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Franchetti Family
Franchetti is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Afdera Franchetti (born 1931), Italian noblewoman * Alberto Franchetti (1860β1942), Italian opera composer * Arnold Franchetti (1911β1993), Italian composer, son of Alberto * Leopoldo Franchetti (1847β1917), Italian publicist and politician * Lisa Franchetti (born 1964), United States Navy admiral * Raimondo Franchetti Baron Raimondo Franchetti has been the name of more than one Italian people, Italian Baron, of the noble Franchetti family. The Franchettis were an Italian Jewish family who, from the 18th century onwards, were one of the wealthiest families in t ... (1889β1935), Italian nobleman and explorer * Rina Franchetti (1907β2010), Italian actress * Virgil Franchetti (born 1954), Scottish football player {{surname Italian-language surnames [Baidu] |
Afdera Franchetti
Afdera Franchetti (8 July 1931 β 20 March 2025) was an Italian baroness. Franchetti was the fourth wife of American actor Henry Fonda. Background and family The Italian Jewish Franchetti family, from the 18th century, was one of the wealthiest families in the Mediterranean. Afdera Franchetti was the daughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, a famous explorer who travelled extensively in Ethiopia and charted hitherto unexplored territories (Dancalia) during the 1920s. On his return from an expedition to Ethiopia, his plane exploded over Cairo in 1935. Raimondo's grandmother was Sara Louise de Rothschild. Her brother, the Baron Raimondo Nanuk Franchetti, was a friend of author Ernest Hemingway, who hunted with him in Caorle Lagoon. The Franchetti siblings were named Nanuk, Afdera, Lorian and Simba; the last died early of tuberculosis. Personal life and death Franchetti claims to have attended the masked ball at Palazzo Labia in 1951, as well as the ball of Baron de RedΓ© at his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Franchetti
Alberto Franchetti (18 September 1860 β 4 August 1942) was an Italian composer and racing driver, best known for the 1902 opera ''Germania''. Biography Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, then at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger, and finally in Dresden under Felix Draeseke. His first major success occurred in 1888 with his opera '' Asrael''. His operatic style combined Wagnerianism and the traits of Meyerbeer with Italian verismo. During his life, critics sometimes referred to him as the "Meyerbeer of modern Italy." The words of music critic G. B. Nappi sum up Franchetti's primary talents: "His character is perhaps unsuitable for passionate dramas, but rather for those subjects, where the fantastic, romantic and epic are required in the symphonic texture and large choral pictures. In this regard Alberto Franchetti knows that he has no rival" (from "Orfeo" 6.3, 1915). '' Grove'' consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Franchetti
Arnold Franchetti (1911β1993) was a composer born in Lucca, Italy who later emigrated to the United States. Early life As a boy, Franchetti studied composition and piano with his father, Baron Alberto Franchetti (1860β1942). Arnold Franchetti studied physics at the University of Florence, music at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and then moved to Munich from 1937 to 1939, where he studied composition and orchestration with composer Richard Strauss.Imanuel Willheim, "Franchetti, Arnold". Oxford Music Online. Accessed December 23, 2011. After a brief stint with the Italian army during World War II, Franchetti joined the anti-Mussolini underground resistance in the Italian Alps where he helped Allied airmen escape. In the USA Franchetti emigrated to the US in 1947. He was befriended by Aaron Copland, who helped the young immigrant composer gain a professional footing by arranging performances of Franchetti's chamber music in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopoldo Franchetti
Leopoldo Franchetti (; 31 May 1847 β 4 November 1917) was an Italian publicist, politician, and patron. He was a deputy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and later became a Senator. He was very active in promoting education and concrete solutions for economic, social and political problems in Italy both through his own political initiatives and through his support of his wife Alice Hallgarten. Early life Franchetti was born in Livorno into a Jewish family in good standing. The Franchetti family came to Livorno from Tunisia in the last decades of the eighteenth century. From the Napoleonic era to the second half of the 1830s they were one of the most important families in the local Jewish community.Una storia di famiglia: i Franchetti dalle coste del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Franchetti
Lisa Marie Franchetti ( ; born 25 April 1964) is a retired United States Navy Admiral (United States), admiral who served as the 33rd Chief of Naval Operations, chief of naval operations from 2 November 2023 to 21 February 2025. She was the first woman to be chief of naval operations, and the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Before this she most recently served as the 42nd vice chief of naval operations from September 2022 to November 2023 and as acting Chief of Naval Operations, chief of naval operations (CNO) from August to November 2023. A surface warfare officer, Franchetti previously served as director for strategy, plans, and policy of the Joint Staff (J5) from 2020 to 2022, the second deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting development in 2020, and commander of the United States Sixth Fleet from 2018 to 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
