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Francesco Maria Mirabella
Francesco Maria Mirabella ( Alcamo, 4 April 1850 – Alcamo, 27 December 1931) was an Italian historian, educator, and poet. Biography He was born in Alcamo (in the province of Trapani): his father was Ludovico Mirabella, an ebonist and sculptor, among whose works there is a wooden statue of Saint Francis of Assisi in the Church of Saint Anne. After ending his studies with Jesuits, he attended the Royal Gimnasium getting the Teacher Training School diploma. So he started his school career first at Erice, then at Castellammare del Golfo and later in Alcamo. When he was 39 he married with Maria Culmone and they had five children.Andrea Chiarelli, Dario Cocchiara, Alcamo nel XX secolo volume I, Alcamo, Campo, 2005. Mirabella was a teacher for several years, and since 1903 he was a head teacher. He also had a very great passion for the historical studies on the territory of Alcamo, and published more than 50 works such as essays and books on the literature and art of Sicil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcamo
Alcamo (; scn, Àrcamu, italic=no) is the fourth-largest town and commune of the Province of Trapani, Sicily, with a population of 44.925 inhabitants. It is on the borderline with the Metropolitan City of Palermo at a distance of about 50 kilometres from Palermo and Trapani. Nowadays the town territory includes an area of 130,79 square kilometres and is the second municipality as for population density in the province of Trapani, after Erice. Alcamo is bounded by the Tyrrhenian Sea on the north, Balestrate and Partinico on the east, Camporeale on the south and Calatafimi-Segesta and Castellammare del Golfo on the west. Its most important hamlet is Alcamo Marina at about 6 kilometres from the town centre. Together with other municipalities it takes part in the ''Associazione Città del Vino'', the movement ''Patto dei Sindaci'', ''Progetto Città dei Bambini'', ''Rete dei Comuni Solidali'' and ''Patto Territoriale Golfo di Castellammare''. Geography Territory Alcamo is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homonym
In linguistics, homonyms are words which are homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of pronunciation), or homophones (equivocal words, that share the same pronunciation, regardless of spelling), or both. Using this definition, the words ''row'' (propel with oars), ''row'' (a linear arrangement) and ''row'' (an argument) are homonyms because they are homographs (though only the first two are homophones): so are the words ''see'' (vision) and ''sea'' (body of water), because they are homophones (though not homographs). A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs ''and'' homophoneshomonym ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'' at dictionary.com – that is to say they have identical spelling ''and'' pronunciation, but with different meanings. Examples are the pair ''stalk'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1850 Births
Year 185 ( CLXXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lascivius and Atilius (or, less frequently, year 938 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 185 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Nobles of Britain demand that Emperor Commodus rescind all power given to Tigidius Perennis, who is eventually executed. * Publius Helvius Pertinax is made governor of Britain and quells a mutiny of the British Roman legions who wanted him to become emperor. The disgruntled usurpers go on to attempt to assassinate the governor. * Tigidius Perennis, his family and many others are executed for conspiring against Commodus. * Commodus drains Rome's treasury to put on gladiatorial spectacles and confiscates property to suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Deaths
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Schoolteachers
Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Italian, regional variants of the Italian language ** Languages of Italy, languages and dialects spoken in Italy ** Italian culture, cultural features of Italy ** Italian cuisine, traditional foods ** Folklore of Italy, the folklore and urban legends of Italy ** Mythology of Italy, traditional religion and beliefs Other uses * Italian dressing, a vinaigrette-type salad dressing or marinade * Italian or Italian-A, alternative names for the Ping-Pong virus, an extinct computer virus See also * * * Italia (other) * Italic (other) * Italo (other) * The Italian (other) * Italian people (other) Italian people may refer to: * in terms of ethnicity: all ethnic Italians, in and outside of Italy * in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Alcamo
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenzo Regina
Monsignor Vincenzo Regina ( Alcamo, 9 May 1910 – Alcamo, 3 August 2009) was an Italian presbyter and historian. Biography He was a figure of the clergy in Alcamo. He was ordained a priest in December 1932, when Alcamo still belonged to the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo. He devoted himself to believers and studies, he also taught Letters at the Gymnasium for three years and dogmatic theology in the seminary of Mazara del Vallo from 1937 until 1944.Lo frutto, i 150 anni del Liceo Classico di Alcamo, a cura di Francesco Melia e Gaetano Stellino p.80; ed. A protagonist of the last 80 years in the history of Alcamo (as archpriest and parson for 47 years), he gave a stimulus to the Azione Cattolica and other parish associations. He was a consultant of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and published several tens of books on the history, arts and representative figures of Alcamo, handing down, in this way, a patrimony of information for young peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Navarra (poet)
Nino Navarra ( Alcamo, 1885 – Kars Plateau, 6 June 1917) was an Italian poet, writer and orator. Biography He was born from Leonardo Navarra and Cecilia Triolo of the barons of Sant'Anna, and died during World War I in 1917, at the age of 32. He was an infantry second lieutenant who fell for his country and Silver Medal for Military Valor.Andrea Chiarelli, Dario Cocchiara, Alcamo nel XX secolo, Alcamo, Campo, 2005. At the age of twenty (in 1905), he published a collection of sonnets entitled ''L'annunziazione'', which easily brings back to the name of his model, Gabriele D'Annunzio. As he received several approvals for his compositions, Navarra left his home town to attend the Roman literary circles, where he met D'Annunzio, in the period when the poet was also successful with his dramatic works.. He collaborated with the Italian cultural magazine ''Scena illustrata'' and with the French periodical ''Eclair''. In Paris the poet acquired estimate for his oratorical sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Cataldo
Carlo Cataldo (7 June 1933 – 19 August 2021) was an Italian historian, poet, and teacher. Biography Cataldo was born in Alcamo, Italy. From childhood he was fond of reading and studying historical events; in 1943, when schools were closed because of war in the district of Alcamo, he devoted himself to read the newspaper ''Giornale di Sicilia'' (which every day was bought by his father) to know the most important news. He read ''Divina Commedia'' and ''I promessi sposi'' that he found in his father's library.Baldassano Erina, Cataldo Carlo: Ricordando i 16 lustri di Carlo Cataldo; Alcamo, edizioni Campo, 2013 He consulted books of history and copied news on patriots, scientists and other personalities, then he listed and made an inventory, adding data taken from other sources of information. Since a boy he showed his literary talent, by publishing at only 14 years old a short poem in dialect, dedicated to the patroness saint of Alcamo and entitled ''A Maria SS. di li Miracul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastiano Bagolino
Sebastiano Bagolino was a Latin poet and scholar. Biography He was born in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, from Giovan Leonardo, a painter, and Caterina Tabone.F. M. Mirabella, Cenni degli alcamesi rinomati in scienze, lettere, arti, armi e santità, Alcamo, tip.Surdi & C., 1876. His father, probably native of Verona, painted several frescoes for the churches in Alcamo. His mother came from a family quite rich and that gave the poet a fairly comfortable life.Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 5, Treccani, 1963. When a child he was introduced to painting and music, but he had a real aptitude for humanities: he studied letters and poetics with the famous poet and jurisconsult ''Marco Gentilucci'' from Spoleto who had com to Alcamo by chance and covered several important offices from 1576 to 1594. Bagolino's natural ability in writing Latin lines procured him the admittance, even very young, into the house of Francesco Moncada, prince of Paternò, patron of severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comprehensive School
A comprehensive school typically describes a secondary school for pupils aged approximately 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria, usually academic performance. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive schools were introduced as state schools on an experimental basis in the 1940s and became more widespread from 1965. They may be part of a local education authority or be a self governing academy or part of a multi-academy trust. About 90% of English secondary school pupils attend a comprehensive school (academy schools, community schools, faith schools, foundation schools, free schools, studio schools, university technical colleges, state boarding schools, City Technology Colleges, etc). Specialist schools may also select up to 10% of their intake for aptitude in their specialism. A sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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