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Civita (surname)
Civita is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * César Civita (1905–2005), Italian Argentine publisher * Roberto Civita (1936–2013), Brazilian businessman and publisher *Victor Civita (1907–1990), Brazilian businessman, publisher and philanthropist *Ramiro Civita, Argentine cinematographer See also *Tullio Levi-Civita Tullio Levi-Civita, (, ; 29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made signific ... (1873–1941), Italian mathematician {{surname, Civita Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Civita
César Civita, born Cesare Civita (September 4, 1905 — April 9, 2005) was an American- Argentine publisher, who in 1936 became general manager of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in Italy. Following passage of the Race Laws in 1938, he emigrated with his family to New York to escape the discriminatory restrictions since they were at risk for being Jewish. He moved with his family again in 1941 to Buenos Aires, becoming Walt Disney's representative in Argentina and founding Editorial Abril that year. By the 1960s, his publishing house produced nine magazines. His brother Victor Civita emigrated to Brazil, where he established Editora Abril in São Paulo in 1949. It developed into Grupo Abril, one of the largest publishing houses in the country. Early life and education He was born Cesare Civita in New York City to Italian-Jewish parents Vittoria Carpi, an opera singer, and Carlo Civita, a businessman. His younger brothers were Vittorio and Arturo. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Civita
Roberto F. Civita (9 August 1936 – 26 May 2013) was a Brazilian businessman and publisher. Born in Italy, he emigrated at the age of two with his family to New York in 1938 to escape effects of the Race Laws. They moved again to Brazil in 1949, where his father Victor Civita founded Editora Abril, a publishing house. After college and graduate school in the United States, the younger Civita entered the family business in the 1960s. He helped its expansion and development as Grupo Abril, becoming one of the largest publishing companies in Brazil. Beginning in 1982 he became president, and took over all operations in 1990. He became chairman of the Board of Directors and Editorial Head of Grupo Abril. He has also headed related education foundations and participated in leadership of the Lauder Institute and the Wharton Advisory Board. He was part of the Board of Overseers of the International Center for Economic Growth (founded in 1985 with headquarters in Panama). Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Civita
Victor Civita (February 9, 1907 - August 24, 1990) was an Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher. His family emigrated from Italy to New York in 1938 following passage of the Race Law. In 1949 Civita relocated his family to Brazil, where he established the publishing house Editora Abril in São Paulo, which developed into Grupo Abril, one of the largest publishing houses in the country. Early life and education Civita was born in New York, to Italian parents Vittoria Carpi and Carlo Civita (his mother was an opera singer and his father a businessman). The family returned to Italy, settling in Milan, where Victor grew up with his older brother César and younger brother Daniel. Their father was Jewish. After school and college, Victor followed his older brother into the publishing business. In 1938 the extended family of parents, grown sons and their families, all left Italy because of enactment of the Race Laws against Jews under the Fascist government of Benito Mussoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramiro Civita
Ramiro Civita (born in Buenos Aires, 16 December 1966) is an Argentine cinematographer (sometimes credited as Ramiro Aisenson) who has been active since 1994 and primarily made documentaries and feature films in Argentina, Spain, and Italy, working with directors such as Fernando León de Aranoa, Daniel Burman, and Silvio Soldini. For his camera work on the Italian mystery thriller ''The Girl by the Lake'', directed by Andrea Molaioli, Civita was nominated for several film awards and won the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography. Filmography * '' Buenos Aires Vice Versa'' (1996) * '' Bajo un mismo techo'' (1996) * ''El Juguete rabioso'' (1998) * '' Fin de siglo'' (1998) * ''Siesta'' (1998) * ''Garage Olimpo'' (1999) * '' Waiting for the Messiah'' (2000) * '' Tornando a casa'' (2001) * '' Saluzzi - Ensayo para bandoneon y tres hermanos'' (2001) * '' ¿Sabés nadar?'' (2002) * ''Todas las azafatas van al cielo'' (2002) * '' La Quimera de los héroes'' (2003) * '' Ciudad de Dio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tullio Levi-Civita
Tullio Levi-Civita, (, ; 29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made significant contributions in other areas. He was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, the inventor of tensor calculus. His work included foundational papers in both pure and applied mathematics, celestial mechanics (notably on the three-body problem), analytic mechanics (the Levi-Civita separability conditions in the Hamilton–Jacobi equation) and hydrodynamics. Biography Born into an Italian Jewish family in Padua, Levi-Civita was the son of Giacomo Levi-Civita, a lawyer and former senator. He graduated in 1892 from the University of Padua Faculty of Mathematics. In 1894 he earned a teaching diploma after which he was appointed to the Faculty of Science teacher's college in Pavia. In 1898 he was appointed to the Padua Chair of Rational Mechanics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
