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Fiorenza (name)
Fiorenza is an Italian word which is used as a feminine given name and a surname. Related male name is Fiorenzo. People with the name include: Given name * Fiorenza Bassoli (1948–2020), Italian politician * Fiorenza Calogero (born 1978), Italian musical artist *Fiorenza Cedolins (born 1966), Italian soprano *Fiorenza Cossotto (born 1935), Italian mezzo-soprano * Fiorenza Donato, Italian physicist * Fiorenza Micheli, Italian-American marine ecologist * Fiorenza Sanudo (died 1371), Duchess of the Archipelago *Fiorenza I Sanudo, Lady of Milos (died after 1397) * Fiorenza Sommaripa (died 1518), Lady of Paros Surname *Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938) is a Romanian-born German, Roman Catholic feminist theologian, who is currently the Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Life She was born Elisabeth Schüssler on 17 April ... (born 1938), Romanian-German theologian *Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, American theo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorenzo
Fiorenzo is a masculine Italian given name. The feminine derivative is Fiorenza. Notable people with the name include: * Fiorenzo (African saint), 5th-century North African bishop and saint *Fiorenzo Aliverti (born 1957), Italian cyclist *Fiorenzo Angelini (1916–2014), Italian cardinal *Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris (1831–1924), Italian general *Fiorenzo Carpi (1918–1997), Italian composer and pianist *Fiorenzo Chatrer (born 1987), Dutch footballer *Fiorenzo Di Giovanni (born 1967), French rower *Fiorenzo di Lorenzo (c. 1440 – 1522), Italian painter *Fiorenzo Fiorentini (1920–2003), Italian actor, writer, composer, screenwriter and radio personality *Fiorenzo Magni (1920–2012), Italian cyclist *Fiorenzo Marini (1914–1991), Italian fencer *Fiorenzo Maschera (1540–1584), Italian composer *Fiorenzo Serra (1921–2005), Italian film director *Fiorenzo Stolfi (born 1956), Sammarinese politician *Fiorenzo Tomea (1910–1960), Italian painter See also *Saint-Florent, Haute-Cors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorenza Sommaripa
Fiorenza Sommaripa (died after 1520) was a Latin noblewoman of the Aegean islands. Life She was a daughter of Nicolò I Sommaripa and his spouse, a woman from the da Pesaro family, whose first name is unknown. She married in 1479 the Venetian Zuan Francesco Venier, Co-Lord of Cerigo (died 1518). Her brother Crusino succeeded their father in Paros at the latter's death ca. 1505.Karl Hopf, ''Chroniques gréco-romanes inédites ou peu connues'', 1873, p.483 He died without issue in late 1517 or early 1518; since he hated her, he had bequeathed the island to a relative, Polimeno Sommaripa. p.306-307 The island of Paros was thus disputed among several pretenders, including the Duke of Naxos who claimed it as its overlord after the extinction of its successoral line. However, the Republic of Venice did not wish to see Paros incorporated with Naxos and took it from Naxos claiming that Venice would hold it until the matter of succession could be solved by a senate of experts in Venice. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence (given Name)
Florence is an androgynous French and English given name. It is derived from the French version of (Saint) ''Florentia'', a Roman martyr under Diocletian. The Latin ''florens, florentius'' means "blossoming", verb ''floreo'', meaning "I blossom / I flower / I flourish". Florence was in olden times also used as a translation of the Latin version Florentius, and may be used in this context as a male given name. A notable increase use of the name came in the aftermath of Florence Nightingale, a nurse in British hospitals during the Crimean War and is usually considered the founder of modern nursing. She was given the name because she was born in Florence, Italy. Contrary to popular belief, Nightingale was not the first person to be given this given name in the English speaking world. The wife of Richard de Wylughby, of London, was Florence, in 1349 A later example was Florence Wrey (d.1718), wife of John Cole of the Irish County of Fermanagh (married in 1707), who was herself named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vito Fiorenza
Vito Fiorenza (1927 – March 23, 2015) was a photographer born in New York. Career Fiorenza first visited Sicily in the late 1940s, then in the mid-1950s, Fiorenza and his wife traveled back to Italy; some of these photographs were reproduced in his self-published volume ''Sicilian Town''. In 1954 he won a Village Camera Club prize and in 1955 three of his Sicilian scenes were included in Edward Steichen’s blockbuster ''The'' ''Family of Man'' exhibition, one of them, a group portrait of a Sicilian family, was grouped with others in the central display, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which subsequently toured the world. His Sicilian photographsPopular Photography, December 1956, Vol. 39, No. 6 were shown again in 1967 at the Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Fiorenza
Nicola (or Nicolò) Fiorenza (c. 1700-1710 – 13 April 1764) was a Neapolitan violinist and composer of the late Baroque period. Life Biographical information on Fiorenza's schooling and early life is very scarce; he must have been born in the city of Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ... somewhere in the very beginning of the 18th century. Nevertheless, we can be sure that he received his training at the conservatory of S. Maria del Loreto in his hometown under Giancarlo Cailò and Francesco Barbella. The first verifiable date in Fiorenza's career is 1726, the year in which his ''sinfonia'' in A minor for flute, two violins and basso continuo was published. From 1734 to 1740 Fiorenza played, maybe as a violinist, in the ''Cappella Reale'' and with the orchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Fiorenza
Joseph Anthony Fiorenza (January 25, 1931 – September 19, 2022) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the seventh bishop and the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in Texas, serving from 1985 to 2006. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of San Angelo in Texas from 1979 to 1984. Biography Early life and education Joseph Fiorenza was born in Beaumont, Texas, the second of four sons of Anthony and Grace (née Galiano) Fiorenza. His father immigrated from Sicily at age 10, while his mother was the daughter of Sicilian immigrants. He attended St. Anthony High School in Beaumont, where he was football team captain and senior class president. Fiorenza skipped a grade and graduated from high school at age 16 in 1947. He then studied at St. Mary's Seminary in La Porte, Texas. Priesthood Fiorenza was ordained to the priesthood on May 29, 1954. His first assignment was as assistant pastor of Queen of Peace Parish in Houston, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza is an American theologian who currently holds the post of Charles Chancey Stillman Research Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Biography Born Francis Fiorenza in 1941, as a young man he entered St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland, from which he earned the degree of Master of Divinity, even though he did not intend to pursue ordination. In 1963 he won a fellowship to study theology in Germany under the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner at the University of Munich. Because that university would not accept doctoral candidates to work under Rahner, he instead enrolled at the University of Münster, where he eventually earned the degree of Doctor of Theology, having studied under Johann Baptist Metz and Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI). It was while studying there that he met his future wife, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, a feminist Catholic theologian. Rahner transferred to Münster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938) is a Romanian-born German, Roman Catholic feminist theologian, who is currently the Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Life She was born Elisabeth Schüssler on 17 April 1938 in Cenad, in the Banat region of the Kingdom of Romania, where she belonged to the Banat Swabian German-speaking Catholic population of an ethnically mixed community. As the Russian army advanced through Romania in late 1944, her parents fled with her to southern Germany. They subsequently moved to Frankfurt, where she attended local schools. She then received her ''Theologicum'' (Licentiate of Sacred Theology) from the University of Würzburg in 1963, her thesis published in German as ''Der vergessene Partner'' (''The Forgotten Partner'') in 1964. She subsequently earned the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from the University of Münster. In 1967 she married Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, an American theologian who was studying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorenza I Sanudo, Lady Of Milos
Fiorenza Sanudo (died after 1397) was lady of the island of Milos in Frankish Greece. She was a daughter of Marco Sanudo, Lord of Milos. She married in 1383 Francesco I Crispo Francesco I Crispo, Patrizio Veneto (died 1397) was the tenth Duke of the Archipelago through his marriage and the will of Venice. Francesco Crispo was probably born in Verona. He was Lord of Milos, thus a vassal to the Duke of Naxos, as well as ..., who became the tenth Duke of the Archipelago, and had issue. ReferencesAncestry of Sultana Nur-Banu (Cecilia Venier-Baffo)* People of the Duchy of the Archipelago Fiorenza 01 People from Milos 14th-century Venetian people Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 14th-century women rulers 14th-century Italian women 14th-century Greek people 14th-century Greek women Duchesses of the Archipelago {{Italy-noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorenza Bassoli
Fiorenza Bassoli (9 August 1948 – 5 July 2020) was an Italian politician. Bassoli was born in Reggiolo on 9 August 1948. She began her political career affiliated with the Italian Communist Party, and later joined its successors the Democratic Party of the Left, Democrats of the Left and the Democratic Party. She was a member of the council of Sesto San Giovanni, then served as the first woman mayor of the comune between 1985 and 1994, succeeding Libero Biagi. Bassoli was subsequently elected to the Regional Council of Lombardy, in office from 1995 to 2005. She then served in the Senate from 2006 to 2013. Bassoli died in Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ... on 5 July 2020, aged 71. References 1948 births 2020 deaths Politicians of Emilia-Romagna It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorenza Sanudo
Florence Sanudo or ''Fiorenza'' (died 1371), was Duchess of the Archipelago in 1362–1371, in co-regency with her second spouse. Life Florence Sanudo was the daughter and successor of John I, Duke of the Archipelago. She first married Giovanni dalle Carceri, Lord of Euboea (d. 1358). She succeeded her father in 1362 as a young widow with only one son, and attracted many suitors, for which reason W. Miller labelled her "the Penelope of Frankish Greece". Her marriage was politically very crucial and the subject of much diplomatic activity. She was given a proposal from the Vignoso, Genoese Lord of Chios. This marriage was vetoed by the Republic of Venice, who regarded it of the utmost importance that she married a Venetian so as to prevent any potential anti-Venetian establishment in the Duchy. Florence was openly warned by Venice not to bestow her hand to any enemy of Venice, when there were so many Venetian consorts available. Her mother assured the Venetians that her daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorenza Micheli
Fiorenza "Fio" Micheli is an Italian-American marine ecologist and conservation biologist. Early life and education Micheli was born and raised in Italy. Upon graduating from the University of Florence, where she studied animal behavior, she accepted a job collecting intertidal animals for a nature documentary. Following this, she enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her PhD and at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for her post-doctoral research. In 1996, Micheli obtained a grant from the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries to settle a long-standing dispute between rival oyster and clam fishers. Career Upon completing her formal education, Micheli accepted a faculty position at the University of Pisa. She later accepted an assistant professor of Biological Sciences faculty appointment at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station. While serving in this new role, she continued her research into the impact of human exploit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |