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Mazza
Mazza is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Aldo Mazza, Italian drummer * Benedetta Mazza (born 1989), Italian beauty queen, actress, television presenter and model * Bruno Mazza, Italian footballer * Chris Mazza, American baseball pitcher * Cole Mazza (born 1995), American football player * Cris Mazza, American novelist * Damiano Mazza (artist), 16th century Italian painter * Gianni Mazza (born 1944), Italian composer and conductor * Giorgio Mazza, Italian hurdler * Giuseppe Mazza (1817–1884), Italian painter * Giuseppe Maria Mazza (1653–1741), Italian sculptor * Marco Mazza, Italian long-distance runner * Mario Mazza, Italian educator * Michael Mazza, Canadian Electrical technologist * Paolo Mazza, Italian football manager * Pier Filippo Mazza, Sammarinese footballer * Raúl Mazza, Argentine painter * Robert Mazza, Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia * Salvador Mazza, Argentine physician and epidem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Mazza
Christopher James Mazza (born October 17, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, and Tampa Bay Rays. Listed at and , he throws and bats right-handed. Career Mazza attended Clayton Valley High School in Concord, California. He attended Menlo College in Atherton, California. Minnesota Twins Mazza was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 27th round of the 2011 MLB draft. He became the first player ever drafted out of Menlo College. Mazza spent time in the Twins organization from 2011 to 2015. During his time with them, he played for the GCL Twins, Elizabethton Twins, and Cedar Rapids Kernels. He was released by the Twins on July 22, 2015. Miami Marlins Mazza signed a minor league contract with the Miami Marlins on August 4, 2015. While in the Miami organization, he played for the GCL Marlins, Jupiter Hammerheads, Jacksonville Suns, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, and Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Maria Mazza
Giuseppe Maria Mazza (13 May 1653 – 6 June 1741) was one of the leading sculptors of Bologna, Italy, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was trained as a painter, but is best known for his fine sculptural work in terracotta and stucco. Life Mazza was born in Bologna on 13 May 1653, son of Camillo Mazza (1602–72). His father was a sculptor who had studied under Alessandro Algardi in Rome, and who worked in Bologna, Padua and Venice. He trained as a sculptor under his father for a while, then studied painting in Bologna under the fresco painter Domenico Maria Canuti. He painted in Carlo Cignani's life classes. He also studied with Lorenzo Pasinelli. He seems to have returned to sculpture after having left Canuti with the painter Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and studied at a private school in the Palazzo Fava in Bologna. Mazza became a successful and prolific sculptor, producing many statuettes and reliefs in terracotta. Mazza's fully finished terracotta statuettes would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Mazza
Valeria Raquel Mazza (, ; born 17 February 1972) is an Argentine supermodel and businesswoman of Italian ancestry. Mazza rose to prominence in the 1990s and became a household name after appearing on the cover of the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue'' of 1996 alongside Tyra Banks. Mazza worked for fashion designers such as Gianni Versace and Roberto Cavalli. Biography Mazza was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Rosario, Santa Fe Province to Raúl Mariano Mazza Ceriani and Monica Ferreira, and was raised in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Paraná, Entre Ríos Province. A model since age 14, Mazza has also worked as an actress, Television presenter, presenter and brand ambassador. As a businesswoman, she has released three perfumes, her own magazine, and created an eyewear company and production company. Once a student of occupational therapy, she also promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with the Special Olympics, UNICEF, and the Pediatrics Unit of the Austral Hospital in Pila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viviana Mazza
Viviana Mazza (born 15 June 1978, Catania, Sicily) is a writer and a journalist at the foreign desk for the Italian daily newspaper ''Corriere della Sera''. At ''Corriere'' she specializes in covering the United States and the Middle East. She has also covered, among other countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. She edits the America-Cina newsletter and contributes to the La27Ora blog. In November 2015 (together with Paolo Valentino) she was the first European newspaper journalist to interview the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, after his election. On November 1st, 2022 Mazza became only the second woman to be the US correspondent for Corriere della Sera, currently in New York. She has published the following books for Mondadori: ''Storia di Malala'' (July 2013), ''Il Bambino Nelson Mandela'' (November 2014) and a version of the ''Storia di Malala'' book for younger children (September 2015). In April 2016 she published ''Ragazze rubate'', written with Adaobi Tricia Nwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedetta Mazza
Benedetta Mazza (born in Parma on 22 November 1989) is an Italian beauty queen, actress, television presenter and model, winner of the edition of Miss Italia Emilia 2008. Early life and career After the scientific maturity obtained at the Giacomo Ulivi high school in Parma, she attended the fashion course at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan for a year, before leaving her studies. In 2008, Benedetta Mazza was noticed by the Miss Italia regional selector, who encouraged her to participate in the beauty contest. She is thus elected Miss Liceo Parma, Miss Parma, Miss Cinema Emilia Romagna, and Miss Emilia. She thus participates in Miss Italia 2008, finishing fifth. After the competition, she poses for Just Simpa's charity calendar, in support of the Associazione Volontari dell'Ospedale dei Bambini, and gets a small part in Federico Moccia's film Amore 14. From 7 September 2009 to 11 June 2011 she is one of the four "professors" of the program L'eredità, together with Enrica Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Mazza
Aldo Mazza is an internationally recognized drummer, percussionist and recording artist. He is also a clinician and educator, and the founder of KoSA Music. Career Aldo Mazza has performed on over 100 CDs and soundtracks, and recorded with such well-known artists as Celine Dion, Jon Bon Jovi and Aldo Nova. He has performed live with artists such as James Brown, Chris De Burgh, Frank Sinatra, Nikki Yanofsky and Oliver Jones. For over 25 years Aldo Mazza has been a member of the internationally acclaimed percussion quartet, Répercussion. Répercussion has gone around the world twice, recorded five CDs and performed over 2,500 concerts, television and radio appearances including live CBC Radio recordings. Mazza has performed special concerts for dignitaries including Canadian prime ministers and American presidents, and has performed at many prestigious events such as Expo 92 in Spain, Expo 86 in Canada, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, and as a soloist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Mazza
Salvador Mazza (June 6, 1886November 9, 1946) was a noted Argentine physician and epidemiologist, best known for his strides in helping control American trypanosomiasis, an endemic disease among the rural, poor majority of early 20th century South America.Historia de la enfermedad de Chagas Life and work Early career Mazza was born in Retiro, , to Francesco Mazza and Giuseppa Alfisi (both immigrants from ), in 1886, and was ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Mazza
Cole Joseph Frank Mazza (born February 14, 1995) is an American football long snapper for the Houston Gamblers of the United States Football League (USFL). He played college football at Alabama. College career Mazza was served as the starting long snapper Alabama Crimson Tide for four seasons, including the team's 2015 National Championship year. He missed only two games in four years due to injury and finished his collegiate career without a single botched snap in 583 attempts. Following his senior season Mazza was invited to participate in the 2017 Senior Bowl. Professional career Mazza garnered little NFL interest after graduating and worked for two years as a fitness coach until earning a tryout from the Alliance of American Football. Birmingham Iron Mazza was signed by the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football. He served as the long snapper in all eight of the team's games before the league folded. Los Angeles Chargers Mazza was signed by the Los Angeles Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cris Mazza
Cris Mazza (born 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, and non-fiction author. Early life and education A native of Southern California, Mazza earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from San Diego State University and her Master of Fine Arts in writing at Brooklyn College. Career Mazza has published 10 novels, six collections, and two memoirs. She is widely anthologized as an example of post-feminist, formalist, or contemporary experimental fiction. Her work often deals with second and third-wave feminist concerns as well as sexuality. Along with Jeffrey DeShell, Mazza used the term "chick lit" for the edited anthology ''Chick Lit Postfeminist Fiction'' (1995) and the follow-up anthology ''Chick Lit 2: No Chick Vics'' (1996). While originally meant to be ironic, the term was co-opted to define a very different sort of work. In 2007, Gretchen Kalwinsky of ''Time Out Chicago'' called Mazza "an award-winning author who has waged a one-woman war agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazza Museum Of International Art From Picture Books
The University of Findlay's Mazza Museum, formerly the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books, is an art museum located at The University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. It is devoted to illustrations from children's picture books. History The museum dates from the 100th anniversary of Findlay College in 1982. Each academic division in the school was given $2,000 to create a special event for the year. Dr. Jerry Mallett in the Teacher Education division proposed starting a collection of children's book artwork and periodically bringing an important creator of children's books to speak. "I thought it would be nice to have something, not just for that year, but something permanent that would benefit the institution, the community and our majors on a permanent basis.""History of the Mazza M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Mazza
Gianni Mazza (born 5 October 1944) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, singer and television personality. Born Giovanni Mazza in Rome, Mazza started his career as a musician in the late 1960s. In the 1970s he started composing film and television scores and participated as conductor at the Sanremo Music Festival in 1974 and in 1979. In the 1980s he became a popular television personality thanks to the participation as a conductor and a showman to some variety shows written and hosted by Renzo Arbore. In 1991 he entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annual ... as a singer with the ironical song "Il lazzo". References Further reading * Christian Calabrese. "Mazza e il lazzo di Sanremo". ''Musica leggera'', n° 7. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damiano Mazza (artist)
Damiano Mazza (active 1573–1590) was an Italian Renaissance artist. He lived in the Venetian city of Padua, 40 km west of Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 .... It is known that he studied under Titian. Mazza's best-known painting is '' The Rape of Ganymede'' in the National Gallery, London, which originally adorned the ceiling of a lawyer's house in Padua. He also painted an icon of the Madonna for the Santuario della Beata Vergine della Porta in Guastalla. Further reading * References 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters Painters from Padua Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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