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Alessandro Barbero
Alessandro Barbero (born April 30, 1959) is an Italian historian, novelist and essayist. Barbero was born in Turin. He attended the University of Turin, where he studied literature and Medieval history. He won the 1996 Strega Prize, Italy's most distinguished literary award, for ''Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle gentiluomo''. His second novel, ''Romanzo russo. Fiutando i futuri supplizi'', has been translated into English as The Anonymous Novel. Sensing the Future Torments' (Sulaisiadar 'san Rudha: Vagabond Voices, 2010). Franco Cardini wrote in ''Il Giornale'', "Barbero uses the diabolic skills of an erudite and professional narrator to seek out massacres of the distant and recent past. ''The Anonymous Novel'' concerns the past-that-never-passes (whether Tsarist or Stalinist) and the future that in 1988 was impending and has now arrived". Allan Massie wrote in ''The Scotsman'', ""If you have any feeling for Russia or for the art of the novel, then read this one. You wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alps, Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Larger Urban Zones, Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium). A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition. One of these was a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Kingdom of Hanover, Hanover, Duchy of Brunswick, Brunswick, and Duchy of Nassau, Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington (referred to by many authors as ''the Anglo-allied army'' or ''Wellington's army''). The other was composed of three corps of the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, von Blücher (the fourth corps of this army fought at the Battle of Wavre on the same day). The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was contemporaneously known as the Battle of Mont Saint-J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Antonioli
Francesco Stefano Antonioli (born 14 September 1969) is an Italian former footballer who played as goalkeeper. He was the oldest footballer in Serie A until his club Cesena were relegated to Serie B at the end of the 2011–12 season, after which he retired from professional football. Antonioli began his club career with Monza and played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, winning titles with A.C. Milan, Bologna and Roma. Despite never being capped at senior international level, he was an unused member of the Italy squad the took part at Euro 2000, reaching the final. At youth level, he represented Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Club career Born in Monza, Italy, Antonioli developed as a player in the youth ranks of A.C. Milan. He was later loaned out to Monza, making his professional debut with the club in 1986, at the age of 16, in a 1–0 defeat to Juventus in the Coppa Italia. He also made his Milan debut in the Coppa Italia, in a 2–1 home win over La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liguori Editore
Liguori may refer to: Places * Liguori, Missouri, unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States *Saint-Liguori, Quebec, parish municipality located on the Rouge River in the Regional County Municipality of Montcalm in Quebec People ; Surname *Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), Roman Catholic Bishop, writer, Theologian, and founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer **Church of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Rome, church located on the Via Merulana on the Esquiline Hill of Rome, Italy *Al Liguori (1885–1951), Italian born cinematographer * Alphonse Liguori Chaupa (1959–2016), Roman Catholic bishop *Alphonsus Liguori Penney (1924–2017), Canadian Roman Catholic priest who was Archbishop of St.John's from 1979 to 1991 *Ann Liguori, American sports radio and television personality * Aurélien Lopez-Liguori (born 1993), French politician * Ciro Liguori (born 1969), Italian rower *Frédéric Liguori Béique (1845–1933), Canadian lawyer and politician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Frugoni
Chiara Frugoni (4 February 1940 – 9 April 2022) was an Italian historian and academic, specialising in the Middle Ages and church history. She was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1994 for her essay, ''Francesco e l'invenzione delle stimmate''. Biography Chiara Frugoni was born in Pisa, 4 February 1940. Her father was the medievalist, Arsenio Frugoni. She spent time during childhood and youth in a sanatorium due to suffering from tuberculosis. Frugoni graduated from Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in 1964 with a thesis entitled ''Il tema dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella tradizione medievale italiana'' ('' the Three Living and the Three Dead in Italian medieval tradition''), published two years later in the "Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei". In it, she searched for a working method that took equal account of both texts and images, a method she always considered important, in line with her conviction that "the image speaks". She married Salvatore Setti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Tocci
Giovanni Tocci (born 31 August 1994) is an Italian diver. He competed in the men's synchronized 3 metre springboard at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he and Andrea Chiarabini finished 6th out of 8 teams. At the 2018 European Championships The 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (with Edinburgh hosting the diving events and Gleneagles ... in Glasgow, Tocci won a silver in the men's 1 metre springboard. References External links * 1994 births Living people Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Italian male divers Olympic divers for Italy Divers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Universiade medalists in diving Sportspeople from Cosenza European Championships (multi-sport event) silver medalists Universiade bronze medalists for Italy Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Divers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosenberg & Sellier
Rosenberg, Rosenburg or Rozenburg may refer to: Places * Rosenberg (Baden), a municipality in the district of Neckar-Odenwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Rosenberg (Ostalb), a municipality in the district of Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Rosenburg (Winterthur), a quarter in Switzerland * Sulzbach-Rosenberg in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach, Bavaria, Germany * Rosenborg, Trondheim, a neighbourhood in Trondheim, Norway * Rosenburg, Nebraska, an unincorporated community in the U.S. * Rosenberg, Texas, Fort Bend County, USA * Rosenburg-Mold, a town in the district of Horn, Austria ** Rosenburg, a castle in the town * Rozenburg (island), Netherlands ** Rozenburg, a town and submunicipality * the German names for: ** Susz, in Poland (''Rosenberg in Westpreußen'', West Prussia) ** Olesno, in Poland (Upper Silesia) ** Ružomberok, in Slovakia ** Rožmberk nad Vltavou with Rožmberk Castle in the Czech Republic * Rosenberg Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica People * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cappelli (editore)
Cappelli is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Cappelli (born 1984), Australian musician and actor *Dante Cappelli (1866–1948), Italian actor *Elena Bianchini-Cappelli (1873–1919), Italian dramatic soprano opera singer * Francesco Cappelli (born 1943), retired Italian professional football player *Frank Cappelli (1852–1918), the star of the children's television series Cappelli & Company * Gari Cappelli (born 1961), Croatian politician *Giulio Cappelli (1911–1995), Italian football (soccer) player * Gregory W. Cappelli (born ), American business executive * Peter Cappelli (born 1956), American economist * Raffaele Cappelli (1848–1921), Italian politician and diplomat * Steven W. Cappelli (born 1963), American politician See also *A.F. Cappelli Block The A.F. Cappelli Block is a historic mixed-use commercial and residential building at 263 Atwells Avenue, facing DePasquale Plaza in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by the United States Department of Defense in the 1960s to enable time-sharing of computers. The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1970s to enable resource shari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Stampa
''La Stampa'' (meaning ''The Press'' in English) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin, Italy. It is distributed in Italy and other European nations. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. History and profile The paper was founded by Vittorio Bersezio, a journalist and novelist, in February 1867 with the name ''Gazzetta Piemontese''. In 1895, the newspaper was bought (and by then edited) by Alfredo Frassati (father of Pier Giorgio Frassati), who gave it its current name and a national perspective. For criticising the 1924 murder of the socialist Giacomo Matteotti, he was forced to resign and sell the newspaper to Giovanni Agnelli. The financier Riccardo Gualino also took a share. The paper is now owned by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, and has a centrist stance. The former contributors of ''La Stampa'' include Italian novelist Alberto Moravia. ''La Stampa'', based in Turin, was published in broadsheet format until November 2006 when the paper began to be publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
