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Roberto Piumini
Roberto Piumini is an Italian writer, known particularly for his children's stories. Life Roberto Piumini was born in the town of Edolo in northern Italy and graduated with a degree in pedagogy from the Università Cattolica in Milan. His first book, ''Il giovane che entrava nel palazzo'', won the first edition of the Cento Prize for children's books, chaired by author Gianni Rodari. During his long and prolific career he has written stories and poetry for readers of all ages and has been awarded numerous prizes. He is regarded as one of Italy's "most beloved children's authors". Selected works * ''Il giovane che entrava nel palazzo'' (1978) * ''Il Cuoco prigioniero'' (1985), on which was based the animated film ''Totò Sapore e la magica storia della pizza'' * ''Il carro a sei ruote'' (1986) * ''Lo stralisco'' (1987) * ''Motu-Iti. L'isola dei gabbiani'' (1989) * ''Denis del pane'' (1992) * ''Mattia e il nonno''(1993) * ''Caratteristiche del bosco sacro'' (2000) * ''Il diavolo ...
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Edolo
Edolo ( Camunian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, located in the upper Camonica valley. Edolo is neighbour to the comuni of Corteno Golgi, Incudine, Lovero, Malonno, Monno, Ponte di Legno, Saviore dell'Adamello, Sernio, Sonico, Temù, Tovo di Sant'Agata, Vezza d'Oglio and Vione. Edolo houses the northern terminus of the Brescia-Edolo railway operated by Trenord. It is also the location of the Edolo Pumped Storage Plant. Despite Edolo's close distance (32 km by road) to Tirano and the border with Switzerland, there is no train connection between the two towns. In the summer, a bus service connects Edolo (for trains towards Brescia) and Tirano (for the Rhaetian Railway towards the Bernina Pass The Bernina Pass (el. .) ( it, Passo del Bernina) is a high mountain pass in the Bernina Range of the Alps, in the canton of Graubünden (Grisons) in eastern Switzerland. It connects the famous resort town of St. Moritz in the ...
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Pedagogy
Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as an academic discipline, is the study of how knowledge and skills are imparted in an educational context, and it considers the interactions that take place during learning. Both the theory and practice of pedagogy vary greatly as they reflect different social, political, and cultural contexts. Pedagogy is often described as the act of teaching. The pedagogy adopted by teachers shapes their actions, judgments, and teaching strategies by taking into consideration theories of learning, understandings of students and their needs, and the backgrounds and interests of individual students. Its aims may range from furthering liberal education (the general development of human potential) to the narrower specifics of vocational education (the impa ...
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Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (English: ''Catholic University of the Sacred Heart'', colloquially the ''Catholic University of Milan''), known as UCSC or UNICATT or simply Cattolica, is an Italian private research university founded in 1921. Cattolica, with its five affiliated campuses, is the largest private university in Europe and the largest Catholic University in the world. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy, with satellite campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona and Rome. The university is organized into 12 faculties and 7 postgraduate schools. Cattolica provides undergraduate courses (Bachelor's degree, which corresponds to Italian Laurea Triennale), graduate courses (Master's degree, which corresponds to Laurea Magistrale, and specializing master) and PhD programs (Dottorati di ricerca). In addition to these, the university runs several double degree programs with other institutions throughout the world. Degrees are offered both in Italian and in English. ...
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Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ...
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Cento Prize
The Children's Literature Prize "Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento" is an international competition aimed at authors of children's books (elementary and middle school) in Italian, original or translated. Origins The Prize Cento was established in 1979 on the initiative of the Cassa di Risparmio di Cento and the Faculty of Education at the University of Ferrara. Initially the winner was determined by a panel of experts chaired by Gianni Rodari; the current method of selection was adopted in 1981. The award is currently sponsored and organized by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento, with the support of the Region of Emilia-Romagna, the Province of Ferrara, the City of Cento, of the University of Ferrara and Bologna. Method of selection The competition includes a first phase of selection among all entries of two sets of finalists by a Selection Committee consisting of: Guido Clericetti (cartoonist and scriptwriter), Fulvia Sisti (journalist), Giovanni Genovesi (Univers ...
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Gianni Rodari
Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari (; 23 October 1920 – 14 April 1980) was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably '' Il romanzo di Cipollino''. For his lasting contribution as a children's author he received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1970. He is considered as Italy's most important 20th-century children's author and his books have been translated into many languages, though few have been published in English. Biography Rodari was born in Omegna, a small town on Lake Orta in the province of Novara in northern Italy. His father, a baker, died when Rodari was only eight. Rodari and his two brothers, Cesare and Mario (who was younger than him), were raised by his mother in her native village, in the province of Varese. After three years at the seminary in Seveso, Rodari received his teacher's diploma at the age of seventeen and began to teach elementary classes in rural schools of the Varese district. He had ...
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Totò Sapore E La Magica Storia Della Pizza
''Totò Sapore e la magica storia della pizza'' (English: Totò Sapore and the magical story of pizza) is a 2003 Italian animated film, with some dialogues made in Neapolitan, directed by Maurizio Forestieri and distributed by Medusa Film and Lanterna Magica. The film is loosely based on the novel ''Il Cuoco prigioniero'' by Roberto Piumini Roberto Piumini is an Italian writer, known particularly for his children's stories. Life Roberto Piumini was born in the town of Edolo in northern Italy and graduated with a degree in pedagogy from the Università Cattolica in Milan. His first ... and Edoardo Porcaro. Plot In 18th-century Naples, Salvatore "Totò" Sapore, an unemployed minstrel, always manages to cheer up the hungry with his songs about good food. He seems to be the one reason for the typically happy and euphoric Neapolitan temperament, which upsets Vesuvia, a magma witch who lives inside the Vesuvius. The evil witch decides to provide the poor minstrel with everything he ...
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Oriana Civile
Oriana Civile () (born in Messina, Sicily, 19 November 1980) is an Italian singer, performer, and songwriter. She is a scholar of Sicilian traditional music and an important exponent of reviving the musical repertory of Sicilian oral tradition. Her innate performing talent and her eclectic, versatile personal voice, especially, allow her to handle many music genres: from the blues to jazz, from bossa nova to flamenco, from Argentine tango to comedy rock, from reviving folk music to exploring world music. Biography Oriana Civile has been singing and performing since she was a young girl and, while studying at the science high school of Capo d'Orlando, she frequented local piano bars and was a curtain raiser for the cabaret that had various artists, including Salvo Ficarra, Renzino Barbera, Francesco Scimemi, and Enrico Guarnieri, with an already wide and varied repertory and the accompaniment of Umberto Tonarelli on acoustic guitar. Since then, she has racked up important exper ...
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Nicoletta Costa
Nicoletta Costa (; born 1953) is an Italian writer, illustrator and cartoonist, famous for her works of children's literature. She is the creator of characters Olga the Cloud and Julian Rabbit. Costa is renowned for her distinctive drawing style, distinguished by "characterized forms and bright colours." She is the recipient of many awards, including three . Her books have been translated into several languages, including English, Spanish, and Japanese. An animated TV series, based on Costa's Giulio Coniglio and authored by Costa, debuted on Rai YoYo on September 29, 2017. Costa is one of the most published authors of children's books in Italy. Her characters Olga the Cloud and Julian Rabbit (Giulio coniglio) are considered two of the most popular characters among Italian children today, alongside Pimpa and Peppa Pig. It has been stated that Olga the Cloud was "a worldwide editorial success since its conception n the early 1980s not only in Italy, but allover the world, particula ...
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Premio Cento
The Children's Literature Prize "Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento" is an international competition aimed at authors of children's books (elementary and middle school) in Italian, original or translated. Origins The Prize Cento was established in 1979 on the initiative of the Cassa di Risparmio di Cento and the Faculty of Education at the University of Ferrara. Initially the winner was determined by a panel of experts chaired by Gianni Rodari; the current method of selection was adopted in 1981. The award is currently sponsored and organized by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento, with the support of the Region of Emilia-Romagna, the Province of Ferrara, the City of Cento, of the University of Ferrara and Bologna. Method of selection The competition includes a first phase of selection among all entries of two sets of finalists by a Selection Committee consisting of: Guido Clericetti (cartoonist and scriptwriter), Fulvia Sisti (journalist), Giovanni Genovesi (Univers ...
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Vlag En Wimpel
In the Netherlands, the award is an honourable mention awarded by either the jury of the Gouden Griffel, Gouden Griffel and Zilveren Griffel awards (for Dutch-language children's literature) or the jury of the Gouden Penseel, Gouden Penseel and Zilveren Penseel awards (for illustrations in children's literature). The award is organised by the . Writing The award can be given by the jury of the Gouden Griffel, Gouden Griffel and Zilveren Griffel awards. 1980 * Lloyd Alexander, * Henk Barnard, * Gunilla Bergström, * Christina Björk and Lena Anderson, * Miep Diekmann, * Anne Fine, * Herbert Friedrich, * Peter van Gestel, * Ota Hofman, * Diet Huber, * Janosch, * Yasuko Kimura, * Leonie Kooiker, * Guus Kuijer, * Liesbeth van Lennep, * Carl-Anders Norrlid, * Gudrun Pausewang, * K.M. Peyton, * Mario Puzo, * Ernest Raboff, * Simone Schell and Thé Tjong-Khing, * Midred D. Taylor, * Oscar Wilde, 1981 * Leif Esper Andersen, * Nina Bawden, * Thea Beck ...
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Italian Children's Writers
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