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Gioacchino Pessuti
Gioacchino is a masculine Italian given name, equivalent to the English Joachim. Notable people with the name include: * Gioacchino Assereto (1600–1649), Italian painter * Gioacchino Cocchi (1720–1804), Italian composer * Gioacchino Colombo (1903–1988), Italian automobile engine designer * Gioacchino Conti (1714–1761), Italian soprano castrato opera singer * Gioacchino La Barbera (born 1959), member of the Mafia who became a pentito * Gioacchino La Lomia (1831–1905), priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a missionary and a preacher * Gioacchino Livigni, tenor opera singer * Gioacchino Navarro (1748–1813), the Conventional Parish Priest of the Order of St. John, Malta * Gioacchino Pecci (1810–1903), Italian pope * Gioacchino Prati (1790–1863), Italian revolutionary and patriot *Gioacchino Toma (1836–1891), Italian painter * Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica, Italian Roman Catholic pulpit orator, patriot, philosopher and writer See also * Gioachino * Santi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim (given Name)
Joachim is a given name, derived from the Hebrew ''Yehoyaqim'' (), meaning "raised by Yahweh". People * Jehoiakim (c. 635–597 BC), king of Judah, from whom all later versions of the name are directly or indirectly derived * Jehoiachin, king of Judah and son of Jehoiakim * Joachim, a Saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. He was the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus * Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135–1202), Italian monk, founder of the heretical "Three Ages" theory * Joachim Gutkeled (c.1240–1277), Hungarian baron * Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484–1535), German member of the Hohenzollern * Patriarch Joachim I of Constantinople, reigned 1498–1502,1504 * Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505–1571) * Joachim du Bellay (1522–1560), French poet * Patriarch Joachim of Moscow (1620–1690), the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia * Joachim Perinet (1763–1816), Austrian dramatist * Prince Joachim Murat (1767–1815), Marsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino Assereto
Gioacchino Assereto (1600 – 28 June 1649) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period and one of the most prominent history painters active in Genoa in the first half of the 17th century. Life He initially apprenticed at age 12 with Luciano Borzone and from circa 1614 in the studio of Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo.M. Newcome. "Assereto, Gioacchino." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 May 2016 He attended the Academy of the Nude (painting from nude models) instituted by Giancarlo Doria.Assereto, Gioacchino at the Prado Museum He was active in Genoa. In 1639 Assereto he travelled to Rome where he visited the studios of various painters. He likely met Genoese artists working in Rome, such as |
Gioacchino Cocchi
Gioacchino Cocchi (''circa'' 1712 – 11 September 1796) was a Neapolitan composer, principally of opera. Cocchi was probably born in Naples in about 1712, although his place of birth has also been given as Padova. His first works were performed in Naples and in Rome; the most successful was ''La maestra'', written in Naples in 1747. It was performed at the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo of that city in the spring of 1747, and at the Teatro Formagliari of Bologna in October of the same year; on 11 March 1749 it was given at the King's Theatre, and in 1752 at the Teatro de' Fiorentini of Naples, with the title ''La scaltra governante''. As ''La scaltra governatrice'' it was given at the Académie de Musique in Paris on 25 January 1753, and as ''Die Schulmeisterin'' was performed in 1954 at the Schlosstheater in Berlin. The work established a solid international reputation for Cocchi. From 1749 to 1757 Cocchi was in Venice, where he became ''maestro di cappella'' of the Ospedale d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino Colombo
Gioachino Colombo (1903–1988) was an Italian automobile engine designer. Colombo was born in Legnano. He began work as an apprentice to Vittorio Jano at Alfa Romeo. In 1937, Colombo designed the 158 engine for the Alfetta and caught the attention of Enzo Ferrari. Ferrari asked Colombo to design a small V12 for use in the new Ferrari marque's racing and road cars. The first Ferrari-Colombo engine appeared on 11 May 1947. Colombo's great work for Ferrari was a tiny 1.5 litre V12, first used in the Tipo 125, 159, and then 166 sports cars. This engine, known in Ferrari circles as the " Colombo engine", was produced for road cars and endurance racing cars for more than 40 years in displacements up to 4.8 L. These included the 3.0 litre Ferrari 250 racing, sports, and GT cars. Colombo's engine was not as successful in Formula One racing. After stunning early success in the 166, the engine was supercharged for use in Formula One but failed to perform well. Ferrari hedg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino Conti
Gioacchino Conti (28 February 1714 – 25 October 1761), best known as Gizziello or Egizziello, was an Italian soprano castrato opera singer. Biography Conti was born in Arpino in 1714, possibly the son of the composer Nicola Conti. After studying in Naples with Domenico Gizzi, after whom he would later be nicknamed, he made his debut in Rome at an early age, around 1730. According to some modern encyclopedic sources, it took place in Leonardo Vinci's ''Artaserse'', which premiered on 4 February at the Teatro delle Dame. However, his name does not appear in the cast of the original libretto, and his theatrical debut ought probably to be dated instead in 1731, in revivals of ''Didone abbandonata'' and of the same ''Artaserse'', both by Vinci. A colourful anecdote relates how another overweening castrato star, Caffarelli, rode post-haste to Rome from Naples just to attend incognito his debut; and full of enthusiasm eventually yelled at him: "Bravo, bravissimo Gizziello, it’s Caff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino La Barbera
Gioacchino La Barbera (born November 1959 in Altofonte) is a member of the Mafia who became a pentito. He was one of the key witnesses in the trial against the killers of Antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone. La Barbera was born in Altofonte, in the province of Palermo. In 1981, he was initiated in the Altofonte cosca and, in 1986, he became the regent of the Altofonte Mafia family after the arrest of Bernardo Brusca. After the arrest of Mafia boss Totò Riina in January 1993, the remaining bosses, among them La Barbera, Giuseppe Graviano, Matteo Messina Denaro, Giovanni Brusca, Leoluca Bagarella, and Antonino Gioè, came together a few times (often in the Santa Flavia area in Bagheria, on an estate owned by the mafioso Leonardo Greco). They decided on a strategy to force the Italian state to retreat. That resulted in a series of bomb attacks in 1993 in the Via dei Georgofili in Florence, in Via Palestro in Milan and in the Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, and Via San Teodoro in Rome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino La Lomia
Gioacchino La Lomia (3 March 1831 – 30 July 1905) - born Gaetano La Lomia and in religious Gioacchino Fedele da Canicattì - was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. La Lomia served as part of a papal-commissioned mission to Brazil where he dedicated himself to works of evangelization and the preservation of culture. He was a noted preacher and served as a confessor to Emperor Pedro II. La Lomia's cause for canonization commenced and he was titled as a Servant of God when it commenced. In 2002 he was named as Venerable upon confirmation of his life of heroic virtue. Life Gaetano La Lomia was born on 3 March 1831 in Canicattì as the seventh of nine children to the baron Nicolò La Lomia and Eleonora Agostino ( 1799-15.3.1879); the couple married on 11 October 1818. One brother was Francesco Salvatore. His maternal grandparents were Ferdinando Agostino and Rosalia Li Chiavi and his maternal great-grandfather was Marco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino Livigni
Gioacchino (Jack) Lauro Li Vigni is a tenor opera singer who performs internationally. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Palermo Italy. He is an alumnus of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Livigni won 1st-place winner of The Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation Opera Competition in 2002, and made his Metropolitan Opera debut January 23, 2004 as Krushschov in the opera Boris Godunov. He has also sung with Chicago Opera Theater as Ferrando in ''Così fan tutte'', and was a soloist with Oper Frankfurt in the 2006/2007 season singing Don Ramiro in ''La Cenerentola ' (''Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant'') is an operatic ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera '' Cendrillon'' ...''.''Kulturkurier'"La Cenerentola (Aschenbrödel)"/ref> References External links Official web site (English) Living people Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino Navarro
Gioacchino Navarro (1748 – 1 January 1813) was a Maltese priest and poet who was the Conventual Chaplain of the Order of St. John. He studied both Latin and Greek, and he also spoke Italian, Maltese, English and Arabic. He was the librarian of the National Library of Malta for forty years, after succeeding Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis in 1770. Navarro is mainly known for his ''It-Tliet Għanjiet bil-Malti'' (The Three Rhymes in Maltese), which are the earliest known printed poems in the Maltese language. These were first published in 1791 in the book ''Malte par un Voyageur Français'' by François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest. In Msida, Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ..., there is a street named after this poet, called "Triq Gioa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII ( it, Leone XIII; born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was the head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 to his death in July 1903. Living until the age of 93, he was the second-oldest-serving pope, and the third-longest-lived pope in history, before Pope Benedict XVI as Pope emeritus, and had the List of popes by length of reign, fourth-longest reign of any, behind those of Saint Peter, St. Peter, Pius IX (his immediate predecessor) and John Paul II. He is well known for his intellectualism and his attempts to define the position of the Catholic Church with regard to modern thinking. In his famous 1891 Papal encyclical, encyclical ''Rerum novarum'', Pope Leo outlined the rights of workers to a fair wage, safe working conditions, and the formation of trade unions, while affirming the rights of property and free enterprise, opposing both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. With that encyclical, he became popularly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino Prati
Gioacchino Prati (1790–1863) was an Italian revolutionary and patriot, a supporter of the Risorgimento who was exiled for his activities in 1821. He was later a Saint-Simonian. Life Prati was born in Tenno, County of Tyrol and educated in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Vienna and Landshut. He trained in both medicine and in law, taking his law degree in Pavia in 1810. He moved to Milan to continue his studies where he became a Freemason and a Carbonaro. He practised law in Brescia and Trento but his clandestine activities came to the attention of the authorities and he fled to the safety of Switzerland in 1816. There he continued his political agitation, largely based in Chur and Yverdon.Fisch (1943) He travelled throughout Europe, maintaining his revolutionary activism,Robson & Robson (1986) before being granted right of asylum in England in 1823. There, he soon established a broad circle of exiled and radical friends including: Ugo Foscolo, Sir John Bowring, Thomas Campbell, Joseph Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gioacchino Toma
Gioacchino Toma (24 January 1836 12 January 1891) was an Italian art instructor and painter, noted primarily for historic, realistic and genre subjects in a Romantic style. Toward the end of his life, Toma authored his autobiography, ''Memories of an Orphan'' (''Ricordi di un Orfano,'' Giannini & Figli, 1886) relating a series of memories to his son, Gustavo: his difficult childhood; his tenacity; his desire for redemption; and his civil and political commitment. Together, Toma's experiences imbued his work with an overt melancholy – such that critics commonly described him as "il pittore del grigio", the painter of gray. Biography Toma was born to a well-known doctor from Galatina – subsequently to be orphaned by his father at age six and by his mother at age eight. At age ten, he was entrusted to a paternal uncle and rejected – sent first to a convent and then to the free Hospice of Giovinazzo, a poorhouse. There, Toma learned to draw, making a number stil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
