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Ruffini
Ruffini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alessandro "Sandro" Ruffini (1889–1954), Italian actor and voice actor * Angelo Ruffini (1864–1929), Italian histologist and embryologist *Attilio Ruffini (1924–2011), Italian politician * Ernesto Ruffini (1888–1967), Archbishop of Palermo *Frederick Ernst Ruffini (1851-1885), American architect * Giovanni Ruffini (1807–1881), Italian poet and librettist *Giulano Ruffini (born 1945), French art collector *Giuseppe or Joseph Ruffini (1690 - 1749), Italian-Austrian painter *Luca Ruffini (born 1997), Italian footballer *Oscar Ruffini (1858-1957), American architect *Paolo Ruffini (1765–1822), Italian mathematician and philosopher * Paolo Ruffini (actor) (born 1978), Italian actor and presenter * Patrick Ruffini, Republican Party pollster and political strategist * Remo Ruffini (businessman) (born 1961), Italian billionaire businessman *Silvia Ruffini (1475–1561), Italian noble woman and mistress of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remo Ruffini (businessman)
Remo Ruffini (born August 1961) is an Italian billionaire businessman, the chairman and CEO of the fashion company Moncler. He controls Ruffini Partecipazioni Srl that owns 19.3% of Moncler. Early life Remo Ruffini is the son of Gianfranco Ruffini 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 "Frenchma ... who, in the 1970s, was owner of a clothing company in New York City called Gianfranco Ruffini Ltd. His mother, Enrica, owned a clothing company as well. Career Ruffini started his career in the US, working for his father's eponymous clothing company, Gianfranco Ruffini Ltd. At 23, he returned to Italy and founded a company, New England, which he sold sixteen years later (in 2000) to Stefanel Group. That same year, he started working as a creative consultant for the holding company which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Ruffini
Patrick Ruffini is a Republican Party pollster and political strategist in the United States. He founded Engage, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based political media firm, and now runs the political research and intelligence firm, Echelon Insights Biography Background Ruffini grew up in France, Italy, and Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated high school in 1996 from Greenwich High School.Lightman, David (March 24, 1993)Constituents Cool To Clinton's Budget ''Hartford Courant'' (report on 14-year-old Ruffini speaking at town hall in Greenwich for Congressman Chris Shays, criticizing the British health care system) He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and currently resides in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. Career Ruffini began blogging in 2001, and has been a front-page contributor for RedState and Townhall.com. In the 2004 election, Ruffini served as webmaster for the Bush-Cheney campaign. Following the 2008 election, Ruffini co-authored the Rebuild the Party pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Ruffini
Ernesto Ruffini (19 January 1888 – 11 June 1967) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Palermo from 1945 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII. Biography Ruffini was born in San Benedetto Po in the Province of Mantua, and studied at the diocesan seminary of Mantua, the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Northern Italy (obtaining his licentiate in theology), and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) (licentiate in philosophy) and Pontifical Biblical Institute (diploma to teach biblical science) in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 July 1910, and finished his studies in 1912. Ruffini taught at the Major Roman Seminary (1913–1930), and then the Pontifical Urbaniana University (1917–1929). Raised to the rank of monsignor in 1925, he was appointed secretary of the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities on 28 October 1928. Ruffini was made a protonotary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Ruffini
Oscar Ruffini (10 April 1858–18 January 1957) was an architect in San Angelo, Texas. He was the first civic architect in the city and was responsible for many buildings across West Texas in the last 20 years of the 19th century. Early life Oscar Ruffini was born on 10 April 1858 to Germans Ernest Ruffini and Adelaide Reihme, who migrated to the United States of America shortly after their marriage in 1848. Oscar and his siblings, Frederick Ruffini, Frederick, Alvin, Clara, and Camilla, were raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Documentation on Oscar's life before his arrival in San Angelo, Texas is spotty, but at 14 he and Frederick were apprenticed to a Cleveland-based architect. Oscar went independent four years later, while Frederick remained under the architect's tutelage. Architectural career From 1875 to 1877, Oscar worked for an architect in Cincinnati named George W. Rapp. From 1878 to 1880, he may have been residing and studying in Paris, though it is not known where exac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Ruffini
Angelo Ruffini (Pretare of Arquata del Tronto; 1864–1929) was an Italian histologist and embryologist. He studied medicine at the University of Bologna, where beginning in 1894 he taught classes in histology. In 1903 he attained the chair of embryology at the University of Siena. He was the first to describe small encapsulated nerve endings (mechanoreceptors) which were to become known as Ruffini corpuscles. He used a gold chloride stain on his microscope slides in order for to view the tiny corpuscles. Ruffini was a pioneer in the study of amphibian gastrulation, providing a comprehensive and detailed description on the formation of "bottle cells". He published these findings in a book titled ''Fisiogenia'' (1925). Relationship with Sir Charles Sherrington Between 1896 and 1903, Ruffini corresponded regularly with Sir Charles Sherrington Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an eminent English neurophysiologist. His experimental research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attilio Ruffini
Attilio Ruffini (31 December 1924 – 23 June 2011) was an Italian politician. Biography Born in Mantua in December 1924, Attilio Ruffini completed his first studies in his hometown. After completing the first part of his schooling, he moved to Milan where, having won a scholarship, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (then run by Father Agostino Gemelli), where he achieved in the years following the Second World War, the degree. Ruffini actively participated in the Resistance, cooperating with the partisans of the Catholic Brigades of the Green Flames and being part of the National Liberation Committee (C.L.N.). In the autumn of 1944, he was captured by a group of the Mantuan Black Brigades and led to the Barracks of the Black Brigades of Cerese, where he was subjected to the first interrogations regarding the anti-fascist activity of the Mantuan Catholics and, in particular, of the Catholic university students. Transferred to the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Ruffini (actor)
Paolo Ruffini (born 26 November 1978, in Livorno) is an Italian actor, film director and presenter. Life Ruffini was born in Livorno in 1978, he made his debut in show business by participating in commercials and in Paolo Virzì's film Ovosodo, in which he played the role of a disliked classmate of the main character. For several years he worked as an animator in many vacation villages. Passionate about cinema, in 2001 he founded the cinema association ''Nido del Cuculo'', with which he organizes events, festivals, film festivals (including the ''Joe D'Amato Horror Festival'' dedicated to Joe D'Amato), produces documentaries, plays (among all ''Io Doppio'') and musicals in which he often plays the role of actor and author. In 2002 he won the ''Cercasi VJ'' contest on Mtv. For more than three years he hosts programs such as '' MTV on the beach'', '' Hitlist Italia'', '' MTV Mobile Chart'' and '' Select''. In 2005 he leaves the music network and starts to collaborate with Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Ernst Ruffini
Frederick Ernst Ruffini (1851 – November 16, 1885) was a notable American architect. Life and career Ruffini's parents, Ernst Frederick Ruffini and Adelheit (Adelaide) Riehme, immigrated from Kamenz, Germany to Chicago in 1848 and then settled in Cleveland. Ruffini is sometimes identified as Italian, but his ancestors had emigrated to Kamenz, about five hundred years before he was born. Ruffini apprenticed under an architect in Cleveland and worked in Indianapolis, New York City, Boston and Chicago before moving to Austin, Texas in 1877. He partnered with Jasper N. Preston for two years before working on his own. He worked some with his brother, architect Oscar Ruffini Oscar Ruffini (10 April 1858–18 January 1957) was an architect in San Angelo, Texas. He was the first civic architect in the city and was responsible for many buildings across West Texas in the last 20 years of the 19th century. Early lif ... of San Angelo, Texas. Ruffini designed courthou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Ruffini (mathematician)
Paolo Ruffini (Valentano, 22 September 1765 – Modena, 10 May 1822) was an Italian mathematician and philosopher. Education and Career By 1788 he had earned university degrees in philosophy, medicine/surgery and mathematics. His works include developments in algebra: * an incomplete proof (Abel–Ruffini theorem) that quintic (and higher-order) equations cannot be solved by radicals (1799), * Ruffini's rule which is a quick method for polynomial division, * contributions to group theory. He also wrote on probability and the quadrature of the circle. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Modena and a medical doctor including scientific work on typhus. Group theory In 1799 Ruffini marked a major improvement for group theory, developing Joseph Louis Lagrange's work on permutation theory ("Réflexions sur la théorie algébrique des équations", 1770–1771). Lagrange's work was largely ignored until Ruffini established strong connections between permutat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulano Ruffini
Giulano Ruffini (born 1945) is a French art collector who has discovered a number of paintings that have been authenticated as being by old masters but some of which are suspected to be forgeries. Investigation started in 2014. Painter Lino Frongia is suspected as author. Aude Buresi issued two arrest warrants in 2019 calling for the extradition of Frongia and Ruffini from Italy to France, but in 2020 Italian appeals court dismissed all nine of Buresi’s accusations against Frongia. In 2021 Ruffini was under an investigation by Italian fiscal authorities about 2013 - 2017 taxes. In 2022 Ruffini and his son Mathieu Ruffini were justified in Italy on charges of tax evasion. Works Ruffini said that he was lucky enough to find paintings that could have been done by Jan or Pieter Brueghel, Van Dyck, Correggio, Bronzino, Parmigianino, Solario, Van Bassen, Grimmer, Coorte and others. Among involved paintings: * Orazio Gentileschi. "David Contemplating the Head of Goliath" * Portrait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Ruffini
Giovanni Ruffini (1807 in Genoa – 1881) was an Italian writer and patriot of the early 19th century. He is chiefly known for having written the draft of the libretto of the opera ''Don Pasquale'' for its composer Gaetano Donizetti. ''Don Pasquale'' Ruffini had been condemned to death as an enemy of the state and was living in exile in Paris in 1842 when it was suggested to him by Jules Janin (newly appointed director of ''Théâtre-Italien'') that he might offer his services to Donizetti as a librettist . Donizetti told him exactly what he required for his latest opera project, ''Don Pasquale'', but not that he intended to re-use music already written for other purposes. Ruffini duly wrote the draft libretto from the original text dating back to 1810, but Donizetti changed so much of Ruffini's version that librettist became angry and refused to allow his name to be mentioned in the programme for the première at the Théâtre Italien in Paris 3 January 1843. Although Ruffini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Ruffini
Silvia Ruffini (1475 – Rome, 6 December 1561) was a 16th-century Italian noble woman and mistress of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese before he becomes pope (Pope Paul III from 1534); she was the mother of his four children. Biography She was the daughter of Rufino Ruffini and Giulia (her last name is unknown), and they lived in a palace in the Colonna neighborhood. She had four brothers (Giacomo, Girolamo, Ascanio and Mario) and two sisters (Camilla and Ippolita). At some time around 1496 she married a Roman merchant Giovanni Battista Crispo, with whom she had three sons: Sallustio, Virgilio and Cardinal Tiberio Crispo. Her husband Crispo died in 1501; she may already have been romantically involved with Cardinal Farnese by then. Ruffini was introduced to Alessandro Farnese by his sister Giulia (mistress to Pope Alexander VI), and the Cardinal offered to be her escort through Rome. The first daughter of Ruffini and Alessandro Farnese, Costanza, was probably born already in 1500 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
