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Goliarda Sapienza
Goliarda Sapienza (10 May 1924 – 30 August 1996) was an Italian actress and writer. She is best known for her 1998 novel '' L'arte della gioia'' (The Art of Joy). Life Early life Sapienza was born on 10 May 1924 in Catania, Sicily to Maria Giudice (1880–1953) and Giuseppe “Peppino” Sapienza (1880–1949). Giudice, a prominent journalist was originally from Lombardy, and a feminist activist as well as a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party who had been repeatedly imprisoned for her beliefs. Giudice collaborated with national and international left-wing intellectuals, including Angelica Balabanoff, Antonio Gramsci, Lenin, and Umberto Terracini. Giudice had a "free union" relationship with Carlo Civardi, had died while fighting as a soldier in World War I, leaving her with seven children to raise. In 1919 Giudice moved to Sicily to help organize the local socialist organizations and trade unions. It was there in Catania, that she met Peppino Sapienza who had raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catania
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by the presence of important road and rail transport infrastructures as well as by the main airport in Sicily, fifth in Italy. It is located on Sicily's east coast, at the base of the active volcano, Mount Etna, and it faces the Ionian Sea. It is the capital of the 58-municipality region known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan city in Italy. The population of the city proper is 311,584, while the population of the Metropolitan City of Catania is 1,107,702. Catania was founded in the 8th century BC by Chalcidian Greeks. The city has weathered multiple geologic catastrophes: it was almost completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in 1169. A major eruption and lava flow from nearby Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabiola (1949 Film)
''Fabiola'' (UK title: ''The Fighting Gladiator'') is a 1949 Italian language motion picture historical drama directed by Alessandro Blasetti, very loosely based on the 1854 novel '' Fabiola'' by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal and Michel Simon. It tells the story of the Roman Empire in which Christianity is growing around the 4th century AD. An unofficial remake, ''The Revolt of the Slaves'' (''La Rivolta degli Schiavi''), was released in 1960, with Lang Jeffries and Rhonda Fleming, only with Rhual's name changed to Vibio. Plot In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a Christian and is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to death in the arena. 312 AD. Rhual, a young and athletic Gaul, is invited to take part in the gladiator games at the seaside villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album '' 63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album '' Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Milano Appel
Anne Milano Appel is an American translator of Italian literature. She obtained a doctorate in Romance languages from Rutgers University in 1970. She has translated, among others, works by Claudio Magris, Paolo Giordano, Giovanni Arpino and Goliarda Sapienza. She was awarded the John Florio Prize in 2012 for her translation of Arpino's ''Scent of a Woman''. She is also working on English translations of Giordano's ''Like Family'' (December 2015, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking), ''Syrian Dust'' by Francesca Borri (March 2016, Seven Stories Press) and ''Don't Tell Me You're Afraid'' by Giuseppe Catozzella (August 2016, Penguin Press). Selected translations * Aline Cendon, Loris Dilena, ''Venice. Its Wood'', Andrea Montagnani, ed. Nonfiction. Ponzano: Edizioni Grafiche Vianello srl/Vianello Libri, 2005. * Andrea Canobbio, ''Three Light-Years''. (Original title: ''Tre anni luce'', Feltrinelli, 2013). Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014. British edition forthcoming from MacLehose Press, Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Donna Del Giorno
''La donna del giorno'' (lit. ''The Woman of the Day'', released in the US as ''The Doll That Took the Town'') is a 1956 Italian drama film starring Virna Lisi, Haya Harareet and Franco Fabrizi. It is directed by Francesco Maselli and tells the story of a struggling model who concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects. Cast * Virna Lisi: Liliana * Antonio Cifariello: Giorgio Salustri * Haya Harareet: Anna * Serge Reggiani: Mario Grimaldi * Elisa Cegani: Miss Attenni * Franco Fabrizi: Aldo * Vittorio Sanipoli: Police commissioner * Mario Carotenuto: Director * Giuliano Montaldo: Journalist * Peter Van Wood Peter Van Wood (19 September 1927 – 10 March 2010), was a Dutch-Italian guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor, and astrologer.Zampa (1990). p. 1690. Biography Peter Van Wood was born in 1927 as Pieter van Houten in The Hague. He began playi .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virna Lisi
Verna or Virna may refer to: People * Verna Aardema (1911–2000), American author of children's books * Verna Bloom (1939–2019), American actress * Virna De Angeli (born 1976), Italian former sprinter * Virna Dias (born 1971), Brazilian retired volleyball player * Verna Felton (1890–1966), American actress * Virna Haffer (1899–1974), American photographer, printmaker, painter, musician and author * Virna Jandiroba (born 1988), Brazilian mixed martial artist * Virna Lindt, Swedish singer * Virna Lisi, stage name of Italian actress Virna Pieralisi (1936–2014) * Virginia Virna Sheard (1862–1943), Canadian poet and novelist * Verna Allette Wilkins, author, founder of Tamarind BooksOC right * Anna C. Verna Anna Cibotti Verna (April 15, 1931 – June 15, 2021) was the President of the Philadelphia City Council on which she served from 1975 to 2012, as the representative of the Second District, which encompasses most of South Philadelphia as well as m ... (1931-2021), Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In The City (1953 Film)
''Love in the City'' ( it, L'amore in città) is a 1953 Italian anthology film composed of six segments, each with its own writer or director. The anthology consists of the following episodes: * ''Paid Love'' written and directed by Carlo Lizzani * ''Attempted Suicide'' by Michelangelo Antonioni * ''Paradise for Three Hours'' by Dino Risi * ''Marriage Agency'' written and directed by Federico Fellini * ''Story of Caterina'' by Francesco Maselli and Cesare Zavattini * ''Italians Stare'' written and directed by Alberto Lattuada Synopsis Under the aegis of Cesare Zavattini, precursor and theoretician of neorealism, the various authors of this film with sketches try to reconstitute according to the testimonies of the protagonists themselves various aspects of love in the city, most often tragic: young women impregnated and immediately abandoned, young prostitutes, a young unemployed mother who has to abandon her child in the middle of the street, a young girl from a family of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Forever Springtime
''It's Forever Springtime'' (Italian: ''È primavera...'') is a 1950 Italy, Italian drama film directed by Renato Castellani. Plot Beppe Agosti, Florentine, baker's boy and orphan, is very popular with girls, especially the servants, for his easy way of doing things and for his cheerfulness. Called up to arms, he is sent to Catania and becomes friends with Cavalluccio, a Sicilian fellow soldier and acts as a companion for his engagement with Maria Antonia, a waitress in the house of a well-known lawyer. Cavalluccio, for a serious lack of discipline, is put in prison and transferred. Maria Antonia is sad and Beppe knows how to console her so the two fall in love and then get married. Beppe is also transferred to Milan, where he feels alone and ends up marrying himself with the new conqueror Lucia, not revealing that he is already married. But Maria Antonia learns that her husband's class has been dismissed, and she becomes suspicious of her, so she runs to Milan where she, having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Varzi
Elena Varzi (21 December 1926 – 1 September 2014) was an Italian film actress. Life and career Born in Rome, in spite of a non-professional acting background, Varzi made her film debut in a leading role, as the Sicilian Maria Antonia in Renato Castellani's neorealist post-war comedy-drama ''It's Forever Springtime''. Her second role, as the mistress of a Sicilian bandit in Pietro Germi's ''Path of Hope'', received critical acclaim. It was during filming ''The Forbidden Christ'' that Varzi met and later married Raf Vallone. She eventually left her film career, devoting herself to the family. She was the mother of Arabella, Saverio, and Eleonora Vallone. Her husband died in 2002. Death Varzi died of cardiac arrest at her holiday cottage in Sperlonga, Latina, on 1 September 2014. She was 87. Partial filmography * ''It's Forever Springtime'' (1950) * ''Path of Hope'' (1950) * ''The Forbidden Christ'' (1951) * '' Rome 11:00'' (1952) * ''The Eyes Leave a Trace'' (1952) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettera Aperta A Un Giornale Della Sera
''Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera'' (internationally released as ''Open Letter to an Evening Daily'' and ''Open Letter to an Evening Newspaper'') is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Maselli. It is centered upon the crisis of the Communist intellectuals after the 1968 protests. Cast * Nino Dal Fabbro: prof. Nino Dal Fabbro * Laura De Marchi: Dublino's wife * Daniele Dublino: Dublino * Fabienne Fabre: The student * Piero Faggioni: Faggioni * Graziella Galvani: Graziella * Lorenza Guerrieri: Lorenza * Monica Strebel: Monica * Daniela Surina: Countess Surina * Nanni Loy: Dosi * Vittorio Duse: Butler * Nicole Karen * Tanya Lopert Tanya Lopert (born 19 June 1942 in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,8 ... References External links * 1970 films Films directed by Francesco M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gli Sbandati
''Abandoned'' ( it, Gli sbandati) is a 1955 Italian film set during the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 during World War II. The film entered the 1955 Venice Film Festival, where it received a special mention. It is the directorial debut of Francesco Maselli. The music was composed by Giovanni Fusco and arranged by Ennio Morricone. In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. Plot In the summer of 1943, Countess Luisa and her son Andrea left Milan to escape the Allied bombings of the city and retired to their country villa, where they hosted two of Andrea's peers, his cousin Carlo, the son of a Fascist official who fled to Switzerland, and the friend Ferruccio, son of an army officer engaged in war. The three young people pass the time in the dolce far niente, sunbathing along the river, only vaguely aware of the ongoing conflict, thanks to the broadcasts of Radio London. They begin to become aware of the seriousness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulysses (1955 Film)
''Ulysses'' () is a 1954 fantasy-adventure film based on Homer's epic poem ''Odyssey''. The film was directed by Mario Camerini, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Franco Brusati. The original choice for director was Georg Wilhelm Pabst but he quit at the last minute.''Dino de Laurentiis Obituary'' ''The Guardian'' 11 November 2010 The film's cinematographer Mario Bava co-directed the cyclops Polyphemus segment (uncredited). In the film Silvana Mangano plays two roles, as Penelope, the faithful wife of Ulysses and the sorceress Circe. American star Kirk Douglas plays the Greek hero, Ulysses. Anthony Quinn plays Antinous. Plot The palace of Ulysses, king of Ithaca, is beleaguered by a horde of suitors wooing his wife Penelope after his failure to return from the war against the city of Troy. Penelope has promised under pressure to marry one of her many suitors, who under the leadership of Antinous squander her husband's wealth and land. She holds them off by telling t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
