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Francesca
Francesca is an Italian female given name, derived from the Latin male name ''Franciscus'' meaning 'the Frenchman' It is widely used in most Romance languages, including Italian, French and Catalan, and place of origin is Italy. It is derived from the same source as the female name ''Frances'', and the male names '' Francesc'', ''Francesco'' and ''Francis''. People named Francesca * Daniel Francesca, Danish esports player * Francesca Alderisi, Italian television presenter and politician * Francesca Allen (born 2002), British adaptive rower * Francesca Allinson, English author and musician * Francesca Annis, British actress * Julia Francesca Barretto, Filipino actress * Francesca Battistelli, American Christian musician * Francesca Beard, Malaysian performance poet * Francesca Caccini, Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque * Francesca Anna Canfield, American poet and translator * Francesca Capaldi, American child actress * Frankie Corio, Scottish child actress * Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Da Rimini
Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (died between 1283 and 1286) was an Italian noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, Paolo Malatesta. She was a contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the ''Divine Comedy''. Life and death Daughter of Guido I da Polenta of Ravenna, Francesca was wedded in or around 1275 to the brave, yet crippled Giovanni Malatesta (also called Gianciotto or "Giovanni the Lame"), son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini. The marriage was a political one; Guido had been at war with the Malatesta family, and the marriage of his daughter to Giovanni was a way to secure the peace that had been negotiated between the Malatesta and the Polenta families. While in Rimini, she fell in love with Giovanni's younger brother, Paolo. Though Paolo, too, was married, they managed to carry on an affair for some ten years, until Giovanni ultimat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Battistelli
Francesca Battistelli (born May 18, 1985) is an American Christian singer and songwriter. She was originally an independent artist and had released an independent album, ''Just a Breath'', in 2004. Her first studio album on Fervent Records, '' My Paper Heart'', was released on July 22, 2008. Her first single, " I'm Letting Go", was released to on june bugs radio stations on July 15, 2008, and charted on national Christian CHR charts. The song was the 16th most played song of 2008 on Christian radio stations according to R&R magazine.2008 Year End Charts/Top Christian CHR songs , R&R magazine. Retrieved January 15, 2009 Battistelli received her first Grammy Award nominati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Caccini
Francesca Caccini (; 18 September 1587 – most likely between 1641 and 1645) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname La Cecchina , given to her by the Florentines and probably a diminutive of ''Francesca''. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini. Her only surviving stage work, '' La liberazione di Ruggiero'', is widely considered the oldest opera by a woman composer. As a female composer she helped to solidify the agency and the cultural and political programs of her female patron. Personal life Early life Caccini was born in Florence, and received a humanistic education (Latin, some Greek, as well as modern languages and literature, mathematics) in addition to early musical training with her father. According to Liliana Panella, the first well-founded testimony of Francesca's singer's activity, together with her sister Settimia, at the Medici court, is 1602: in his diary Cesare Tinghi not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Cumani
Francesca Cumani is a horse racing presenter working for ''ITV Racing'' and ''Nine's Wide World of Sports''. She has previously been part of the coverage of the Melbourne Cup with Seven Network and 10 Sport. Education Cumani was educated at Tudor Hall School, a boarding and day independent school for girls, between the village of Bloxham and the market town of Banbury, in Oxfordshire. She left the school in 2001. Following school, Cumani attended the University of Bristol, from which she graduated with a degree in French and Spanish. Career After attending university Cumani worked in the family business of training and breeding race horses. After taking horses to Australia on a trip, she was offered an opportunity to be a guest presenter on Australia's Channel 7's horse racing broadcast. This led to a permanent job with CNN presenting ''Winning Post''. She presented it in both English and Spanish. Cumani is also a presenter on Australia's Network 10 Melbourne Cup Coverage. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daniel Francesca
Daniel Francesca (born December 27, 1993), better known as dafran, is a Danish Twitch video game streamer and former professional ''Overwatch'' player. As an esports competitor, Francesca represented Selfless Gaming before being suspended from competitive play. He returned to competitive play with Atlanta Reign, one of the expansion franchises for the 2019 Overwatch League season. At the end of the Stage 1 of the League's 2019 season, Francesca announced that he would be stepping away from competitive play in favor of being a full-time streamer for the Atlanta Reign. Francesca has also played in the Overwatch World Cup for Team Denmark in 2016. Career Selfless Gaming On January 31, 2017, esports organization Selfless Gaming announced the addition of Francesca to their ''Overwatch'' roster. The team qualified for Season Zero of Overwatch Contenders 2017 on June 3; however, two days later, Francesca was suspended from casual and competitive play by Blizzard and Selfless Gamin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Capaldi
Francesca Angelucci Capaldi (born June 8, 2004) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Chloe James in the Disney Channel sitcom '' Dog with a Blog'' (2012–15) and Nellie Chambers in the Brat web series '' Crown Lake'' (2019–20). Capaldi also appeared in ''The Peanuts Movie'' (2015), '' Max 2: White House Hero'' (2017), and two episodes of ''How I Met Your Mother'' (2012). Life and career Capaldi was born in La Jolla, California to Anthony and Gina (née Angelucci) Capaldi, both of Italian descent. She resided in Carlsbad, California with her parents. She began acting with small roles in the Disney Channel Original Series '' A.N.T. Farm'' and in the CBS comedy ''How I Met Your Mother'', as a 7-year-old Lily, who is played as an adult by Alyson Hannigan. In addition, Capaldi was featured in the pilot for '' The Goodwin Games''. Capaldi also stars in Corbin Bernsen's independent film '' 3 Day Test'' and in '' Dog with a Blog'' on Disney Channel, her serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Annis
Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in '' Reckless'' (1998), '' Wives and Daughters'' (1999), ''Deceit'' (2000), and '' Cranford'' (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial '' Lillie''. Her film appearances include Macbeth (1971), '' Krull'' (1983), ''Dune'' (1984), '' The Debt Collector'' (1999), and '' The Libertine'' (2004). Early life and education Annis was born in Kensington, London, in 1945, to an English father, Lester William Anthony Annis (1914–2001), and a Brazilian-French mother, Mariquita (Mara) Purcell (1913–2009). Both were sometime actors and Mara a sometime singer. Mara was from a wealthy Brazilian family. The Annises moved to Brazil when Francesca was one year old, and spent six years there, returning to England when she was seven. In recollecting the years in Brazil, she described her parents as running "a nightclub on Copacabana b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Beard
Francesca Beard (born 1968) is a Malaysian writer and performance poet. Born in Kuala Lumpur, she has been based in London for much of her adult life and cites the city as a major inspiration in her work."Francesca Beard", Literature, British Council. She has represented contemporary British literature all over the world, from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria to Colombia, in all sorts of venues, from a Moscow library to a Melbourne jazz club. She has a one-woman show, ''Chinese Whispers'', produced by Apples and Snakes, Britain's foremost performance poetry organisation, directed by Arlette Kim George, with lighting by Flick Ansell, costumes by Hardy Bleckman of Maharishi and original visuals by Jason Larkin. Long-time collabora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Alderisi
Francesca Alderisi (born 29 March 1968) is an Italian politician and television presenter. Since 2018, she has been a Senator from Forza Italia representing North and Central America. Biography Since 2000, she has presented and written eight editions of Sportello Italia, a service television program broadcast worldwide by Rai International where, in 2015, she presented the program ''Cara Francesca''. Election to Senator In the 2018 general elections she was elected to the Senate of the Republic, in the foreign constituency ( North America and Central America) as a member of Forza Italia in the center-right unitary list "Salvini-Berlusconi-Meloni", by virtue of 10,994 personal preferences. On October 4, 2019, she donated to the Historical Archive of the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Cuzzoni
Francesca Cuzzoni (2 April 1696 – 19 June 1778) was an Italian operatic soprano of the Baroque era. Early career Cuzzoni was born in Parma. Her father, Angelo, was a professional violinist, and her singing teacher was Francesco Lanzi. She made her debut in her home city in 1714, singing in ''La virtù coronata, o Il Fernando'' by an unknown composer. In 1716–17 she sang at Bologna in operas by Bassani, Buini, Gasparini and Giuseppe Maria Orlandini. By the 1717–18 season she had been appointed ("chamber soloist") to Violante Beatrice, Grand Princess of Tuscany, performing at Florence, Siena, Genoa, Mantua, and Reggio nell'Emilia in operas by Orlandini and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, and in Vivaldi's ''Scanderbeg'' . She also made her Venetian debut in 1718, singing the role of Dalinda in Pollarolo's ''Ariodante'', in which, for the first time, she appeared on the same stage as Faustina Bordoni, later her great rival. They also sang together in Venice the following year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Allinson
Francesca Allinson (born Enid Ellen Pulvermacher Allinson; 20 August 1902 – 7 April 1945) was an English writer, musician and puppeteer. She was the youngest child of the pioneering physician and wholemeal bread entrepreneur Dr Thomas Allinson, and sister of the artist Adrian Allinson. Biography Allinson wrote the semi-autobiographical book ''A Childhood'' which was published by Hogarth Press in 1937. She was a musician, a puppeteer, a conductor with the London Labour Choral Union, and wrote extensively on the origins of English folk song, clashing with the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams on the subject. She published editions of Henry Purcell and Orlando Gibbons and her unpublished manuscript on the Irish origins of English folksong is held at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Allinson was a pacifist and established a community farm in East Grinstead, Surrey, where conscientious objectors worked during World War II. Her circle of friends and collaborators includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesca Allen
Francesca "Frankie" Allen (born 26 May 2002) is a British adaptive rower who competes in international rowing competitions. She is a three-time World champion and three-time European champion in the mixed coxed four. She has been selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. References External links * Frankie Allenat British Rowing British Rowing, formerly the Amateur Rowing Association (ARA), is the national governing body for the sport of rowing (both indoor and on-water rowing). It is responsible for the training and selection of individual rowers and crews represent ... * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Francesca 2002 births Living people People from Wallingford, Oxfordshire British female rowers Paralympic rowers for Great Britain World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain European Rowing Championships medalists Alumni of Oxford Brookes University 21st-century British sportswomen Rowers at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2024 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
