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Franchetti Family
Franchetti is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Afdera Franchetti (born 1931), Italian noblewoman * Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942), Italian opera composer * Arnold Franchetti (1911–1993), Italian composer, son of Alberto * Leopoldo Franchetti (1847–1917), Italian publicist and politician * Lisa Franchetti (born 1964), United States Navy admiral * Raimondo Franchetti Baron Raimondo Franchetti has been the name of more than one Italian people, Italian Baron, of the noble Franchetti family. The Franchettis were an Italian Jewish family who, from the 18th century onwards, were one of the wealthiest families in t ... (1889–1935), Italian nobleman and explorer * Rina Franchetti (1907–2010), Italian actress * Virgil Franchetti (born 1954), Scottish football player {{surname Italian-language surnames [Baidu] |
Afdera Franchetti
Afdera Franchetti (8 July 1931 – 20 March 2025) was an Italian baroness. Franchetti was the fourth wife of American actor Henry Fonda. Background and family The Italian Jewish Franchetti family, from the 18th century, was one of the wealthiest families in the Mediterranean. Afdera Franchetti was the daughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, a famous explorer who travelled extensively in Ethiopia and charted hitherto unexplored territories (Dancalia) during the 1920s. On his return from an expedition to Ethiopia, his plane exploded over Cairo in 1935. Raimondo's grandmother was Sara Louise de Rothschild. Her brother, the Baron Raimondo Nanuk Franchetti, was a friend of author Ernest Hemingway, who hunted with him in Caorle Lagoon. The Franchetti siblings were named Nanuk, Afdera, Lorian and Simba; the last died early of tuberculosis. Personal life and death Franchetti claims to have attended the masked ball at Palazzo Labia in 1951, as well as the ball of Baron de Redé at his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Franchetti
Alberto Franchetti (18 September 1860 – 4 August 1942) was an Italian composer and racing driver, best known for the 1902 opera ''Germania''. Biography Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, then at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger, and finally in Dresden under Felix Draeseke. His first major success occurred in 1888 with his opera '' Asrael''. His operatic style combined Wagnerianism and the traits of Meyerbeer with Italian verismo. During his life, critics sometimes referred to him as the "Meyerbeer of modern Italy." The words of music critic G. B. Nappi sum up Franchetti's primary talents: "His character is perhaps unsuitable for passionate dramas, but rather for those subjects, where the fantastic, romantic and epic are required in the symphonic texture and large choral pictures. In this regard Alberto Franchetti knows that he has no rival" (from "Orfeo" 6.3, 1915). '' Grove'' consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Franchetti
Arnold Franchetti (1911–1993) was a composer born in Lucca, Italy who later emigrated to the United States. Early life As a boy, Franchetti studied composition and piano with his father, Baron Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942). Arnold Franchetti studied physics at the University of Florence, music at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and then moved to Munich from 1937 to 1939, where he studied composition and orchestration with composer Richard Strauss.Imanuel Willheim, "Franchetti, Arnold". Oxford Music Online. Accessed December 23, 2011. After a brief stint with the Italian army during World War II, Franchetti joined the anti-Mussolini underground resistance in the Italian Alps where he helped Allied airmen escape. In the USA Franchetti emigrated to the US in 1947. He was befriended by Aaron Copland, who helped the young immigrant composer gain a professional footing by arranging performances of Franchetti's chamber music in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopoldo Franchetti
Leopoldo Franchetti (; 31 May 1847 – 4 November 1917) was an Italian publicist, politician, and patron. He was a deputy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and later became a Senator. He was very active in promoting education and concrete solutions for economic, social and political problems in Italy both through his own political initiatives and through his support of his wife Alice Hallgarten. Early life Franchetti was born in Livorno into a Jewish family in good standing. The Franchetti family came to Livorno from Tunisia in the last decades of the eighteenth century. From the Napoleonic era to the second half of the 1830s they were one of the most important families in the local Jewish community.Una storia di famiglia: i Franchetti dalle coste del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Franchetti
Lisa Marie Franchetti ( ; born 25 April 1964) is a retired United States Navy Admiral (United States), admiral who served as the 33rd Chief of Naval Operations, chief of naval operations from 2 November 2023 to 21 February 2025. She was the first woman to be chief of naval operations, and the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Before this she most recently served as the 42nd vice chief of naval operations from September 2022 to November 2023 and as acting Chief of Naval Operations, chief of naval operations (CNO) from August to November 2023. A surface warfare officer, Franchetti previously served as director for strategy, plans, and policy of the Joint Staff (J5) from 2020 to 2022, the second deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting development in 2020, and commander of the United States Sixth Fleet from 2018 to 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimondo Franchetti
Baron Raimondo Franchetti has been the name of more than one Italian people, Italian Baron, of the noble Franchetti family. The Franchettis were an Italian Jewish family who, from the 18th century onwards, were one of the wealthiest families in the Mediterranean.''L'Europe méditerranéenne'', (Peter Lang, 2008) By Marta Petricioli, page 99 They were originally a Mantuan family. The most famous member of the family named Baron Raimondo Franchetti lived from 1889 until his death in an airplane crash in Cairo in 1935 with a group of Italians, including Luigi Razza, minister of public works in the Mussolini Cabinet, cabinet of Benito Mussolini. Family His grandfather, also Baron Raimondo Franchetti, married Louise Sarah Rothschild into the Mayer Amschel Rothschild family, Rothschild banking family. References V.Isacchini,(2005) ''Il 10° parallelo - vita di Raimondo Franchetti da Emilio Salgari, Salgari alla Guerra d'Africa'', (Aliberti, Reggio Emilia, Italy). L'ultimo esploratore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Franchetti
Rina Franchetti (23 December 1907 – 18 August 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990. Selected filmography * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' Everybody's Secretary'' (1933) * ''The Peddler and the Lady'' (1943) * '' Women and Brigands'' (1950) * ''The Wayward Wife'' (1953) * '' The Steel Rope'' (1953) * '' The White Angel'' (1955) * '' Atom Age Vampire'' (1963) * '' Three Nights of Love'' (1964) * '' Gunman Sent by God'' (1968) * ''Italian Graffiti ''Italian Graffiti'' () is a 1973 Italian comedy film, criminal comedy film written and directed by Alfio Caltabiano and starring Pino Colizzi and Ornella Muti. Plot Assunta Morano is the daughter of Bug Morano, a Sicilian boss transplanted in Ch ...'' (1973) * '' Somewhere Beyond Love'' (1974) * '' My Father's Private Secretary'' (1976) References External links * 1907 births 2010 deaths Italian film actresses Italian women centenarians Actresses from Naples 20th-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgil Franchetti
Virgil Peter Franchetti (6 March 1954) is a Scottish retired amateur football forward who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park and Clyde. He was capped by Scotland at amateur An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ... level. Personal life Franchetti's brother Ray also became a footballer. References Scottish men's footballers Scottish Football League players Queen's Park F.C. players Men's association football forwards Scotland men's amateur international footballers Living people Clyde F.C. players 1954 births Footballers from Glasgow People educated at St Mungo's Academy Scottish people of Italian descent {{Scotland-footy-forward-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
