer. He was born in Venice in Italy and studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as studying medicine. He began to make a name for himself as a composer of serial works before gaining fame as a conductor. H..
Giuseppe Sommaruga
Giuseppe Sommaruga (1867-1917) was an Italian architect of the movement Art nouveau. He was the pupil of Camillo Boito and Luca Beltrami to the Academy of Brera in Milan. His architecture exerted some influence on the futurist architect Antonio Sant' Elia. Some of his works: the Large H..
Giuseppe Tarantino
Philosopher Giuseppe Tarantino (1857-1950), Rector at the University of Pisa, Italy, helped introduce American and European philosophy to the Italian educational system. Tarantino was mostly forgotten after his death, until a collection of his writings on philosophy and pedagogy was published by Le..
Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini. Giuseppe Tartini (April 8, 1692 – February 26, 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist. Biography Tartini was born in Pirano, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice (now Piran, Slovenia). It appears Tartini's parents intended for him to beco..
Giuseppe Terragni
Giuseppe Terragni (april 18, 1904 - july 19, 1943) was an Italian architect who worked primarily under the fascist regime of Mussolini and pioneered the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism. One of his more famous works is the Casa del Fascio which was begun in 1932 and completed ..
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (December 23 1896 - July 23 1957), was Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (ISBN 880781028X, first published posthumously in 1958, translated as The Leopard, ISBN 0679731210) whic..
Giuseppe Torelli
Giuseppe Torelli. Giuseppe Torelli (April 22, 1658 - February 8, 1709) was an Italian violinist, pedagogue and composer. He was the brother of Felice Torelli, a noted painter, and is most remembered for his contributions to the development of the instrumental concerto, especially concerti gro..
Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily) is an Italian film director. Filmography Cinema Paradiso (1989)Everybody's Fine (1991)Especially on Sunday (1993)A Pure Formality (1995)The Star Maker (1995)The Legend of 1900 (1998)Malèna (2000) External links [}}}] at the Inte..
Giuseppe Tucci
Giuseppe Tucci (Macerata 5 June 1894 – San Polo dei Cavalieri (Rome) 5 April 1984), was a major scholar of oriental cultures, who specialized on Tibet and history of Buddhism. Fluent in a number of European languages, Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Chinese and Tibetan he taught at the University of..
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was an Italian poet. Along with Salvatore Quasimodo and Eugenio Montale, he was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. Ungaretti was born in Alexandria, Egypt by a family from Lucca in Tuscany (Italy). In 1912 he moved to Paris..
Giuseppe Valadier
Giuseppe Valadier (April 14, 1762– February 1, 1839) was an Italian architect and designer, urban planner and archeologist, a chief exponent of Neoclassicism in Italy. Biography The son of a goldsmith, Luigi (1726–1785), Valadier was born in Rome in 1762. He also occasionally provided ..
Giuseppe Valentini
Giuseppe Valentini (1681 - 1753) was an Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer, though he is known chiefly as a composer of inventive instrumental music. Though during his lifetime overshadowed by the likes of Corelli, Vivaldi, and Locatelli, his contribuition to Italian baroque music is not..
Giuseppe Vasi
Giuseppe Vasi (born 27 August 1710 in Corleone, Sicily; died 16 April 1782 in Rome) was an Italian artist, best known for his vedute. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] [Resource offering high-res images] ..
Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia
Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia (Palermo, 1729 – Palermo, 1814) He received his first architectural training in his native Palermo. This was followed by a period in Rome from 1747 to 1759. By the end of his stay a handful of progressive young architects and designers in the circuit of the French..
Giuseppe Venuti
Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was a U.S. jazz musician and violinist. Venuti claimed to have been born aboard a ship as his parents emigrated from Italy, though many believe he was simply born in Philadelphia. Considered the father of jazz violin, he pioneered..
Giuseppe Verdi
"Verdi" redirects here. For , see . Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome). Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (Le Roncole, Busseto, 10 October, 1813 – Milan, 27 January, 1901) was an Italian composer, mainly of opera. He was the most influential..
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story (2005) is a musical written by Francesco Maria Piave with the music of Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Gianfranco Fozzi and produced by Guido Pietroni and Maurizio De Santis. Giuseppe Verdi's Timeless Masterpiece Rigoletto is brilliantly brought to life in this unique ..
Giuseppe Veronese
Giuseppe Veronese (May 7, 1854 - July 17 1917) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Chioggia, near Venice. Although his work was severely criticised as unsound by Peano, he is now recognised as having priority on many ideas that have since become parts of transfinite numbers and model theor..
Giuseppe Viscovich
Giuseppe Viscovich was a Venetian count. He was the Captain of the town of Perasto (Perast, now in Montenegro), the last territory of the Republic of Venice to surrender to the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte. On August 23, 1797, the Venetian citizens of town gathered to bury the flag of the Republic ..
Giuseppe Vitali
Giuseppe Vitali (1875 - 1932) was an Italian mathematician, remembered for the Vitali theorem on the existence of non-measurable sets of real numbers. External link John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. ..
Giuseppe Zamboni
Giuseppe Zamboni was a Priest and physicist, born at Verona, Italy on June, 1776 and died there 25 July 1846. Shortly after completing his studies in the seminary at Verona, Zamboni was appointed to the chair of physics in the lyceum of that city. Zamboni is known to students of physics by the dry ..
Giuseppe Zanardelli
Giuseppe Zanardelli (October 29, 1826 - December 26, 1903) was an Italian jurisconsult, nationalist and political figure. He was prime minister of Italy from February 15, 1901 to November 3, 1903. Biography Giuseppe Zanardelli was born at Brescia (Lombardy). A combatant in the volunteer corps du..
Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara Giuseppe Zangara (September 7 1900 – March 20 1933) attempted to kill United States President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. Zangara was born in Ferruzano, Italy. After serving in the Tyrolian Alps in World War One, Zangara did a variety of menial jobs in his ..
Giuseppina Bozzachi
Giuseppina Bozzachi (23 November, 1853 - 23 November, 1870) was an Italian-French ballerina. She created the role of Swanhilda in Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia on 25 May, 1870, aged only 16. She danced the role only 18 times before the Paris Opéra closed for the duration of the war with Prussia...
Giuseppina Strepponi
Clela Maria Josepha (Giuseppina) Strepponi (September 8, 1815 – November 14, 1897) was a Lombard soprano of great renown in her era. She is often credited with having been responsible for the success of Giuseppe Verdi, as she was the star of many of his early works, among which Nabucco. They m..
Giuseppi Logan
Giuseppi Logan (born May 22, 1935) was a jazz musician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who taught himself to play piano and drums before switching to reeds at age 12. At the age of 15 he began playing with Earl Bostic and later studied at the New England Conservatory. In 1964 he relocated to New Yor..
Giusep Nay
Giusep Nay (born August 9, 1942 in Trun, Grisons) was the president of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland for the years 2005 and 2006. He was elected to the Supreme Court in 1988 after being nominated by the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland. Nay resigned his office in 2006. ..
Giussani
Giussani may refer to: Bruno Giussani: Swiss writer.Luigi Giussani: Italian priest and founder of Communion and Liberation.Angela and Luciana Giussani, who created the famous comics character Diabolik.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the sam..
Giusti
Kathy Giusti, the president of the Multiple Myeloma Research FoundationRobert Giusti, illustratorGiuseppe Giusti, poet This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to poi..
Giustina Pecori-Suárez
Giustina Pecori-Suárez, born on November 27, 1811 in Florence, Italy, was the third wife of Jerome Bonaparte, youngest brother of Emperor Napoleon I of France. She married on February 19, 1853 in Paris. She died on January 30, 1903 in Florence. ..
Giustiniani
Giustiniani is the name of a prominent Italian family which originally belonged to Venice, but also established itself subsequently in Genoa, and at various times had representatives in Naples, Corsica and several of the islands of the Archipelago. In the Venetian line the following are most worthy..
Giustiniano Participazio
Giustiniano Participazio (also Partecipazio or Particiaco, English Justinian) (died 829) was the eleventh (traditional) or ninth (historical) Doge of Venice briefly from 827 to his death. His two years on the ducal throne were very eventful. Giustiniano was away in Constantinople when his father, ..
Giustino
For the Italian commune, see Giustino (TN). Giustino (or Justin) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Pietro Pariati's Giustino, after Nicolo Beregan's Il Giustino. Performance history The opera was first given at the Covent Garden The..
Giustino Durano
Born on the 5th of May 1923 Giustino Durano died on the 18th of Feburary 2002. He was born in the town of Brindisi Italy and died in Bologna Italy. Giustino was a long lasting movie actor who played in such films as: Life Is Beautiful(1998) Uncle The Bobo (1967) Druggist After the Fox (1966) C..
Giusto Catania
Giusto Catania (born on 10 June 1971 in Palermo) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC), part of the European Left and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs..
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