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Fosca Spadaro
Fosca may also refer to: Literature and film * ''Fosca'' (novel), an 1869 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti **''Passion of Love'', a 1981 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola adapted from Tarchetti's novel *Raimon Fosca, a man cursed to live forever ''All Men Are Mortal'', a 1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir Music * Fosca (band), a British band active 1997–2009 * ''Fosca'' (opera), an 1873 opera by Antônio Carlos Gomes based on Luigi Capranica's 1869 novel La festa delle Marie. *Fosca, character in ''Passion'', based on the Tarchetti's novel Geography *Fosca, Cundinamarca, a town in Colombia *Castell de la Fosca, an ancient Iberian settlement *La Fosca La Fosca is a neighbourhood of the town of Palamós and a beach on the Costa Brava, located in the comarca of Baix Empordà and the province of Girona in Catalonia, Spain. La Fosca is situated between the port of Palamós and the fishing settlemen ..., a small village in the Mediterranean Costa Brava See also * Santa Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fosca (novel)
''Fosca'' is an 1869 Italian language novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, initially published in serial form. ''Fosca'' served as the basis for Ettore Scola's 1981 film '' Passione d'amore'' as well as Stephen Sondheim's 1994 stage musical '' Passion''. Due to the success of the stage adaptation, an English translation by Lawrence Venuti was published in 1994 as '' Passion: A Novel'' ( Mercury House). at Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential econo ... References 1869 novels Italian novels adapted into films Novels first published in serial form {{1860s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passion Of Love
''Passion of Love'' ( it, Passione d'amore) is a 1981 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola and was adapted from the 1869 novel '' Fosca'' by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and served as the inspiration for the 1994 Broadway musical '' Passion'' by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Plot In Turin in the winter of 1862, the unmarried Giorgio Bacchetti, a good-looking cavalry captain with a distinguished combat record, is involved in a passionate affair with Clara, a sweet and beautiful married woman. Their meetings end when he is transferred to an isolated outpost on the frontier. The officers there eat and socialise in the house of their colonel, who has given a home to a handicapped cousin of his. This is a young woman named Fosca, suffering not only from a range of physical and psychological problems but also strikingly ugly. Yet she is also sensitive and cultured, and desperate for sympathetic male company. Encouraged by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Men Are Mortal
''All Men Are Mortal'' (french: Tous les hommes sont mortels) is a 1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir. It tells the story of Raimon Fosca, a man cursed to live forever. The first American edition of this work was published by The World Publishing Company. Cleveland and New York, 1955. It was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name. Plot The beautiful, successful, but also vain and egotistical actress Regine meets the strange Italian Raymond Fosca in France in the 1930s. At first he is reluctant to make her acquaintance, but then he seems to fall in love with Regine and soon reveals his secret to her: he is immortal. Regine does not understand the dimension of this revelation and at first only thinks about how she herself could attain immortality through the Romance with him - in his memory. Fosca then withdraws from her, but when she seeks him out and confronts him, he tells her his story. Born the son of a patrician in the (fictional) 13th-century northern Italian town of Carm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fosca (band)
Fosca was a British band, combining indie pop songwriting with synthpop instrumentation. Initially, the band was formed by bassist Peter Theobalds and Orlando guitarist/lyricist Dickon Edwards plus Orlando drummer David Gray, before settling into being a vehicle for Edwards and his songs. Over the next decade, Edwards fronted several (predominantly female) lineups of the band including guitarist Charley Stone (formerly of Gay Dad). They released a total of three studio albums between 2000-2008. The band was named after the protagonist in Stephen Sondheim's '' Passion'' based upon the translation of Lawrence Venuti of the novel ''Fosca'' by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, 1869. They received press coverage from The Independent. History The original version of Fosca was founded in the summer of 1997 as a hard rock side project by Dickon Edwards, then concurrently the guitarist and lyricist for the Romo band Orlando, together with Orlando's live drummer David Gray and a bass player n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fosca (opera)
''Fosca'' is an opera seria in four acts by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes to an Italian-language libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni based on 's 1869 novel ''La festa delle Marie''. Performance history The opera premiered at La Scala in Milan on 16 February 1873. It was a failure because of a dispute between lovers of bel canto and supporters of Richard Wagner, Wagnerian music-drama. Gomes revised it in 1877, and the premiere of the new version (this time described as a melodramma) on February 7, 1878, also at La Scala, was a success. Since then, performances of the opera, mostly in Brazil, have been rare. The most recent productions, in both cases of the revised version, were given at the Teatro Amazonas, Manaus, in May 1998, and by Wexford Festival Opera in October of the same year. In 2016, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo has made a new production of the opera, staged in December. Roles Synopsis :Place: Istria and Venice :Time: The 10th century Act 1 ''The pir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passion (musical)
''Passion'' is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's 1981 film '' Passione d'Amore'', and its source material, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 1869 novel '' Fosca''. Central themes include love, sex, obsession, illness, passion, beauty, power and manipulation. ''Passion'' is notable for being one of the few projects that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived, along with ''Sweeney Todd'' and '' Road Show''. Set in Risorgimento-era Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel's homely, ailing cousin. Background and history The story originally came from a 19th-century novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, an experimental Italian writer who was prominently associated with the Scapigliatura movement. His book ''Fosca'' was a fictionalized recounting of an affair he'd once had with an epileptic woman when he was a soldier. Sondheim fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fosca, Cundinamarca
Fosca is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Eastern Province, Cundinamarca, Eastern Province, part of the Departments of Colombia, department of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca. It is located in the Ubaque Valley with the urban centre at a distance of from the capital Bogotá at an altitude of . Fosca borders Cáqueza and Une in the north, Quetame in the east, Guayabetal in the south and Gutiérrez, Cundinamarca, Gutiérrez in the west. History In the time before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, Spanish conquest, Fosca was inhabited by the Mau or Maco and Guaypi or Buchipa indigenous tribe. The Muisca people, Muisca, living north from the area, had a Muisca warfare#Fortifications, fortification of guecha warriors stationed in Fosca to defend themselves from the Guayupe people who inhabited the region south of Fosca.Rodríguez Montes, 2002, p.1639 About the discovery and foundation of Fosca three different versions are given; Nikolaus Federmann would have founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castell De La Fosca
Castell de la Fosca or Punta del Castell is an ancient Iberian settlement or oppidum sited on a rocky promontory at the north end of the beach called Platja de Castell, about ENE of Palamós ( Baix Empordà), on the Costa Brava. The settlement, which seems to have been inhabited from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD, was protected by a wall and two square towers. Archaeologists, first in the 1930s and 1940s, and now in a series of excavations begun in 2001, have discovered 64 storage pits and two water cisterns, as well as pottery, amphorae (both locally made and imported), millstones, weights for fishing nets, lamps, agricultural tools and surgical instruments, coins, pieces of bronze, Iberian inscriptions, and the bases of two columns. Gallery File:Castell de la Fosca.jpg, Ruined stone columns File:Castell de la Fosca panorama.jpg, View of the promontory File:Poblado ibérico de Castell - Palamós.JPG, The entrance from Platja de Castell See also *Indigetes T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fosca
La Fosca is a neighbourhood of the town of Palamós and a beach on the Costa Brava, located in the comarca of Baix Empordà and the province of Girona in Catalonia, Spain. La Fosca is situated between the port of Palamós and the fishing settlement of . The town is by-passed by the C31 which connects the coastal towns of the central Costa Brava with Girona. Palafrugell lies to the north and Castell-Platja d'Aro to the south. La Fosca is located at the northern end of a large bay, which is popular for swimming, sailing and windsurfing. Throughout most of the year very few people live there, but in summer the population of La Fosca grows quickly. La Fosca beach is known for the ''Roca Fosca'', a large rock in the middle of the beach. Just to the east of the beach is the Castell de Sant Esteve de Mar, a ruined castle that predates the establishment of Palamós. The GR 92 long distance footpath, which runs the length of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, crosses the beach at La Fosca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fosca (other) , also dedicated to Fusca of Ravenna
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Santa Fosca may refer to: * Fusca of Ravenna (died c. 250), a child saint of the Roman Catholic Church * Santa Fosca, Venice, a church named after and dedicated to Fusca of Ravenna * Church of Santa Fosca, a different church in Venice that is part of the Torcello Cathedral The Church of Santa Maria Assunta (''basilica di Santa Maria Assunta'') is a basilica church on the island of Torcello, Venice, northern Italy. It is a notable example of Late Paleochristian architecture, one of the most ancient religious edifice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
