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Rainbow Greens (Italy)
Rainbow Greens ( it, Verdi Arcobaleno) was a green political party in Italy. It was founded in May 1989 by splinters of Proletarian Democracy (Mario Capanna, Virginio Bettini, Gianni Tamino, Edo Ronchi and Paolo Gentiloni) and some leading Radicals ( Adelaide Aglietta, Adele Faccio, Francesco Rutelli, Franco Corleone and Marco Boato). It took part in the 1989 European elections, under the denomination 'Rainbow Greens for Europe' (''Verdi Arcobaleno per l'Europa''), receiving 2.4% of the vote and electing 2 MEPs, who sat in the Green Group. In December 1990 it merged with the Federation of Green Lists ( Gianni Mattioli, Lino De Benetti, Gianfranco Amendola, Alexander Langer, Enrico Falqui, Sauro Turroni and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio) to form the Federation of the Greens The Federation of the Greens ( it, Federazione dei Verdi, FdV), frequently referred to as Greens (''Verdi''), was a green political party in Italy. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the Federat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Of The Greens
The Federation of the Greens ( it, Federazione dei Verdi, FdV), frequently referred to as Greens (''Verdi''), was a green political party in Italy. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the Federation of Green Lists and the Rainbow Greens. The FdV was part of the European Green Party and the Global Greens. In July 2021 it was merged into Green Europe. History Background and foundation The Federation of Green Lists was formed in 1984 by leading environmentalists and anti-nuclear activists, notably including Gianni Mattioli, Gianfranco Amendola, Massimo Scalia and Alexander Langer. The party made its debut at the 1987 general election and obtained 2.6% of the vote, gaining 13 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and two senators. Later that year, the Greens successfully campaigned for three referendums aimed at stopping nuclear power in Italy, which had been proposed by the left-liberal Radical Party and was eventually supported by the country's three main parties (Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Tamino
Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (industrialist) * Gianni Alemanno (politician) * Gianni Amelio (film director) * Gianni Baget Bozzo (Roman Catholic priest and political expert) * Gianni Bellocchi (scientist) * Gianni Brera (journalist) * Gianni Bugno (cyclist) * Gianni Danzi (Roman Catholic bishop) * Gianni Davito (high jumper) * Gianni De Biasi (Italian football coach) * Gianni De Fraja (economics professor) * Gianni De Michelis (politician) * Gianni Garko (actor, born Giovanni Garcovich) * Gianni Ghidini (cyclist) * Gianni Infantino (President of FIFA) * Gianni Letta (politician) * Gianni Mina (tennis player) * Gianni Minà (journalist) * Gianni Morandi (singer) * Gianni Morbidelli (Formula One driver) * Gianni Motta (cyclist) * Gianni Pettenati (singer) * Gianni Rio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio (born 13 March 1959) is an Italian politician, lawyer and journalist. He served as Minister of Agriculture in the second cabinet of Giuliano Amato and as Minister of Environment in the second cabinet of Romano Prodi. Born in Salerno, member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 1992, Pecoraro Scanio was the leader of the Federation of the Greens, one of the parties making up the ruling coalition in the new Italian government. He also served as Minister for Agriculture from 2000 to 2001 in the cabinet of Giuliano Amato. He was also one of the candidates as leader of L'Unione for the primary election held on 16 October 2005, finishing in fifth place with 2.2% of national votes. Pecoraro Scanio has been accused of populistic and opportunistic behaviour for his position on the major waste disposal problem in Naples, which is part of his electoral region.... Pecoraro Scanio is openly bisexual. He has a younger brother, Marco Pecoraro Scanio, who is a for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sauro Turroni
This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names are used, along with their derivations. *a-, an-: ''Pronunciation'': /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/. ''Origin'': grc, ἀ-, ἀν- (''a, an-''). ''Meaning'': a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that characteristic may not be immediately obvious. *:Examples: ''Anurognathus'' ("tail-less jaw"); ''Apus'' ("without foot"); '' Apteryx'' ("wingless"); '' Pteranodon'' ("toothless wing") *-acanth, acantho-, -cantho: ''Pronunciation'': /eɪkænθ/, /eɪkænθoʊ/. ''Origin'': grc, ἄκανθα (''ákantha''). ''Meaning'': spine. *:Examples: ''Acanthodes'' ("spiny base"); ''Acanthostega'' ("spine roof"); coelacanth ("hollow spine"); ''Acrocanthosaurus'' ("high-spined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Falqui
Enrico Falqui (12 October 1901 – 16 March 1974) was an Italian writer and literary critic. Biography Enrico Falqui was born in Frattamaggiore, a small market town on the northern fringes of Naples. Gaetano and Angelina Carlomagno Falqui, his parents, were originally from Sardinia. While he was still young the family relocated to Rome, where he grew up and embarked on a career as a literary critic. It becomes evident from autobiographical pieces that he was haunted by his lack of formal academic qualifications. Nevertheless, when "La Fiera Letteraria" transferred from Milan to Rome and was relaunched as "L'Italia Letteraria" in 1929, Falqui, still aged only 28, was installed as editor-in-chief under the directorship of Giovanni Battista Angioletti and Umberto Fracchia. Falqui retained this editorship till 1936. He also found time, over the years, to contribute to various other literary periodicals, including "Circoli" (of which he was at one stage co-director with Adriano Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Langer
Alexander Langer (22 February 1946 – 3 July 1995) was an Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, translator, and teacher. Biography Born on 22 February 1946 in Sterzing, South Tyrol, a province of Italy inhabited by a German-speaking population, he became involved early on in local political issues, which at the time centered on the interethnic relations in the region, which after two world wars and decades of tensions and terrorism were very tense. In the early 1970s he was active in Lotta Continua, a left-wing political organization in Italy. Later, he joined the Green Party of South Tyrol, and became a member of the regional council for Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in 1978. Ever resistant to imposed ethnic boundaries, he refused twice to declare his ethnic group during the 1981 and 1991 census in Bolzano. (This is a mandatory choice in the province, to protect the ethnic ''status quo''.) This choice made him ineligible to stand for local elections. During the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianfranco Amendola
Gianfranco is a compound Italian given name, consisting of Gian- and Franco. ''Gian-'' comes from Giovanni and is used in compound names. It is closest to John or French Jean. Gianni means "God is gracious" and Franco means "Free man" or "Frenchman", a contracted form of Francesco. It may refer to: *Gianfranco Brancatelli- Italian racing driver *Gianfranco Dettori- Italian jockey, father of Frankie Dettori *Gianfranco Ferré- Italian fashion designer * Gianfranco Fini- Italian politician *Gianfranco Lotti- Italian fashion designer *Gianfranco Parolini- Italian film director * Gianfranco Rotondi- Italian politician *Gianfranco Seramondi, Swiss footballer *Gianfranco Zola- Italian footballer See also *John (first name) John (; ') is a common male given name in the English language of Hebrew origin. The name is the English form of ''Iohannes'' and ''Ioannes'', which are the Latin forms of the Greek name Ioannis (Ιωάννης), originally borne by Hellenized ... * Francis (give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lino De Benetti
Lino may refer to: * Lino, short for linoleum, a common flooring material * Lino, slang for linesman, the former name (still in widespread common use) for an assistant referee in football * Lino, slang for a habitual user of the narcotic cocaine. LINO is also a politics-related acronym for: * Libertarian In Name Only * Liberal In Name Only * Labour In Name Only Lino is also a male given name. * Pope Linus, second Pope, alive during first century * Lino Cayetano, Filipino politician * Lino Facioli, Brazilian actor * Lino Lacedelli (1925–2009), Italian mountaineer * Lino Rulli, American talk radio host * Lino Saputo, Canadian businessman and founder of the Canadian-based cheese manufacturer Saputo, Inc. * Lino Tagliapietra, glass artist * Lino Ventura, an Italian actor who starred in French movies Lino is also the surname of * Pascal Lino, a French former road racing cyclist * Paulo Rui Lino Borges (born 1971), Portuguese footballer known as Lino Lino is the title / stage nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Mattioli
Gianni Mattioli (1903 – 1977) was an Italian businessman, a cotton trader in Milan, and art collector, particularly of the work of the Italian Futurists. Mattioli was born in Milan in 1903, and started collecting in the early 1920s, but most of his collection was built in the late 1930s and 1940s, and in 1949, he acquired 87 works from fellow Italian collector Pietro Feroldi (1881–1958). Mattioli died in Milan in 1977, and his daughter the art historian, Laura Mattioli Rossi, inherited the collection. 26 works from the Gianni Mattioli Collection have been on loan to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice from 1997 to 2015. In November 2015, ''Nu couché'' a 1917 Amedeo Modigliani oil on canvas from the collection, was sold by his daughter at Christie's, New York for $170.4 million to Liu Yiqian Liu Yiqian (, pronounced , born 1963) is a Chinese billionaire investor and art collector. An autodidact who formerly worked as a taxi driver, he has built his fortune si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Of Green Lists
The Federation of Green Lists ( it, Federazione delle Liste Verdi) or Green List (''Lista Verde'', LV) was a green political party in Italy. Its members included Gianni Francesco Mattioli, Lino De Benetti, Gianfranco Amendola, Alexander Langer, Enrico Falqui, Sauro Turroni and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio. The Green Lists used the Smiling Sun symbol of the anti-nuclear movement, which was inherited by its successor party, the Federation of the Greens. History It was founded on 16 November 1986. The party was formed as a national organisation of Green Lists which had first contested regional elections in 1985, initially being joined by seventy local lists. In the 1987 general election, the Green Lists received 2.5% for the Chamber, returning thirteen deputies as well as two senators in the Senate. The party took part in the 1989 European Parliamentary elections, receiving 3.8% of the vote, electing 3 MEPs. A rival ecologist list, the Rainbow Greens, received 2.4% in the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 European Parliament Election In Italy
The 1989 European Parliament election in Italy was held on 18 June 1989. The election was paired with a non-binding referendum about the devolution of powers to the European Economic Community, which passed with overwhelming support from voters. Electoral system The pure party-list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic since its foundation in 1946, so it had been adopted to elect the Italian representatives to the European Parliament too. Two levels were used: a national level to divide seats between parties, and a constituency level to distribute them between candidates. Italian regions were united in 5 constituencies, each electing a group of deputies. At national level, seats were divided between party lists using the largest remainder method with Hare quota. All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their local open lists and their most voted candidates. Results For more than 35 years, Italian Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Boato
Marco Boato (born 27 July 1944 in Venice) is an Italian politician. Biography In 1969 Boato was one of the founders, together with Adriano Sofri, Paolo Sorbi, Mauro Rostagno, Guido Viale, Paolo Brogi and Giorgio Pietrostefani, of the communist political movement Lotta Continua. A progressive Christian, in 1973 he was among the promoters of the Christians for Socialism movement. Subsequently, he joined Proletarian Democracy Proletarian Democracy ( it, Democrazia Proletaria, DP) was a far-left political party in Italy. History 1970s DP was founded in 1975 as a joint electoral front of the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP), Workers Vanguard (AO) and the "Workers Movemen ... and the Radical Party. He has served as Deputy and Senator several times between 1979 and 2008. He holds the record for the longest speech held in the history of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, for the speech he delivered in 1981 lasting over 18 hours and 5 minutes against the extension of one year of pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
