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Virginio Domingo Bressanelli
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Virginio is a given name, and may refer to: * Virginio Cáceres (born 1962), Paraguayan footballer * Virginio Colombo (1885–1927), Italian architect * Virginio Ferrari (born 1952), Italian motorcycle racer * Virginio Ferrari (artist) (21st century), Italian sculptor * Virginio Livraghi (21st century), Italian comic strip artist and illustrator * Virginio Orsini (circa 1434 – 1497), Italian condottiero * Virginio Orsini (cardinal) (1615–1676), Italian cardinal * Virginio Rognoni (1924–2022), Italian politician * Virginio Rosetta (1902–1975), Italian former football player * Virginio Vespignani (1808–1882), Italian architect See also * Virginia (other) Virginia is a state in the United States of America. Virginia most often also refers to: *West Virginia, another U.S. state. *Virginia (given name) Virginia may also refer to: Places Australia *Virginia, Queensland *Virginia, South Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Cáceres
Virginio Cáceres Villalba (born 21 May 1962 in Itacurubí del Rosario) is a retired football defender from Paraguay. Cáceres started his career in the regional league team from the San Pedro Department and arrived in Asunción at the start of 1984 and signed for Club Guaraní. He soon made an impact and helped the team capture the 1984 Paraguayan league title. In 1990, he signed for Olimpia Asunción, where he would eventually play until his retirement in 2002. In his at Olimpia he won several national and international titles that established him as one of the club's important players. Virginio Cáceres was also of the Paraguay national football team that participated in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Virginio also played several Copa América tournaments representing Paraguay. Titles * Paraguayan League: 1984 (with Guaraní), 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 (with Olimpia) * Supercopa Sudamericana: 1990 (with Olimpia) * Recopa Sudamericana: 1990 (with Olimpia) * Copa L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Colombo
Virginio Colombo (1884–1927) was a prolific Italian architect later active in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Biography Born in 1884 in Milan, Italy, Colombo studied architecture in the Brera Academy under Giuseppe Sommaruga, the city's leading exponent of the Art Nouveau style. Colombo arrived in Buenos Aires in 1906, along with two other Italian architects, Aquiles de Lazzari and Mario Baroffio Covati, with a contract to carry out the decoration of the Palacio de Justicia (the Law Courts). Soon after his arrival in Buenos Aires he became director of a studio and later set up his own, working mainly on projects for private clients, usually wealthy Italian immigrants in business, industry or real estate who bought land for the construction of apartment buildings and shops for rental. These entrepreneurs liked architecture that optimized land use and that was stylistically what some might consider ostentatious and extravagant. Perhaps his most important public work was the designing of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Ferrari
Virginio Ferrari (born 19 October 1952) is an Italian former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. His best season was in the 1979 500cc world championship, when he finished second to Kenny Roberts. Motorcycle racing career Ferrari teamed up with Benjamin Grau to win the 1975 1000 km du Mugello endurance race riding a Ducati. He began the 1979 season with a string of podium results, finishing second to Barry Sheene at the Venezuelan Grand Prix and, second to Kenny Roberts in the Austrian Grand Prix. He continued to post good results with a third place in Germany and another second place behind Roberts in Italy. Ferrari dropped from the podium with a fourth place in Spain before bouncing back with another second place to Roberts in Yugoslavia. His victory at the Dutch TT in Assen together with an eighth-place finish by Roberts, vaulted Ferrari into the championship lead as the series headed towards Belgium. Ferrari became embroiled in a controversy at the Belgian G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Ferrari (artist)
Virginio Ferrari is an Italian sculptor, born in Verona and based in Chicago from the middle of the 1960s. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 150 group showsFerrari Studios, a site for both Virginio and his son Marco, is at 412 S. Wells, 3rd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60607. Artistic Development Ferrari was educated at the Istituto d'Arte N. Nanni and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Veronabr>His father and grandfather were both stonecuttersFrom 1966 until 1976, he was the artist in residence and professor of art at the University of Chicago. Chicago contains more than thirty of his public sculptures In his early works, Ferrari worked in an abstract and surrealist style but later began to produce monumental sculptures in bronze, steel, iron, marble and granite. His sculptures have been installed in many large US cities and often involve a dialogue between the interiority of the work and the exterior space Ferrari, in his own words, describes his ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Livraghi
Virginio Livraghi is an Italian comic strip artist and illustrator who worked for the British nursery comics ''Playhour'' and ''Once Upon a Time''. Books Illustrated by Virginio Livraghi in English * Alice in Wonderland, retold by Jane Carruth (London, Odhams, 1963) * Curly the Pig, by Maria Pia Pezzi (New York, Golden Press, 1967) * Brer Rabbit Br'er Rabbit (an abbreviation of ''Brother Rabbit'', also spelled Brer Rabbit) is a central figure in an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States and African descendants in the Caribbean, notably Afro-Baham ..., by Barbara Hayes (Vero Beach, Fla., Rourke Enterprises, 1984; ) References Italian comics artists Italian illustrators Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Europe-comics-creator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Orsini
Gentile Virginio Orsini (c. 1434 – 8 January 1497) was an Italian condottiero and vassal of the papal throne and the Kingdom of Naples, mainly remembered as the powerful head of the Orsini family during its feud with Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). Though best known as Lord of Bracciano, during his lifetime he bore many titles, among which Count of Tagliacozzo, Vicovaro and Anguillara, Lord of Cerveteri, Knight of the Order of Emellino (1463), Constable of the Kingdom of Naples and Gonfalonier of the Roman Church. The aforesaid fiefs were all confiscated in favor of the Colonna or the Borgia family during Virginio's conflict with Naples and the Pope. Genealogy and military career Gentile Virginio was the son of Napoleone II and Francesca Orsini. On the death of his uncle Carlo (1485), he obtained the reins of his prominent house, at the time an enemy to the King of Naples and an ally of the pontiff. Pope Sixtus IV appointed him general of his forces, which Virginio le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Orsini (cardinal)
Virginio Orsini (1615 – 21 August 1676) was an Italian Cardinal. He was of the ducal family of Bracciano, He renounced his birthright in his youth, entered the military order of the Knights of Malta and distinguished himself in battle against the Ottoman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. Orsini, Virginio He had plans to marry Ippolita Ludovisi (daughter of , sister of and a niece of Pope Gregory XV) but |
Virginio Rognoni
Virginio Rognoni (5 August 1924 – 20 September 2022) was an Italian politician, who was a prominent member of Christian Democracy. He was several times Interior Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice. From 2002 to 2006 he was vice-president of the High Council of the Judiciary. Biography As a student at the historic Collegio Ghislieri, in November 1947 he obtained a degree in law from the University of Pavia. He studied at Yale University between 1949 and 1950 and also worked as a lawyer. Rognoni began his political career in local government, serving as a city councillor in Pavia from 1960 to 1964, and from 1964 to 1967 as deputy mayor and as councillor for town planning. He then entered national politics, and was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies for seven consecutive terms (1968–1994). Rognoni was Minister of the Interior from 1978 to 1983, of Justice (1986–1987) and Minister of Defence (1990–1992): he faced the terrorism and he solved the k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Rosetta
Virginio "Viri" Rosetta (; 25 February 1902 – 31 March 1975) was an Italian footballer who played as a defender. A hard-working player, he was known for his organisational skills, and for his ability to read the game and anticipate other players; he was also known to be a very precise passer of the ball, and an elegant full-back with good technique and a powerful shot, who was capable of starting plays from the back-line. Club career Rosetta was born in Vercelli, Piedmont, where he debuted for Pro Vercelli in the Italian First Division (Serie A's predecessor) in the 1919–20 season, as a striker. He later turned into an effective defender. Pro Vercelli was then one of the major Italian football teams, and Rosetta won two '' scudetti'' in 1921 and 1922. He debuted for Italy at the 1920 Summer Olympics, forming a partnership with Renzo De Vecchi. In 1923 he moved to Juventus, where he was paid as a footballer for the first time. He won his first title in 1926, and was an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Vespignani
Virginio Vespignani (12 February 1808 – 4 December 1882) was an Italian architect. Vespignani was born in Rome. A student of Luigi Poletti, he was highly interested in classical architecture, becoming one of Roman neoclassical's main figures. To graduate, he helped illustrate in collaboration with the engraver and architect Rossini a work on the Antiquities of Pompei and on The Seven Hills of Rome. He later would collaborate with a book by the archeologist Edward Dodwell, published in London. In 1850 he built the neoclassical domed Church of the Madonna dell’Archetto around the shrine of the Madonna in Palazzo Muti. He worked for a time as papal architect, and his works in Rome include the completion, restoration and rebuilding of the external facade of Porta Pia (1868) and the restoration of Santa Maria Maggiore and San Lorenzo fuori le mura. He was also one of many participants in the reconstruction of the Basilica of San Paolo, and rebuilt and decorated Porta San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
