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Oddi (surname)
Oddi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the name include: * Oddi Helgason (c.1070/80 – c. 1140/50), Icelandic farm laborer and astronomer *Angelo Oddi, Canadian songwriter and composer *Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi,(1867–1942), Italian Count and ornithologist * Emidio Oddi, Italian footballer *Giacomo Oddi Giacomo Oddi (11 November 1679 - 2 May 1770) was an Italian archbishop and cardinal. Biography He was born to a local aristocratic family in Perugia and was ordained a priest on 30 May 1723. He was appointed titular archbishop of Laodicea in Ph ... (1679-1770), Italian archbishop and cardinal * Giuseppe Oddi (1839-1919), Blessed, Italian Roman Catholic Franciscan religious * Mauro Oddi (1639-c. 1702), Italian painter * Muzio Oddi (1569–1639), Italian mathematician and Gnomonist * Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist * Silvio Oddi, Italian cardinal and diplomat * Gian Oddi, Italian-Brazilian journalist and soccer commentator See also * Oddie (surname) * Oddy (surnam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oddi Helgason
Oddi Helgason (c.1070/80 – c. 1140/50), called Star Oddi (Icelandic: ''Stjörnu-Oddi''), worked as a farm laborer in the 12th century in northern Iceland and achieved remarkable astronomical knowledge through careful observations. Oddi resumed his work in the '' Oddatala'' where he stated the position of the sun for every day of the year in Iceland and calculated the date of summer and winter solstices and their direction giving a useful source of orientation for sailors, since no navigational instruments were used at that time. Oddi features as the protagonist in the fourteenth century Old Norse-Icelandic tale '' Stjörnu-Odda draumr''. The Oddatala The Oddatala (Icelandic for: ''Oddi's tale'') is the only known written work of Star Oddi. In print, the text is only a couple of pages long divided into three chapters. The first chapter presents the exact date and time of summer and winter solstices with relation to the leap years. In the second chapter, Oddi specifies the sun's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Oddi
Angelo Oddi is a Canadian composer, songwriter, and producer. Biography Oddi was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended Chaminade Secondary School, and received a degree in Music composition and Psychology at York University in Toronto. Career Oddi has written music for the television programs Sesame Street, Fugget About It, Hi Opie, The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship, Baxter, ''Guelph Mercury'', May 23, 2010 Overruled
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Ettore Arrigoni Degli Oddi
Count Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi (13 October 1867 – 16 February 1942), was an Italian ornithologist. In 1896 he was elected a member of the British Ornithologists' Union. Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi was also a " Tring" correspondent. In 1911 he founded the ''Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia,'' (RIO) a scientific journal on ornithology, together with Filippo Cavazza (1886–1953), Francesco Chigi (1881–1953), Alessandro Ghigi (1875–1970), Giacinto Martorelli (1855–1917) and Tommaso Salvadori (1835–1923). The journal still exists today. The contents of volume 1-5 (1911-1920) aronline availableat BHL. Publications In 1898 his first article in an English journal was published: 'Notes on some specimens of Anatidae in the late Count Ninni's collection,' in '' The Ibis''. In 1926 following the introduction of a national game law in for Italy in 1923 Oddi wrote a report on bird protection. He is best known as the author of ''Ornitologia Italiana, con 586 figure intercalate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emidio Oddi
Emidio Oddi (born 22 July 1956 in Castorano) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Career Oddi played for 8 seasons in the Serie A for Hellas Verona F.C., A.S. Roma and Udinese Calcio. He also played for Roma in the 1983–84 European Cup, scoring a goal in the quarterfinal against BFC Dynamo. He did not play in the final defeat to Liverpool. Honours Verona *Serie B: 1981–82 Roma *Coppa Italia The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since. History The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...: 1983–84, 1985–86 References 1956 births Living people Italian men's footballers Serie A players Serie B players Fermana FC players AC Ancona players Hellas Verona FC players AS Roma players Udinese Calcio players Pro Sulmona Calcio 1921 players Men's association football defenders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Oddi
Giacomo Oddi (11 November 1679 - 2 May 1770) was an Italian archbishop and cardinal. Biography He was born to a local aristocratic family in Perugia and was ordained a priest on 30 May 1723. He was appointed titular archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia, and was consecrated a bishop on 24 June 1732. On 9 September 1743 he was made a cardinal by pope Benedict XIV, who gave him the titulus of San Girolamo dei Croati on 5 April 1745. He later took part in the 1758 conclave. On 22 September 1749 he was made archbishop ''ad personam'' of Viterbo and Tuscany, an office he held until his death. On 12 January 1756 he was given the titulus of Sant'Anastasia, which he exchanged on 22 November 1758 for that of Santa Maria in Trastevere and on 12 February 1759 for that of Santa Prassede. He finally settled on the titulus of San Lorenzo in Lucina on 21 March 1761 and served as protopresbyterian cardinal from 1763 until his death in Viterbo in 1770. He was buried in Viterbo Cathedral Viterbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Oddi
Giuseppe Oddi (6 June 1839 - 3 June 1919) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious - though not a priest - of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor. He felt drawn to religious life after his adolescence and was resolved to become a Franciscan upon seeing the example that Mariano da Roccacasale set. Upon his profession of vows he assumed the religious name of "Diego from Vallinfreda". Oddi was beatified - alongside Mariano da Roccacasale - on 3 October 1999. Life Giuseppe Oddi was born in Vallinfreda on 6 June 1839 to the poor but pious Vincenzo Oddi and Bernardina Pasquali. During his childhood, he had a limited education despite the fact he was receptive to learning about his faith to which he became devoted to. At the age of 20 - in 1859 - he felt as if he were being called to the religious life and announced his desire to his parents to become a professed religious. His parents met this with fierce opposition and denied Oddi this chance. In tears, he confronted his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro Oddi
Mauro Oddi (1639–c. 1702) was an Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period, active in the Duchy of Parma. Biography He was born in 1639 at Parma, where he first trained. He went afterwards to Rome, where he studied six years, under Pietro da Cortona. On his return to his native city his talents recommended him to the patronage of the Duke of Parma, who employed him in ornamenting the ducal palace in Parma and the Palace of Colorno; giving him also the appointments of court painter and builder. He drew two thousand medals in the ducal cabinet of coins, and painted some altar-pieces for the churches of Parma, Piacenza, and Modena. Melchior Küsel and Nicolas Dorigny, and others have engraved after his works. Two etchings by him are also known, ''The Adoration of the Shepherds'' after Parmigiano and Jacopo Caraglio, and ''The Rape of Europa'', after Agostino Carracci Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter, printmaker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzio Oddi
Muzio or Mutio Oddi (15 December 1569, Urbino – 15 December 1639, Urbino) was an Italian mathematician and Gnomonist. Biography He was born to Lisabetta Genga and Lattanzio Oddi. His initial training was in eloquence and philosophy, but he later trained under the painter Federico Barocci. He moved to Pesaro to work under Guidobaldo del Monte, one of the main disciples of Federico Commandino. He was hired to work in Spain and France as a military engineer, which required him also to help train in the use of artillery. He returned to the Duchy of Urbino to work as an engineer under the Duke Francesco Maria II della Rovere. In 1601, he was accused, perhaps unfairly, of being involved in a plot that also involved the Marchese Ippolito della Rovere; the plot aimed to depose the Duke Francesco Maria. In 1609, Muzio Oddi was released from prison, and exiled to Milan. In Milan, he won a competition to become professor of Mathematics. He published his works, prepared in prison, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Oddi
Ruggero Oddi (July 20, 1864 – March 22, 1913) was an Italian physiologist and anatomist who was a native of Perugia. He is most well known for the Sphincter of Oddi, which was named after him. Biography He studied medicine at Perugia, University of Bologna and Florence, and in 1894 was appointed head of the Physiology Institute at the University of Genoa. In 1900 he was relieved of his position at Genoa because of narcotics usage and fiscal improprieties. Later, he sought employment as a doctor with the Belgian colonial medical service, and spent some time working in the Belgian Congo. Oddi died on March 22, 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia. While still a student, in 1887, 23-year-old Oddi described a small group of circular and longitudinal muscle fibers that wrapped around the end of the bile and pancreatic ducts in 1887. This structure was later to be known as the eponymous "sphincter of Oddi". Oddi was not the original discoverer of the sphincter; English physician Francis Glisson ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Oddi
Silvio Angelo Pio Oddi (14 November 1910 – 29 June 2001) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia. He became a cardinal in 1969 and headed the Congregation for the Clergy from 1979 to 1986. Biography Silvio Oddi was born in Morfasso, near Piacenza, Italy, on 14 November 1910. He studied at the Collegio Alberoni there from 1926 to 1933 (philosophy, theology and moral). He was ordained a priest on 21 May 1933 in Rome, and continued his studies at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum''. He entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1934 and entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1936. He was assigned to the Apostolic Delegation to Iran until 1939. From that year until 1945 he held a similar post in Syria and Lebanon, then in Egypt (1945–1948), and France (1948–1951). He became the senior official, chargé d'affaires, of the Apostolic Nunciature to Yugos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian Oddi
Gian is a masculine Italian given name. It is a variant of Gianni and is likewise used as a diminutive of Giovanni, the Italian form of John. In Italian, any name including Giovanni can be contracted to Gian, particularly in combination with other given names, such as Gianfranco or Gianluca. Gian is also an unrelated masculine Punjabi Sikh name meaning 'knowledge' and is a variant of the Sanskrit name Gyan. Notable people Notable people whose name is now typically expressed as Gian include: * Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter * Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor * Gian Rinaldo Carli, Italian count, economist, and antiquarian * Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany * Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal * Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer * Gian Galeazzo Visconti, First Lord of Milan * Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Sixth Lord of Milan * Gian Marco Centinaio, Italian politician * Gian Pyres, British musician * Gian Maria Volonté, former act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oddie (surname)
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People called Oddie include: * Bill Oddie (born 1941), member of The Goodies, ornithologist and television presenter *Henry Oddie (1815–1869), English lawyer, landowner and cricketer * Lily Oddie (1937–2021), provincial politician in Ontario, Canada * Tasker Oddie (1870–1950) Governor of Nevada and United States Senator See also *Oddi (surname) *Oddy Oddy is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Christine Oddy Christine Margaret Oddy (20 September 1955 – 27 July 2014) was an English politician. Born and brought up in Coventry, she was educated at Stoke Park School, Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
