Bitti (name)
Bitti may refer to the following people: * Bernardo Bitti (1548–1610), Italian Jesuit priest and painter * Davide Ricci Bitti (born 1984), Italian cyclist * Francesco Ricci Bitti (born 1942), Italian former tennis player and President of the International Tennis Federation from 1999 to 2015 * Satwinder Bitti (born 1975), Punjabi singer * Bitti Deva, birth name of Vishnuvardhana (reigned 1108–1152), a king of the Hoysala Empire * Bitti Mohanty, Indian convicted rapist and fugitive See also * Tendai Biti Tendai Laxton Biti (born 6 August 1966) is a Zimbabwean politician who served as Finance Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He is the current Member of Parliament for Harare East Constituency and the second Vice President of Citizens Coa ... (born 1966), Zimbabwean politician, Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2013 * Bitty {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bernardo Bitti
Democrito Bernardo Bitti (1548–1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and painter. He introduced Mannerism to Peru, where he went on a Jesuit mission after having studied in Rome. On his way to Peru, Bitti traveled through Spain, where he became influenced by Sevillian painting, especially that of Luis de Morales. Bitti arrived in Peru in 1575 and started painting for churches first in Lima and from 1583 in Cusco. His works in Lima include the typically Mannerist ''Coronation of the Virgin'' and ''The Virgin of the Candelaria'' for St. Peter's Church. The Immaculate Conception was a recurring theme in his paintings, one of which is in the in Cusco. In addition to Mannerism, his works reflect ideas of the Counter-Reformation and religious education of the natives. After 1584, Bitti traveled all over South America, painting where he went. His mobile lifestyle was a testament to his popularity with the Jesuits, but it led to Bitti's being unable to set up a workshop or have apprenti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Davide Ricci Bitti
Davide Ricci Bitti (born 12 February 1984) is an Italian former professional road cyclist. In 2020 Bitti started racing again but this time as an amateur riding for Argon18–Hicari–Stemax. Bitti said "he competes for the sake of being with friends". Career He rode in the 2011 Giro d'Italia and finished in 148th place. In Stage 3 of the Giro Bitti was part of the four-man break which formed 30 km into the 173 km stage. Working with his fellow break-away riders they achieved a 3-minute gap fairly quickly. With 25 km to go Gianluca Brambilla attacked over a climb followed closely by Pavel Brutt this surge in pace up the hill caused Bitti to lose contact with the breakaway. He would get caught by the Peloton with 2 km to go. He would finish 194th on the stage 6'03" down on the winner. It wasn't until Stage 12 of the race that Bitti was in another breakaway. Once again there were four riders this time they established their break at 4 km from the start. At ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Francesco Ricci Bitti
Francesco Ricci Bitti (born 15 January 1942) is an Italian sports administrator and former tennis player who has presided over the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) since 2013. Since 2015 he has been honorary life president of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). Biography Ricci Bitti was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Bologna. He has a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Bologna University and an MBA from ISTUD Milan. He was a member of the Italian National Junior Tennis Team (1960), and won the Italian University Tennis Championships (1962, 1964, 1965). He then played international tennis (1964–71), and was a member of the Italian National Team Tennis Championships (1970–71). In his business career, he has served on boards of directors of Phillips, GTE, Olivetti, Alcatel, and Telecom Italy. In his career in sports administration, he has been Chairman and a member of the Tennis E ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Satwinder Bitti
Satwinder Bitti ( pa, ਸਤਵਿੰਦਰ ਬਿੱਟੀ) is a Punjabi singer of Punjab, India. She was a national-level hockey player and later adapted singing as profession. In 2011, she judged a singing reality show, ''Awaaz Punjab Di'', by a Punjabi TV channel mh1. Early life Bitti was born in a Punjabi Sikh family, to father S. Gurnaib Singh and mother Gurcharan Kaur. Her father, retired from PWD, Patiala, also had an interest in music and taught her the basics of music. She used to sing religious songs on different devotional functions and thus started singing at a very early age of five. She is the fan of the singer Lata Mangeshkar and later, took singing as a profession and released many religious and folk albums. She has done a BSc. (non-medical) from MCM DAV College, Chandigarh Sec-36 and was a national-level hockey player. In June 2016 Bitti joined Indian National Congress in presence of party's state chief Amarinder Singh Captain Amarinder Singh (born ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vishnuvardhana
Vishnuvardhana (r. 1108–1152 CE) was a king of the Hoysala Empire in what is today the modern state of Karnataka, India. He ascended the Hoysala throne after the death of his elder brother Veera Ballala I in c.1108. Originally a follower of Jainism and known as Bitti Deva, he came under the influence of the Hindu philosopher Ramanujacharya, converted to Hindu Vaishnavism and took the name "Vishnuvardhana". His queen Shanthala however remained a Jain. This was the transition period from Jainism to Hinduism Vishnuvardhana took the first steps in creating an independent Hoysala Empire in South India through a series of battles against his overlord, the Western Chalukya King Vikramaditya VI, and the Chola Empire to the south. He recovered parts of Gangavadi province (modern southern Karnataka) from the hegemony of the Cholas in the battle of Talakad, and parts of Nolambavdi. According to historian Coelho, the Hoysalas gained the dignity of a kingdom due to the efforts of Vi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bitti Mohanty
Bitti Mohanty, also called Bitihotra Mohanty is a computer engineer and is a high-profile convict sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for raping a German tourist at Alwar, India and was since absconding after he was released on parole on 20 November 2006 to meet his ailing mother at Cuttack, Orissa. He was arrested from Kannur in Kerala, on Saturday, 9 March 2013. His case was one of the quickest rape trials conducted by a fast-track court; the trial was completed within 15 days of lodging the complaint. The parole was granted within 8 months of his conviction. His father, Bidya Bhushan Mohanty (B.B. Mohanty), an Indian Police Service officer, stood as surety for his son's 15 days' parole and was subsequently suspended and arrested on the charges of helping, hiding and harbouring his son. He was later reinstated into service in 2009 and retired in 2012. Six years after his son's disappearance, the father expressed ignorance about his son's whereabouts and asserted that his son ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tendai Biti
Tendai Laxton Biti (born 6 August 1966) is a Zimbabwean politician who served as Finance Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He is the current Member of Parliament for Harare East Constituency and the second Vice President of Citizens Coalition for Change. He was the Secretary-General of the Movement for Democratic Change and the subsequent Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC-T) political parties and a Member of Parliament for Harare East until he was expelled from the party and recalled from parliament in mid-2014,before winning the seat again in 2018. Early life Biti was born in Dzivarasekwa, Harare, and he is the eldest in a family of 6 children. From 1980 to 1985 he attended Goromonzi High School, where he was appointed deputy head boy in 1985. He enrolled in the University of Zimbabwe law school as a freshman in 1986. In 1988 and 1989, Biti was Secretary General of the University of Zimbabwe Student Representative Council, with Terry Mhungu as SRC Pres ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |