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Giorgio (name)
Giorgio is a male Italian given name and sometimes a surname. It is equivalent to the English name George. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Eusebio da San Giorgio, Italian painter * Francesco di Giorgio, Italian painter * Francesco Giorgio, Italian writer * Frank Di Giorgio, Canadian city councillor * Gail Brewer-Giorgio, American author * Marchesi di San Giorgio, Maltese nobility * Marosa di Giorgio, Uruguayan writer * Pietro De Giorgio (born 1983), Italian footballer Given name * Giorgio Ordelaffi, Italian nobility * Giorgio de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Ioannina in 1411 Artists and entertainers * Carlo Giorgio Garofalo, Italian composer * Giorgio Amendola, Italian writer * Giorgio Andreoli, Italian potter * Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter * Giorgio Arlorio, Italian screenwriter and director * Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer * Giorgio Baffo, Italian poet * Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Italian literary critic * Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George (given Name)
George () is a masculine given name derived from the Greek Geōrgios (; , ). The name gained popularity due to its association with the Christian martyr, Saint George (died 23 April 303), a member of the Praetorian Guard who was sentenced to death for his refusal to renounce Christianity, and prior to that, it might have been a theophoric name, with origins in Zeus Georgos, an early title of the Greek god Zeus. Today, it is one of the most commonly used names in the Western world, though its religious significance has waned among modern populations. Its diminutives are Geordie and Georgie, with the former being limited primarily to residents of England and Scotland. The most popular feminine forms in the Anglosphere, are Georgia, Georgiana, and Georgina. History Etymology and origins Its original Greek form, Georgios, is based on the Greek word ''georgos'' (γεωργός) 'farmer'. The word ''georgos'' itself is ultimately a combination of two Greek words: ''ge'' (γ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (5 August 1886 – 6 April 1962) was an Italian composer, conductor and organist. Garofalo was born in Rome, Italy to Giovanni and Faustina Rinaldi Garofalo. He later attended the Vatican college where he studied organ and music composition. Garofalo followed classmate Pietro Yon Pietro Alessandro Yon (August 8, 1886 – November 22, 1943) was an Italian-born organist and composer who made his career in the United States. Early life Yon was born in Settimo Vittone, (Piedmont, Italy). His earliest studies in music beg ... to the United States where he, with the assistance of Yon, found employment as music director and organist at the Immaculate Conception Church in Boston. A biography of Carlo Giorgio Garofalo can be found abelcantopera.angelfire.com References * 1886 births 1962 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century Italian conductors (music) 20th-century organists 20th-century Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Cavaglieri
Giorgio Cavaglieri (August 1, 1911 – May 15, 2007) was an Italian architect and a leading figure in the historic preservationist movement in New York City. He is best known for his 1960s restoration of the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village. Cavaglieri was one of the first architects to specialize in the area of historic preservation. He coined the term "adaptive reuse" to describe his design philosophy, which balanced an appreciation of historical styles with a bold modernity and an eye toward transformation. He explained that these views were inspired by his native Italy, where ancient cities like Rome are characterized by an architectural mélange of old and new styles. Early life and education Cavaglieri was born in Venice to a wealthy Jewish family. He studied engineering and architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, where he graduated with honors in 1932. His father, an executive with the insurance company Assicurazioni Generali, died soon after he left s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Capitani
Giorgio Capitani (29 December 1927 – 25 March 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 2012. He also wrote for 12 films. He was born in Paris, France. Selected filmography * ''The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949, dir. Vittorio Cottafavi) * ''A Woman Has Killed'' (1952, dir. Vittorio Cottafavi) * ''Milady and the Musketeers'' (1952, dir. Vittorio Cottafavi) * ''For You I Have Sinned'' (1953, dir. Mario Costa) * '' Piscatore 'e Pusilleco'' (1954) * '' The Valiant'' (1962, dir. Roy Ward Baker) * ''Axel Munthe, The Doctor of San Michele'' (1962) * ''Samson and His Mighty Challenge'' (1964) * ''The Ruthless Four'' (1968) * ''The Archangel'' (1969) * '' Sex Pot'' (1975) * ''Pane, burro e marmellata'' (1977) * ''Lobster for Breakfast'' (1979) * ''I Hate Blondes ''I Hate Blondes'' (Italian: ''Odio le bionde'') is a 1980 Italian crime comedy film directed by Giorgio Capitani. Plot Cast * Enrico Montesano as Emilio Serrant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Cantarini
Giorgio Cantarini (born 12 April 1992) is an Italian actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: ''Life Is Beautiful'' (1997) and ''Gladiator'' (2000). Early life Raised in Orvieto, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini was born to Giuseppe Cantarini and Giovanna Martini. The couple separated after Giorgio's fifth birthday. His family nickname is "Gio". Career Cantarini made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed comedy-drama ''Life is Beautiful'', playing Benigni's four-year-old son 'Giosuè Orefice', who is sent with his Jewish-Italian father to a German concentration camp during World War II. The film won three Academy Awards. In 1998, Cantarini was nominated alongside his ''Life Is Beautiful'' castmates for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the same year he won the Young Artist Award. His second film appearance was in the 2000 Ridley Scott-directed period action/drama ''Gladiator''. Giorgio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Calabrese
Giorgio Calabrese (28 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was an Italian songwriter and frequent collaborator with French pop music star Charles Aznavour. Calabrese wrote the original Italian lyrics for the popular song " Softly, as I Leave You", and the Italian version of Aznavour's famous song, "She She most commonly refers to: *She (pronoun), the third person singular, feminine, nominative case pronoun in modern English. She or S.H.E. may also refer to: Literature and films *'' She: A History of Adventure'', an 1887 novel by H. Rider Hagga ...", titled "Lei". He also wrote the Italian lyrics for the song, "E se domani", composed by Carlo Alberto Rossi and recorded by Mina. It was entered in the 1964 Sanremo Music Festival. Retrieved December 13, 2013 Piloto de Eva air , b777 References |
Giorgio Bianchi (director)
Giorgio Bianchi (18 February 1904 – 9 February 1967) was an Italian film director and actor. Selected filmography * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * ''Resurrection'' (1931) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) * ''The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * ''Venus'' (1932) * ''Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * ''A Little Wife'' (1943) * ''Crime News'' (1947) * ''Twenty Years'' (1949) * ''Hearts at Sea'' (1950) * '' Porca miseria'' (1951) * '' Il caimano del Piave'' (1951) * '' Amor non ho... però... però'' (1951) * '' The Enemy'' (1952) * ''The Shadow'' (1954) * ''Io piaccio'' (1955) * '' Buonanotte... avvocato!'' (1955) * '' Count Max'' (1957) * '' Vacations in Majorca'' (1959) * ''The Moralist'' (1959) * ''Le olimpiadi dei mariti'' (1960) * ''Femmine di lusso'' (1960) * '' The Orderly'' (1961) * ''Il mio amico Benito'' (1962) * '' Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin'' (1962) * '' The Changing of the Guard'' (1962) * ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani (4 March 1916 – 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny. In 1934 he completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico '' L. Ariosto'' in Ferrara. Music had been his first great passion and he considered a career as a pianist; however literature soon became the focus of his artistic interests. In 1935 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna. Commuting to lectures by train (third class) from Ferrara, he studied under the art historian Roberto Longhi. His ideal of the "free intellectual" was the liberal historian and philosopher Benedetto Croce. Despite the anti-Semitic race laws which were introduced from 1938, he was able to graduate in 1939, writing a thesis on the nineteenth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti
Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti (; 14 September 1929 – 9 April 2017) was an Italian academic, literary critic and poet. He taught at the University of Turin from 1967 until his death in 2017. He was considered to be one of the most important literary critics of his time. Biography Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti was born in 1929 in Turin. He received his PhD in Italian literature from the University of Turin in 1952–1953, with a thesis on Giordano Bruno. He taught Italian literature at the same university from 1967 until his death in 2017, and was a prominent literary critic. He was known for his detailed studies on classical Italian authors such as Dante, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Tasso, Manzoni, Verga and Gozzano, and was also interested in contemporary writers, including D'Annunzio and Svevo. He coordinated the ''Grande dizionario della lingua italiana'', published by UTET, where he worked as editor. UTET also published his ''Storia della civiltà letteraria italiana'' in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Baffo
Zorzi (Giorgio) Baffo (11 August 1694 - 30 July 1768) was an Italian poet and senator of the Venetian Republic. Baffo was born in Venice. He was, like Ruzante, Carlo Goldoni and Berto Barbarani, a major writer in the Venetian dialect. He wrote many erotic sonnets. Baffo died in 1768 in the Palazzo Bellavite Palazzo Bellavite is a 16th-century Venetian palace, located in Campo San Maurizio, in the San Marco district. It is also known as Palazzo Bellavite Baffo, because the last member of the Baffo family lived there. History Tha palace was commissio ..., Venice. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Baffo, Giorgio 1694 births 1768 deaths 18th-century Venetian writers Italian poets Italian male poets Republic of Venice politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani (; born 11 July 1934) is an Italian fashion designer. He first gained notoriety working for Cerruti and then for many others, including Allegri, Bagutta and Hilton. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, which eventually expanded into music, sport and luxury hotels. By 2001 Armani was acclaimed as the most successful designer of Italian origin, and is credited with pioneering red-carpet fashion. In 2010, he opened the Armani Hotel in Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. He is also the richest openly LGBT (bisexual) person in the world. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Armani has an estimated net worth of US$9.53 billion, as of 2021. Early years Armani was born in the northern Italian town of Piacenza, where he was raised with his older brother Sergio and younger sister Rosanna by his mother Maria Raimondi and father Ugo Armani (an accountant for a transport company). While at secondary school at the Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci in Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Arlorio
Giorgio Arlorio (27 February 1929 – 25 July 2019) was an Italian screenwriter and director. Biography Born in Turin, Arlorio began his career in 1951 as an assistant director for Pietro Germi, Mario Soldati and Michelangelo Antonioni, while between the 1960s and the 1970s became a regular collaborator of Gillo Pontecorvo and Carlo Lizzani, with whom he co-wrote some of their films. He also directed some political documentaries. For many years, Arlorio taught Screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Arlorio died in his home in Rome on 25 July 2019, at the age of 90. Partial filmography Screenwriter * ''Esterina'' (1959) * '' Crimen'' (1960) * '' The Golden Arrow'' (1962) * ''The Shortest Day'' (1963) * '' The Head of the Family'' (1967) * ''Arabella'' (1967) * '' The Mercenary'' (1968) * ''Burn!'' (1969) * ''Zorro'' (1975) * ''Ogro'' (1979) * '' Hot Potato'' (1979) * ''Days of Inspector Ambrosio ''Days of Inspector Ambrosio'' (Italian: ''I giorni del comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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