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Boggia
Boggia is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Antonio Boggia (1799–1862), Italian serial killer *Jim Boggia Jim Boggia is a pop singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia. In 1998, he co-wrote the song " Glory" which reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Early life Jim Boggia was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. At birth, he was declared legally blind in h ..., American singer-songwriter See also * Bogia (other) {{surname Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Boggia
Antonio Boggia (23 December 1799 – 8 April 1862), aka "Il Mostro di Stretta Bagnera" (The Monster of Bagnera lane) or "Il Mostro di Milano" (The Monster of Milan), is considered the first serial killer of Italy. Biography Born in 1799 in Urio, a town on Lake Como, not far from the border with Switzerland. In 1824 Boggia (aged 25) had his first issues with the law with complaints of fraudulence and many false contracts. He fled to the Kingdom of Sardinia where he was subject to a further trial because of a frenzy and attempted murder. He was jailed, but took advantage of a revolt and escaped, returning to Lombardia Veneto province as it was known at the time. He moved to Milan, and thanks to his ability to speak German, was given a job at the the seat of the military commander of Austria. He worked there as a fire stoker and moved to residence on Via Gesù. In 1831 he got married and went to live with his wife in Via Nerino, 2 in a house with their landlady, Ester Maria Perro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Boggia
Jim Boggia is a pop singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia. In 1998, he co-wrote the song " Glory" which reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Early life Jim Boggia was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. At birth, he was declared legally blind in his left eye. He began playing the guitar at age five, encouraged by his musician father. In 1982 he graduated from Fenton High School in Fenton, Michigan. Boggia eventually moved to Philadelphia to work as a customer service representative in a high-tech studio equipment company. Career Boggia later quit his job and began his musical career by doing session work, jingles, and writing songs for other musical artists. He played or toured with various artists including Juliana Hatfield, Jill Sobule, Amanda Marshall, and Bernadette Peters. In 1998 he formed a band with Mike Frank, Kevin Hanson, Erik Johnson, and Steve Beskrone. The same year he and Andy Kravitz wrote a single for Christian singer Jaci Velasquez called "Glory". The album went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogia (other)
Bogia may refer to: * ''Bogia'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails * Bogia District, in Papua New Guinea * Bogia languages, a group of Papuan languages * Bogia (crater), a crater on Mars * An old spelling of Béjaïa, city in Algeria See also * Boggia, an Italian surname * Bogya Bodza ( hu, Bogya, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a village and municipality in the Komárno District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia. Geography The village lies at an altitude of 109 metres and covers an area of 6.318 km ..., a village in Slovakia * Bojia (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Surname
A name in the Italian language consists of a given name ( it, nome), and a surname (); in most contexts, the given name is written before the surname. (In official documents, the Western surname may be written before the given name or names.) Italian names, with their fixed ''nome'' and ''cognome'' structure, have little to do with the ancient Roman naming conventions, which used a tripartite system of given name, gentile name, and hereditary or personal name (or names). The Italian ''nome'' is not analogous to the ancient Roman ''nomen''; the Italian ''nome'' is the given name (distinct between siblings), while the Roman ''nomen'' is the gentile name (inherited, thus shared by all in a gens). Female naming traditions, and name-changing rules after adoption, for both sexes likewise differ between Roman antiquity and modern Italian use. Moreover, the low number, and the steady decline of importance and variety, of Roman ''praenomina'' starkly contrast with the current number of It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
