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Durante (musical)
Durante is both an Italian surname and a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Adriano Durante (1940–2009), Italian professional road bicycle racer * Andrew Durante (born 1982), Australian football (soccer) player * Annalisa Durante (1990–2004), Italian murder victim * Anthony Durante (1967–2003), American professional wrestler * Carlo Durante (1946–2020), Italian paralympic athlete *Charlotte Durante (born 1944), American businesswoman and community activist * Checco Durante (1893–1976), Italian film actor *David Durante (born 1980), American artistic gymnast *Eli Durante, retired Brazilian football (soccer) player * Francesco Durante (1684–1755), Neapolitan composer * Francesco Durante (1844–1934), Italian politician and surgeon *Henry Durant founding president of the University of California *Jimmy Durante (1893–1980), Italian-American entertainer * Margaret Durante (born 1988), American country music singer *Mark Durante, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Durante
Adriano Durante (24 July 1940 – 23 June 2009) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Major results ;1963 :Giro del Lazio :Giro del Piemonte :Milano–Vignola :Giro di Campania : Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stage 8 ;1964 :Giro della Romagna ;1965 :Col San Martino :Coppa Bernocchi :Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stages 4 and 9 :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 13 ;1966 :Milano–Vignola ;1967 :Aiello del Friuli ;1968 :Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato ;1970 :Milano–Vignola The Milano–Vignola was a professional road bicycle race held annually in the Province of Modena, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in t ... External links *Official Tour de France results for Adriano Durante Italian male cyclists 1940 births Italian Tour de France stage winners Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners 2009 deaths Sportspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Durante
Mark Durante is an American musician and songwriter who is based in Chicago. Career Durante began playing guitar in 1966 after being inspired by the fretwork of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Merle Travis. Ten years later, Durante founded a rock combo he named "Public Enemy". Durante's band bears no relationship to the hip-hop musicians of the same name. The band broke up when Durante expressed a desire to play punk rock. In the early 1980s, Durante played guitar with The Aliens and the punk band The Next Big Thing. In the late 1980s, he played with the Slammin' Watusis who recorded two albums for Epic Records. It was during this time Mark started using the "durantula" moniker given to him by Blue Watusis drummer Marcus David, later to be trademarked. Although a third album by the Watusis was produced by Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, it was not released when Sony bought the label and dropped the band. Durante then played guitar with Revolting Cocks on their 1990 U.S. tour and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian-language Surnames
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante (other)
Dante most commonly refers to Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), a 13th–14th century Florentine poet. Dante may also refer to: Places * Dante (crater), a lunar crater * Dante (Turin Metro), a station of the Turin Metro * Dante, South Dakota, a town in South Dakota * Dante, Virginia * Dante Park, a park in New York City * Hafun, a town in Somalia known as Dante during Italian colonial rule People * Dante (name), a given name and surname (and list of people with that name) Art, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Dante (''Devil May Cry''), the protagonist of the video game franchise ''Devil May Cry'' * Dante (The Walking Dead), a fictional character from The Walking Dead * Dante, the unstable and largely inaccessible star system serving as the Marauder base in '' Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos'' * Dante, the leader of the Mountain Men in '' The 100'' TV series * Dante Hicks, a character in the View Askewniverse series created by writer/director Kevin Smith, por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durant (other)
Durant may refer to: People * Durant (surname) Fictional characters * Durant (Pokémon), a species in ''Pokémon Black'' and ''White'' * ''John Durant'' (General Hospital), a character on the soap opera ''General Hospital'' Places * Durant, Florida, USA * Durant, Iowa, USA * Durant, Mississippi, USA * Durant, Polk County, Nebraska, USA * Durant, Oklahoma, USA Fictional places * Durant, Absaroka County, Wyoming, USA; fictional setting of the '' Longmire'' television series and novels by author Craig Johnson * Durant, Nebraska, USA; fictional setting for the eponymous episode of the TV show ''Hell on Wheels'' Education * Durant Public School District, Durant, Mississippi, USA * Durant Independent School District, Durant, Oklahoma, USA * Durant (Iowa) Community School District, Cedar County, Iowa, USA *Durant High School (Plant City, Florida) in Plant City, Florida *Durant High School (Iowa) in Durant, Iowa *Durant High School (Mississippi) in Durant, Mississippi *Durant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durante (grape)
Coda di Volpe is a white Italian wine grape variety that has been historically grown in the Campania region around the town of Naples. It is often confused with another white Italian wine grape, Emilia, that share many of the same synonyms as Coda di Volpe.J. Robinson ''Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes'' pg 58 Oxford University Press 1996 Relationship to other grapes For many years, the white Campanian variety Caprettone was thought to be a clone of Coda di Volpe but DNA analysis in the early 21st century showed that the two grapes were distinct varieties and not closely related. Likewise, Coda di Pecora was also discovered to be a distinct variety. Also, while it shares the synonym ''Pallagrello'' with the Campania varieties Pallagrello bianco and Pallagrello nero Pallagrello nero is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown in Campania. The grape has a long history in the region and, like the similarly named Pallagrello bianco, was one of the varieties planted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ''Commedia'') and later christened by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to the most educated readers. His ''De vulgari eloquentia'' (''On Eloquence in the Vernacular'') was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as '' The New Life'' (1295) and ''Divine Comedy'' helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durante Alberti
Durante Alberti (c. 1556 – 1623) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Borgo San Sepolcro. He was active mainly in his native town and Rome, where he arrived during the papacy of Gregory XIII. He was also called ''Durante del Nero''. His father was Romano Alberti. His son Pierfrancesco was also a painter and engraver. His brother, Cosimo, was a sculptor, engraver, and painter who died in Rome in 1580. His daughter Chiara was a painter. He was related to the sculptor Alberto, and the painters Alessandro, Giovanni, and Cherubino Alberti. He is said to have collaborated with Leonardo Cugni, also from San Sepolcro. He painted for the church of San Girolamo della Carità, one of the chapels in fresco and an altar-piece in oil, representing the ''Virgin and child with Saints Bartolomeo and Alessandro''. For Santa Maria dei Monti, he painted an ''Annunciation''. He also painted the 'Martyr's Painting' in the Main Chapel of the Venerable English Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viviana Durante
Viviana Durante (born 8 May 1967) is an Italian ballet dancer, considered one of the great dramatic ballerinas of recent times. She was a principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Teatro alla Scala and K-Ballet. She is the artistic director of English National Ballet School and of the Viviana Durante Company. Early career Durante was born in Rome and started ballet there at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma aged six. Spotted by ballerina Galina Samsova, she joined the lower school of the Royal Ballet School at White Lodge in Richmond Park, London. A year later, she featured in a Thames Television documentary entitled ''I really want to dance''. Shortly after graduating to the upper school, aged 17, she joined the Royal Ballet Company. Two years later, she attracted national attention when she took over as Odette/Odile in mid-performance, never having been taught the role. At 21, she became the company's youngest principal dancer, and a year later, in 1990, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvestro Durante
Silvestro Durante (died 1672) was an Italian church musician and composer. Durante was a student of the composer Giacomo Carissimi. From 1645 to 1662 he was ''maestro di cappella'' of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, although in December 1637 he was already referred to as the "maestro" of church music at the Basilica, and in 1664 he was still called ''maestro di capella''. Some of Durante's works are in the Düben collection in the Uppsala University Library The Uppsala University Library ( sv, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek) at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, consists of 11 subject libraries, one of which is housed in the old main library building, Carolina Rediviva. The library holds books an .... References 1672 deaths Italian male classical composers Italian Baroque composers Year of birth unknown 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Durante
Richard John Joseph Durante (born 17 August 1930 at New Westminster, British Columbia - 11 September 2003) was a Liberal Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a supervising principal by career. In the 1968 general election, Tom Barnett was initially declared the winner of the Comox—Alberni riding over Durante by a three-vote margin. But the Liberals demanded a recount whose result gave Durante a nine-vote lead, therefore giving Durante the seat in Parliament. However, Barnett and his party's riding association filed a court challenge that concluded on 3 February 1969 when two British Columbia Supreme Court judges ruled that twelve Canadian Forces } The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; french: Forces armées canadiennes, ''FAC'') are the unified military forces of Canada, including sea, land, and air elements referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Forc ... members had voted despite being ineligible. The result was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicandro Durante
Nicandro Durante (born 13 September 1956) is a Brazilian businessman who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's largest tobacco company by sales, from 2011 to 2019. In September 2022 he was appointed as temporary CEO of Reckitt Benckiser. Early life Durante was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to Italian parents. He went on to earn a bachelor's degree in finance, economics and business administration from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Career Durante joined BAT's Brazilian subsidiary Souza Cruz in 1981. In January 2008, he was appointed BAT's chief operating officer (COO), and in March 2011 became the company's first non-British CEO. During his initial tenure as CEO, BAT's shares began to climb in value, and had doubled in price by 2016. However, in 2018 BAT's share price collapsed, returning to levels last seen in 2011; it appeared that Durante had misjudged the FDA's attitude towards menthol cigarettes, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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