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Luigi (name)
Luigi is a masculine Italian given name. It is the Italian form of the German name Ludwig, through the Latinization Ludovicus, corresponding to the French form Louis and its anglicized variant Lewis. Other forms of the same name in Italian are the names Ludovico, Clodoveo, Aloísio and Alvise, the last form being more frequent in the Veneto region. A derived feminine name is ''Luigina''. People with the given name Luigi Royalty * Prince Luigi Amedeo (1873–1933), Italian prince Crime and law * Luigi Chiatti (born 1968), serial killer * Luigi de Magistris (politician) (born 1967), prosecutor * Luigi Ferrari Bravo, jurist * Luigi Giuliano (born 1949), Camorrista of the Giuliano clan * Luigi Lucheni (1873–1910), anarchist and assassin * Luigi Manocchio (born 1927), Italian-American mobster * Luigi Riccio (born 1957), pentito and former Camorrista * Luigi Scotti (born 1932), judge * Luigi Vollaro, Camorrista of the Vollaro clan Engineering and mathematics * Luigi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig (given Name)
Ludwig is a German name, deriving from Old High German ''Hludwīg'', also spelled ''Hluotwīg''. Etymologically, the name can be traced back to the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name ''*hlūdazwiganą'', which is composed of two elements: ''*hlūdaz'' ("loud, famous") and ''*wiganą'' ("to battle, to fight") respectively, the resulting name meaning "famous warrior" or "famous in battle". Notable people with the name include: People :''Note: Individuals may appear in more than one subsection.'' German nobles * Ludwig I, count of Württemberg (1143–1158) * Ludwig II, count of Württemberg (1158–1181) * Ludwig I, count of Württemberg-Urach (1419–1450) * Ludwig II, count of Württemberg-Urach (1450–1457) * Ludwig IV, landgrave of Thuringia (1200–1227) * Ludwig I of Bavaria, king of Bavaria (1825–1848) * Ludwig II of Bavaria, king of Bavaria (1864–1886) * Ludwig III of Bavaria, last king of Bavaria (1913–1918) * Ludwig V (other) * Ludwig IV, Grand Duk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi De Magistris (politician)
Luigi de Magistris (born 20 June 1967) is an Italian politician and a former prosecutor. He has been mayor of Naples from 2011 to 2021, and a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2011. Biography He started his career as a public prosecutor in 1995 and worked in Naples from 1998 to 2002. He was deputy public prosecutor in Catanzaro from 2002 to 2009De Magistris non è più magistrato '' Corriere della Sera'', 19 November 2009. and was a (MEP). His investigations have frequently focused on links between politicians a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Poletti (mathematician)
Luigi Poletti (31 December 1864 – 10 March 1967) was an Italian mathematician and poet. He was born in Pontremoli, where he also died, age 102. He attended the episcopal seminary in Potremoli, then the high school of Parma, graduated in Turin and started to study mathematics there. He did not finish and took a job in a bank. 1911 he accidentally found the book of prime number tables written by Lehmer, a mathematician from the United States in the house of professor Gino Loria, a friend of his family, when he visited Genoa. Since then he spent many years to extend the first table in order to simplify "Eratosthenes Crivello" ( sieve of Eratosthenes), a method from ancient Greece to find prime numbers. He gave his method a new name: "Neocribrum" (Novum Eratosthenes Cribrum) and he got recognition from the scientific community. Apart from that, he was, together with André Gerardin, member of a study commission of the Association française pour l'avancement des sciences (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Fantappiè
Luigi Fantappiè (15 September 1901 – 28 July 1956) was an Italian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals: he was a student and follower of Vito Volterra. Later in life, he proposed scientific theories of sweeping scope. He was born in Viterbo, and studied at the University of Pisa, graduating in mathematics in 1922. After time spent abroad, he was offered a chair by the University of Florence in 1926, and a year later by the University of Palermo. He spent the years 1934 to 1939 in the University of São Paulo, Brazil collaborating with Benedito Castrucci notorious Italian-Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Dadda
Luigi Dadda (April 29, 1923 – October 26, 2012) was an Italian computer engineer, best known for the design of the Dadda multiplier and as one of the first researchers on modern computers in Italy. He was rector at the Politecnico di Milano technical university from 1972 to 1984, collaborating on research at the same university until 2012. He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE. He studied electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ... at the Politecnico di Milano and graduated in 1947 with a thesis on signal transmission, a microwave Wireless bridge, radio bridge between the cities of Turin and Trieste. His research interests then turned to models and analog computers as an assistant professor, and in 1953 he received a grant from the National Scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Cremona
Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona (7 December 1830 – 10 June 1903) was an Italian mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. He worked on algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces, particularly through his paper ''Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane'' ("Introduction to a geometrical theory of the plane curves"), and was a founder of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. Biography Luigi Cremona was born in Pavia (Lombardy), then part of the Austrian-controlled Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. His youngest brother was the painter Tranquillo Cremona. In 1848, when Milan and Venice rose against Austria, Cremona, then only seventeen, joined the ranks of the Italian volunteers. He remained with them, fighting on behalf of his country's freedom, until, in 1849, the capitulation of Venice put an end to the campaign. He then returned to Pavia, where he pursued his studies at the univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Colani
Luigi Colani (born Lutz Colani 2 August 1928 – 16 September 2019) was a German industrial designer. His long career began in the 1950s when he designed cars for companies including Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Volkswagen, and BMW. In 1957, he dropped his first name ''Lutz'' using the name ''Luigi''. In the 1960s, he began designing furniture, and as of the 1970s, he expanded in numerous areas, ranging from household items such as ballpoint pens and television sets to uniforms and trucks and entire kitchens. A striking grand piano created by Colani, the ''Pegasus'', is manufactured and sold by the Schimmel piano company. His unconventional designs made him famous, not only in design circles, but also to the general public. He received numerous design awards, although his unconventional approach left him largely an outsider from the mainstream of industrial design. Style The prime characteristic of his designs are the rounded, organic forms, which he terms "biodynamic" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Bianchi
Luigi Bianchi (18 January 1856 – 6 June 1928) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, and died in Pisa. He was a leading member of the vigorous geometric school which flourished in Italy during the later years of the 19th century and the early years of the twentieth century. Biography Like his friend and colleague Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Bianchi studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa under Enrico Betti, a leading differential geometer who is today best remembered for his seminal contributions to topology, and Ulisse Dini, a leading expert on function theory. Bianchi was also greatly influenced by the geometrical ideas of Bernhard Riemann and by the work on transformation groups of Sophus Lie and Felix Klein. Bianchi became a professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 1896, where he spent the remainder of his career. At Pisa, his colleagues included the talented Ricci. In 1890, Bianchi and Dini supervised the dissertation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Vollaro
Luigi Vollaro (December 18, 1932 in San Sebastiano, province of Naples – December 3, 2015 in Milan) Cronache Di Camorra blogspot, July 7, 2008 was a member of the Camorra, boss and founder of the Vollaro clan from and . History He founded the Vollaro clan during the mid-seventies. During his tenure as a Camorra boss, Vollaro earned the nickna ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Scotti
Luigi Scotti (born 14 January 1932) is an Italian former magistrate, politician and jurist. Between 6 February 2008 and 8 May 2008 he was Minister of Justice in Romano Prodi's government. Biography Academic career Graduated in law with honors from the University of Naples, Scotti benefited from one of the five scholarships for the best graduates in the academic year with the adjoining role of volunteer assistant. In 1965 he passed the competition for ordinary assistant and in 1967 he obtained free teaching in Navigation Law. In 1969 he was appointed professor at the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the University of Naples. In 1971 he became professor in charge and stabilized and in 1986 he passed the competition for ordinary professor but did not exercise this profession intending to remain in the judiciary. Subsequently, he carried out numerous post-graduate courses, especially in the field of organization of justice and judiciary. Judicial career In 1962 Scotti was assigned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Riccio
Luigi Ginginiello Riccio (born 1957) is a former Italian Camorrista who is now a pentito. While initially a member of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, Riccio switched sides and joined the rival Nuova Famiglia only eight months before his collaboration with the Italian Justice department in 1983. He was one of the eight major pentiti whose testimony dealt a massive blow to the NCO's organizational structure. By the time of his defection, Luigi Riccio had a reputation as one of the bloodiest and most fearsome killers in the NCO, but was also considered to be a fickle individual for his well-known propensity of switching sides.Jacquemet, ''Credibility in Court'', pp. 79-82 Biography Early years Not much is known about the early life of Luigi Riccio. The bulk of his profile comes from the tape of Riccio's confession to the instructing judge in charge of the prosecution of the Nuova Famiglia. On January 6, 1979, Riccio was officially inducted into the organization by NCO boss, Raffaele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Manocchio
Luigi Giovanni "Baby Shacks" Manocchio (born June 23, 1927) is an American mobster from Providence, Rhode Island. He is the former boss of the New England-based Patriarca crime family, which is part of the American Mafia. Criminal career Manocchio has a criminal record dating back to the 1940s. In November of 1967 he was shot in the neck and seriously wounded during a running gun battle on Federal Hill in Providence. In 1969, Manocchio was indicted for participating in the murders of Rudolph Marfeo and Anthony Melei. He fled to France, but later returned to the United States, living undercover in New York City for most of the 1970s. In 1979, Manocchio finally surrendered to law enforcement and pleaded guilty to several lesser charges. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison. In July 1996, Mannocchio was indicted with 43 others in a burglary ring. Prosecutors claimed that this Patriarca-sanctioned gang was responsible for stealing $10 million in merchandise. When his trial began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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