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Ligabue
Ligabue () is a family name of Italian origin, and may refer to: *Antonio Ligabue (1899–1965), Italian naïve painter *Giancarlo Ligabue (1931–2015), Italian palaeontologist, politician and businessman *Ilva Ligabue (1932–1998), Italian operatic soprano *Luciano Ligabue (born 1960), Italian singer, songwriter, book writer and film director *Ligabuesaurus ''Ligabuesaurus'' is a genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous that lived in what is now Argentina. The type species, ''Ligabuesaurus leanzai'', was described by Jose Bonaparte, Gonzalez Riga, and Sebastián Apeste ..., an extinct reptile named in honor of Giancarlo Ligabue See also * ''Ligabue'' (film), a 1978 film Italian-language surnames {{surname, Ligabue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Ligabue
Luciano Riccardo Ligabue (born 13 March 1960), commonly known as Ligabue or Liga, is an Italian singer-songwriter, film director and writer. Biography Ligabue was born in Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ... in northern Italy). Before becoming a successful singer, he held various jobs, working in agriculture and in factories. He entered the music world in 1987 when he founded the amateur band Orazero. For this band, he wrote several original songs, with which they participated in several local and national contests. The following year his fellow Emilian singer-songwriter Pierangelo Bertoli was the first to discover Ligabue's writing talents, and included one of Ligabue's songs, "Sogni di Rock'n'Roll" ("Rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue (18 December 1899 – 27 May 1965; born Antonio Laccabue) was an Italian painter. He was one of the most important Naïve artists of the 20th century. Biography He was born in Zürich, Switzerland on 18 December 1899, to Elisabetta Costa, a native from Cencenighe Agordino, and supposedly to Bonfiglio Laccabue (the true identity of the father is still unknown), native from Reggio Emilia. His mother, Elisabetta, and three brothers died in 1913 as a result of food poisoning. In 1942 the painter changed his surname from Laccabue to Ligabue, presumably because of the hate towards his father, whom he considered guilty of the uxoricide of his mother. In September 1900 he was entrusted to the Swiss Johannes Valentin Göbel and Elise Hanselmann. He began to work occasionally as a farm hand and conducted a wandering life. After an altercation with his foster mother, he was hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic. In 1919, following the complaint by Hanselmann, Ligabue was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giancarlo Ligabue
Giancarlo Ligabue (30 October 1931 – 25 January 2015) was an Italian paleontologist, scholar, politician and businessman. Born in Venice, Ligabue graduated in Economics at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and in Geology at la Sorbonne, and later he also received five honorary degrees from the universities of Bologna, Venice, Modena, Lima and Ashgabat. He participated or directed over 130 expeditions around the world, and he made several paleontological discoveries, such as the '' Ligabueino'', a noasaurid dinosaur named after him, and such as the unearthed deposits of hominid and dinosaurs fossils in the Ténéré desert. He collaborated with Piero Angela to several science documentaries. He was president of the Natural History Museum of Venice and founder of the Ligabue Study and Research Centre in Venice. Ligabue was also businessman in the field of supplies and services for ships. He was the president of the basketball team Reyer Venezia Mestre between the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilva Ligabue
Ilva Ligabue (May 23, 1932, Reggio Emilia – August 19, 1998, Palermo) was an Italian operatic soprano, best known for the role of Alice Ford in '' Falstaff'', which she recorded twice, under Georg Solti (RCA, 1963) and Leonard Bernstein (Sony, 1966). Ilva Ligabue studied at the Milan Conservatory in the class of Campogalliani and at La Scuola di Canto alla Scala where she made her debut as Marina in 1953. Blyth, Alan. Obituary for Ilva Ligabue. '' Opera'', Vol 49 No 10, October 1998, p1165-6. After singing with success at most of the Italian opera houses, she won considerable acclaim in the title role of ''Beatrice di Tenda'' at La Scala in 1961, followed by Margherita in Boito's '' Mefistofele'' in Chicago. She then began appearing abroad, notably in Germany, also singing at the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera, and became a regular guest artist at the Glyndebourne Festival and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, where she was especially admired as Fiordiligi in '' Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligabuesaurus
''Ligabuesaurus'' is a genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous that lived in what is now Argentina. The type species, ''Ligabuesaurus leanzai'', was described by Jose Bonaparte, Gonzalez Riga, and Sebastián Apesteguía in 2006, based on a partial skeleton with skull, holotype MCF-PHV-233.José F. Bonaparte, Bernardo J. González Riga and Sebastián Apesteguía 2006. ''Ligabuesaurus leanzai'' gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria, Sauropoda), a new titanosaur from the Lohan Cura Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 27(3): 364–376. The generic name, ''Ligabuesaurus'', honors Giancarlo Ligabue, while the specific name, ''leanzai'', honors the geologist Dr. Héctor A. Leanza, who discovered the skeleton in the Lohan Cura Formation The Lohan Cura Formation is a geologic formation with outcrops in the Argentine provinces of Río Negro, Neuquén, and Mendoza. It is the second oldest Cretaceous terrestrial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligabue (film)
''Ligabue'' is a 1978 Italian biographical drama film directed by Salvatore Nocita. It depicts real life events of painter Antonio Ligabue. It is based on a book by Cesare Zavattini. For this film Nocita was awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director, while Flavio Bucci won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor. Cast * Flavio Bucci: Antonio Ligabue * Andréa Ferréol: Cesarina * Pamela Villoresi: Pia * Giuseppe Pambieri: Mazzacurati *Alessandro Haber Alessandro Haber (born 19 January 1947) is an italian people, Italian actor, film director and singer. Haber was born in Bologna in a Italian Jews, Jewish family of mixed ancestry (his father was a Romanian Jew and his mother Italian) and spent ...: Cachi * Renzo Palmer: Sindaco References External links * 1978 films 1970s biographical drama films Biographical films about painters Italian biographical drama films Films directed by Salvatore Nocita 1978 directorial debut films 1978 drama films 1970s Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
