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Carlo Lucarelli
Carlo Lucarelli (born 26 October 1960) is an Italian crime-writer, TV presenter, and magazine editor. In 2003, his novel ''Almost Blue'' was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger award given by the Crime Writers' Association. Early life Lucarelli was born in Parma, Italy, the son of a physician. He was interested in literature and theatre when he was young, and studied Literature and History. Already in his years of study, during his research for his thesis subject he got in touch with the material for his first two books, which take place during the time of fascism and the years immediately after the war. He considers himself Roman Catholic, although a non-practicing one and critical of the Church on some issues. Career In Italy, he became well-known quite soon because of these two books, and it was only a matter of time before he quit his academic activities and turned to his career as an author and all other sorts of literary activities, such as writing plays, film scenarios, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parma
Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmesan, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,986 inhabitants as of 2025, Parma is the second most populous city in Emilia-Romagna after Bologna, the region's capital. The city is home to the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world. Parma is divided into two parts by the Parma (river), stream of the same name. The district on the west side of the river is ''Oltretorrente'', meaning ''The other side of the stream''. Parma's Etruscan name was adapted by Romans to describe the round shield called ''Parma (shield), Parma''. History Prehistory Parma was already a built-up area in the Bronze Age. In the current position of the city rose a Terramare culture, terramare. The "terramare" (marl earth) were ancient villages built of wood on piles according to a defined scheme and squared form; c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna (, , both , ; or ; ) is an Regions of Italy, administrative region of northern Italy, comprising the historical regions of Emilia (region), Emilia and Romagna. Its capital is Bologna. It has an area of , and a population of 4.4 million. Emilia-Romagna is one of the wealthiest and most developed regions in Europe, with the third highest gross domestic product per capita in Italy. It is also a cultural center, being the home of the University of Bologna, the oldest university in the world. Some of its cities, such as Modena, Parma, Ferrara, and Ravenna, are UNESCO heritage sites. It is a center for food and automobile production (such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Maserati). It has coastal resorts such as Cervia, Cesenatico, and Rimini. In 2018, the Lonely Planet guide named Emilia-Romagna as the best place to see in Europe. Etymology The name ''Emilia-Romagna'' is a legacy of Ancient Rome. ''Emilia'' derives from the ''via Aemilia'', the Roman road connecting Pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Roman Catholics
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Living People
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1960 Births
It is also known as the " Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. * January 9– 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. * January 21 ** Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Wikipedia
The Italian Wikipedia () is the Italian language, Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on 10 May 2001, and first edited on 11 June 2001. As of , it has articles and more than registered accounts. It is the -largest Wikipedia by the number of articles (after the English Wikipedia, English, Swedish Wikipedia, Swedish, German Wikipedia, German, Dutch Wikipedia, Dutch, French Wikipedia, French, Cebuano Wikipedia, Cebuano, Russian Wikipedia, Russian, and Spanish Wikipedia, Spanish editions). History As early as March 2001, Jimmy Wales, the creator and co-founder of the original English language Wikipedia, had proposed the creation of parallel Wikipedia projects in other languages. The Italian-language version was among the first ones to be created, in May 2001. The original URL was , while the standardized ISO 639 address became active a few days later. Afterwards, Wikipedia sites switched their Internet domain, domains from to . The first pages (around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector De Luca (novel Series)
The Inspector De Luca mysteries, also called the De Luca trilogy, consist of three Italian novels, ''Carte Blanche'' ( :it:Carta bianca (Lucarelli), 1990), ''The Damned Season'' ( :it:L'estate torbida, 1991), and ''Goose Street'' ( :it:Via Delle Oche (1996) by Italian crime fiction writer Carlo Lucarelli. The novels have been noted for the setting in the period between the collapse of the Fascist government of Italy in 1943 and installation of the Italian Social Republic The Italian Social Republic (, ; RSI; , ), known prior to December 1943 as the National Republican State of Italy (; SNRI), but more popularly known as the Republic of Salò (, ), was a List of World War II puppet states#Germany, German puppe ... puppet state of Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945, and the immediate postwar period, and also for the tenacious attitude of the protagonist policeman - a feature also found in other Lucarelli series.Peter Bondanella, Andrea Ciccarelli ''The Cambridge Companion to the It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector De Luca (TV Series)
''Inspector de Luca'' () is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI, based on the De Luca trilogy (1990-1996) of detective novels by Carlo Lucarelli. The USA DVD box title is ''Detective De Luca'' with the tag line, "He's not a fascist/ He's not a partisan/ He's just a cop." Concept and scope Covering the period from 1938 to 1948 in Bologna,DVD sleeve notes the series centers on '' Commissario'' Achille de Luca, and is set from the height of Fascist era in Italy to the immediate post-war period. Dashing and attractive to women, De Luca is depicted as an honest cop, a determined and principled policeman working in a corrupt and politically charged environment. While concerned only with truth and justice but not for the bigger picture, he manages to avoid taking sides. Production The series comprises four episodes, three of which are based on novels by Lucarelli, while the first serves as an introduction to the character and the ''milieu''. The series wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
