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Raffaele
Raffaele () is an Italian given name and surname, variant of the English Raphael. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Raffaele Amato, Italian mobster *Raffaele Cutolo, Italian mobster *Raffaele Ganci, Italian mobster *Raffaele Cantone, Italian magistrate *Raffaele De Rosa, Italian motorcycle racer * Raffaele Di Paco, Italian cyclist *Raffaele Fitto, Italian politician *Raffaele Guariglia, Italian politician *Raffaele Lombardo, Italian politician *Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer *Raffaele Pinto, Italian racing driver *Raffaele Pisu, Italiano actor *Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal *Raffaele Rossetti, Italian politician *Raffaele Carlo Rossi, Italian cardinal *Raffaele Viviani, Italian artist *Raffaele Contigiani (1920–2008), Italian architect Surname * Virginia Raffaele, Italian actress See also * Raphael (other) * Rafael (other) * San Raffaele (other) * Raffaello (other) Raffaello, Raffaele or Raffaellino is an Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Cutolo
Raffaele Cutolo (; 4 November 1941 – 17 February 2021) was an Italian crime boss, leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. Cutolo had a variety of nicknames including '''o Vangelo'' ("the gospel"), '''o Princepe'' ("the prince"), '''o Professore'' ("the professor") and '''o Monaco'' ("the monk"). Apart from 18 months on the run, Cutolo lived entirely in maximum-security prisons or psychiatric prisons after 1963.Behan, ''The Camorra'', pp. 52-53 At the time of his death he was serving multiple life sentences for murder. Early years Cutolo was born in Ottaviano, a municipality in the hinterland of Naples, in a family without ties in the Camorra. His fatherless youth was spent in a close-knit Catholic environment. His father was an agricultural labourer who for years tilled a field as a sharecropper as a means to support his family. While still a child, the landowner told Cutolo's father that the following year the field would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Riario
Raffaele Sansoni Galeoti Riario (3 May 1461 – 9 July 1521) was an Italian Cardinal of the Renaissance, mainly known as the constructor of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the person who invited Michelangelo to Rome. He was a patron of the arts. He was also the first adolescent to be elevated in the College of Cardinals in the history of the Holy See. Early career and Pazzi Conspiracy Born in poverty in Savona, Riario was the son of Antonio Sansoni and Violante Riario, a niece of Francesco della Rovere, who became Pope Sixtus IV in 1471. Being the relative of a Pope Sixtus IV, he was created Cardinal of San Giorgio in Velabro on 10 December 1477 and was named Administrator of several dioceses: (diocese of Cuenca, diocese of Pisa, diocese of Salamanca, diocese of Treguier, diocese of Osma). These gave him a handsome income, and no obligations except to appoint a vicar. He was then only sixteen years old and a student of canon law at the University of Pisa. While returnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Raffaele
Virginia Raffaele (born 27 September 1980) is an Italian comedian, actress, impersonator and presenter. Life and career Born in Rome, the daughter of two circus performers, Raffaele studied classical and modern dance at the and in 1999 graduated at the Accademia Teatro Integrato directed by Pino Ferrara. Raffaele started her career on stage, often working as a sidekick of the comedy duo Lillo & Greg. After her television debut as a correspondent in the Rai 2 program '' Quelli che... il Calcio'', she became first known for her imitations and parodies in the Italia 1 show ''Mai dire Grande Fratello Show''. She then appeared in several other shows, including ''Victor Victoria'', '' Striscia la notizia'', two episodes of ''Le invasioni barbariche'' and ''Amici''. She also appeared as an actress in several films and TV-series. After appearing as a guest at the 65th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Viviani
Raffaele Viviani (10 January 1888 in Castellammare di Stabia, Province of Naples – 22 March 1950) was an Italian author, playwright, actor and musician. Viviani belongs to the turn-of-the-century school of Literary realism, realism in Italian literature, and his works touch on seamier elements of the lives of the poor in Naples of that period, such as petty crime and prostitution. Critics have termed Viviani "an autodidact realist," meaning that he acquired his skills through personal experience and not academic education. Viviani appeared at age 4 on the stage, and by age 20 he had acquired a solid nationwide reputation as an actor and playwright. He also played in Budapest, Paris, Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli, and throughout South America during his career. His plays are in the "anti-Luigi Pirandello, Pirandello" style, less concerned with the psychology of people than with the lives they lead. Viviani's best known-work is ''L'ultimo scugnizzo'' (The Last Urchin) (1931), ''s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Rossetti
Raffaele Rossetti (12 July 1881 – 24 December 1951) was an Italian engineer and military naval officer who sank the main battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. He was also a politician of the Italian Republican Party. Biography Born in Genoa, Raffaele Rossetti graduated as an engineer from the University of Turin in September 1904. He went to study at the Italian Naval Academy of Livorno, where he became a lieutenant for the Italian Navy Engineering Corps. In December 1906 he graduated in "naval mechanical engineering" at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1909 he was promoted to captain and in 1911 went to Libya during the Italo-Turkish War with the cruiser ''Pisa''. During the first years of World War I he worked as the Director of the Navy Arsenal in La Spezia and was promoted to major. While working there he started creating a new weapon, based on his idea of a torpedo manned by a person, to be linked to enemy vessels underwater and explode und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Fitto
Raffaele Fitto (born 28 August 1969) is an Italian politician and a member of the European Parliament. He is serving as the minister of European affairs in the Meloni Cabinet since 2022. Career Born in Maglie, Fitto was elected in 1999 at European Parliament for Forza Italia. On 17 May 2015, Fitto left Forza Italia and the European People's Party parliamentary group to join the European Conservatives and Reformists. In 2022 he was appointed to the Meloni government. He was replaced in the European Parliament by Denis Nesci. Trials Bribery towards the Italian public health care system Fitto in 2006 was investigated by the Bari prosecutor in connection with a donation to his regional party ''La Puglia Prima di Tutto'' of 500,000 Euros by Tosinvest, a company owned by Antonio Angelucci, ahead of the 2005 Apulian regional election. According to the prosecution this amount was suspected of being a bribe to secure for the Apulia region the management of eleven nursing homes. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Guariglia
Raffaele Guariglia, Barone di Vituso (Naples, 19 February 1889 – Rome, 25 April 1970) was an Italian diplomat. He is best known for his brief service as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the short-lived 1943 World War II-era Italian government headed by Pietro Badoglio. Life Ambassador Born in 1889 as heir to the noble Neapolitan family of di Vituso, Guariglia graduated in law in 1908 at the University of Naples and had the connections necessary to make a career in the Italian Foreign Service, which he joined in 1909. pp. 382-383 During his first 23 years in the service, he occupied a series of diplomatic posts of sub-ambassadorial rank, serving in Paris, London, St. Petersburg, Brussels, and other capitals.Stefano Baldi (16 June 2011)Scheda biografica Raffaele Guariglia. Retrieved 9 December 2021. Meanwhile the Italian government fell under the domination of Benito Mussolini. Guariglia attained ambassadorial rank in 1932 when he was named Italy's ambassador to Spain. In 1935 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Ganci
Raffaele Ganci (4 January 1932 – 3 June 2022) was a member of the Mafia in Sicily from the Noce neighbourhood in Palermo. He was considered to be the right-hand man of Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina and sat on the Sicilian Mafia Commission.Ordinanza di custodia cautelare in carcere , Tribunale di Caltanissetta, Ufficio del giudice per le indagini preliminari, 11 April 1994 Riina loyalist Ganci was close to the circle of which Riina was a member and sided with them against other Palermitan Mafia families in the . He ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Cantone
Raffaele Cantone is an Italian magistrate who was appointed President of the Anti- corruption National Authority on 24 March 2014 by the Italian prime mMinister, Matteo Renzi. Cantone held the office until October 2019. Biography Born in Naples on 24 November 1963, he grew up in Giugliano. He graduated in law at the University of Naples Federico II with the intention of becoming a lawyer and entered the Italian magistrature in 1991, participating in a competition for 160 posts on the advice to undertake this career provided by his uncle, Nicola Giovannone, a marshal major of the Guardia di Finanza The ''Guardia di Finanza'' (G. di F. or GdF) () (English: literal: ''Guard of Finance'', paraphrased: ''Financial Police'' or ''Financial Guard'') is an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. .... He is also a writer of some articles published in the Italian journal ''Il Mattino'' and wrote a book about his life, ''Solo per Giusti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Palladino
Raffaele Palladino (; born 17 April 1984) is an Italian professional football coach and former player who is head coach of club Monza. Club career On 3 July 2008, Palladino was signed by Genoa in co-ownership deal, priced €5million (for 50% rights), joined along with defender Domenico Criscito on loan. Parma On 3 January 2011, Genoa's half share in Palladino was transferred to Parma in a move which saw Parma's half share in Alberto Paloschi go the other way and the exchange of the full registration of Francesco Modesto and Luca Antonelli. Genoa also paid a sum of €5.85M cash. Palladino's contract will run until 30 June 2014.Parma FC SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 In June 2011 Juventus gave up the remain 50% registration rights to Parma for free. In July 2013 he extended his contract to 30 June 2016. Crotone On 10 November 2015, he was signed by Crotone. He renewed his contract in July 2016. Return to Genoa On 31 January 2017, Palladino was re-signed by Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Carlo Rossi
Raffaele Rossi (28 October 1876 – 17 September 1948) - born Carlo - was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church and professed member from the Discalced Carmelites. Rossi served in the Sacred Consistorial Congregation in the Roman Curia from 1930 until his death and as a friar had the religious name "Raffaele of Saint Joseph". Pope Pius XI elevated him into the cardinalate in 1930. Rossi also served as an investigator into the stigmata of Padre Pio at the behest of Pope Benedict XV and reported back to him with a favourable view on the Franciscan friar. He viewed the stigmata and spoke with the friar while noting that the friar was "sincere" and concluding that there was no fraud or deceit on the friar's part. His cause of canonization began three decades after his death and he is known as a Servant of God. Life Education and priesthood Carlo Rossi was born in Pisa in 1876 to Francesco Rossi and Maria Palmidessi. His parents were descended from noble families. Rossi felt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Lombardo
Raffaele Lombardo ; (born 29 October 1950, in Catania) is an Italian politician who was President of Sicily and former Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Movement for the Autonomies and has sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In 2005, he split off from the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) to form the autonomist Sicilian-based Movement for Autonomy, after he had accused the UDC leadership of being too centralist. In 2008, he was elected as President of Sicily, obtaining over 65% of the regional votes and defeating Anna Finocchiaro of the Democratic Party. On 31 July 2012, he resigned from the presidency because he was under investigation for external contribution with mafia and pork-barrelling, as it appears that he had relationships with some figure of Cosa Nostra. Nevertheless, in the following elections he managed to have his 23 years old son Toti elected in the Sicilian Regional Assembly. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
