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Bevilacqua (surname)
Bevilacqua () is an Italian surname, meaning "drink the water". Notable people with the surname include: *Alberto Bevilacqua (1934–2013), Italian writer and film director *Anthony Bevilacqua (1923–2012), American Roman Catholic cardinal *Antonella Bevilacqua (born 1971), Italian high jumper *Antonio Bevilacqua (1918–1972), Italian cyclist * Berna Bevilacqua (1950–1996), Argentine pianist *Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini (1571–1627), Italian cardinal * Charles A. Bevilacqua (1930-2019), United States Navy Seabee *Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), stage name of French singer, Daniel Bevilacqua *Claire Bevilacqua (born 1983), Australian surfer * Giacomo Bevilacqua (born 1983), Italian cartoonist and author of comics * Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua (active by 1481 to at least 1512), Italian painter * Giulio Bevilacqua (1881–1965), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal *Joe Bevilacqua (born 1959), American actor and writer * Joseph A. Bevilacqua Sr. (1918-1989), American jurist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Bevilacqua
Alberto Bevilacqua (27 June 1934 – 9 September 2013) was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, ''The Dust on the Grass'' (1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the ''Journal of Parma'', began to publish his stories in the early 1950s. ''Friendship Lost'', his first book of poems, was published in 1961. ''Caliph'', published in 1964, was his break-through novel. The protagonist, Irene Corsini, imbued with his own sweet and energetic temperament, is one of the strongest female characters in Italian literature. His novel ''This Kind of Love'' won the Campiello Prize in 1966. In both ''This Kind of Love'' and ''Caliph'', Bevilacqua oversaw the adaptations and productions of the film versions. ''This Kind of Love'' won Best Film at Cannes. Bevilacqua was also a poet. His writings have been translated throughout Europe, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Bevilacqua
Giulio Bevilacqua, Orat (14 November 1881 – 6 May 1965) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who devoted himself to pastoral work in Brescia and served as a military chaplain, known for his opposition to fascism. A few weeks before his death he was made an auxiliary bishop of Brescia and a cardinal. He was a teacher and spiritual confidant of Pope Paul VI. Biography Giulio Bevilacqua was born in Isola della Scala to a family of merchants. He studied at the University of Louvain in Belgium and the seminary in Brescia, and later entered the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. Bevilacqua was ordained to the priesthood on 13 June 1908, and then did pastoral work in Brescia until 1914. During World War I, he served as a chaplain to the Italian Army and was captured by Austrian forces in 1916. Following his release in 1918, he resumed his ministry in Brescia, where he became the spiritual director and a personal friend of Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ventura Salimbeni
Ventura di Archangelo Salimbeni (also later called Bevilacqua; 20 January 1568 – 1613) was an Italian Counter-Maniera painter and printmaker highly influenced by the ''vaghezza'' and sensual reform of Federico Barocci. Biography Salimbeni was born in Siena. He studied painting, together with his half-brother Francesco Vanni, under their father Arcangelo Salimbeni in his native Siena, He possibly spent some time, in Northern Italy and then moved to Rome in 1588 to work, together with others, on the fresco painting of the Vatican Library under pope Sixtus V. During 1590-1591, he received a commission from Cardinal Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini for paintings in the Roman Jesuit Church of the Gesù and the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. These paintings show the influence of Cavalier D'Arpino and the Counter-Mannerist Barocci pupil Andrea Lilio. Salimbeni returned to Siena in 1595. Here he persisted in a Reformist or Counter-Maniera style. He was here influenced by F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Bevilacqua
Anthony Peter Bevilacqua (born July 23, 1976) is an American musician. He is currently guitarist with The Distillers The Distillers are an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1998 by vocalist and guitarist Brody Dalle. Dalle co-wrote, played guitar and provided lead vocals for nearly every track on the band's three albums. After the .... He also used the stage name "Tony Bradley" while with The Distillers.Brody Dalle , Retrieved on March 6, 2008. References External links Spinnerette official site [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bevilacqua
Pietro Paolo Bevilacqua ( en, Peter Paul Bevilacqua; born 29 June 1933 in San Marco in Lamis, Italy) is a former Australian rules footballer and soccer player. Bevilacqua's Australian rules career was short and uneventful at the highest level but is significant for the fact he is the only known VFL/AFL footballer to have been born in Italy. His one and only game at VFL level was for Carlton against North Melbourne in Round 18 1953. Bevilacqua played two senior games for Victorian first division football (soccer) club Juventus (now Bulleen Zebras Brunswick Juventus FC is an Australian association football, soccer club based in the Melbourne municipality of Merri-bek. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 and is based at CB Smith Reserve in the suburb of ...). In 2012, Bevilacqua was named in a celebratory Carlton international team as a follower. References 1933 births Living people VFL/AFL players born outside Australia Sportsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurizio Bevilacqua
Maurizio Bevilacqua (; born June 1, 1960) is a Canadian politician who was mayor of Vaughan from 2010 to 2022. He was a Liberal member of Parliament (MP) from 1988 to 2010 and was one of eleven candidates for the 2006 leadership contest, but dropped out of the race on August 14, 2006. He has been described in the media as a "right-of-centre, business friendly Liberal". He resigned his seat in the House of Commons of Canada and announced on September 3, 2010, that he would be a candidate for mayor of Vaughan."Bevilacqua confirms Vaughan mayoral run" ''CBC News'', September 3, 2010. Retrieved 2014-06-4. On October 25 he was elected mayor. Early life Born in |
Luiz Bevilacqua
Luiz Bevilacqua is a Brazilian scientist best known for his work as President of the Brazilian Space Agency (2003–2004) and as Secretary General of the Ministry of Science and Technology (1992–1993). Currently serves as Emeritus Professor, UFRJ and coordinator of the Center for Cognition and Complex Systems of UFABC. Positions held Bevilacqua has served as: * Vice-Rector of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). * Director of the Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pos-Graduacao e Pesquisa de Engenharia (COPPE-UFRJ). * Creator of the Civil Engineering Program of Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pos-Graduacao e Pesquisa de Engenharia (COPPE-UFRJ). * Project Coordinator of Remotely Operated Vehicles (COPPETEC-Petrobras). * Coordinator of the consultancy to determine the structural integrity of the Mills Ball Shark (COPPETEC-Companhia Vale do Rio Doce). * Responsible for structural design of the spillways and gates of the Furnas Reservoir. * Responsib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph A
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled '' Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Bevilacqua
Joseph K. Bevilacqua (born January 2, 1959) is an American actor, producer, director, author, dramatist, humorist, cartoonist, and documentarian. Biography Early life Bevilacqua was born on January 2, 1959, in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a policeman, Joseph Bevilacqua Sr., and a housewife, the former Joan Kvidahl. Bevilacqua began performing as a child. His family moved to Iselin, New Jersey in 1965. In 1971, he began recording his first audio stories, ''Willoughby and the Professor'', half hour stories, in which he performed all of the voices himself, creating live sound effects, and scoring with 78 RPM records he found in his attic. According to NPR, Bevilacqua sent a 120-minute cassette of his Willoughby stories to voice actor Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, Quickdraw McGraw, Huckleberry Hound and other Hanna-Barbera and Jay Ward cartoon characters. Butler soon dubbed himself Bevilacqua's mentor. Author Joe Bevilacqua has written and edited a number of books, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, also known as il Liberale Bevilacqua (active by 1481 to at least 1512) was an Italian painter active in Lombardy in a late-medieval or early Renaissance style. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Foppa of Milan. Biography Bevilacqua was apparently born in Milan to a carpenter named Pietro. By 1481, he was noted under the patronage of Duke Francesco Sforza. He signed in 1485 a fresco depicting ''Saints Roch, Sebastian, and Christopher'' and perhaps also completed a ''Madonna and Saints with Donors'' for the parish church of Landriano. Works *''Madonna and Child'', Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan, *''Madonna Piccinella'', Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of Milan *''Madonna with Child, St Peter Martyr, King David, and Donor'', Pinacoteca Brera, Milan *Castello Visconteo (Pavia) *Metropolitan Museum of New York, *National Museum of Art of Luxembourg *''Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist, St Bernard of Clairveaux and a donor'', Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Bevilacqua
Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (June 17, 1923 – January 31, 2012) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania from 1988 to 2003. Bevilacqua previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1987 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York City from 1980 to 1983. He was elevated as a cardinalate in 1991. Biography Early life and education Anthony Bevilacqua was born on July 17, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York, to Luigi (1884–1961) and Maria (née Codella, 1893–1968) Bevilacqua. Luigi was born in Spinazzola, Italy and worked as a bricklayer. and Maria was born in Calitri, Italy. Anthony Bevilacqua had four brothers: Michael, Angelo, Rocco, and Frank; and six sisters, Josephine (died of meningitis at age two), Isabella, Virginia, Mary Jo, Gloria, and Madeline. Luigi immigrated to the United States in 1910, followed by Maria and their oldes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Bevilacqua
Giacomo Andrea Bevilacqua (Rome, 22 June 1983) is an Italian cartoonist. He is the author of the comics ''A Panda Piace'' and one of the most popular modern cartoonist in his homeland. On 22 May 2008 he creates the first strips of ''A Panda piace'', his most successful work, initially published exclusively on the blog of the author and later collected in two volumes paper edited by BD Editions: '' A Panda piace'' (2009) and '' A Panda piace il bis '' (2010). In the same year, together with Lorenzo Bartoli and Gabriele Dell'Otto, known Roman illustrator, opens the "Sold out studio", an experience that will end two years later. Parallel to the career of Cartoonist, draftsman, Giacomo carries on that of actor and theatrical author for the company "Children Bad" by Marco Perrone; also works as storyboard er for film and advertising, designer of T-shirts and visualizers for advertising agency, advertising agencies. He collaborates with '' Play the Lab '', the creative workshop of Noki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |