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Margherita D'Amico
Margherita is an Italian feminine given name. It also is a surname. As a word, in Italian it means " daisy". The name is related to Margaret. Given name As a name, it may refer to: * Margherita da Trento (anglicized as Margaret of Trent) companion of Fra Dolcino of Novara, leader of the heretical New Apostles (c. 2nd half of 1200shttps://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/margherita-da-trento_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/-1307) *Margherita Aldobrandini (1588–1646), Duchess consort of Parma *Margherita de' Medici (1612–1679), Duchess of Parma and Piacenza *Margherita Maria Farnese (1664–1718), Duchess of Modena and Reggio *Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (1847–1893) *Margherita of Savoy (1851–1926), former Queen Consort of Italy and wife of Umberto I *Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este (1930–2022) *Margherita Bagni (1902–1960), Italian actress *Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian mathematician *Margherita Boniver (born 1938), Italian politician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Buy
Margherita Buy (; born 15 January 1962) is an Italian actress. She is a seven-time David di Donatello Awards winner and eight-time Nastro d'Argento winner. Overview After a long period of studying at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her breakthrough role in Duccio Tessari's ''Una grande storia d'amore'' (1986), which was followed by roles in Daniele Luchetti's two projects ''It's Happening Tomorrow'' (1988) and '' The Week of the Sphinx'' (1990). For the last one, she won the best performance by an actress in a leading role award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Afterwards, she played in Sergio Rubini's '' The Station'' for which she won her first David di Donatello Prize and the Silver Ribbon as best leading actress, in 1990. After ''The Station'', she became a premier star featuring in Italian box office hits like Carlo Verdone's '' Damned the day I met you'' (1992). She teamed up again with director Daniele Luchetti for '' The Storm Is Coming'' (1992) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Sarfatti
Margherita Sarfatti (; ; 8 April 1880 – 30 October 1961) was an Italian journalist, art critic, patron, collector, socialite, and prominent propaganda adviser of the National Fascist Party. She was Benito Mussolini's biographer as well as one of his mistresses. Biography Margherita Grassini was born in Venice to a Jewish family, the daughter of Amedeo Grassini and Emma Levi (whose cousin Giuseppe Levi was the father of Natalia Ginzburg). Amedeo was a wealthy lawyer and businessman and a former fiscal attorney for the Venetian government. He was a close friend of Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, later Pope Pius X, and would later be made a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Margherita grew up in a '' palazzo'' situated at the Canal Grande in Venice and was educated by private tutors. However, she was soon attracted by socialist ideas and escaped her parents' home at age 18 to marry Cesare Sarfatti, a Jewish lawyer from Padua. He was 13 years her senior, but shared her s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Roberti
Margherita Roberti (1925 – January 23, 2021Obituary: American Soprano Margherita Roberti Passes Away, Aged 95 ''Operawire''. Retrieved February 12, 2021.) was an American tic who had an active international career that spanned from 1948 to 1988. Although she performed throughout the world, Roberti achieved her greatest success and popularity in Italy. A , Roberti drew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Magnani
Margherita Magnani (born 26 February 1987) is an Italian middle-distance runner. Biography 2013 was the year of her statement, also at international level. Margherita Magnani won one time Italian Athletics Indoor Championships (2013) and her personal best on 1500 metres (4:06.34) is the 9th best berfomance of all-time in Italy, and 38th best world performance in the 2013. She in 2013 also participated at the European Indoor Championships, the European Team Championships and Mediterranean Games, she has 4 caps in national team from 2012. Progression ;1500 metres Achievements National titles Se won six national championships at individual senior level. *Italian Athletics Championships **1500 metres: 2015, 2016 *Italian Athletics Indoor Championships **1500 metres: 2013, 2014, 2108 **3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Hack
Margherita Hack (; 12 June 1922 – 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and science communicator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour. Biography Hack was born in Florence. Her father Roberto Hack was a Florentine bookkeeper of Protestantism, Protestant Switzerland, Swiss origin. Her mother, Maria Luisa Poggesi, a Catholicism, Catholic from Tuscany, was a graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and a miniaturist at the Uffizi Gallery. Both parents left their religion to join the Italian Theosophy (Blavatskian), Theosophical Society, for which Roberto Hack was secretary for a time under the chairmanship of the countess Gamberini-Cavallini. An athletics (sport), athlete in her youth, Hack played basketball and competed in track and field during the National University Contests, called the Littoriali under Mussolini's fascist regime, where she won the long jump and the high jump events. She married Aldo De Rosa on 19 February 1944 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Guidacci
Margherita Guidacci (; 25 April 1921 – 19 June 1992) was an Italian poet. Early life and career Born in Florence, Guidacci graduated from the University of Florence in 1943 and traveled to England and Ireland in 1947. After moving to Rome upon marriage, the poet taught English language and literature at the ''Liceo scientifico'' Cavour for ten years, from 1965 to 1975.Encyclopedia of Italian literary studies A-J, index, Volume 1 edited by Gaetana Marrone, Paolo Puppa, Luca Somigli Guidacci obtained the ''libera docenza'' ("free teaching") in the English language and literature in 1972, and from 1975 to 1981, she taught English and |
Margherita Grandi
Margherita Grandi (10 October 1892Some sources give her birthdate as 4 October 1894.29 January 1972) was an Australian-born Italian dramatic soprano. Life and career Margherita Grandi was born Margaret Gard in Harwood Island, Clarence River, near Maclean, in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia. When she was ten, her family moved to Tasmania and she went to school in Hobart. She left Australia in 1911 to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music in London. She also studied with Mathilde Marchesi and Jean de Reszke; and later in Paris with Emma Calvé. She made her professional debut in Paris, as a mezzo-soprano under the stage name of Djéma Vécla (Vecla being an anagram of Calvé)Not to be confused with the French singer Emma Vecla who adopted that stage name for the same reason (student of Calvé) and whose biography has many parallels. singing Charlotte in Massenet's ''Werther''. In 1922, she created Massenet's '' Amadis'' in Monte Carlo. Kutsch, Karl-Jose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Granbassi
Margherita Granbassi (; born 1 September 1979 in Trieste) is an Italian foil fencer. Granbassi won the gold medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating her compatriot Valentina Vezzali 7–6 in the final. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team's foil event together with teammates Vezzali, Elisa Di Francisca and Giovanna Trillini. She took the bronze medal on August 11, 2008, at the Beijing Olympics defeating her teammate Giovanna Trillini 15–12. Early life Margherita Granbassi was born on 1 September 1979 in Trieste, Italy, to Istrian Italian exiles from Pisino, Istria. Her grandfather came to Trieste from Pisino to study, and eventually settled there. Granbassi has stated that she always felt in her family "a feeling of Istrian talianorigin". Career She started fencing because of her brothers who also practiced the sport, and her first teacher was Silvia Strukel. After starting fencing in Trieste, she went to train in Udine for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Gonzaga (other)
Margherita Gonzaga may refer to: * Margherita Malatesta (1370–1399), wife of Francesco I Gonzaga * Margherita Gonzaga, Marquise of Ferrara (1418–1439), first wife of Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara *Margaret of Bavaria, Marchioness of Mantua (1442–1479), the wife of Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua *Margherita Gonzaga (1496–1496), daughter of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga * Margherita Paleologa (1510–1566), wife of Federico II Gonzaga * Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara (1564–1618), also known as Margherita Gonzaga d'Este *Margherita Farnese (1567–1643), wife of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua *Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal (1589–1655), wife of Francesco IV Gonzaga *Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine Margherita Gonzaga (2 October 1591 – 7 February 1632) was Duchess of Lorraine from 1606 until 1624 by marriage to Henry II, Duke of Lorraine. She was an agent of Pro-French and anti-Protestant policy in Lorraine, and is mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Gargano
Margherita Gargano (born 18 November 1952 in Bagheria, Province of Palermo) is a former female middle distance runner from Italy. Biography She is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games The 1979 Mediterranean Games, officially known as the VIII Mediterranean Games, and commonly known as Split 1979, were the 8th Mediterranean Games. The Games were held in Split, Croatia, Split, SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, from 15 to 29 September ... in the women's 1,500 metres. Gargano set her personal best (4:06.71) in the 1,500 metres in 1979. Personal bests *800m 2'03"1 (1979)- 2'06"3 indoor (1980) *1500m 4'06"71(1979)- 4'19"81 indoor (1983) *3000m 8'46"31 (1982)- 9'03"62 indoor (1982) *5000m 15'20"94 (1982) *10000m 35'01"4 (1976) Achievements See also * Italian all-time top lists - 5000 m External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gargano, Margherita 1952 births Living people People from Bagheria Italian female middle-distance runners Athletes (tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Galeotti
Margherita Galeotti (1867 – after 1912) was an Italian pianist and composer. She was born in Mauern, Bavaria, and studied piano and composition with Giuseppe Buonamici in Florence and Giuseppe Martucci in Bologna. After completing her studies, she performed as a concert pianist in Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east .... Works Galeotti composed works for voice, piano, violin and cello. Selected compositions include: *''Piano Trio in D minor'' (1912) *''Violin Sonata'' References 1867 births Year of death uncertain 19th-century Italian classical composers 20th-century Italian classical composers Italian women classical composers People from Freising 20th-century deaths 20th-century Italian women composers 19th-century Italian women composers M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
