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Corti
Corti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (1822–1876), Italian anatomist (see also Organ of Corti) *Antonio Corti (born 1963), Argentine boxer *Axel Corti (1933–1993), Austrian writer and film director * Bonaventura Corti (1729–1813), Italian priest and naturalist *Claudio Corti (climber), Italian mountaineer *Eugenio Corti (1921–2014), Italian novelist * Horacio Pietragalla Corti *Jean Corti (1929–2015), Italian-French accordionist and composer *Jesse Corti, American voice actor *Lodovico, Count Corti (1823–1888), Italian diplomat *Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929–1996), Canadian physician and international aid worker See also *Monchio delle Corti, a municipality in the Province of Parma, Italy *José Corti, a Paris library and publishing house *Organ of Corti The organ of Corti, or spiral organ, is the receptor organ for hearing and is located in the mammalian cochlea. This highly varied strip of epithelial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organ Of Corti
The organ of Corti, or spiral organ, is the receptor organ for hearing and is located in the mammalian cochlea. This highly varied strip of epithelial cells allows for transduction of auditory signals into nerve impulses' action potential. Transduction occurs through vibrations of structures in the inner ear causing displacement of cochlear fluid and movement of hair cells at the organ of Corti to produce electrochemical signals.The Ear Pujol, R., Irving, S., 2013 Italian anatomist (1822–1876) discovered the organ of Corti in 1851. The structure evolved from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucille Teasdale-Corti
Lucille Teasdale-Corti (January 30, 1929 – August 1, 1996) was a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996. Despite considerable hardship, including civil war and the AIDS epidemic, she cofounded with her husband a university hospital in the north of Uganda. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, on 30 January 1929, Lucille Teasdale was the fourth of seven children. Her father was a generous butcher in Montreal’s working-class, East End. He kept a massive twelve-foot shotgun to ward off intruders, and used it on his wife and children. In 1941, she entered the Catholic high school belonging to one of the first congregations of nuns established in Canada and dedicated to education. Upon hearing testimony from some nuns who had worked as missionaries in China, she decided, at 12 years of age, to become a doctor "in the Indies." She won a scholarship to enter the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Medicine in 1950. In her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Corti
Eugenio Corti (21 January 1921 – 4 February 2014) was an Italian writer born in Besana in Brianza. After participating in the Italian retreat from Russia in World War II, and a period of recovery, he joined the regular Italian army in southern Italia, to fight the German along with the Allies. Based on these experiences, he wrote ''Few Returned'' and ''The Last Soldiers of the King.'' His seminal work, however, is '' The Red Horse'', a 1000-page novel again based on his experiences and those of his fellow Italians during and after the Second World War. It was voted the best book of the 1980s in a public survey in Italy and has been translated into eight languages, including Japanese. It has had thirty-four editions since it was first published in May 1983. Awards and other initiatives In summer 1994, a poll promoted by the newspaper ''Avvenire'' revealed that Corti was the most popular Christian writer in Italy. Corti received the international award of the Golden Medal for Merit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Corti (climber)
Claudio Corti (1928 – 3 February 2010) planetmountain.com, accessed 5 February 2010 was a mountain climber from , . He is most famous for his 1957 effort to climb the 1938 route on the North Face of the Eiger, during which his party was stranded and a massive rescue operation was organized. Corti became the first person to be successfully rescued from the Face from above, but his partner, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti
Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (15 June 1822 – 2 October 1876) was an Italian anatomist. He born at Gambarana, near Pavia in 1822. Education A famous friend of Corti's father, Antonio Scarpa, may have kindled his boyhood interest in anatomy and medicine. As a medical student he enrolled first at the University of Pavia. Corti's favorite study there was microanatomy with Bartolomeo Panizza and Mario Rusconi. In 1845, against paternal wishes, Corti moved to Vienna to complete his medical studies and to work in the anatomical institute of Joseph Hirtl. There he received the degree in medicine in 1847 under the supervision of professor Hyrtl, with a thesis on the bloodstream system of a reptile. Career He was then appointed by Hyrtl to be his Second Prosector. With the outbreak of the 1848 Revolution he left Vienna, and after brief military service in Italy made visits to eminent scientists in Bern, London, and Paris. At the beginning of 1850 Corti had received the invitation of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Corti
Jesse Corti (born July 3, 1955) is an American actor and theater director best known for playing Courfeyrac in the original Broadway show ''Les Misérables'' and for voicing LeFou in ''Beauty and the Beast''. Career Corti also voiced the Spanish Dignitary in '' Frozen'' and Mr. Manchas in ''Zootopia''. He has appeared in numerous feature films, and in several popular TV series such as '' 24'', ''Heroes'', ''Desperate Housewives'', ''The West Wing'', ''Judging Amy'', ''Law & Order'' and many more. In 1990, he received a Clio Award for his Drug Free America commercial. Corti has also directed various stage productions in Los Angeles. Personal life Corti was previously married to Laura Lyn Deberardino, whom he wed in 1986. Laura was killed a year later in a 1987 collision between an Amtrak train and a Conrail freight train in Chase, Maryland. At that time, Laura Corti had been returning to New York City after having seen her husband perform in ''Les Misérables'' at the Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Corti
Axel Corti (born ''Axel Fuhrmanns''; 7 May 1933 – 29 December 1993) was an Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host. Life He was born in Paris. His father was a businessman of Austrian and Italian descent, his mother was from Berlin. From German-occupied France, he and his mother were brought to safety in Switzerland by his father, a member of the Resistance who died in 1945. After World War II, he moved to Italy, where he took on the surname Corti, and finally began to study German and Romance philology at the University of Innsbruck. Corti worked at public Radio Innsbruck from 1953 onwards, from 1956 to 1960 as head of the literature and radio drama department of the Tyrolean ORF regional radio. He then turned to a career as an assistant director at the Vienna Burgtheater and worked as a director at Theater Oberhausen and Theater Ulm as well as with Peter Brook in London. Called up to return to public broadcasting upon a major restructuring of the ORF radio prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Corti
José Corti is a bookshop and publishing house located in Paris, France, and was founded in 1925. It is named after its founder, José Corticchiato (14 January 1895 – 25 December 1984). José Corticchiato started his business by publishing the work of his surrealist friends that included the founder André Breton, Paul Éluard, and Louis Aragon. José Corti's bookshop is located in the Latin Quarter in Paris, at 11 Rue Médicis, 75006 Paris (VIème). The firm was the lifelong publisher of French author Julien Gracq, and owns the publishing rights to Jan Potocki's masterpiece ''The Manuscript Found in Saragossa''. Its motto is , which means "Nothing Commonplace". At the end of 2016, the bookshop at 11 rue de Médicis closed. It reopened in February 2017 under the name "Librairie des éditeurs associés", which still houses the Corti publishing collection, as well as other independent publishers. In 2023, Marie de Quatrebarbes and Maël Guesdon took over the management of the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodovico, Count Corti
Count Luigi Corti (24 October 1823 – 19 February 1888), Italian diplomat, was born at Gambarana in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (present-day Province of Pavia). Biography Early involved with Benedetto Cairoli in anti-Austrian conspiracies, he was exiled to Turin, where he entered the Piedmontese foreign office. After serving as artillery officer through the campaign of 1848, he was in 1850 appointed secretary of legation in London, whence he was promoted minister to various capitals, and in 1875 ambassador to Constantinople, representing Italy at the 1876 Constantinople Conference. pp. 215-216 Called by Cairoli to the direction of foreign affairs in 1878, he represented the Kingdom of Italy in the Congress of Berlin, but unwisely declined Lord Derby's offer for an Anglo-Italian agreement in defence of common interests. At Berlin he sustained the cause of Greek independence, but in all other respects remained isolated, and excited the wrath of his countrymen by returning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonaventura Corti
Bonaventura Corti (26 February 1729 – 3 February 1813) was an Italian Jesuit priest and naturalist who contributed to studies on microscopic organisms including the rotifers, ciliates and algae. He coined the word "plantanimal" for plant-like organisms which moved and which could be revived from desiccation through the addition of water. Corti was born in Viano in the landed family of Giulio and Vittoria Bondioli but orphaned at an early age, he was taken care of by a relative who initiated him into priesthood in 1740. He studied at the Jesuit seminary of Reggio Emilia where he took an early interest in science. He was ordained in 1754 and became a teacher of metaphysics and geometry at the seminary. In 1757 he took an interest in comets. He succeeded Lazzaro Spallanzani at the Collegio di San Nazario in Reggio Emilia in 1768. In 1771 he took an interest in microscopic organisms looking at the flow of fluid (protoplasmic streaming) within Charophyte algae. He also examined the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Corti
Jean Corti (1929 – 25 November 2015) was an Italian-French accordionist and composer. He was the accompanist of Jacques Brel for six years, from 1960 to 1966. Career Corti composed several songs, either alone (''Les Bourgeois''), with Brel and Gérard Jouannest ('' Les Vieux'', ''Madeleine'', ''The Toros''), or with Gerard Jouannest (''Titine''). He regularly collaborated with the group Têtes Raides during the mid-1990s, and group members persuaded him to release his own albums, such as ''Fiorina''. In 2000, he played the song ''Né Dans les Rues'' with the French reggae singer Pierpoljak. Discography Albums with Jacques Brel * ''Marieke'' (1961) * '' Olympia 1961'' (1962) * '' Les Bourgeois'' (1962) * '' Olympia 1964'' (1964) * '' Les Bonbons'' (1966) * ''Ces gens-là ''Ces gens-là'' ( en, Those people) is the ninth studio album by Jacques Brel. Also known as ''Jef'', it was released in 1966 by Barclay (80323). The album was reissued on 23 September 2003 under the title ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monchio Delle Corti
Monchio delle Corti (Parmigiano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about west of Bologna and about southwest of Parma, including part of the Appennino Parmense. The Monte Sillara Monte Sillara is the highest peak in the Appennino Parmense, a sub-chain of the northern Apennines ( Appennino Tosco-Emilano) in the province of Parma, northern Italy. It has an altitude of 1,861 m. The Sillara is located at the boundary ..., at , is the highest peak in the province. Sights include the medieval church of Sts. Lawrence and Michael, reconsecrated in 1536. References External links Official website Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna {{EmiliaRomagna-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
