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Filomena
Filomena is a form of the Greek female given name Philomena. It means "friend of strength" (φιλος (philos) "friend, lover" and μενος (menos) "mind, purpose, strength, courage") or "loved one" (φιλουμενη (philoumene) meaning "loved"). Filomena is the name of one of the storytellers in the frame story of '' The Decameron''. People with the name Filomena * Filomena Barros Dos Reis, East Timorese activist * Filomena Campus, Italian singer * Filomena Cautela, Portuguese presenter * Filomena Costa, Portuguese runner * Filomena Dato, Spanish writer * Filomena Delli Castelli, Italian politician * Filomena Embaló, Bissau-Guinean writer *Filomena Linčiūtė-Vaitiekūnienė, Lithuanian artist *Filomena Margaiz, Mexican politician * Filomena Moretti, Italian guitarist * Filomena Rotiroti, Canadian politician * Filomena Tassi, Canadian politician * Filomena Mascarenhas Tipote, Bissau-Guinean politician * Filomena Trindade, Angolan handball player *Filomena Valenzuela G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Campus
Filomena Campus is a jazz singer, composer, lyricist, academic and theatre director, who was born in Sardinia and since 2001 has been based in London, England."Filomena Campus" Isola Delle Storie, 2 July 2014. Her performance style characteristically fuses jazz, theatre and literature, and she is the founder of the company Theatralia, curating the annual Theatralia Jazz Festival in collaboration with the PizzaExpress Jazz Club in , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Dato
Filomena Dato Muruais (1856 – 1 May 1926) was a Galician feminist and writer in Castilian Spanish and the Galician language. Remaining in Galicia all her life, she joined movements associated with Galician culture and to liberate women from stigmatization. Of the three poetry books published by Spanish women in the 19th century, one was by Dato. Biography Filomena Dato was born in Ourense, 1856. Little or almost nothing is known about Dato's life in a personal sense, beyond the great friendship that she established with her contemporaries Sofía Casanova and Emilia Pardo Bazán. Excluding this, most of her biographical data is related to her social and cultural work. Dato wrote for various magazines and journals, and was awarded prizes. As with Catalan contemporaries, her early writing was in Castilian before she switched to Galician. Her poetic compositions were published in newspapers such as ''El Heraldo Gallego'', ''Galicia Recreativa'' and ''Album Literario.'' She part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Decameron
''The Decameron'' (; it, label=Italian, Decameron or ''Decamerone'' ), subtitled ''Prince Galehaut'' (Old it, Prencipe Galeotto, links=no ) and sometimes nicknamed ''l'Umana commedia'' ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's ''Comedy'' "''Divine''"), is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived of the ''Decameron'' after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in ''The Decameron'' range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's ''Canterbury Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Rotiroti
Filomena Rotiroti (born May 17, 1974) is a Canadian politician. Rotiroti was elected to represent the riding of Jeanne-Mance–Viger in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. She is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; french: Parti libéral du Québec, PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955. The QLP has always been associated with the colour red; e .... ''Montréal Express'', October 30, 2008. Prior to her election to office, she worked as a chief of staff to he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Tassi
Filomena Tassi is a Canadian politician who has served as the Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario since August 31, 2022. A member of the Liberal Party, Tassi represents the riding of Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas in the House of Commons, taking office following the 2015 federal election. She served as the Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Receiver General for Canada from 2021 to 2022, as the Minister of Labour from 2019 to 2021, and as the Minister of Seniors from 2018 to 2019. Education and early career She is of Italian descent, from the regions of Marche and Abruzzo, and raised Catholic. Tassi studied law at the University of Western Ontario, and then practised corporate law for six years. She subsequently left the legal profession and studied philosophy and religious education at the University of Waterloo, and began working as the chaplain at Bishop Tonnos Catholic Secondary School, a job she held unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Embaló
Filomena Araújo Embaló (born 1956) is an Angolan-born Bissau-Guinean writer. She is the first woman in Guinea-Bissau to have published a novel. Biography Filomena Embaló was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1956 to parents from Cape Verde. She moved to Guinea-Bissau as a teenager, in 1975, and became naturalized there. Embaló then studied economics at the University of Reims in France. She holds a doctorate degree. The 1998–1999 civil war in Guinea-Bissau sent Embaló into an identity crisis, which she explores in her first novel, ''Tiara'', published in 1999. The first novel to be published by a Bissau-Guinean woman, ''Tiara'' deals with the fallout of colonialism in a fictionalized African country. It was published by the Instituto Camões The Instituto Camões ( English: ''Camões Institute''), formally, Camões — Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I. P. ( English: ''Camões — Institute for Cooperation and Language, Public Institute''), is a Portuguese inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Trindade
Filomena José Trindade, a.k.a. Filó (born 26 September 1971) is am Angolan retired female handball player. Filó was a member of the Angola women's handball team. At club level, she excelled at Angolan side Petro Atlético, a club with which she won several African club championship titles. Summer Olympics Filó competed for Angola at the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... Summer olympics. Filó is a three-time MVP award winner at the African Women's Handball Championship. Filomena Trindade has currently been serving a term as a member of the parliament for the ruling party, MPLA. References External links * * Sportspeople from Benguela Angolan female handball players 1971 births Living people Olympic handba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Cautela
Filomena Cautela (born 16 December 1984) is a Portuguese television presenter and actress. Cautela started her acting career in the theatre in the year 2000. In 2004, she made her debut in cinema, and in 2005, she was cast as a presenter by MTV Portugal. Career Filomena continued acting for both theatre and cinema whilst her television presenter career took her to different TV stations and new shows. She has been hosting the late prime talk show ''5 Para A Meia-Noite'' on RTP since 2015. Among other projects she was the Green Room presenter on the Portuguese national final for the Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ..., '' Festival da Canção'' in 2017, and was the Portuguese jury spokesperson in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. On 8 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Moretti
Filomena Moretti (born 11 June 1973)Maurice J. Summerfield: ''The Classical Guitar. Its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800'', 5th edition (Blaydon-on-Tyne: Ashley Mark Publishing Co., 2002), p. 202. is an Italian classical guitarist. She was born in Sassari, graduated from the Sassari Conservatory, winning the first prize. After her graduation, she continued her studies with Ruggero Chiesa and won several international competitions: * 1985–1987 Premier Prix and "Mention Spéciale" at the Competition Mondovi * 1991 Premier Prix "Golfo degli Angeli" at the Competition Cagliari * 1992 Second Prize "E. Pujol" at the International Competition of Sassari * 1993 Premier Prix at the International Competition of Stresa; Second Prize at the Competition Fernando Sor in Rome * 1995 Premier Prix et mention spéciale at the International Competition of Alessandria * 1996 Premier Prix at the Competition de l'A.R.A.M. In 1993, she obtained a grant to pursue her studies with Oscar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Costa
Filomena Costa (born 22 February 1985) is a Portuguese long-distance runner. She competed in the marathon event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ... in Beijing, China. References External links * 1985 births Living people Portuguese female long-distance runners Portuguese female marathon runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Portugal Place of birth missing (living people) {{Portugal-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Delli Castelli
Filomena Delli Castelli (28 September 1916 – 22 December 2010) was an Italian politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. She was subsequently elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, serving (with the exception of a six-month spell in 1953) until 1958. Biography Delli Castelli was born in Città Sant'Angelo in 1916. Chamber of Deputies After her father emigrated to America, she was raised by her mother. She studied literature and philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filomena Mascarenhas Tipote
Filomena Mascarenhas Tipote (born 1 March 1969) is a Guinea-Bissauian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2002 and Minister of Defence from 2003 to 2004. Career Tipote was appointed Secretary of State by Prime Minister Caetano N'Tchama in 2000. After his resignation on 19 March 2001, she was appointed Minister of Social Solidarity, Employment and Poverty Control by his successor, Faustino Imbali. Tipote was appointed Foreign Minister by Alamara Nhassé on 9 December 2001, representing Guinea-Bissau at the United Nations General Assembly, and serving in that role until 17 November 2002. On that date, she was appointed Minister of Public Administration, Public Works, Labor and Employment under Mário Pires, but she was dismissed from that role by President Kumba Ialá in January 2003, with no reason given. With another change of government, Tipote was appointed Minister of Defence by Artur Sanhá on 28 September 2003, despite having no milit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
