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Giovanni Antonio Sanna
Giovanni Antonio Sanna ( Sassari, 29 August 1819 – Rome, 9 February 1875) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician. Biography Giovanni Antonio Sanna was son of Giuseppe Sanna, a lawyer, and Maria Ignazia Sanna. He migrated in Marseille, France, where he became a merchant. He married Maria Llambi y Casas, a Catalonia-born Spanish woman, with whom he had four daughters. In 1860 he became the owner of the Turinese newspaper "Il Diritto". He founded the "Banca Agricola Sarda" (Sardinian Agricultural Bank) in 1871. He was elected deputy of parliament of the Italian Kingdom for three legislatures, from 1857 to 1865. He became the owner of the Montevecchio Mine, localised in the South West of Sardinia, the main mining site in Italy. He started modern industrial mining activity in the area Piras, Aldo, ''Pietro Leo e Raimondo Garau. Tempi e luoghi'', Garau, Guspini, 2003, pp. 23 Honors and awards *Knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus - 1866 See also *Montevecchio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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G, or g, is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''gee'' (pronounced ), plural ''gees''. History The letter 'G' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of ' C' to distinguish voiced from voiceless . The recorded originator of 'G' is freedman Spurius Carvilius Ruga, who added letter G to the teaching of the Roman alphabet during the 3rd century BC: he was the first Roman to open a fee-paying school, around 230 BCE. At this time, ' K' had fallen out of favor, and 'C', which had formerly represented both and before open vowels, had come to express in all environments. Ruga's positioning of 'G' shows that alphabetic order related to the letters' values as Greek numerals was a concern even in the 3rd century BC. According to some records, the original seventh letter, 'Z', had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewhat e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
