Italian Venezuelans are Venezuelan citizens of
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
descent. The word may refer to someone born in
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
of Italian descent or to someone who has emigrated to Venezuela from Italy. Italians were among the largest groups of European immigrants to settle in the country. Approximately 5 million Venezuelans have some degree of Italian ancestry.
Italians began arriving in Venezuela in massive numbers in the last half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. Yet Italians began to transmit a sound cultural heritage, giving and receiving demonstrations of social empathy, which contributed to their integration and to the huge flows into Venezuela in 1947 and in 1948.
The massive presence of travelers, explorers, missionaries, and other peninsular and insular Italian immigrants over the course of almost 500 years made Venezuela acquire a Latin vocation instead of a Hispanic one. Italians also influenced Venezuelan accent, given its slight sing-songy intonation.
History
Before the discovery of huge deposits of
oil
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) & lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturated ...
in Venezuela, during the first half of the 20th century, the emigration of Italians to Venezuela was limited. A number of Italians moved to Venezuela from Italy during the colonial times as Filippo Salvatore Gilii, José Cristóbal Roscio, Francisco Isnardi. In the Republican era of the 19th century there was a small number of Italians and their descendants who attained high status in Venezuelan society, such as Agostino Codazzi, Constante Ferrari, Carlos Luis Castelli and the surgeon
Luis Razetti.
In the 1940s and 1950s the Dictatorship of the general
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez (25 April 1914 – 20 September 2001) was a Venezuelan military and general officer of the Army of Venezuela and the dictator of Venezuela from 1950 to 1958, ruling as member of the military junta from 19 ...
promoted european immigration to his depopulated country, and more than 300,000 Italians emigrated to Venezuela where flourished under his administration because he had started many urban infrastructure projects thanks to the revenues of oil exportation. There were ample opportunities to work in construction developments, and as a result the economic stance increased within its cities, especially Caracas, Valencia, Barquisimeto and Maracaibo. The Electoral Law of 1957, which allotted to foreigners voting rights for the very first time, became a detrimental event for the Italian communities in Venezuela. The law was put into place by General Pérez Jiménez, to aid him in his reelection campaign . The loss of Perez Jimenez in the presidential referendum meant that his social programs would end, and a huge gap in leadership would follow.
The Italian immigrants had notably supported President Perez Jimenez’s referendum of December 2 of 1957, as well as expressing public adherence to the dictatorship by about 75,000 Italians liderated by the entreprenour
Filippo Gagliardi
Filippo Gagliardi (born c. 1606, died 1659) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He collaborated with Filippo Lauri, Andrea Sacchi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. He also helped in the renovation of San Marti ...
. And so, when the General Perez Jimenez fell from power in January 23 of 1958 the hostile attitude of the provisional military government towards the removed president was also reflected on the groups who were supportive of him. For this reason, many migrants and their families chose to return to Italy through the following year, subsiding towards the end of February, when the Minister of Foreign Affairs recognized the potential damage of this shift and proceeded to guarantee security to the remaining Italians in Venezuela. This is a relevant factor, since acts of disdain towards the Italian populace undoubtedly affected the decisions of that ethnic group in regards to choosing to leave or enter the country.
The Italians in the 1961 Venezuelan census were the biggest European community in Venezuela (ahead of the
Spanish
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**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
).
In 1966, according to the Italian Embassy in Caracas, of the 170,000 Italians present in the country, 90% lived in the main cities: about 96,000 in Caracas, 14,000 in Maracaibo, 8,000 in Maracay, 6,000 in Valencia and 5,000 in La Guayra. Most of these Italians were born in Sicily, Campania and Puglia; only 15% were born in northern Italy (mainly in Emilia-Romagna). They initially worked in construction, in the service sector, in commercial agencies and in different businesses (like hotels, banks, restaurants, etc.), in manufacturing activities (the shoe industry in Caracas, for example, was fully in Italian hands) and a few also in the oil industry.
In 1976 the "Dirección de Estadísticas" of Venezuela registered 210,350 Italians residents and 25,858 Italians "naturalised" (who had obtained Venezuelan citizenship). In 2001, 126,553 Italians were living in Venezuela.
Marisa Vannini calculated that in the 1980s Italian-Venezuelans made up almost 400,000 of Venezuela's population, including second-generation descendants of immigrants. The
Italian language in Venezuela
The Italian language in Venezuela has been present since colonial times in the areas around Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Maracaibo and the Andes mountains. The language is found in many idiomatic sentences and words of Venezuelan Spanish. There ...
is influencing
Venezuelan Spanish
Venezuelan Spanish ( or ) refers to the Spanish spoken in Venezuela.
Spanish was introduced in Venezuela by colonists. Most of them were from Galicia, Basque Country, Andalusia, or the Canary Islands. The last has been the most fundamental ...
with some modisms and loanwords and is experiencing a notable revival between the Italian-Venezuelans of second and third generation.
Santander Laya-Garrido estimated that the Venezuelans with at least one grandparent from Italy can be nearly one million at the beginning of the 21st century (like the former president of Venezuela,
Raul Leoni, whose grandfather was an Italian
mason refugee of the 19th century).
Currently, Italian citizens resident in Venezuela are reduced to less than 50,000 due mainly to demographic mortality and to their return to Italy (because of a Venezuelan political and economic crisis in the 2000s). The Ambassador of Italy in Venezuela, estimated that 5–6% (1.44 to 1.73 million) of the current Venezuelan population is of Italian origin.
Professions
Initially, agriculture was one of the main activities of the Italian community in Venezuela. In the 1950s, entire Italian families were moved from Italy to special agricultural areas, like the "Colonia Turén" of the
Portuguesa region.
However, most Italians concentrated in commercial, building and services activities during the second half of the 20th century. In those sectors, Italians reached top positions in the Venezuelan economy.
The community's main Italian newspapers are ''Il Corriere di Caracas'' and ''La Voce d'Italia'
both published in the Capital, and the main Italian school is the ''Agustin Codazzi'' of Caracas (with courses from elementary to high school). Since 2002, the Italian government has become the promoter for a provision which makes it mandatory to teach the
Italian language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about ...
as a second language in a consistent number of public and private schools within Venezuela.
Most of the Italian community in Caracas but even in the rest of Venezuela followed
Deportivo Italia football club, as its own representative team.
Indeed, the Italian-Venezuelans have obtained significant results in the contemporary society of Venezuela. The Italian Embassy calculates that 1/4 of the Venezuelan industries, not related to the oil sector, are directly or indirectly owned and/or managed by Italian-Venezuelans.
In the Italian community, actually one of the most important in Venezuela, there are Presidents of Venezuela (like
Jaime Lusinchi
Jaime Ramón Lusinchi (27 May 1924 – 21 May 2014) was a Venezuelan politician who was the president of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989. His term was characterized by an economic crisis, growth of the external debt, populist policies, currency dep ...
and
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni Otero (26 April 1905 – 5 July 1972) was the president of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969. He was a member of the Generation of 1928 and a charter member of the Acción Democrática party, and the first Labor minister of Venezuela (d ...
), entrepreneurs (like ing. Delfino, who with his "Constructora Delpre" made in Caracas the tallest skyscrapers of South America:
Parque Central Complex
The Parque Central Complex is a housing, commercial and cultural development, implemented by Centro Simón Bolívar and located in the area known as El Conde in the center of the city of Caracas, Venezuela adjacent to Paseo Vargas.
Within th ...
), managers (like
Pompeo D'Ambrosio), sportsmen (like
Johnny Cecotto
Johnny Alberto Cecotto Persello (born 25 January 1956), better known as Johnny Cecotto, is a Venezuelan former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer and auto racer. He rose to prominence as a teenage prodigy in 1975 when he became the you ...
), artists (like
Franco De Vita
Franco Atilio De Vita De Vito (born January 23, 1954, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan Latin Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter. His first album as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the ...
), beauty pageants (like
Daniela di Giacomo and
Viviana Gibelli), and many others personalities.
One winner of the title
Miss Venezuela
Miss Venezuela (Spanish: ''Organización Miss Venezuela'') is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela, traditionally held in September. It is preceded by two or three months of preliminary events, with the awarding of corporate prizes. The fi ...
was born in Italy:
María Antonieta Cámpoli in 1972 (later she represented Venezuela in the
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by a United States and Thailand based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Stre ...
, where she was the runner-up).
Main Italo-Venezuelan Institutions and Associations
![Deportivoitalia1968](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Deportivoitalia1968.png)
* ''Asociación Civil "Agustin Codazzi"'' in Caracas
* ''Casa de Italia'' in Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Ciudad Bolívar
* ''Centro Italo-Venezolano'' in Caracas, Barcelona, Maracaibo, Valencia
* ''Club Social Italiano'' in Puerto La Cruz, Acarigua, Calabozo
* ''
Deportivo Italia'' Football Club
* ''Instituto Italiano de Cultura'' in Caracas
* ''Camera di Commercio, Industria ed Agricoltura Venezuelana-Italiana'' in Caracas
* ''Regional Associations'' of Italians in Venezuela
* ''Genealogía Italiana en Venezuela''
Education
The
Colegio Agustín Codazzi
Colegio Agustín Codazzi is an Italian international school in La Florida, Caracas, Venezuela.
Data
The "Colegio Codazzi" has ''Scuola infanzia “O. Molinari”'' (preschool), ''Scuola elementare “O.Molinari”'' (primary school) and ''Scu ...
in
Caracas is an overseas Italian school recognized by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy.
There are also multiple Italo-Venezuelan schools in the country:
[Informazioni utili nel Paese]
. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy (Farnesina). Retrieved on November 21, 2015.
Caracas:
*
Colegio Agustín Codazzi
Colegio Agustín Codazzi is an Italian international school in La Florida, Caracas, Venezuela.
Data
The "Colegio Codazzi" has ''Scuola infanzia “O. Molinari”'' (preschool), ''Scuola elementare “O.Molinari”'' (primary school) and ''Scu ...
* Colegio
San Francisco d'Assisi
* Colegio Nuestra Señora de Pompei
* Colegio
Amerigo Vespucci
* Collegio San Marco Evangelista
* Collegio Patria
* Colegio
Bolivar y Garibaldi
Eastern Venezuela:
* Collegio
Maria Montessori
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori ( , ; August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori e ...
in
Ciudad Bolivar
Ciudad () is the Spanish word for City
Ciudad may also refer to:
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*La Ciudad, district of Durango City, Mexico
*''La ciudad'', novel by Mario Levrero 1970
*La Ciudad ''The City'' ...
*
Collegio Angelo de Marta in
Puerto La Cruz
Western Venezuela:
* Collegio R. C. Agazzi in
Barquisimeto
Barquisimeto (; guc, Watkisimeeta) is a city in Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is an important urban, industrial, commercial and transportation center of the country, recognized as the f ...
* Collegio San Pedro in Barquisimeto
* Collegio Juan XXIII in
Maracay
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* Collegio Antonio Rosmini in Maracaibo
*
Unidad Educativa Juan XXIII in
Cabimas
Geographical distribution and origin
![ItaliansinVenezuela](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/ItaliansinVenezuela.jpg)
The Italians who migrated to Venezuela came mainly from the regions of South Italy, like
Abruzzo,
Campania
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, and
Apulia, but there were also migrants from the north, such as from
Emilia-Romagna
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Veneto
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The Italian Consulate in Caracas stated that in 1977, of 210,350 Italians residents in Venezuela, 39,855 were from
Sicily
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, 35,802 from
Campania
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, 20,808 from
Abruzzi, 18,520 from
Apulia, 8,953 from
Veneto
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, 7,650 from
Emilia-Romagna
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and 6,184 from
Friuli – Venezia Giulia.
The Italians are concentrated mainly in the north-central region of Venezuela around Caracas. The Consulate stated that in the same 1977 there were 98,106 Italians in the
Distrito Federal
A federal district is a type of administrative division of a federation, usually under the direct control of a federal government and organized sometimes with a single municipal body. Federal districts often include capital districts, and they ...
of Caracas, 39,508 in
Miranda State, 14,203 in
Maracaibo, 12.801 in
Aragua
Aragua State ( es, Estado Aragua, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. It is located in the north-central region of Venezuela. It has plains and jungles and Caribbean beaches. The most popular are Cata and Choroni. It has Venezuela's first n ...
State and 8,104 in
Carabobo State, as well as 66 in the
Amazonas equatorial region.
In the 2000s, it was determined that nearly 90% of the Italo-Venezuelans were concentrated in the northern coastal section of Venezuela facing the
Caribbean sea
The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...
. Approximately 2/3 of them are residents of the metropolitan areas of the three main Venezuelan cities:
Caracas,
Maracaibo and
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...
.
There is also a considerable number of Italian residents that live in the city of
San Cristóbal and in the Andes region.
Demographics
Population
States with the highest proportions of Italian-born population tend to be those of the North-central coastal area (
Capital and
Central Region), the
Andean Region (
Mérida) and the
Insular Region.
![Porcentaje Italianos en Venezuela (2011)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Porcentaje_Italianos_en_Venezuela_%282011%29.png)
At the 2011 census, this was the breakdown of Italian-born population by state, showing that the capital area was the one with the biggest concentration of native Italians.
Italian Influences
Language
Italian was introduced to Venezuela by Italian immigrants, and it now has over 200,000 speakers, making it the country's second most spoken language after Spanish. Italian was widely spoken across the country, specially in the capital "Caracas," "Maracay," and other cities; it is also commonly spoken (mostly by the older generation) by residents of the town of La Carlota, a town in Venezuela which was one of the main settlements for Italians immigrants, regional languages of Italy were also brought to the country such as
Neapolitan and
Sicilian, Italian is the second language of many Venezuelans of Italian descent after Spanish, also the Italian government has become the promoter of a provision requiring the teaching of Italian as a second language in a constant number of public and private schools within Venezuela.
Cuisine
Italian cuisine is one of the most influential in the country's every day in fact, Venezuela is the second country in the world with the most consumption of pasta only after Italy itself.
Pasta
Pasta (, ; ) is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Rice flour, or legumes such as beans or lentils, ar ...
is the third most consumed product in Venezuela, whose per capita consumption is 12.6 kg.
Pasticho (lasagna in Italian) is extremely common dish in Venezuelan Cuisine, Pasticho basically Lasagne is one of the traditional Venezuelan dishes being popular as hallaca, it is consumed in the original form, but also received adaptations, the variants are innumerable, for example, in some, layers of ham are added or the pasta is replaced by banana or by cachapas leafs, a version which is known as ''chalupa,'' in others it has been completely modified which involve sauce of chicken or fish, and ''Pasticho de berenjena'' which resembles greek
Moussaka
Moussaka (, , ) is an eggplant- or potato-based dish, often including ground meat, which is common in the Balkans and the Middle East, with many local and regional variations.
The best-known version in Europe and the Americas is the Greek vari ...
.
Pizza is one of the most popular dishes in Venezuelan cuisine, pizza has had completely different contrast and variations. L'Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana has approved Portarossa, a Venezuelan business, for "La margarita," which comprises mozzarella cheese, and "La Marinada," which contains tomato sauce and garlic, as the eighth Latin American pizza certified as Pizza Napolitana by this establesiment, is an example of the various variants of pizzas in the country; it serves numerous types of pizzas, including "La Pizza Parrilla," which is made with chicken, pork, chorizo, and french fries, as well as Focaccia de Lomito carpaccio.
Polenta originated in Italy originally made from boiled cornmeal. Funche as it is better known in Venezuela, has been incorporated into stews. The typical dish is made with chicken. In the East and West of the country they additionally prepare it with sardines. The typical Polenta of Venezuela is a baked cake made from a mix of precooked corn (
Harina P.A.N.), water and salt, stuffed with some meat, chicken, fish or pig stew.
Cannoli
Cannoli (; scn, cannola ) are Italian pastries consisting of tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling containing ricotta—a staple of Sicilian cuisine. They range in size from . In mainland Italy, they are ...
is a pastry tube filled with ricotta cheese and honey or chocolate.
Notable Italian-Venezuelans
Architecture
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Jorge Rigamonti
Jorge Rigamonti (''born Giorgio Rigamonti'', April 18, 1948 – April 15, 2008) was a Venezuelan architect who produced national and international award-winning designs, an active architecture professor for over 30 years, a speaker and jury memb ...
– Designed multiple national and international award-winning buildings
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Graziano Gasparini
Graziano Gasparini (31 July 1924 – 30 November 2019) was a Venezuelan architect, photographer, painter and historian, sometimes referred to as Graciano Gasparini (ie using a Spanish version of his first name).
Gasparini was born in Gorizia, on ...
– Architect, architectural historian and painter
Musicians
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Benito Canónico – Composer
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Rodolfo Saglimbeni – Conductor
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Nacho (singer)
Miguel Ignacio Mendoza Donatti (born 22 August 1983), better known as Nacho, is a Venezuelan singer and political activist. Born in Lechería, Anzoátegui, Venezuela. Currently lives in Miami, Florida, United States. He is a member of the duo Chi ...
– Singer
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Antonio Lauro – Musician
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Franco De Vita
Franco Atilio De Vita De Vito (born January 23, 1954, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan Latin Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter. His first album as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the ...
– Artist, singer, composer and pianist
*
Rosario Marciano – Pianist and writer
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Pablo Manavello – Composer, guitarist, singer and songwriter
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Iván Pérez Rossi
Iván Pérez Rossi is a singer and musician born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, August 3, 1943. He was a part of the musical group Serenata Guayanesa.
See also
*Venezuela
*Music of Venezuela
Several styles of the traditional music of Vene ...
– Singer and musician
*
Alejandra Ghersi – Musician commonly known as
Arca (musician)
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Yordano
Yordano, born Giordano Di Marzo Migani, is an Italian–born Venezuelan singer-songwriter and guitar player.Peñin, José; Guido, Walter. (1998). ''Enciclopedia de la Música en Venezuela''. Fundación Bigott, Caracas. .
Early life
Born on Oct ...
– Composer and singer
*
Humberto Bruni Lamanna
Humberto Bruni Lamanna, (born March 26, 1957, Caracas Venezuela) descended from an Italian family, is a Classical Guitar concert artist.
Musical studies
The musical studies of Humberto Bruni began at age fourteen, when he took the first music ...
– Classical guitarist
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Roberto Luti – Singer and record producer
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Corrado Galzio – Piano player and founder of cultural radio
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Primo Casale – Composer, conductor and violinist
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Lele Pons
Eleonora Pons Maronese (born June 25, 1996), better known as Lele Pons, is a Venezuelan YouTuber, actress, and singer who holds both Venezuelan and American citizenship.
Pons came to prominence on Vine before the platform shut down in 2017 w ...
– Singer and internet personality
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Jorge Spiteri – Rock musician pioneer
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Rudy la Scala
Rudy La Scala (born January 20, 1954) is a singer-songwriter and record producer, born in Rocca di Papa, Lazio, Italy.
At a young age, La Scala migrated to Venezuela, where he completed his primary and secondary studies, while learning piano and ...
– Singer and record producer
*
Evio Di Marzo Migani – Songwriter and composer
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Daniel Calveti – Singer
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– Singer
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Italo Pizzolante – Composer and musician
Actors and entertainers
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Gioia Arismendi
Gioia Denise Arismendi Lombardini , better known as Gioia Arismendi (born January 5, 1984 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan actress and model.
Biography
Arismendi grew up in a family of artists. Her mother Gioia Lombardini is an actress is familiar ...
– Actress
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Paula Bellini – TV entertainer
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Briggitte Bozzo – Actress
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Umberto Buonocuore - Actor
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Verónica Ortiz – Actress
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Desideria D'Caro – Actress
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Viviana Gibelli – Actress and producer
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Alejandro Nones
Alejandro Nones (born December 9, 1982) is a Venezuelan actor. He began his acting career with the film ''Así del precipicio'', and later was hired by Televisa to act in the telenovela ''Lola, érase una vez''.
Filmography
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- Actor
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Jullye Giliberti
Jullye Kayherine Giliberti Cevedo (born April 23, 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas. She has appeared in several series, including ''La Ley del silencio'', '' Amores de mercado'' and ''P ...
– Actress
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Enrique Sapene - Actor
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Fedra López
Fedra López (; born June 5, 1962) is an Argentine actress and model.
Fedra was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina but raised up in Venezuela. She began her career at the age of 17 with ''Juan Carlos y su rumba flamenca''. During a tour of Venezue ...
– Actress
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Carla Baratta – Actress
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Anastasia Mazzone
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– Actress
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Dora Mazzone
Dora Mazzone (born 2 June 1967) is a Venezuelan actress.
Biography
Dora began her career in theater by performing stage readings. In 1984 she entered the School of Arts at the Central University of Venezuela. During the course of her studies, s ...
– Actress
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Fanny Otatti – TV entertainer
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Sheyene Gerardi – Actress and producer
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Concetta Lo Dolce
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*Concetta Tomei, American actress
*Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Australian politician
*Concetta M. Tomaino, business woman
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*Concet ...
– Actress
*
Viviana Gibelli – TV show host and actress
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Renny Ottolina
Renaldo José Ottolina Pinto (December 11, 1928 – March 16, 1978) was a Venezuelan producer and entertainer. Born in Valencia, Carabobo, he performed professionally under the name Renny Ottolina.
Early life
His mother Ana Mercedes Pinto died wh ...
– Producer and TV entertainer
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Alba Roversi – Actress
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Dante Carle – Actor
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Irma Palmieri – Actress
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Patricia Zavala – TV presenter
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Roberto Messuti – Actor
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Marisela Berti
Marisela Maritza Berti Diaz (born September 9, 1950-some sources say 1955-in Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actress, singer, television show host and former beauty queen. Her work in telenovelas and television talk shows has made her we ...
– Actress
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Humberto Tancredi – Actor
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Ángel David Revilla
Ángel David Revilla Lenoci (born 16 July 1982), better known as DrossRotzank or simply Dross, is a Venezuelan YouTuber and writer who resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since 2007.
Early life
Ángel David Revilla Lenoci was born on 16 Jul ...
– Personality and writer
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Andrés Mistage
Andrés Eduardo Mistage Parilli (born in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela on September 11, 1981) is a Venezuelan model and actor who won the title of Mister Venezuela in 2003. He represented Carabobo state.
Mistage was the official representative of ...
– Actor
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Luciano D'Alessandro
Luciano D'Alessandro González (born January 24, 1977 in Anzoátegui,Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actor and model known for his work in various telenovelas.
Biography
Luciano D'Alessandro was born on January 24, 1977 in the Venezuelan State of A ...
– Actor
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Fernando Carrillo – Actor and singer
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Marisa Román
María Román (born January 30, 1982 in Caracas, Venezuela as María Isabel Román Bianchetti) is a Venezuelan actress known for her role in various Venevisión telenovelas written by renowned writer Leonardo Padrón and various theater and fil ...
– Actress
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Wanda D'Isidoro
Wanda Catherine D’Isidoro Arcolín (born October 20, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Venezuelan actress. D'Isidoro was born to an American mother and a Sicilian father, who met when her mother was an actress. They married and moved to Ve ...
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Rosanna Zanetti – Actress
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Caterinna Valentino – TV hostess
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Maria Grazia Bianchi – Actress
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Julie Restifo
Julie Restifo, (born July 31, 1958) is an American-born Venezuelan actress. She is best known for his characters in the telenovelas ''La loba herida'', '' La llaman Mariamor'', '' Hay amores que matan'', ''Viva la Pepa'', and '' La mujer de Juda ...
– Actress
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Dora Mazzone
Dora Mazzone (born 2 June 1967) is a Venezuelan actress.
Biography
Dora began her career in theater by performing stage readings. In 1984 she entered the School of Arts at the Central University of Venezuela. During the course of her studies, s ...
– Actress
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Marjorie Magri
Marjorie Magri, (born on May 2, 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela), is a Venezuelan actress and model
A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century E ...
– Actress
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Claudia La Gatta – Actress
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Giancarlo Pasqualotto
Giancarlo is an Italian given name meaning "John Charles". It is one of the most common masculine given names in Italy and is often short for "Giovanni Carlo". Notable people with the name include:
List
A
* Giancarlo Agazzi (1933–1995), Italia ...
– Actor
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Laura Termini
Laura Termini (born August 3, 1974) is a Venezuelan actress, producer, writer, and a Board Certified Health/Beauty Counselor AADP. She is also a contributor to Huffington Post's in the health and beauty columns. Termini has starred on networks ...
– Actress
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Gigi Zanchetta
Gigliola (Gigi) Zanchetta Pirella (born April 3, 1966) is a Venezuelan actress.
Life and career
Zanchetta has made her television debut in the telenovela '' Cristal''; she later specialized in the genre, appearing in over 20 telenovelas, among t ...
– Actress
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Gioia Lombardini – Actress
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Mónica Pasqualotto
Mónica Pasqualotto, or La Pasqualotto, is a TV host, Radio host, actress, and model. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela on October 15, 1974. She has been the image of several products on television and for the Venezuelan press. She is part of ...
– Actress
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Camila Canabal Sapelli – TV hostess
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Paula Bevilacqua – Actress
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Ainett Stephens – Television personality
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Annarella Bono – Actress and TV hostess
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Julie Restifo
Julie Restifo, (born July 31, 1958) is an American-born Venezuelan actress. She is best known for his characters in the telenovelas ''La loba herida'', '' La llaman Mariamor'', '' Hay amores que matan'', ''Viva la Pepa'', and '' La mujer de Juda ...
– Actress
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Doris Wells
Doris Wells (born Doris María Buonafina; 28 October 1943 – 20 September 1988) was a Venezuelan actress, writer and producer.
Her best-known television appearances were in ''Campeones'', ''La trepadora'', ''La Hora'', ''Historia de tres herman ...
– Actress
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Carlos Guillermo Haydon
Carlos Guillermo Haydon Otamendi (born March 25, 1976) is a Venezuelan actor and model known for his role in telenovelas. He is the nephew of Marcel Granier, CEO and Chairman of RCTV.
Biography
Before venturing into acting, Carlos studied Adve ...
– Actor
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Luciano D'Alessandro
Luciano D'Alessandro González (born January 24, 1977 in Anzoátegui,Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actor and model known for his work in various telenovelas.
Biography
Luciano D'Alessandro was born on January 24, 1977 in the Venezuelan State of A ...
– Actor
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Antonio Delli
Antonio Delli Rocioli Ferreira better known as Antonio Delli is a Venezuelan actor of television, theater, films, announcer and dubbing. Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Delli ventured into television in 2006 in the Venezuelan telenovela ''Ciudad Bend ...
– Actor
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– Actor
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Sandro Finoglio
Sandro Finoglio (born Sandro Finoglio Esperanza; January 3, 1973) is a Venezuelan actor, model, TV host. Winner of the Mister Venezuela national title in 1997, Finoglio was sent to Troia, Portugal a year later to compete in the Mister World com ...
– Actor
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Roberto Lamarca – Actor
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Dino D’Avanzo – Chef host TV
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Dayana Colmenares – Television personality
Scientists
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Leon Croizat – Biologist
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José Del Vecchio – Physician
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Francisco De Venanzi – Physician
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Santos Dominici – Physician
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Francisco Mago Leccia
Francisco Mago Leccia (“Mago”) was born in Tumeremo, Bolívar (state), Bolívar State, Venezuela on May 21, 1931 and died in Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela on February 27, 2004.Schaefer, Provenzano, Pinna & Baskin (2005) - ''New ...
– Ichthyologist
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Alejandra Melfo – Physicist
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Carlos Alberto Moros Ghersi – Internist
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Domingo Luciani – Physician
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Olga Gasparini – Sociologist
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Luis Razetti – Physician
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Milena Sardi de Selle – Psychiatrist
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Nora Bustamante Luciani
Nora Bustamante Luciani (24 April 1924 – 9 November 2012) was a Venezuelan physician, historian, writer and intellectual, who served as the president of the Venezuelan Association of the History of Medicine, the first woman to hold the post. F ...
– Physician
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Otto Huber
Otto Huber (March 12, 1914 – April 9, 1989) was a Major League Baseball player. He played one season with the Boston Bees
The Atlanta Braves, a current Major League Baseball franchise, originated in Boston, Massachusetts. This article d ...
– Biologist
Journalists
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Rafael Agostini – Journalist
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Gaetano Bafile – Journalist
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Enza Carbone– Journalist, TV presenter
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Jose Gerbasi– Journalist
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Roberto Giusti – Journalist
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Nelson Bocaranda – Journalist
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Eduardo Rodriguez Giolitti – Journalist
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Sergio Novelli – Journalist
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Pedro Penzini Fleury – Journalist
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Anna Vaccarella – Journalist
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Marianela Balbi – Journalist
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Silvia Bernardini – Journalist
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José Nucete Sardi
José Nucete Sardi (August 4, 1897 – November 12, 1972)Mireya SOSA DE LEÓN: «Nucete Sardi, José». En''Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela'' Venezuela: Fundación Empresas Polar, 1997. 980-6397-37-I. was a Venezuelan historian, journalist ...
– Journalist
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Miyó Vestrini – Journalist
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Pascual Venegas Filardo – Journalist
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Ana Vacarella – Journalist
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Carlos Henríquez Consalvi – Journalist
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Lindsay Casinelli
Lindsay Casinelli (born September 3, 1985) is a Venezuelan journalist. Casinelli is currently the host of the weekly sports show República Deportiva and co-host of Contacto Deportivo weeknights on Univision.
Early years
Casinelli was born in ...
– Journalist
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Margarita D'Amico – Journalist
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José Visconti– Journalist
Economy
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Alberto Adriani – Economist
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Pompeo D'Ambrosio – Financial manager and vice-president of bank
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Calogero Paparoni - Coffee trader
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Filippo Gagliardi
Filippo Gagliardi (born c. 1606, died 1659) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He collaborated with Filippo Lauri, Andrea Sacchi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. He also helped in the renovation of San Marti ...
- Entreprenour
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Armando Scannone- Engineer
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Filippo Sindoni- Industrialist
Painters
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Juan Vicente Fabbiani – Painter
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Francisco Massiani – Writer and painter
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Emilio Boggio
Emilio Boggio (21 May 18577 June 1920) was an Italian- Venezuelan pioneering impressionist painter. In 1864 he traveled to France and studied at the Lycée Michelet in Paris until 1870. In 1873, he returned to Caracas and dedicated himself to th ...
– Painter
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Emilio Jacinto Mauri – Painter
Religious
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Filippo Salvatore Gilii – Italian Jesuit priest and linguist who lived in the
Province of Venezuela
The Venezuela Province (or Province of Caracas) was a province of the Spanish Empire (from 1527), of Gran Colombia (1824-1830) and later of Venezuela (from 1830), apart from an interlude (1528 - 1546) when it was contracted as a concession by the ...
before the
War of Independence
This is a list of wars of independence (also called liberation wars). These wars may or may not have been successful in achieving a goal of independence.
List
See also
* Lists of active separatist movements
* List of civil wars
* List o ...
*
Enzo Ceccarelli –
Politicians
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Jaime Lusinchi
Jaime Ramón Lusinchi (27 May 1924 – 21 May 2014) was a Venezuelan politician who was the president of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989. His term was characterized by an economic crisis, growth of the external debt, populist policies, currency dep ...
– President of Venezuela (1984–1989)
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Raul Leoni – President of Venezuela (1964–1969)
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Agostino Codazzi
Giovanni Battista Agostino Codazzi (alternatively known in Latin America as Agustín Codazzi; 12 July 1793 – 7 February 1859) was an Italo-Venezuelan soldier, scientist, geographer, cartographer, and governor of Barinas (1846–1847 ...
– Geographer, cartographer, military officer and governor
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Carlo Castelli – Italian military that fought with
Simon Bolivar
Simon may refer to:
People
* Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon
* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genu ...
in the
Venezuelan War of Independence
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Juan German Roscio – Lawyer, chief architect of the
Venezuelan Constitution of 1811
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Rafael Lacava
Rafael may refer to:
* Rafael (given name) or Raphael, a name of Hebrew origin
* Rafael, California
* Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israeli manufacturer of weapons and military technology
* Hurricane Rafael, a 2012 hurricane
Fiction
* ''R ...
– Governor of Carabobo
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Vicencio Scarano Spisso – Politician
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Aníbal Dominici – Politician
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Otto Hernández Pieretti – Politician
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Alberto Carnevali – Politician
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Carlos Alberto D'Ascoli – Politician
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Mario Masciulli
Mario Elbano Masciulli Manelli, Baron Miglianico (Livorno, Italy September 15, 1909 – Caracas, Venezuela October 16, 1991) was a prominent military engineer of the Italian Regia Marina, Major of Genio Navale and belonging to the recognized Decim ...
– Military engineer
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Francisco Isnardi – Politician
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Alberto Franceschi – Politician
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José Antonio Velutini – Politician
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Diego Alfredo Molero Bellavia – Politician
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Simón Alberto Consalvi
Simón Alberto Consalvi (7 July 1927 – 11 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician, journalist, diplomat and historian. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela on two occasions (1977-1979/1985-1988), Minister of Internal Affairs of Vene ...
– Politician
Sports
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Amleto Monacelli
Amleto Monacelli (born 27 August 1961) is a Venezuelan professional bowler and a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He has amassed 20 titles on the PBA Tour, making him one of only 16 players in history to accumulate at least ...
– Bowler
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Ettore Chimeri – F1 driver
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Miguel Mea Vitali – Footballer
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Fernando Aristeguieta - Footballer
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Rafael Mea Vitali – Footballer
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Jaime Moreno Ciorciari – Footballer
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Andrés Rouga – Footballer
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Jefferson Savarino - Footballer
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Sandro Notaroberto - Footballer
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Francisco La Mantía - Footballer
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Francisco Cervelli
Francisco Cervelli (born March 6, 1986) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher and former catching coach for the San Diego Padres. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Brav ...
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
player
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Massimo Margiotta – Footballer
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Andres Galarraga – MLB player
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Marco Scutaro
Marcos Scutaro, better known as Marco Scutaro, (; born October 30, 1975) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder. He bats and throws right-handed. Scutaro made his major league debut with the New York Mets in 2002, and subsequentl ...
– MLB baseball player
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Gianfranco Di Julio – Soccer player
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Giovanni Carrara
Giovanni Carrara Jiménez ar-rah'-ra(born March 4, 1968) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. Listed at 6' 2", 225 lb.,
Carrara batted and threw right-handed. He established himself as a valuable middle relief man in MLB, as w ...
–
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
player
*
Gabriel Cichero
Gabriel Alejandro Cichero Konarek (born 25 April 1984) is a Venezuelan former professional who played as a centre-back or left back.
Personal life
He is the son of Mauro Cichero who was a professional football player and represented Venezuela ...
– Football defender
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José Luis Dolgetta
José Luis Dolgetta Ascanio (1 August 1970 – 31 October 2023) was a Venezuelan professional association football, football player and manager who played as a forward (association football), forward for clubs in Venezuela, Argentina and Ecuado ...
– Footballer
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Nahuel Ferraresi – Footballer
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Francisco Carabalí – Footballer
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Giancarlo Schiavone – Footballer
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Matías Lacava – Footballer
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Ángel Agnello – Footballer
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Ricardo Andreutti – Footballer
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Carlos Angelini – Footballer
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Gilberto Angelucci – Footballer
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Luis Annese – Footballer
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Diego Araguainamo – Footballer
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Samuel Barbieri – Footballer
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Héctor Bidoglio – Footballer
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Mauro Cichero – Footballer
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Gabriel Cichero
Gabriel Alejandro Cichero Konarek (born 25 April 1984) is a Venezuelan former professional who played as a centre-back or left back.
Personal life
He is the son of Mauro Cichero who was a professional football player and represented Venezuela ...
– Footballer
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Vicente Suanno – Footballer
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Yaquino Celli – Footballer
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Franco Signorelli – Footballer
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Humberto Scovino
Humberto Scovino (born 20 December 1942) is a Venezuelan footballer. He played in four matches for the Venezuela national football team in 1967. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1967 South American Championship
The 1967 South A ...
– Footballer
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John Cernicciaro – Footballer
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Diego García Veneri – Footballer
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Ricardo Mammarella – Footballer
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Jorge Casanova – Footballer
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Alexander Bottini – Footballer
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José Rafael Bottini – Footballer
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Daniel Saggiomo – Footballer
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Enzo Potolicchio
Vicente "Enzo" Potolicchio (born 7 August 1968 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan racing driver and businessman, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship and Rolex Sports Car Series for Starworks Motorsport. He won the 2012 24 Hours of Le ...
– Racing driver
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María Elena Giusti
María Elena Giusti Lugo (born November 13, 1968) is a retired synchronized swimmer from Venezuela.
She represented her country in the women's solo competition at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics but failed to reach the medal podium; and at th ...
– Swimmer
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Andrés Galarraga
Andrés José Padovani Galarraga (; born June 18, 1961) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball first baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos (– and ), St. Louis Cardinals (), Colorado Rockies (–), At ...
– Baseball player
*
Enrico Forcella
Enrico Forcella Pelliccioni (October 18, 1907 – October 25, 1989) was a Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern c ...
– Sport shooter
*
Guillermo Vento – Baseball player
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Jimy Szymanski
Jimy Szymanski Ottaviano (born September 15, 1975, in Caracas) is a former tennis player from Venezuela.
He reached his highest junior world ranking of no. 1 in the world in summer 1993. He reached finals in Wimbledon Juniors 1993 and won the ...
– Tennis player
*
Daniel Canónico – Baseball right-handed pitcher
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Giovanni Savarese
Giovanni Savarese (born July 14, 1971) is a Venezuelan football manager and former player, who is the head coach for the Portland Timbers.
Club career Professional Breakthrough
Savarese made his professional debut at 15, with Venezuelan cl ...
– Former soccer player
*
José Antonio Casanova
José Antonio Casanova (February 18, 1918 – July 8, 1999) was a shortstop and manager in Venezuelan baseball. He batted and threw right handed. (Spanish)
Born in Maracaibo, Zulia, Casanova is regarded as the most successful manager in Venezue ...
– Baseball manager
*
María Vento – Tennis player
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Rubén Limardo
Rubén Dario Limardo Gascón (born August 3, 1985) is a Venezuelan left-handed épée fencer, five-time team Pan American champion, four-time individual Pan American champion, three-time Olympian, and 2012 individual Olympic champion.
Limardo ...
– Fencer
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Johnny Cecotto
Johnny Alberto Cecotto Persello (born 25 January 1956), better known as Johnny Cecotto, is a Venezuelan former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer and auto racer. He rose to prominence as a teenage prodigy in 1975 when he became the you ...
– Sportman (moto & race cars)
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Iván Palazzese – Sportman (moto)
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Juan Carlos Bianchi – Tennis player
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Francisco Limardo
Francisco Alberto Limardo Gascón (born March 27, 1987 in Ciudad Bolívar) is a Venezuelan épée fencer. He is the brother of Rubén Limardo, who won Venezuela's first gold medal from a forty-four year drought at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Lon ...
– épée fencer
*
Johnny Cecotto
Johnny Alberto Cecotto Persello (born 25 January 1956), better known as Johnny Cecotto, is a Venezuelan former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer and auto racer. He rose to prominence as a teenage prodigy in 1975 when he became the you ...
– Moto driver
Beauty queens
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Daniela Di Giacomo – Miss International
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Michelle Bertolini
Michelle may refer to:
People
*Michelle (name), a given name and surname, the feminine form of Michael
* Michelle Courtens, Dutch singer, performing as "Michelle"
* Michelle (German singer)
* Michelle (Scottish singer) (born 1980), Scottish ...
– Miss International
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Marzia Piazza
Marzia Rita Gisela Piazza Suprani (born May, 27 1951) won the 1969 Miss Venezuela contest, representing Vargas, after María José Yéllici, of Aragua had resigned three months after her victory. Piazza was the official representative of Venezue ...
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Miss Venezuela 1969
*
Diana Croce – Miss World Venezuela 2016
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Debora Menicucci – Miss World Venezuela
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Donatella Bottone – Miss International
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Gabriella Ferrari – Miss World Venezuela
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Jeannette Donzella –
Miss Venezuela 1971
*
Monica Lei – Miss World Venezuela
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Faviola Spitale – Miss International
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Graciela Guarneri – Miss International
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Fabiola Candosin
Fabiola Chiara Candosin Marchetti (31 March 1970 - 27 February 2019) was a Venezuelan Civil Engineer (Universidad Santa Maria 1995, Colegio de Ingenieros de Venezuela 1995), who also participated in her country's national beauty pageant Miss Vene ...
– Miss World Venezuela
*
Carolina Cerruti – Miss World Venezuela
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Patricia Tóffoli
Katty Patricia Tóffoli Andrade is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder, born in Caracas on October 7, 1960. She was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss World 1978 pageant held in London, United Kingdom
The United Kingd ...
– Miss World Venezuela
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Olga Antonetti
Olga "Olguita" Antonetti Núñez (February 19, 1945 – December 12, 1968) was a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder for 1962, and the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss International 1962 pageant held in Long Beach, Californi ...
–
Miss Venezuela 1962
*
María Antonieta Cámpoli –
Miss Venezuela 1972
*
Paola Ruggeri Paola Laura Ruggeri Ghigo (born July 14, 1961 in Caracas, Venezuela) is Miss Venezuela 1983. She placed 7th in Miss Universe 1983 as the only Latin American among the Top 12 semifinalists.
Miss Venezuela
Ruggeri competed in 1983 as Miss Portugue ...
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Miss Venezuela 1983
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Adriana Vasini
Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, (born July 30, 1987, in Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan model and beauty queen who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009. She represented Venezuela in the Miss Worl ...
– Miss world Venezuela
*
Mariam Habach –
Miss Venezuela 2015
*
Mariángela Bonanni
Mariángela Bonanni is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder and Fashion Model from San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela, who started her career representing her native state Táchira in the Miss Venezuela 2009 pageant on 24 September 2009, an ...
- Miss World Venezuela 2010
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Valeria Vespoli - Miss Supranational Venezuela
Writers
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Job Pim – Writer
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Tulio Chiossone
Tulio Chiossone Villamizar (16 September 1905 – 26 December 2001) was a Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast o ...
– Writer
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Odoardo Crema – Writer
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Victoria De Stefano – Writer
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Vicente Gerbasi
Vicente Gerbasi (June 2, 1913 in Canaobo, Carabobo – December 28, 1992 in Caracas) was a representative poet of Venezuelan 20th century.
Biography
Vicente Gerbasi was born in Canoabo, a small city in Carabobo in Northern Venezuela as child ...
– Writer
See also
*
Italian diaspora
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Italian language in Venezuela
The Italian language in Venezuela has been present since colonial times in the areas around Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Maracaibo and the Andes mountains. The language is found in many idiomatic sentences and words of Venezuelan Spanish. There ...
*
Italy–Venezuela relations
Italy–Venezuela relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Italy and Venezuela. Both nations enjoy friendly relations, the importance of which centers on the history of Italian migration to Venezuela. There are approximately over 140, ...
*
Corsican immigration to Venezuela
Corsicans, coming mainly from the regions of Cap Corse and La Castagniccia in the mediterranean island of Corsica, started arriving in the first third of the 19th century and settled mainly in the coastal towns of Carúpano and Rio Caribe. Known l ...
*
Deportivo Italia (1948-2010)
References
External links
Statistical Data on the Italians in the worldItalian emigrationItaliani nel Venezuela (in Italian)
Bibliography
* Cassani Pironti, Fabio. ''Gli italiani in Venezuela dall’Indipendenza al Secondo Dopoguerra''. Roma, 2004
* Favero L. e Sacchetti G. ''Un secolo di emigrazione italiana: 1876–1976''. Centro Studi Emigrazioni. Roma, 1978
* Mille, Nicola. ''Veinte Años de "MUSIUES"''. Editorial Sucre. Caracas, 1965
* Santander Laya-Garrido, Alfonso. ''Los Italianos forjadores de la nacionalidad y del desarrollo economico en Venezuela''. Editorial Vadell. Valencia, 1978.
* Vannini, Marisa. ''Italia y los Italianos en la Historia y en la Cultura de Venezuela''. Oficina Central de Información. Caracas, 1966
{{Italian schools in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...