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Cattaneo
Cattaneo ( is an Italian surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 81.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Cattaneo'' were residents of Italy (frequency 1:1,232), 9.0% of Argentina (1:7,742), 2.8% of Switzerland (1:4,802), 1.9% of the United States, 1.8% of France (1:59,595) and 1.2% of Brazil (1:290,914). In Italy, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,232) only in one region: Lombardy (1:223). People * Adelardo Cattaneo, (?–1225), cardinal * Alberto Cattaneo (born 1967), Italian mathematician * Annibale Cattaneo (?–1584), Italian Roman Catholic bishop * Bartolomeo Cattaneo (1883–1949), Italian archbishop and diplomat * Carlo Cattaneo (admiral) (1883–1941), Italian admiral * Carlo Cattaneo (mathematician) (1911–1979), Italian mathematician * Carlo Cattaneo (writer) (1801–1869), Italian nationalist, writer and philosopher * Cristoforo Cattaneo (16th century), Italian humanist author * Danese Cattaneo (1512–1572), Tuscan sculp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Cattaneo
Alberto Sergio Cattaneo (26 June 1967 in Milan) is an Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist, specializing in geometry related to quantum field theory and string theory. Biography After attending '' Liceo scientifico'' ''A. Volta'' in Milan, Cattaneo studied physics at University of Milan, graduating in 1991. In 1995 he obtained a PhD in theoretical physics at the same university; his thesis, entitled ''Teorie topologiche di tipo BF ed invarianti dei nodi'' (Topological BF theories and knot invariants), was supervised by Maurizio Martellini. Cattaneo worked as a postdoc in 1995-1997 at Harvard University (with Arthur Jaffe) and in 1997-1998 at University of Milan (with Paolo Cotta-Ramusino). In 1998 he moved to University of Zurich's mathematics department as assistant professor and he become full professor in 2003. In 2006 he was an invited speaker, with the talk ''From topological field theory to deformation quantization and reduction'', at the International Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Cattaneo (writer)
Carlo Cattaneo (; 15 June 1801 – 6 February 1869) was an Italian philosopher, writer, and activist, famous for his role in the Five Days of Milan in March 1848, when he led the city council during the rebellion. Early life Cattaneo was born in Milan on 15 June 1801. He was the son of Melchiorre Cattaneo, a goldsmith, and Maria Antonia Sangiorgi. After attending school in Milan he studied law at the University of Pavia, graduating in 1824. A republican in his convictions, during his youth Cattaneo had taken part in the Carbonari movement in Lombardy. He devoted himself to the study of philosophy, with the hope of regenerating Italian people by withdrawing them from romanticism and rhetoric, and turning their attention to the positive sciences. In this period, Cattaneo met philosopher Giandomenico Romagnosi and he "was especially attracted by Romagnosi's emphasis on practical solutions and interdisciplinary work". Developing some intuitions coming from his mentor, Cattaneo ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Cattaneo (admiral)
Carlo Cattaneo (October 6, 1883 – March 29, 1941) was an Italian admiral during World War II. He was killed in the Battle of Cape Matapan. Early life and career Cattaneo was born in Sant'Anastasia, Naples, in 1883, and after attending the Naples Military College he entered the Italian Naval Academy at Livorno in 1902; he graduated in 1906, becoming an ensign. He joined the crew of the battleship ''Ammiraglio di Saint Bon'', with which he took part in the rescue operations after the 1908 Messina earthquake. After becoming a sub-lieutenant, he served on the battleship ''Regina Elena''. He took part in the Italo-Turkish War as commanding officer of a landing party which participated in the occupation of Tripoli; for this action, he was awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valor. In 1913 he was promoted to lieutenant, and during World War I he commanded the torpedo boat ''Orsa'', which served intensely in the southern Adriatic Sea, gaining a Bronze Medal of Military Valor in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazzaro Cattaneo
Lazzaro Cattaneo (Sarzana, Italy, 1560 - Hangzhou, China, 19 January 1640), (), was an Italian Jesuit missionary who invented the first tone markings for Chinese transcription. Early life Cattaneo was born into a noble family at Sarzana, near Genoa, Italy. In 1581, he entered the Collegio di S Andrea of the Society of Jesus in Rome. He removed to Portugal in 1585 where he completed his training and was ordained in 1587. He sailed for the Portuguese colony of Goa, in India, on 1 April 1588, and, by 1589, became superior of the mission at Fishery Coast. Chinese mission Cattaneo joined Matteo Ricci in Shaoguan (formerly Shaozhou), Guangdong, in 1594, after first having spent a year in Macao. He had originally been headed for Japan but was redirected to Macao by the Society of Jesus' Visitor in the Indies, Alessandro Valignano. He accompanied Ricci on his first trip to Peking, arriving on 7 September 1598 in hopes of establishing a mission there, but failed to gain an imperial a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Cattaneo University
The Carlo Cattaneo University ( it, Libera Università Carlo Cattaneo, LIUC) is a proprietary, for-profit university located in Castellanza, Italy. History and profile It was founded in 1991, by around 300 entrepreneurs, as a joint venture between Italian corporations who provided the initial funding and continued to provide support and guidance under the seal of the Industrial Association of the Province of Varese (UNIVA). The university, housed in a restored nineteenth century cotton mill, is organized into three Faculties (Business & Economics, Business Law and Management Engineering). The university is named after Carlo Cattaneo, a nineteenth-century local thinker and economist. Evolution of course offerings: * In 1991, the university opened with an incoming class for the Bachelor of Business Administration (Economia Aziendale). * In 1994, a diploma in Engineering Management was offered. * In 1998, the bachelor's program in Business Law was introduced. Campus Cantoni C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cattaneo
Peter Joseph Cattaneo MBE (born 1 July 1964) is a British filmmaker. He is most known for directing the comedy film ''The Full Monty'', for which he won the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker. Life and career Cattaneo was brought up in Twickenham, London. His father was a London-born animator of Italian descent. After attending London College of Printing for an art foundation course, and Leeds Polytechnic for a BA in Graphic Design (Film), he graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1989, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for '' Dear Rosie'' (1990). He went on to make his feature film debut with ''The Full Monty'' (1997), which was a smash success both in the UK and internationally. The comedy grossed £160,049,344 at the box office on a £3 million budget and Cattaneo received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. Cattaneo has since directed several films including ''Lucky Break'' (2001), ''Opal Dream ''Opal Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattia Cattaneo
Mattia Cattaneo (born 25 October 1990) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . As an amateur, Cattaneo won the Girobio in 2011 for the team. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. Major results ;2009 : 1st GP di Poggiana ;2010 : 9th Coppa della Pace ;2011 : 1st Overall Girobio : 1st Gran Premio Capodarco : 1st GP di Poggiana : Giro Ciclistico Pesche Nettarine di Romagna ::1st Prologue & Stage 3 : 3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir : 5th Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta ;2012 : 1st Ruota d'Oro : 2nd Trofeo Franco Balestra : 3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir : 10th Trofeo PIVA ;2017 : 2nd Overall Tour La Provence ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Classic Sud-Ardèche : 4th Overall Tour de l'Ain : 5th Time trial, National Road Championships : 6th Giro dell'Appennino : 7th Overall Tour of Slovenia : 9th Trofeo Laigueglia ;2018 : 4th Milano–Torino : 5th Time trial, National Road Championships : 6th Giro della Toscana ;2019 : 1st Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Cattan
Seigneur Christophe de Cattan, also called Christopher Cattan (flourished 1530s-1540s, died before 1558), presumed Francophone and Anglophone variants of the Italian name Cristoforo Cattaneo (a form sometimes used for him in current scholarship), was an Italian humanist author of the second quarter of the sixteenth century. Of Italian stock but Genevan origin, he served as a man-at-arms under French command in France, and wrote in French. He is known as the learned author of a work about Geomancy, which was published posthumously in 1558 in Paris as ''La Géomance du Seigneur Christofe de Cattan'', with further printings in 1567 and 1577. Most if not all of what is known about the author derives from information in the book itself. For his authorities Cattan names particularly three Geomantic texts of importance to him. One is the text beginning ''Estimaverunt Indi'', which is identified as a treatise translated by Hugo of Santalla from the Arabic. One is the ''Tractatus Sphaerae' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Cattaneo Della Volta
Leonardo Cattaneo della Volta (1487 - 1572) was the 52nd Doge of the Republic of Genoa. Biography Son of Angelo Cattaneo della Volta and Maria Cattaneo di Quilico, he was born in Genoa around 1487. His noble and needy figure is remembered in the historical records of the Genoese characters for having founded, in a period of maximum famine, the "Officio dei Poveri", made up of a magistrate together with eight Genoese citizens who, together with the parallel construction of numerous public barns, managed to coordinate and therefore provide support to about four thousand needy inhabitants. The first institutional position that Leonardo Cattaneo della Volta held was that of procurator of the Republic from 1533. In 1534, with the fresh appointment of governor, he was designated by the doge Battista Lomellini to guide the overseas territory of Corsica. Returning to Genoa in 1535 after his tenure as governor, a position he held for about two years, he was appointed governor of the Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Cattaneo (mathematician)
Carlo Cattàneo (31 October 1911, San Giorgio Piacentino – 7 March 1979, Rome) was an Italian academic and one of the general relativity theorists and mathematical physicists in the 1960s and 1970s. He made contributions to general relativity theory, fluid mechanics, and elasticity theory. After secondary and university studies in Rome, Cattaneo received a laurea (PhD) in civil engineering in 1934 and a laurea (PhD) in mathematics in 1936 from the University of Rome. In 1938 he was appointed an assistant and in 1940 a docent at the University of Rome. From 1949 to 1957 he was a professor at the University of Pisa. In 1957 he was appointed a professor at the University of Rome, where he worked under the guidance of Tullio Levi-Civita. Cattaneo remained a professor at the University of Rome for the rest of his life. Cattaneo was the author of introductory textbooks on classical mechanics, fluid mechanics and the theory of relativity. His textbooks were widely used in Italy and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gualdo Cattaneo
Gualdo Cattaneo () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 25 km southeast of Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o .... References External links Portale di Gualdo Cattaneo Hilltowns in Umbria Cities and towns in Umbria {{Umbria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci
Simonetta Vespucci (née Cattaneo; 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed ''la bella Simonetta'', was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, and was allegedly the model for many paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, and other Florentine painters. Some art historians have taken issue with these attributions, which the Victorian critic John Ruskin has been blamed for promulgating. Biography Early life and marriage Simonetta Vespucci was born Simonetta Cattaneo 1453 in a part of the Republic of Genoa that is now in the Italian region of Liguria. A more precise location for her birthplace is unknown: possibly the city of Genoa, or perhaps either Portovenere or Fezzano. The Florentine poet Politian wrote that her home was "in that stern Ligurian district up above the seacoast, where angry Neptune beats against the rocks ... There, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
