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Eugenia Romanelli
Eugenia Romanelli (born March 11, 1972) is an Italian author and journalist. Biography Romanelli was born in Rome on March 11, 1972. She is the eldest daughter of philosophy teacher, Maria Cristina Marinelli, and historian, Raffaele Romanelli. Due to her father's professional responsibilities she later moved to Florence. She was joined in a civil union with La Repubblica journalist Rory Capelli by Monica Cirinnà. The couple have a daughter. The 2014 court ruling that recognises the double parenthood of the same-sex couple was the second of its kind to be handed down in Italy. It was signed by Judge Melita Cavallo, after the first official technical report on this subject matter written in Italy. After gaining her high school diploma in Classics in 1990, she enrolled in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Florence. In 1997 she obtained her degree in Modern History. She then enrolled in the School of Journalism at the Tor Vergata University in Rome. In 2000, she bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Romanelli, Scrittrice E Giornalista Italiana
''Eugenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,100 species occur in the New World tropics, especially in the northern Andes, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Forest (coastal forests) of eastern Brazil. Other centers of diversity include New Caledonia and Madagascar. Many of the species that occur in the Old World have received a new classification into the genus ''Syzygium''. All species are woody evergreen trees and shrubs. Several are grown as ornamental plants for their attractive glossy foliage, and a few produce edible fruit that are eaten fresh or used in jams and jellies. Taxonomy The genus was named in honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy. Many species new to science have been and are in the process of being described from these regions. For example, 37 new species of ''Eugenia'' have been described from Mesoamerica in the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Staino
Sergio Staino (born 8 June 1940) is an Italian comics author, satirist and film director. Biography Staino was born at Piancastagnaio, in the province of Siena. After graduating in architecture, he moved to Scandicci. His comics debut was with Bobo, an autobiographical character, published in the magazine ''Linus'' starting from 1979. In the 1980s he collaborated with the newspapers ''Il Messaggero'' and ''L'Unità'', for which he still works. In 1986 he founded the satirical magazine ''Tango''. From 1987 to 1993, he also directed satirical TV shows for Rai 3, such as ''Teletango'' and ''Cielito Lindo''; in this period he also directed two movies, ''Cavalli si nasce'' (1989) and ''Non chiamarmi Omar'' (1992). Staino is a member of the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. In 2016 he published his autobiography ''Io sono Bobo'' (Della Porta) written with journalists Fabio Galati and Laura Montanari. On 8 September of the same year he becomes the new editor of L'Unità ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Rei
Marina Rei (born 5 June 1969), is an Italian singer and songwriter. Biography Born in Rome as Marina Restuccia, daughter of Vincenzo "Enzo" Restuccia, drummer of the orchestra of Ennio Morricone and turnist, at 18 Rei started to dedicate herself to live music, performing in some of the best known Roman clubs. At the time she also appeared as backing vocalist and dancer in several television shows of RAI and Canale 5. In 1991, Rei began to record dance songs under the name of Jamie Dee. In 1995 she adopted her actual stage name and released "Sola" and "Noi", that marked a change on her style and that were fairly successful. In 1996 she took part at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Al di là di questi anni" (later published in English with the title ''Because of you''), ranking third in the category "Nuove proposte" and also winning the ″Mia Martini″ Critics Award. She later come back to the Festival in 1997, 1999, 2005 and 2008. In 1997 she won the ''Un disco per l'e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rancore
Rancore (born Tarek Iurcich on 19 July 1989) is an Italian rapper proficient in freestyle. The rapper's father is from Croatia and his mother from Egypt. Career Iurcich was born in Rome in 1989 to a Croatian father and an Egyptian mother; began his musical career in Rome in 2004, at the age of fourteen. During his first year of infrequent writing the Roman hip hop scene and realizes the first texts without confrontation, relying only on the little he has been able to listen to occasionally. Get to know the hip hop environment thanks to Phat Roma, an improvisation event that he attends on a weekly basis. Here he has the opportunity to perform his first songs live, in front of a critical audience, to try the first freestyle, accompanied by Andy, with whom he will record his first song "Tufello talenti" and introducing himself as Lirike Taglienti. Rancore's first album, entitled ''Segui me'', was released in August 2006 and achieved some success thanks also to the winnings that Ranc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Bollani
Stefano Bollani (born 5 December 1972) is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter. He has worked with such musicians as Gato Barbieri, Chick Corea, Bill Frisell, Sol Gabetta, Richard Galliano, Egberto Gismonti, Lee Konitz, Bobby McFerrin, Pat Metheny, Caetano Veloso, Phil Woods, Hector Zazou and has recorded more than 15 albums with trumpeter Enrico Rava. Bollani has performed with several symphonic orchestras (Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others) and with directors such as Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Harding, Kristjan Järvi, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda and Antonio Pappano. He has also played with Italian pop-rock artists and has participated in and hosted TV and radio shows. Currently, he has published 49 albums alone (31 studio). Biography Early life Born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Veronesi (writer)
Sandro Veronesi (born 1959) is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (''Il resto del cielo'', 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. He has since published five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplays, and television programs. Veronesi has twice been awarded Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega: in 2006 for his novel and in 2020 for his novel ''The Hummingbird'' (''Il colibrì''). Works ''Il resto del cielo'' consists of twenty-five short compositions, none longer than fourteen verses, that speak to the general problematics of communication, all of which is underscored by a constant coincidentia oppositorum. Seemingly simple verses, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Panarello
Melissa Panarello (born 3 December 1985, in Catania, Italy), alias Melissa P., is an Italian writer. Biography Panarello grew up in the small Sicilian town of Aci Castello, near Catania in Italy. In 2003, she became famous for authoring the erotic novel, ''100 colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire'' (translated into English by Lawrence Venuti Lawrence Venuti (born 1953) is an American translation theorist, translation historian, and a translator from Italian language, Italian, French language, French, and Catalan language, Catalan. Career Born in Philadelphia, Venuti graduated from Te ... as ''One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed'', 2004). The novel, written in diary form, focuses on the narrator's extreme sexual life during her teenage years and is loosely based on the author's own experiences. She gave birth to her first child in October 2019. In December 2022, she got married and is expecting her second child. Books * * References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosella Postorino
Rosella Postorino (Reggio Calabria, 1978) is an Italian author. In 2013, she won the ''International Prize Città di Penne'', and in 2018 she won the Rapallo Carige Prize and the Premio Campiello. Life Born in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy, in 1978, Postorino was raised in San Lorenzo al Mare, Liguria, northern Italy. In 2001 she moved to Rome. Postorino published her first story "In una capsula" (In a Capsule) in 2004 in the anthology ''Ragazze che dovresti conoscere'' (Girls you Should Know). In 2007 she released her first novel, ''La stanza di sopra'' (The Room Upstairs). Her 2018 novel ''Le assaggiatrici'' ('' At the Wolf's Table'') won the 56th Campiello Prize, the Luigi Russo Prize, the Rapallo Prize and the Premio Vigevano Lucio Mastronardi. Postorino has also translated and edited works by Marguerite Duras. Works Novels * ''La stanza di sopra'', Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2007 * ''L'estate che perdemmo Dio'', Turin: Einaudi, 2009 * ''Il corpo docile'', Turin: Einau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edoardo Albinati
Edoardo Albinati (born 11 October 1956) is an Italian novelist. Life and career Born in Rome, after Albinati started his career as a translator, a script adaptor and as editor of the magazine ''Nuovi Argomenti''. He made his debut as a writer in 1988, with a collection of short stories titled ''Arabeschi della vita morale''. His 1989 novel ''Il polacco lavatore di vetri'' was adapted into a film, '' The Ballad of the Windshield Washers'' by Peter Del Monte. From the mid-1990s he works at the Rebibbia prison as a teacher. In 2002 and in 2004 he took part to two UN High Commission for Refugees missions in Afghanistan and Chad, also writing several reports published by the newspapers ''Corriere della Sera'' and ''La Repubblica''. In 2004 Albinati won the Viareggio Prize with the novel ''Svenimenti''. In 2006 he co-wrote with actor Filippo Timi the novel ''Tuttalpiù muoio'', which later Timi adapted into a stage drama. In 2015 he collaborated with Matteo Garrone for the screenpla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romana Petri
Romana Petri (born Romana Pezzetta, Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ..., 10 September 1955) is an Italian writer. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for ''Alle case venie'' in 1998. References Italian women novelists 20th-century Italian women writers 20th-century Italian novelists 21st-century Italian novelists 21st-century Italian women writers Writers from Rome 1955 births Living people {{Italy-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Morante
Laura Morante (born 21 August 1956) is an Italian film actress. Life and career Morante was born in Santa Fiora, province of Grosseto (Tuscany), the daughter of lawyer and playwright Marcello Morante, who was the son of Irma (née Poggibonsi) (a schoolteacher of Jewish descent) and Francesco Lo Monaco, from Sicily, and brother of the novelist Elsa Morante. Laura's mother is Maria Bona Palazzeschi. Originally a dancer, Morante started her acting career on stage at 18 years old, in the theatrical company of Carmelo Bene. She made her film debut in ''Oggetti Smarriti'' (''Lost Belongings'')., directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci, whose brother would direct the second film in which Morante would appear, ''La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo'' (''The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man''). She eventually had her Breakout role, breakout thanks to Nanni Moretti, who gave her the title role in ''Bianca (1984 film), Bianca''. After her marriage to French actor Georges Claisse, Morante moved to Paris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Buy
Margherita Buy (born 15 January 1962) is an Italian actress. She is a seven-time David di Donatello Awards winner and seven-time Nastro d'argento winner. Overview After a long period of studying at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her breakthrough role in Duccio Tessari's ''Una grande storia d'amore'' (1986), which was followed by roles in Daniele Luchetti's two projects ''It's Happening Tomorrow'' (1988) and '' The Week of the Sphinx'' (1990). For the last one, she won the best performance by an actress in a leading role award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Afterwards, she played in Sergio Rubini's '' The Station'' for which she won her first David di Donatello Prize and the Silver Ribbon as best leading actress, in 1990. After ''The Station'', she became a premier star featuring in Italian box office hits like Carlo Verdone's '' Damned the day I met you'' (1992). She teamed up again with director Daniele Luchetti for '' The Storm Is Coming'' (1992) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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