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Melandri
Melandri is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Marco Melandri (born 1982), Italian MotoGP road racer *Francesca Melandri (born 1964), Italian novelist and filmmaker *Giovanna Melandri Giovanna Melandri (born 28 January 1962 in New York City) is an Italians, Italian politician. She was an MP in the Italian Parliament for 18 years (1994-2012) and held the positions of Minister of Culture (1998- 2001) and Minister of Youth and ... (born 1962), Italian politician {{Surname Italian-language surnames it:Melandri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Melandri
Marco Melandri (born 7 August 1982) is an Italian retired motorcycle road racer who is a five-time premier class race winner. He is the 2002 250 cc World Champion and runner-up in 125 cc, MotoGP and Superbike World Championship. He competed in the MotoGP class from 2003 to 2010 and then a brief return with Aprilia in 2015. Melandri's best years in MotoGP came in and with these two seasons being the only seasons he won races in MotoGP, the same as title rival Nicky Hayden. Melandri finished runner-up in to Valentino Rossi with two wins. The season is regarded as his best ever as he won three races and finished 24 points behind eventual champion Nicky Hayden. In both these seasons he won more races than title rival Hayden, finishing ahead of Hayden in 2005 and just behind him in 2006. Melandri has 22 race wins in Grand Prix motorcycle racing including five in MotoGP. Melandri switched to the Superbike World Championship in 2011, earning 22 wins in his first six sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Melandri
Francesca Melandri (born June 9, 1964, in Rome) is an Italian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for ''Più alto del mare'' in 2012. She started writing very young, working first as a screenwriter, and has worked on films and television series, as well as a number of prize winning documentaries. In 2010 she published her first novel, ''Eva dorme'' (''Eva Sleeps''), set in the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria. The novel, which won several literary prizes in 2010 and 2011, was translated into English by Katherine Gregor (2016), as well as into German, Dutch and French. Melandri's second novel, ''Più alto del mare,'' was published in 2012. It won several prizes, including the National Literary Award for Female Writers ( Premio Rapallo Carige per la donna scrittrice), and was nominated for the Premio Campiello. In March 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, her ''Lettera dall'Italia,'' originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanna Melandri
Giovanna Melandri (born 28 January 1962 in New York City) is an Italians, Italian politician. She was an MP in the Italian Parliament for 18 years (1994-2012) and held the positions of Minister of Culture (1998- 2001) and Minister of Youth and Sport (2006-2008). She is the President of MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts of Rome and founder and chairwoman of Human Foundation. Early life and education Giovanna Melandri was born in New York City, United States. She is married, has a daughter and lives in Rome. She graduated "cum laude" in Political Economy at the Sapienza University of Rome, and one of her teachers was Federico Caffè. In October 2000 she was awarded the title "''Grant of the dignity of an Honorary Dame Commander of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire''" by the Queen Elizabeth the Second and in July 2003 "''Officier de la Legion d’Honneur''" by the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac. In February 2014, she was awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian-language Surnames
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
