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Bianzè
Bianzè is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, about northeast of Turin and about west of Vercelli Vercelli (; ) is a city and ''comune'' of 46,552 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, around 600 BC. .... Notable people * Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676), painter and nun * Paolo Comotto (1824–1897), diplomat * Andrea Ferrero (1903–1996), diplomat *Francesco Giacinto Gonzaga (1616–1630), nobleman and abbot * Lorenzo Bernardino Pinto (1704–1788), architect References Cities and towns in Piedmont {{Vercelli-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Ferrero
Andrea Ferrero (18 Novembre 1903 – 10 June 1996) was an Italian diplomat. After graduating in law in Turin, he joined Italy's foreign service, working as a diplomat in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, New York City, Moscow, and Athens. After World War II he became Second Secretary in London. In this capacity, he helped with the repatriation of Italian prisoners of war. Ferrero then served as Counsellor in Cairo from 1950 to 1954, during the critical times of the Egyptian Revolution. In that period, the Italian ambassador to Egypt died and Italy, following the dictates of the British, did not appoint a new ambassador, in order to avoid to specify whether the new representative would be accredited to King Farouk as King of Egypt or King of Egypt and Sudan. Thus Ferrero became the ''chargé d'affaires'', providing reports about the conflict in this capacity. In the mid 1950s he served as Consul General in Geneva and Italian Delegate to the United Nations in the same city. Ferrero th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
