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Granzotto San Dona
Granzotto is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Claudio Granzotto Claudio Granzotto (23 August 1900 – 15 August 1947, born Riccardo Granzotto) was an Italian professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor and a noted sculptor. Granzotto's works were a conduit for his religious expression and are reflect ... (1900–1947), Italian Franciscan friar and sculptor * Gianni Granzotto (1914–1985), Italian writer, journalist, and war correspondent {{surname Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Surname
A name in the Italian language consists of a given name ( it, nome), and a surname (); in most contexts, the given name is written before the surname. (In official documents, the Western surname may be written before the given name or names.) Italian names, with their fixed ''nome'' and ''cognome'' structure, have little to do with the ancient Roman naming conventions, which used a tripartite system of given name, gentile name, and hereditary or personal name (or names). The Italian ''nome'' is not analogous to the ancient Roman ''nomen''; the Italian ''nome'' is the given name (distinct between siblings), while the Roman ''nomen'' is the gentile name (inherited, thus shared by all in a gens). Female naming traditions, and name-changing rules after adoption, for both sexes likewise differ between Roman antiquity and modern Italian use. Moreover, the low number, and the steady decline of importance and variety, of Roman ''praenomina'' starkly contrast with the current number of It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Granzotto
Claudio Granzotto (23 August 1900 – 15 August 1947, born Riccardo Granzotto) was an Italian professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor and a noted sculptor. Granzotto's works were a conduit for his religious expression and are reflective of his dedication to use sculpting to evangelize to others. The fame for his personal holiness prompted the commencement for the sainthood process which opened under Pope John Paul I on 22 September 1978 before Pope John Paul II named him as Venerable on 7 September 1989 and later beatified him on 20 November 1994. Biography Riccardo Granzotto was born on 23 August 1900 in the commune of Santa Lucia di Piave in the Province of Treviso as the last of nine children to Antonio Granzotto and Giovanna Scottò. The infant was baptized on 2 September in the names of "Riccardo Vittorio". His older brother Giovanni worked as a tradesman. His parents were peasants who required his help in working in the fields in his childhood in order for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Granzotto
Gianni Granzotto (1914–1985) was an Italian military, writer, journalist and war correspondent. He was president of the Italian arm of ''Reuters'' between 1976 and 1985. Biography From a Friulian family, Gianni Granzotto was born before the first World War in Padova on 12 January 1914, but spent his youth in Bologna, where he graduated in the Arts in 1936 with a thesis on Italo Svevo. In that same year, as a volunteer in Africa Orientale (what was the Italian East Africa) with the student battalion "Battaglione Universitario, Curtatone e Montanara", he took the first steps in his journalism career as a correspondent for the Turin daily newspaper ''Gazzetta del Popolo''. Once back in Italy, Gianni was appointed director of the Bologna magazine ''The Assault'' (founded in 1920), followed by twenty-five years at the Genoese newspaper '' The Work''. On the outbreak of World War II, he fulfilled his military obligations by overseeing military magazines (as Director of ''Foreign' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |