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Urania (magazine)
''Urania'' is an Italian science fiction magazine published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since 10 October 1952. The current editor is Giuseppe Lippi. History The first issue featured the novel ''The Sands of Mars'' by Arthur C. Clarke (as ''Le sabbie di Marte''). The original name of the series was ''I Romanzi di Urania'' ("Urania's novels"), to differentiate it from another magazine with the same name (but popularly known as ''Urania Rivista'', "Urania Magazine"), which featured only short stories. The latter, however, lasted only 14 issues, and ''Romanzi di Urania'' soon took the simpler name, which still holds today. Short story collections were thenceforth published in the main series, which at its height had a weekly periodicity with a circulation of 160,000 copies a month. Since the very beginning Urania has been indeed the best selling Science fiction, SF magazine of Italy, also introducing to Italian readers some famed authors like Isaac Asimov, Alfred Elton van Vogt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Urania ( ; grc, , Ouranía; modern Greek shortened name ''Ránia''; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven") was, in Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy, and in later times, of Christian poetry. Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, her attributes being the globe and compass. The muse ''Urania'' is sometimes confounded with ''Aphrodite Urania'' ("heavenly Aphrodite") because of their similar name. Family Urania was the daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne and also a great granddaughter of Uranus. Some accounts list her as the mother of the musician Linus by Apollo or Hermes or Amphimarus, son of Poseidon. Hymenaeus is also said to have been a son of Urania. Function and representation Urania is often associated with Universal Love. Sometimes identified as the eldest of the divine sisters, Urania inherited Zeus' majesty and power and the beauty and grace of her mother Mnemosyne. Urania dresses in a cloak embroidered with stars and keeps her eyes and attention focused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The 60% smaller island of Ireland is to the west—these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, form the British Isles archipelago. Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a landbridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about , making it the world's third-most-populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The term "Great Britain" is often used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales, including their component adjoining islands. Great Britain and Northern Ireland now constitute the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Chichoni
Oscar Chichoni (born July 14, 1957) is an Argentine illustrator of comic books and science fiction magazines and books. History Chichoni was born in a desolate hamlet in Corral de Bustos, province of Córdoba, and is self-taught in art. He published his first comic books pictures at the age of 17 for the Argentine publisher Record, and soon his work was paralleled to that of some famous authors like Alberto Breccia, Juan Zanotto and Juan Giménez. Following this period as a comic book artist, Chichoni devoted himself to painting. He spent two times studying under the painter Álvaro Izurieta, and began to draw book covers for several publishers, becoming soon renowned in all the world for his powerful and well-detailed anatomies. In the second half of the 1980s he moved to Europe, collaborating and winning various awards. His main collaboration is for the Italian editor Arnoldo Mondadori's science fiction series ''Urania'' and its spin-offs. Since 1995, Chichoni has been wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
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Vicente Segrelles
Vicente Segrelles (born 9 September 1940 in Barcelona) is a Spanish comic book artist and writer. Segrelles gained popularity in Europe for his painted comic book epic ''The Mercenary'' ('' El Mercenario''), started in 1980. Set in a medieval fantasy world, ''El Mercenario'' follows the adventures of a mercenary in his fight against evil. Unusual for the craft of comic books, every panel of his work for this series—which has reached 14 issues so far—is painted in oil, a time-consuming process. Segrelles was also the cover artist for the Italian science fiction magazine ''Urania Urania ( ; grc, , Ouranía; modern Greek shortened name ''Ránia''; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven") was, in Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy, and in later times, of Christian poetry. Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, he ...'' from 1988 to 1991. Bibliography * 1970 ''Lazarillo de Tormes/El licenciado Vidriera'' scripted by María Teresa Díaz * 1981 El Mercenario 1-''El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Thole
Carolus Adrianus Maria Thole (20 April 1914 – 26 March 2000) was a Dutch-Italian painter and illustrator. He was born in Bussum, near Amsterdam, and was educated at State Drawing School of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. His first works were for advertisement and publishing companies, but he also painted glasses and walls. In 1958 Thole moved to Milan, Italy, with his wife and four sons. At first he worked for Rizzoli publisher, before passing to Mondadori in 1960. After several covers for various magazines and books, he became renowned for his long work for science fiction magazine ''Urania'', where his deep art culture, taste for surrealism and weird sense of humour could show at their best. For Mondadori he worked to a host of other series, including mysteries and romantic series for women. In 1980s Thole experienced an eye disease that compelled him to reduce his work activity and to leave ''Urania'' covers to Vicente Segrelles and Oscar Chichoni. His last work for ''Ura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
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Kurt Caesar
Kurt Caesar (also known as Cesare Avai or Caesar Away, true name Kurt Kaiser; 30 March 1906 – 12 July 1974) was a German-Italian painter, journalist and comic book artist. He was born at Montigny-lès-Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, to German father. He studied Engineering in Leipzig, but later he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin; in the meantime he had a boxing career which led him to win a German title. In 1929 he became correspondent for a magazine in Zürich and collaborated for several German magazines; his journalist career led him to travel in Europe and Asia. After his marriage he moved to Italy, where he started to work at successful comics, such as Romano il Legionario, a popular nationalist character published in ''Il Vittorioso''. He also drew "Aeroporto Z" and "Will Sparrow" for ''Paperino e altre avventure''. During World War II Caesar was in Morocco, Libya and Spain, and, in 1941, again in Africa as interpreter for Erwin Rommel. Captured by the English, he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Mongai
Massimo Mongai (3 November 1950 – 1 November 2016) was an Italian author of science fiction. Biography Born in Rome, by the age of 12 Massimo Mongai was a dedicated reader of science fiction. He graduated in law. According to the biography printed in many of his books, his influences include the science-fiction writers Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt, Poul Anderson and Philip José Farmer and the crime writers Rex Stout and Andrea Camilleri. Works In 1997, he wrote ''Memorie di un cuoco d'astronave''. This blend of space saga and cooking manual won Italy's Urania Award. His other books include ''Il gioco degli immortali'', ''Tette e pistole'', ''Memorie di un cuoco di un bordello spaziale'', ''Cronache non ufficiali di due spie italiane'', ''Il Fascio sulle stelle di Benito Mussolini'' and ''Alienati'', a novel about an inter-planetary convention of psychoanalysts. He also worked on the Italian magazine ''Il Falcone Maltese'', dedicated to crime fiction, known in Italy as giallo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicoletta Vallorani
Nicoletta Vallorani (born 7 February 1959) is an Italian science fiction writer. Born in Offida, in the Marche region, she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature, honed her writing skills as a translator and currently teaches English Language and Literature in the University of Milan, Milan. Her work as an essayist focuses on Italian science fiction criticism, and science fiction from women in particular. She contributed to various genre magazines, including ''Cosmo'', ''La città e le stelle'', ''Studi e ricerche sulla fantascienza'' and ''Ucronia''. For Mondadori she did volume prefaces, articles, interviews, columns. Starting in the mid-1980s she published novels and short-story collections. She won the Premio Urania 1992 with the novel ''Il cuore finto di DR'', a science fiction/noir cross-pollination published by Mondadori under the ''Urania'' inprint the following year, and also translated in French. She also writes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerio Evangelisti
Valerio Evangelisti (20 June 1952 – 18 April 2022) was an Italian writer of science fiction, fantasy, historical novels, and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich and for the Nostradamus trilogy, all bestsellers translated into many languages. Some of his books are seen as part of the body of literary works known as the New Italian Epic. Biography Evangelisti earned his degree in Political Science in 1976 with a historical-political thesis. He was born in Bologna, where he lived; he spent some time each year in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, where he owned a house. Until 1990 his career was mainly academic. He also worked for the Italian Ministero delle Finanze (Treasury Department). His first written works were historical essays, including five books and some forty articles. In 1993 his novel ''Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore'' won the Urania Award, which was established by ''Urania'', Italy’s main science fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Catani
Vittorio Catani (17 July 1940 – 23 November 2020) was an Italian science fiction writer. Career Born in Lecce, he lived and worked in Bari, Italy. Formerly a bank clerk, he started publishing essays and fiction in 1962, especially within the fantasy and science fiction genres. His first novel, ''Gli universi di Moras'', won the Urania (magazine), Premio Urania in 1990. He has been published in most major newspapers and magazines, and his works have been translated in a number of European countries. He contributed to the daily newspaper ''La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno'', the environmental quarterly "Villaggio Globale", and was one of the editors of "www.fantascienza.com" and "www.carmillaonline.com". His second science fiction novel, ''Il Quinto Principio'', was published in December 2009, again by ''Urania (magazine), Urania''. Catani died in Bari on 23 November 2020, at the age of 80. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
