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Luisa Valmaggia
Luisa (Italian and Spanish), Luísa (Portuguese) or Louise ( French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name Louis (Luis), the French form of the Frankish Chlodowig (German Ludwig), from the Germanic elements ''hlod'' "fame" and ''wig'' "combat". Variations include Luisinha, Luisella, Luisana, Luisetta, Luigia, Luisel. Its popularity derives from the cult of Saint Louise de Marillac of Paris, and from Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Luisa Miller''. People with the given name Luisa *Luisa Accati (born 1942), Italian historian, anthropologist and feminist public intellectual *Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi (1799–1866), heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence *Luisa Baldini, Anglo-Italian news reporter and presenter, presently working for BBC News *Luisa Bradshaw-White (born 1975), English actress *Luisa María Calderón (born 1965), Mexican politician *Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), Corsican-Puerto Rican writer and anarchist *Luisa Casati (1881–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland ( Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Accati
Luisa Accati Levi (born in 1942) is an Italian historian, anthropologist and feminist public intellectual. She taught ethnology and modern history at the University of Trieste. She was born in Turin. After finishing her studies at the University of Turin and in Paris, she turned to the research of the historical anthropology of rural societies in Northern Italy. She has published monographs on the rural religiosity and on witch trials in the region of Friuli, and on family relations in urban and semi-urban communities in 19th century Udine. Her major contributions are in the study of the cult of Mary and its symbolical meaning for understanding the different social and political structures in Catholic and Protestant societies in Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Görlich
Luisa Görlich (born 21 December 1998) is a German ski jumper who has competed at World Cup level since the 2015/16 season.. Retrieved 18 February 2018. Career Görlich's best individual World Cup result is 13th place in Pyeongchang on 16 February 2017. In the Continental Cup, her best individual result is second in Notodden on 16–17 December 2016. At the Junior World Championships, she won a team gold medal in 2017, and a mixed team silver medal in 2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the Unit .... World Championship results References External links * 1998 births Living people German female ski jumpers 21st-century German women {{Germany-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Ferida
Luisa Ferida, real surname Manfrini, (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress. She was one of divas in Italian cinema during decade 1935-1945 and she was the highest paid movie star of that period. The actress was famous as a films diva and she is remembered for her tragic death; in fact during the period of anti-fascist vendettas, immediately after Italian Civil War, she was assassinated, as was later proved by the Milan Court of Appeal, by shooting following a summary trial carried out by some criminal partisans: she was shot with her lover, the actor and member of Decima Flottiglia MAS Osvaldo Valenti, as accused of alleged and hypothetical participation in war crimes and torture in connection with so-called Koch gang, facts of which she was then deemed innocent after the war. Therefore a war pension was allocated to the mother, who had no other source of income. Career Born Luisa Manfrini Farnet in Castel San Pietro Terme, near Bologna, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loi Estrada
Luisa Pimentel Ejército (; born June 2, 1930), commonly known as Dra. Loi Ejército, is a Filipino politician and physician who last served as a Senator of the Philippines from 2001 to 2007. She is the wife of former Philippine President Joseph Ejercito Estrada, and was the twelfth First Spouse of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001. Her son, Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, is an incumbent senator since 2022 and previously from 2004 to 2016. Early life and career Ejercito was born Luisa Fernandez Pimentel on June 2, 1930 to Rufino Pimentel and Manuela Fernandez. She grew up and received her primary and secondary education in the town of Iba in Zambales. She later pursued higher education at University of Santo Tomas, where she obtained an associate in arts degree from the College of Liberal Arts in 1949 and doctor of medicine in 1954. After which, she worked as a professor at the university's Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and as a physician at the University of Santo Tomas Hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Durán
Luisa Durán de la Fuente (born 27 February 1941) is the wife of the former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos. She was First Lady of Chile during her husband's tenure (2000-2006). Personal life Durán was born to Hernán Durán Morales and Luisa de la Fuente Tavolara. She studied at the Alliance Française school in Santiago and the Number 7 High School of Providencia. Public life During her time as First Lady, she preferred to be referred to as the ''President's wife''. After the end of Lagos presidency, she was appointed executive director of the Youth and Children's Orchestras Foundation of Chile (2007-2010), and board member of Centro Cultural Matucana 100 and the Cultural Corporation of Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos .... In 2013 she took over a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa DiPietro
Luisa DiPietro is a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. She is Director of the Center for Wound Repair and Tissue Regeneration and a Professor of Periodontics for the College. DiPietro's interests in wound healing focus on the effects of aging and inflammation on scarring during healing. She investigates critical differences in inflammation and angiogenesis between oral versus cutaneous wounds that ultimately result in rapid, nonscarring healing in mucosa. From 2010 to 2011, she served as the president of the Wound Healing Society. In 2015, she was named a University Scholar of the University of Illinois. DiPietro received her PhD in immunology and DDS from the University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luísa Diogo
Luísa Dias Diogo (born 11 April 1958) is a Mozambican politician who served as Prime Minister of Mozambique from February 2004 to January 2010. She replaced Pascoal Mocumbi, who had been Prime Minister for the previous nine years. Before becoming Prime Minister, she was Minister of Planning and Finance, and she continued to hold that post until February 2005. She was the first female Prime Minister of Mozambique. Diogo represents the party FRELIMO, which has ruled the country since independence in 1975. Early life and education Diogo studied economics at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1983. She went on to obtain a master's degree in financial economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1992. Career Diogo began working in the Mozambique Finance Ministry in 1980 while she was still a college student. She became head of department in 1986 and national budget director in 1989. She then went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Castro
Luisa Castro (born 1966, in Foz, Lugo) is a Spanish writer and journalist who has published in Galician and Spanish. She has lived in Barcelona, New York City, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Naples and Bordeaux. She is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin, Ireland. Her first collection of poems, ''Odisea definitiva: Libro póstumo'' (''Definitive Odyssey: :Posthumous Book'') was published in 1984. Her next book, ''Baleas e baleas'' (1988), was her first work in the Galician language. Her first novel was ''El somier'' (''Bed Base'') (1999). Prizes *1986 Premio Hiperión with ''Los versos del eunuco''. *2001 Premio Azorín with ''El secreto de la lejía''. *2006 Premio Biblioteca Breve with ''La segunda mujer''. Works Poetry * ''Odisea definitiva: Libro póstumo''. Madrid: Arnao, 1984 * ''Los versos del eunuco''. Madrid: Hiperión, 1986. ( Premio Hiperión 1986) * ''Baleas e baleas''. Ferrol: Sociedad de Cultura Valle-Inclán, 1988 * ''Los seres vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Casati
Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino (born Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman; 23 January 1881 – 1 June 1957), was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe. Early life Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman was born in Milan, the younger of two daughters of Alberto Amman and his wife Lucia (née Bressi). Her father was a prosperous textile manufacturer, born in 1847 to Austrian parents from Göfis in Vorarlberg, and her mother was born in 1857 Vienna to an Italian father and Austrian mother. At the time of her parents' births, Milan and much of northern Italy belonged to the Austrian Empire. Her father was made a count by King Umberto I. Her mother died when Luisa was 13, and her father died two years later, making his daughters, Luisa and her older sister, Francesca (1880–1919, married Giulio Padulli), reportedly the wealthiest women in Italy. Marriage and descendants In 1900, she married Camillo, Marquess Casati Stampa di Soncino (Muggiò, 12 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Capetillo
Luisa Capetillo (October 28, 1879 – April 10, 1922) was one of Puerto Rico's most famous labor leaders. She was an anarchist writer, activist, labor organizer who fought for workers' rights, women's rights, free love, and human emancipation. Early years Capetillo was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to a Spanish father Luis Capetillo Echevarría from the Basque country and Luisa Margarita Perone, a Corsican immigrant. Luis Capetillo arrived in Puerto Rico at around the same time as Margarita, traveling with his family. In Arecibo, she was raised and home schooled by her parents, who were both very liberal in regard to their philosophical and political ideologies. In 1898, Capetillo had the first of her two children out of wedlock. She found a job as a reader in a cigar-making factory in Arecibo. After the Spanish–American War, the American Tobacco Company, which had gained control of most of the island's tobacco fields, would hire people to read novels and current events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa María Calderón
Luisa María de Guadalupe Calderón Hinojosa (born October 23, 1956 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party who served in the Senate of Mexico from 2000 until September 2006. She is currently senator-elect as a PAN proportional representative. Her term in the senate began in late 2012 and will continue through 2018. "Cocoa" (her nickname) is known as a champion for women and minority rights throughout Mexico. Personal life Luisa María belongs to a family of prominent Mexican politicians. She is the sister of former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Juan Luis Calderón Hinojosa. She studied psychology at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, and has pursued graduate studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Luisa María is a single mother. Political career Calderón joined the National Action Party in 1976. She served as a local deputy in the Congress of Michoacán ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
