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Castellani
Castellani is a surname of Italians, Italian origin meaning 'castellan'. Notable people with the name include: * Aldo Castellani (1874–1971), Italian pathologist and bacteriologist * Andrea Castellani (born 1972), former Italian rugby union player * Bruto Castellani (1881–1933), Italian film actor of the silent era * Cesar Castellani (died 1905), Maltese architect * Christopher Castellani (b. 1972), American novelist * Daniel Castellani (b. 1961), Argentine volleyball player * Daniela Castellani (born 1975), Italian softball player * Enrico Castellani (1930–2017), Italian artist * Giovanni Castellani (1888–1953), Italian archbishop and Vatican diplomat * Giulio Giacomo Castellani (1619–1694), Roman Catholic Bishop of Cagli * Gonzalo Castellani, Gonzalo Pablo Castellani (born 1987), Argentine footballer * Iván Castellani (born 1991), Argentine volleyball player * John Castellani (1926–2021), American basketball player * Leonardo Castellani (1899–1981), Argentine au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky Castellani
Attilio N. "Rocky" Castellani (May 26, 1926 – August 31, 2008) was an American middleweight boxer. He was the top rated contender for the world middleweight crown in 1954 when he fought Bobo Olson and in July 1955 when he lost to Sugar Ray Robinson. These two exceptional fights were featured on ESPN's "Classic Fights of the Century"."Attillio Castellani (Obit)", ''The Times Leader'', Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pg. 6, 11 Sep 2008 Castellani was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, to Attilio Castellani (1889–1974) and Rose Isopi Castellani (1896–1938), who later moved to Margate City, formerly South Atlantic City. He began boxing as a teenager at local gyms, and at a younger age would box opponents to entertain neighborhood kids. As a young man, he fought as a Marine in the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. He boxed in the Marine Corps and won the title of "Champion of All China and Guam". After his discharge from the Marines he embarked on his professional box ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castellani (goldsmiths)
The Castellani were a family of goldsmiths, collecting, collectors, Antique, antique dealers and pottery, potters who created a business "empire" active in Rome during the 18th and 19th centuries. History Fortunato Pio Castellani (1794–1865) is regarded as the forefather of the family. In 1814, Fortunato opened his own workshop in Rome. The progenitor specialized in the creation of jewels imitating the ones that then came to light from the necropolis of Etruria, that were found in the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum or that could be observed in the Campana collection. Initiating a partnership with Michelangelo Caetani, Duke Michelangelo Caetani, a lover of fine arts and a designer of jewels himself, allowed Fortunato Castellani to quickly work for the most illustrious aristocratic families, initially Roman and at a later date even European. Fortunato also imported luxurious goldsmith works from the rest of Europe to be resold in Rome. Fortunato had three sons. His sons A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Castellani
Ryan Michael Castellani (born April 1, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Monarchs of the American Association of Professional Baseball. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Oakland Athletics. Born in the United States, he has represented the Italy national baseball team. Amateur career Castellani attended Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. He was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the second round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft and signed. Professional career Colorado Rockies Castellani made his professional debut that year with the Tri-City Dust Devils and spent the whole season there, going 1–2 with a 3.65 ERA in ten starts. Castellani spent 2015 with the Asheville Tourists where he was 2–7 with a 4.45 ERA in 27 starts, and 2016 with the Modesto Nuts where he posted a 7–8 record with a 3.81 ERA in 26 starts. In 2017, he pitched for the Hartford Yard Goats, pitching to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Castellani
Christopher David Castellani (born 1972) is the author of four novels and artistic director of the creative writing non-profit GrubStreet. Family and education Christopher Castellani, the son of Italian immigrants, was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Salesianum School in 1990. He holds a B.A. in English literature from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in English literature from Tufts University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Boston University. He resides in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been married to Michael Borum since May 21, 2004. Novels and other publications Castellani is the author of four novels. His first book, ''A Kiss from Maddalena'', won the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award. That novel and his next two, ''The Saint of Lost Things'' and ''All This Talk of Love'', are devoted to the same Italian-American family and constitute, in one reviewer's phrase, "something of an opera buffa of the immigrant experience". He is also the author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Castellani
Aldo Castellani, KCMG (8 September 1874 – 3 October 1971) was an Italian pathologist and bacteriologist A bacteriologist is a microbiologist, or similarly trained professional, in bacteriology -- a subdivision of microbiology that studies bacteria, typically Pathogenic bacteria, pathogenic ones. Bacteriologists are interested in studying and learnin .... Life and achievements Castellani was born in Florence and educated there, qualifying in medicine in 1899. He worked for a time in Bonn and joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London in 1901. As bacteriologist with the Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission, Commission on Sleeping Sickness in 1902, he went to Entebbe, Uganda with George Carmichael Low and Cuthbert Christy. He demonstrated the cause and means of transmission of sleeping sickness, discovered the spirochete of yaws, and did other original work in bacteriology and in parasitic diseases of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Castellani
Enrico Castellani (4 August 1930 – 1 December 2017) was an Italian artist. He was active in Italy from the early 1960s, and associated with Piero Manzoni and . Castellani is known for his "paintings of light". He studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure in Belgium, then settled in Milan. Castellani collaborated with artists such as Getulio Alviani, Piero Manzoni, and others. In 2010 he received the Praemium Imperiale for painting. He died on 1 December 2017 at his home, the Castello Orsini of Celleno, in the province of Viterbo in Lazio it, Laziale , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographics1_title2 .... References * ''Enrico Castellani, New Angular, Double Angular, 2009-2011'' in "MozArt" - edited by Bruno Corà, Perugia, 3Arte - Ali&no editrice, n.1, 2012, p. 6-14 - ISBN 978-88-6254-092-6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Castellani
Raymond Jay Castellani (February 13, 1933 – October 18, 2021) was an American character actor. As a former alcoholic, he founded the Frontline Foundation, which serves meals to the homeless on the Los Angeles' Skid Row. Castellani was born in Albany, New York on February 13, 1933. In 1995, Castellani received the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Bill Clinton at a White House ceremony. During the early 1990s, President George H. W. Bush included Castellani among his "thousand points of light." He attended The Albany Academy, class of 1952. Upon graduation, he spent a semester at Springfield College. During this time he received a draft notice, and then served as a Marine during the Korean War. During the 1950s and 1960s, Castellani acted in numerous plays, television shows, and films, including ''Bonanza'', '' Lawman'', and '' Dragnet''. Often he played villains. As Castellani's alcoholism increased, his career suffered and his acting skills eroded. Despite this, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonzalo Castellani
Gonzalo Pablo Castellani (born 10 August 1987 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Unión La Calera as a midfielder. Club career Castellani started his professional career with local Ferro Carril Oeste, competing in Primera B Nacional with the Buenos Aires outfit. On 2 January 2010 he moved to Spain and signed for Villarreal CF, being assigned to its B team in Segunda División; he failed to make any appearances for the club during the season, due to the team's excessive number of foreign players. Castellani made his official debut for Villarreal B on 16 January 2011, starting in a 0–2 away loss against Recreativo de Huelva. On 18 December he first appeared in La Liga with the main squad, replacing Cani in the 64th minute of a 1–2 defeat at CA Osasuna. On 6 July 2012, after both squads' relegation, Castellani joined Godoy Cruz in his native country. Two years later he moved to Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine sports cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Castellani
John Louis Castellani (August 23, 1926 – May 11, 2021) was an American attorney and a former basketball coach. He coached the Minneapolis Lakers in the NBA during the 1959–1960 season, their last before relocating to Los Angeles. Prior to his short coaching stint with the Lakers, Castellani was the head coach at Seattle University from 1956 to 1958, and took the Chieftains to the 12-team National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in his first year. With Elgin Baylor starring in his lineup, Castellani led the 1958 team to the NCAA title game in Louisville, Kentucky, but lost to the Kentucky Wildcats, led by head coach Only a month after the championship game, NCAA violations came to light concerning airfare bought for recruits Ben Warley and George Finley. The result was that Castellani resigned under fire on April 21, Baylor left for the NBA, and Seattle was given a two-year postseason ban. Castellani returned to coaching for one year as head coach for the Lakers in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Castellani
Leonardo Castellani (November 16, 1899March 15, 1981) was an Argentine priest, essayist, novelist, poet and theologian. Born in Reconquista, Santa Fe, Castellani was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1930, he studied Philosophy and Theology in Rome. Back in his country, he worked in the Catholic press and went into politics as a representative of Catholic nationalism. He was among the candidates of the ''Alianza Nacionalista'' party for a seat in Congress in the 1946 elections. Between 1946 and 1949 he clashed with his own Society of Jesus, who promptly sent him to a two-year confinement in Manresa (Spain). After his petition to attend his brother's funeral was refused, Castellani escaped from Manresa returning to Argentina. He was then expelled from the order and suspended from his functions as a priest, which were repristinated in 1966. Castellani has left a considerable bulk of essays, novels, tales and poetry. Among the wide range of subjects he tackled, his religious writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Castellani
Renato Castellani (4 September 1913 in Varigotti, Liguria – 28 December 1985 in Rome) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Early life Son of a representative of Kodak, he was born in Varigotti, a hamlet at the time of Final Pia, which became Finale Ligure (Savona) in 1927, where his mother had returned from Argentina to give birth to his son. He spent his childhood in Argentina, in the city of Rosario. After 12 years, he returned to Liguria and resumed his studies in Genoa. He moved to Milan, where he graduated from the Polytechnic University in architecture. In Milan he met Livio Castiglioni and together they aired for GUF (Fascist University Group) ''L'ora radiofonica'' and ''La fontana malata'' by Aldo Palazzeschi, experimenting with new techniques for sound editing on radio. Career He began collaborating in 1936 as a military consultant for '' The Great Appeal'', a film by Mario Camerini. He worked as a film critic and worked - as a screenwriter or assistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Castellani
Stefano Castellani (born 16 January 1992) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ... for Aglianese. Career On 17 August 2013 Castellani was signed by Renate. Ahead of the 2019/20 season, Castellani joined Aglianese. almanaccocalciotoscano.it, 1 July 2019 References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Castellani, Stefano 1992 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
