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Castelnuovo (surname)
Castelnuovo is an Italian surname which loosely translates as Newcastle in English. Notable people with the surname include: * Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), Italian mathematician and teacher *Enrico Castelnuovo (1839–1915), Italian writer * Guido Castelnuovo (1865–1952), Italian mathematician * Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968), Italian composer * Nino Castelnuovo Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 – 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage and television, best known for his starring role as Guy Foucher in the French musical film ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964). Castelnu ... (1936–2021), Italian actor {{DEFAULTSORT:Castelnuovo Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle (other)
Newcastle usually refers to: *Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England *Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England *Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in Australia, named after Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle, New Castle or New Cassel may also refer to: Places Australia *City of Newcastle, a local government area in New South Wales * County of Newcastle, a cadastral unit in South Australia *Division of Newcastle, a federal electoral division in New South Wales *Electoral district of Newcastle, an electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *Electoral district of Newcastle (South Australia) 1884–1902, 1915–1956 in the South Australian House of Assembly *Newcastle, New South Wales, a city in New South Wales *Newcastle Waters, a town and locality in the Northern Territory *Newcastle West, New South Wales, inner suburb of the city *Toodyay, Western Australia, known as Newcastle until 1910 Canada *Newc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Castelnuovo
Emma Castelnuovo (12 December 1913 – 13 April 2014) was an Italian mathematician and teacher of Jewish descent. In 2013, the year of her 100th birthday, the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction created an award named after Castelnuovo to recognize outstanding contributions to mathematics education. Education and career Emma Castelnuovo was born in Rome on 12 December 1913, the fifth child of Elbina and Guido Castelnuovo; her father and her mother's brother Federigo Enriques were both professors of mathematics. Castelnuovo graduated from the University of Rome in 1936 with a thesis on algebraic geometry. After this she worked as a librarian at the same university. She won a permanent position there in 1938, but later that year, Italy passed new laws preventing Jews from holding state positions, preventing her from taking it. From 1939 to 1943 she taught in Hebrew schools attended by Jewish students who had been kicked out of public schools as a result o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Castelnuovo
Enrico Castelnuovo (February 12, 1839 – February 16, 1915) was an Italian writer who had an active role in the Italian unification The unification of Italy ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single ... movement. He was the father of Guido Castelnuovo. Literary works * '' Il quaderno della zia'', 1872 ("Aunt's notebook") * '' Nevica'', 1878 ("It Snows") * '' Reminiscenze e fantasie'', 1885 ("Reminiscences and fantasies") * '' Prima di partire'', 1890 ("Before leaving") * '' Il ritorno dell'Aretusa'', 1901 ("The return of Arethusa") * '' I coniugi Varedo'', 1913 ("The couple Varedo") External links * * * *The complete text in Italian of "''Il quaderno della zia''" {{DEFAULTSORT:Castelnuovo, Enrico Italian male writers 19th-century Italian Jews 1839 births 1915 deaths 20th-century I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Castelnuovo
Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865 – 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant. Life Early life Castelnuovo was born in Venice. His father, Enrico Castelnuovo, was a novelist and campaigner for the unification of Italy. His mother Emma Levi was a relative of Cesare Lombroso and David Levi. His wife Elbina Marianna Enriques was the sister of mathematician Federigo Enriques and zoologist Paolo Enriques. After attending a grammar school at in Venice, he went to the University of Padua, from where he graduated in 1886. At the University of Padua he was taught by Giuseppe Veronese. He also achieved minor fame due to winning the university salsa dancing competition. After his graduation, he sent one of his papers to Corrado Segre, whose replies he found remarkably helpful. It marked the beginning of a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he immigrated to the United States and became a film composer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next fifteen years. He also wrote concertos for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. Biography Born in Florence, he was descended from a prominent banking family that had lived in Tuscany, specifically in Siena until the latter half of the 19th century, since the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. His father was Amedeo and his elder brothers Ugo (born in 1890, lawyer) and Guido (born in 1891, engineer). Castelnuovo-Tedesco was first introduced to the piano by his mother, Noemi Senigaglia, and he composed his first pieces when he was just nine years old. After completing a degree in piano in 1914 under Edg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Castelnuovo
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 – 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage and television, best known for his starring role as Guy Foucher in the French musical film ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964). Castelnuovo's other films include '' Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960), '' Camille 2000'' (1969), ''L'emmerdeur'' (1973), ''Il prato macchiato di rosso'' (1973), '' Massacre Time'' (1966), ''The Five Man Army'' (1969), and ''The English Patient'' (1996). Early life Castelnuovo was born the youngest of three boys in Lecco, Lombardy as the son of maid Emilia Paola (née Sala) and button factory employee Camillo Castelnuovo. He had two older brothers, Pierantonio (b. 1930; d. 1976) and Clemente. After being a house painter, a mechanic and a workman, he moved to Milan, where he started working as a sales agent, and at the same time, he enrolled in the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He became a father for the first time to his son Lore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
