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Calvi (surname)
Calvi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Michelangelo Calvi, American artist * Alessandro Calvi (born 1983), Italian swimmer * Anna Calvi (born 1980), English musician * Gaetanina Calvi (1887–1964), Italian engineer * Gérard Calvi (1922–2015) , French composer * Giorgio Calvi di Bergolo (1887–1977), Italian general * Guido Calvi (1893–1958), Italian middle-distance runner * Jacopo Alessandro Calvi (1740-1815), Italian painter * Laura M. Calvi, American neuroendocrinologist and physician-scientist * Lazzaro Calvi (1512–1587), Italian painter * Mark Calvi (born 1969), American college baseball coach * Mary Calvi (born 1969), American journalist * Paolo Battista Giudice Calvi (1490-1561), 62nd Doge of the Republic of Genoa * Pino Calvi (1930–1989), Italian pianist and composer * Rinaldo di Calvi, Italian Renaissance painter * Roberto Calvi (1920–1982), Italian banker * Yves Calvi (born 1959), French journalist Other * Canton of Cal ...
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Michelangelo Calvi
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era. Michelangelo achieved fame early; two of his best-known works, the ''Pietà'' and ''David'', were sculpted before the age of thirty. Although he did not consider himself a painter, Michelangelo created two of the most influential frescoes in ...
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Mark Calvi
Mark Calvi (born November 5, 1969) is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the South Alabama Jaguars baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season, 2012 season. Playing career Calvi lettered three times in baseball as a catcher at Nova Southeastern Sharks baseball, Nova Southeastern, and signed with the Seattle Mariners after completing his college career in 1992. He played the 1992 season with the Bellingham Mariners of the Class-A Northwest League. He then served the 1993 season as a scout for the Mariners. Coaching career After ending his time as a scout, Calvi accepted a position on the staff of FIU Panthers baseball, FIU, where he would remain for 11 years. He became a highly regarded pitching coach, helping to lead the Golden Panthers to seven NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, NCAA Tournaments and a Super Regional in 2001. During his time at FIU, his pitching staffs placed among the top n ...
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Yves Calvi
Yves Calvi (born Yves Krettly on 30 August 1959) is a French journalist and television presenter. Early career and education Yves Calvi was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. He graduated in modern literature and was a former student at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He decided to change his family name and take the pseudonym of his father, composer and conductor Gérard Calvi, when he joined Radio France Internationale in 1986 and before joining France Info. He was close to one of the founders of France Info and joined him in 1994 when he rectified the station RMC (France), RMC and then Europe 1 two years later. Radio career After becoming a television presenter on the local channel Télé Lyon Métropole, Yves Calvi became the familiar voice of the station Europe 1. He presented the discovery radio program ''Forum'' for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. He also presented a morning part from Monday to Friday and an afternoon part on Su ...
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Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi (13 April 1920 – 17 June 1982) was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" () by the press because of his close association with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of Italy's biggest political scandals. Calvi's death in London in June 1982 is a source of enduring controversy and was ruled a murder after two coroners' inquests and an independent investigation. Five people were acquitted in Rome in June 2007 of murdering Calvi. Popular speculation has linked the Vatican Bank, the Mafia, and the clandestine Propaganda Due to his death. Life and career Roberto Calvi's father was the manager of the Banca Commerciale Italiana. Calvi joined the bank after World War II, but he moved to Banco Ambrosiano, then Italy's second largest bank, in 1947. He married in 1952 and had two children. Soon he became the personal assistant of Carlo Alessandro Canesi, a leading figure and later president of Banco Ambrosia ...
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Rinaldo Di Calvi
Rinaldo di Calvi was an Italian Renaissance painter. Born in Calvi dell'Umbria, he learned the craft from his father, Pancrazio Jacobetti. His works are influenced by the painter Lo Spagna. Documents show he painted a gonfalone for the city of Foglia. In 1521, he painted an altarpiece for the chapel of Sant'Antonio di Padova for the Convent of San Bernardo. In 1523, he painted for the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Calvi, where he met the painter Benvenuto da Vasciano. He is best known for his large altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin for the sacristy of the church of San Nicolo in Stroncone (Terni). He likely died from the plague circa 1528.Rassegna d'arte antica e moderna
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Pino Calvi
Pino Calvi (12 January 1930, in Voghera, Pavia – 4 January 1989, in Palazzina di Castana, Pavia) was an Italian pianist, arranger, conductor and soundtrack composer for films and TV series. His song "Accarezzame" was performed by famous Italian artists such as, among others, Roberto Murolo, Ornella Vanoni, Peppino Di Capri, Achille Togliani, Teddy Reno, Fred Bongusto, Gigliola Cinquetti, Paolo Fresu. He became popular in the 1970s for his participation in some RAI TV programs, such as '' Senza Rete'' in Naples, when he was a polite Maestro Maestro (; from the Italian '' maestro'' , meaning "master" or "teacher") is an honorific title of respect (plural: maestros or maestri). The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera, in line with the ubiqu .... Gallery File:Pino Calvi 1959.jpg, Pino Calvi in 1959 Bibliography * Lorenzo Nosvelli - Angelo Vicini: ''Pino Calvi - Il sogno e la musica'' - Edo edizioni Oltrepò - 2003 Refer ...
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Paolo Battista Giudice Calvi
Paolo Battista Giudice Calvi (Genoa, 1490 - Genoa, 27 September 1561) was the 62nd Doge of the Republic of Genoa. Biography Born in Genoa around 1490, his family was dedicated to merchandising, but the young Paolo Battista Giudice Calvi preferred to set his life more on the military branch. His name appears in fact among the naval officers, and then with the appointment of captain, during the crucial phases of 1528 for the "reconquest of independence" of the Republic of Genoa from France. Later he was named among the ambassadors of Genoa present at the meeting in Bologna between Pope Clement VII and Emperor Charles V. He was appointed doge of Genoa with the election of 4 January 1561: the seventeenth in biennial succession and the sixty-second in republican history. His dogate lasted only a little over eight months, the second doge to die in office after Pietro Giovanni Chiavica Cibo in 1558, due to the worsening of his state of health which led to his death on 27 September 15 ...
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Mary Calvi
Mary Calvi (born June 11, 1969) is an American television journalist and author of ''If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love, ''publishing Valentine's Day 2023, which is based on love letters from Gilded Age to and from Roosevelt and his first love, many of which have never been published. Her first book was named'' Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love''. Her research is profiled in the Smithsonian Channel documentary, "George Washington's Secret Love." She is the co-anchor of the daily morning and noon news broadcasts at WCBS-TV in New York City and since July 2020 has been the weekend anchor and a weekday fill-in anchor for the syndicated newsmagazine ''Inside Edition''. Over the course of her career, Calvi has won thirteen New York Emmy Awards. Early life and education Calvi was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. She graduated from Maria Regina High School in Hartsdale NY and ''latin honors, magna c ...
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Lazzaro Calvi
Lazzaro Calvi (1512–1587) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Genoa and trained with his father Agostino Calvi and Perin del Vaga. Older sources claim he lived till the improbable age of 105 years His elder brother Pantaleone (died 1595) was also a painter. They worked together at Genoa and the different cities of the republic, as well as at Monaco and Naples. Pantaleono acting as the decorator for Luzzato's works. They painted a façade of the Palazzo Doria (now Palazzo Spinola). They painted a ''Continence of Scipio'' for a palace in Genoa. Lazzaro, irritated by the success of some of his contemporaries, prompted him to the commission the poisoning of Giacomo Bargone; and he hired persons to vilify the works of the ablest painters of the time, and to extol his own. While engaged in these schemes, he was engaged to paint the ''Birth and Life of St. John the Baptist'', together with Andrea Semini and Luca Cambiaso Luca Cambiaso (also known a ...
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Alessandro Calvi
Alessandro Calvi (born 1 February 1983) is a freestyle swimmer from Voghera, Italy, who was a member of team that won the silver medal in the men's 4×100 metres freestyle relay at the 2007 World Championships. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates .... References Profile 1983 births Living people Italian male swimmers Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Italy People from Voghera Italian male freestyle swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Universiade medalists in swimming M ...
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Laura M
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Jacopo Alessandro Calvi
Jacopo Alessandro Calvi (23 February 1740 – 15 May 1815) was an Italian painter and art critic who painted sacred and historical subjects in a late-Baroque style. Biography He was born in Bologna. He became deaf at the age of eight years, and due to his short stature, he was nicknamed ''il Sordino''. He trained with Giuseppe Varotti and later with Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti, from whom he also learned poetry. Among Calvi's writing are: *Verses and Prose in quarto about a series of paintings owned by the Marquis Filippo Hercolani. Bologna 1780. *''La Certosa di Bologna descritta nelle sue pitture''. Bologna 1793 by Luigi Crespi in 1772; with notes and corrections by Calvi. *''Notizie della vita e delle opere del Cav. Gian Francesco Barbieri, detto il Guercino da Cento''. Bologna 1808. *''Memorie della vita e delle opere di Francesco Raibolini, detto il Francia''. Bologna 1812. Calvi painted in the cloister of the church of San Michele in Bosco San Michele in Bosco is a r ...
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