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Ruggero Capodaglio
Ruggero (), the Italian equivalent of Roger, may refer to: * Ruggero I of Sicily (1031–1101) Norman king of Sicily *Ruggero Berlam (1854–1920), Italian architect * Ruggero Bonghi (1826–1895), Italian scholar, writer and politician * Ruggero Borghi (born 1970), former Italian professional road bicycle racer *Ruggero Cobelli (1838–1921), Italian entomologist *Ruggero Deodato (born 1939), controversial Italian film director, actor and screenwriter, best known for directing horror films *Ruggero Ferrario (born 1897), Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling * Ruggero J. Aldisert (born 1919), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit *Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919), Italian opera composer *Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei (1811–1883), Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church *Ruggero Maccari (1919–1989), Italian screenwriter *Ruggero Maregatti (1905–1963), Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres *Ruggero Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is ''Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term "Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double enten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Maregatti
Ruggero Maregatti (July 14, 1905 – October 20, 1963) was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Biography He competed for Italy in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California, in the 4x100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Giuseppe Castelli, Gabriele Salviati and Edgardo Toetti. Ruggero Maregatti has 10 caps in national team from 1926 to 1932. Olympic results National titles Ruggero Maregatti has won 6 times the individual national championship. *2 wins on 100 metres (1924, 1925) *4 wins on 200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ... (1924, 1929, 1930, 1931) See also * Italy national relay team References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maregatti, Ruggero 1905 births 1963 deaths A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggiero
Ruggiero () is an Italian spelling variant of the name Ruggero, a version of the Germanic name Roger, and may refer to: As a surname *Adamo Ruggiero (born 1986), Canadian actor *Angela Ruggiero (born 1980), American hockey player *Angelo Ruggiero (1940–1989), Member of the New York City Mafia *Benjamin Ruggiero (1926–1994), member of the New York City Mafia *Deb Ruggiero (born 1958), radio personality and politician from Rhode Island *Giuseppe Ruggiero (born 1993) Italian footballer *Joseph S. Ruggiero, better known under his stage name Joey Powers (1934–2017), American singer and songwriter * Paolo Ruggiero (born 1957), Italian general and member of NATO supreme command *Renato Ruggiero (1930–2013), Italian politician * Richard S. Ruggiero (1944–2014), New York politician *Salvatore Ruggiero (1945–1982), New York City Mafia associate and older brother of Angelo Ruggiero *Vic Ruggiero, musician and songwriter from New York City As a given name *Ruggiero (character), cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Verity
Ruggero Verity or Roger Verity (20 May 1883 – 4 March 1959) was an Anglo-Italian entomologist who specialised in butterflies and a physician. Life Roger Verity was born in Florence on 20 May 1883, the elder son of Richard Henry Manners Verity (1844–1926) and his wife Matilda daughter of Cav. Sebastiano Fenzi and Emily Verity.*Verity Family Records at Glamorgan Archives D/DXcb and DXBT Roger Verity married, on 1 June 1922, Donna Giulia dei Principi Gallarati–Scotti (20 November 1887 – 17 June 1938) daughter of Don Gian Carlo, Prince di Molfetta, Duca di San Pietro in Galatina, and Luigia Melzi D'Eril dei Duchi di Lodi. Roger Verity was a lepidopterist and the author of over 150 papers and books including ''Rhopalocera Palaeartica. Papilionidae and Pieridae'' (1905–1911, 454 pages), ''Le Farfalle diurne d’Italia'' (Butterflies of Italy (volumes, 1940–1953, 1688 pages) and ''Les variations géographiques et saisonnières des Papillons diurnes en France'' (Geographic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Santilli
Ruggero Maria Santilli (born September 8, 1935) is an Italo-American nuclear physicist. Mainstream scientists dismiss his theories as fringe science. Biography Ruggero Maria Santilli was born September 8, 1935) in Capracotta. He studied physics at the University of Naples and earned his PhD in physics from the University of Turin, graduating in 1965. He held various academic positions in Italy until 1967, when he took a position at University of Miami; a year later he moved to Boston University, and subsequently held visiting scientist positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. In September 1981, Santilli established a one-man organization, the Institute for Basic Research in Boston; he told a reporter from '' St. Petersburg Times'' in 2007 that he left Harvard because scientists there viewed his work as "heresy". In 1982 Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper wrote that Santilli's calls for tests on the validity of quantum mechanics within nuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Raimondi
Ruggero Raimondi (born 3 October 1941) is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures. Life and career Early training and career Ruggero Raimondi was born in Bologna, Italy, during World War II. His voice matured early into its adult timbre, and at the age of 15, he auditioned for conductor Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, who encouraged him to pursue an operatic career. He began vocal studies with Ettore Campogalliani, and was accepted at age 16 as a student at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He then continued his studies in Rome, under the guidance of Teresa Pediconi and Armando Piervenanzi. After having won the National Competition for young opera singers in Spoleto, he made his debut in the same city in the role of Colline in ''La bohème'' in the Festival dei Due Mondi. Subsequently, an opportunity arose for him at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome when he was called upon to substitute in the role of Procida in Giuseppe Verdi's ''I vespr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier Ruggero Piccio
Lieutenant General Count Pier Ruggero Piccio (27 September 1880 – 30 July 1965) was an Italian aviator and the founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force. With 24 victories during his career, he is one of the principal Italian air aces of World War I, behind only Count Francesco Baracca and Tenente Silvio Scaroni. Piccio rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and in later years, became a Roman senator under the Fascists before and during World War II. Early life Pier Ruggero Piccio was born in Rome on 27 September 1880,Franks et al 1997, pp. 151-152. to Giacomo Piccio and Caterina Locatelli.Italian senate's website page on Picci(In Italian, translated by Microsoft) Retrieved 11 May 2013. He attended the Military Academy of Modena, enrolling on October 29, 1898. He graduated on September 8, 1900, as a sottotenente (second lieutenant)Variale 2009, pp. 75-78. assigned to the 43rd Infantry Regiment. In 1903, stultified by garrison duty, he had himself seconded to the Minis ... [...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] |
Ruggero Mastroianni
Ruggero Mastroianni (7 November 1929 – 9 September 1996) was an Italian film editor. In his obituary of Mastroianni, critic Tony Sloman described him as "arguably, the finest Italian film editor of his generation." Born in Turin, he was the brother of the actor Marcello Mastroianni and nephew of the sculptor Umberto Mastroianni. He had a significant collaboration with director Federico Fellini, whose films he edited for over twenty years; their work includes ''Giulietta degli spiriti'' (1965), '' Amarcord'' (1973), and ''Ginger and Fred'' (1986), the last of which features his brother. He had a similarly notable collaboration with director Luchino Visconti in films like ''Le Notti Bianche'' (1957), '' Morte a Venezia'' (1971), '' Ludwig'' (1972) and '' Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno'' (1974). He also edited the 1974 absurdist western comedy ''Don't Touch The White Woman!''. He won 5 David di Donatello Awards and 1 Nastro d'Argento as Best Editor. With his brother, who act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Marzoli
Ruggero Marzoli (born 2 April 1976, in Spoltore) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer. After a previous four-month ban in 1999, Marzoli was banned for six months in 2008, after being considered guilty for the attempted use of prohibited substances in relation to the Oil for Drugs case. CONI had appealed for Marzoli to be banned for life, because it was a second offence. Major achievements ;2002 :1st, Stage 4, Giro della Provincia di Lucca :1st, Stage 4, Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali ;2003 :1st, Stage 4, Giro d'Abruzzo :3rd, Overall, Tirreno–Adriatico ::1st, Stage 5 :1st, Stage 4, Tour de Pologne ;2004 :1st, Stage 2, Giro d'Abruzzo :1st, Stage 5, Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali The Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali ( en, International Week of Coppi and Bartali), also known as Coppi e Bartali, is an Italian cycle road race. It is run typically in late March over five days in the Emilia-Romagna region of Ital ... ;2005 :1st, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Maccari
Ruggero Maccari (28 June 1919 – 8 May 1989) was an Italian screenwriter. Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as ''The Easy Life'', '' Brutti sporchi e cattivi, ''or ''Adua e le compagne''. Awards He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's ''Profumo di donna''. He won a David di Donatello for Ettore Scola's ''La famiglia''; and he was a 4 time Nastro d'Argento winner for ''La famiglia'', Scola's ''Passione d'amore'' and ''A Special Day'', and Antonio Pietrangeli's ''Io la conoscevo bene''. Selected filmography * ''Eleven Men and a Ball'' (1948) * ''The Transporter'' (1950) * ''Rome-Paris-Rome'' (1951) * ''The Passaguai Family'' (1951) * ''I, Hamlet'' (1952) * ''The Dream of Zorro'' (1952) * '' The Passaguai Family Gets Rich'' (1952) * ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * ''Beauties in Capri'' (1952) * ''The Doctor of the Mad'' (1954) * ''Toto Seeks Peace'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger I Of Sicily
Roger I ( it, Ruggero I, Arabic: ''رُجار'', ''Rujār''; Maltese: ''Ruġġieru'', – 22 June 1101), nicknamed Roger Bosso and The Great, was a Norman nobleman who became the first Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101. He was a member of the House of Hauteville, and his descendants in the male line continued to rule Sicily down to 1194. Roger was born in Normandy, and came to southern Italy as a young man in 1057. He participated in several military expeditions against the Emirate of Sicily beginning in 1061. He was invested with part of Sicily and the title of count by his brother, Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, in 1071. By 1090, he had conquered the entire island. In 1091, he conquered Malta. The state he created was merged with the Duchy of Apulia in 1127 and became the Kingdom of Sicily in 1130. Conquest of Calabria and Sicily Roger was the youngest son of Tancred of Hauteville by his second wife Fredisenda. Roger arrived in Southern Italy in the summer of 1057. The Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
