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Felicita (given Name)
Felicita is an Italian female given name. The English counterpart is Felicity. Notable people with the name include: * Felicita Frai (1909–2010), Italian painter * Felicita Casella ( – after 1865), French-born Italian singer and composer * Felicita Kalinšek (1865–1937), Slovenian nun *Felicita Maria di Boemondo (died after 1172), Princess of Antioch and the Dogaressa of Venice * Felicita Pauļuka (1925–2014), Latvian painter * Felicita Sartori (1713–1782), Italian painter and pastellist *Felicita Vestvali Felicita Vestvali (born Anna Marie Stegemann, also known as Felicità von Vestvali; 23 February 1831 – 3 April 1880) was a German opera singer and actress. She became famous both in Europe and the United States. She was known in North America ... (1831–1880), German opera singer and actress {{given name Feminine given names Italian feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity (given Name)
Felicity is a feminine given name of English origin meaning "happiness". It is derived from the Latin word ''felicitas'' meaning "luck, good fortune". It is also used as a form of the Latin name Felicitas, taken from the name of the Ancient Roman goddess Fortuna. It was also the name of Saint Felicity of Rome, a 2nd-century saint venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. The Latin Felicia, a related name, is a feminine form of the name Felix, which is derived from an Ancient Roman cognomen meaning "lucky," or "successful." Traditional English diminutives include Fee, Flick, Flicka, Fliss, Flissy, Flossie, Flossy, Liccy, Liss, Lissa, Lissie, and Lissy, among others. Usage Prior to the Victorian era, Felicia and its vernacular form Felice were the most commonly used forms of the name in English-speaking countries. Some forms of the name such as Philicia became associated with the etymologically unrelated name Phyllis. The name Felicity was used by English Puritans from the late 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicita Frai
Felicita Frai (born Felice Frajová; 20 October 1909 – 14 April 2010) was a Czechs, Czech-born Italian painter. Biography She was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. After dropping out of university in her native city, she moved to Italy, living first in Trieste and then Ferrara. Here she studied fresco painting under Achille Funi, collaborating with him in 1936 on the decoration of the Palazzo della Consulta. In 1938 she made her debut at the Venice Biennale, participating again in 1948. In the 1940s she went to live in Milan where she frequented Giorgio de Chirico's studio and showed her work at all the editions of the Triennale from 1945 to 1954. She devoted herself to figure painting and the still life, but also to engraving and the illustration of books, such as ''Through the Looking Glass'' by Lewis Carroll (1947 Italian edition) and ''L'albero del riccio'' by Antonio Gramsci (1948). She died in 2010 in Milan. References Further reading *Ferrata Giansiro, Mamzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicita Casella
Felicita Casella née Lacombe, also Félicie ( – after 1865) was a French-born Italian singer and composer. She married Italian cellist and composer Cesare Casella and moved with him to Porto.Her opera ''Haydée'' was performed in Porto in 1849 and again in a revised and improved version at the Teatro Dona Maria in Lisbon in 1853, where Casella sang in the principal role. Her next opera ''Cristoforo Colombo'' was performed in 1865 at the Théâtre Impérial in Nice. Some of her works were issued by Ricordi. Life Felicita Casella was born around 1820 as Félicie Lacombe. She was born at Bourges, and was the sister of French pianist and composer Louis Lacombe. She studied pianoforte and singing at the Paris Conservatoire. Before 1849, she married Italian cellist and composer Cesare Casella and moved with him to Porto. Her opera ''Haydée'' was a retelling of Alexandre Dumas' ''Count of Monte Cristo'', with libretto by Luiz Felipe Leite. The opera was performed in Porto in 1849 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicita Kalinšek
Felicita Kalinšek (September 5, 1865 – September 21, 1937) was a Slovenian nun who became the first cooking teacher at the School of Home Economics in Ljubljana. She is noted for her cookbook which was first published in 1923. It was a revision of Magdalena Pleiweis's ''Slovenska kuharica ali navod okusno kuhati navadna in imenitna jedila'' (The Slovene Cookbook, or Instructions for Cooking Tasty Common and Elaborate Dishes, 1868). Terezija Kalinšek was born in Podgorje, a village near Kamnik, to Tomaž Kalinšek and Uršula Kalinšek. She became a novice at a convent in Maribor in 1892 and took the religious name Felicita. She made a life-long vow to be a Catholic nun in 1896. She trained as both a teacher and chef. She was sent to work in Ljubljana when the church opened an agricultural catering school there in 1898. Her role was now to teach cookery and to supervise catering for important church officials such as the bishop. She also began to revise and expand ''The Sloven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicita Maria Di Boemondo
Felicita Maria di Boemondo of Antioch (d. ''after'' 1172) was a Princess of Antioch and the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Vital II Michele (r. 1156–1172). She was the daughter of Bohemund of Antioch. As a dogaressa, Felicita Maria was known as a benefactor of especially the convent San Zaccaria The Church of San Zaccaria is a 15th-century former monastic church in central Venice. It is a large edifice located in the Campo San Zaccaria, just off the waterfront to the southeast of Piazza San Marco and St Mark's Basilica. It is dedicated .... Visiting San Zaccaria at the time of the murder of her spouse, she chose never to leave the convent again. References * Staley, Edgcumbe: The dogaressas of Venice : The wives of the doges', London : T. W. Laurie, 1910 {{Reflist Dogaressas of Venice 12th-century Venetian people 12th-century Venetian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicita Pauļuka
Felicita Pauļuka (May 8, 1925 – December 8, 2014) was a Latvian painter noted for her portraits, nudes, and book illustrations. In the second half of the 20th century, Pauļuka was attributed to the development of Latvian pastel painting traditions. Biography Pauļuka was born Felicita Jānke () on May 8, 1925 in Riga, Latvia, to a family of German origin. At age 15, Pauļuka was the youngest student enrolled in the Art Academy of Latvia. After quitting her studies for four years due to World War II, she resumed her education in 1944 and worked as an illustrator and cartoonist in the newspaper ''Cīņa''. In 1949, she graduated with distinction in portrait painting from the Art Academy of Latvia led by Ģederts Eliass and Leo Svemps. Her work towards a diploma included a monumental figurative composition in oil titled ''Vecāķu Fishermen'' (1949). She participated in exhibitions from 1950, and in 1956, she became a member of the Artists Union of Latvia. From 1943 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicita Sartori
Felicita Sartori (later von Hoffmann; 7 September 1713 – 24 July 1782) was an Italian painter and pastellist. Life Felicita Sartori was born in Pordenone, the daughter of notary Felice Sartori. Her uncle was Antonio dall'Agata, an engraver in Gorizia, and it was he who served as her first teacher. It was also he who arranged for her to join the studio of Rosalba Carriera, and she moved to Venice around 1728. Carriera was at the height of her popularity, and it is believed that Sartori, along with her sisters, provided copies of her work for sale. Sartori remained close to her teacher. In 1741, she moved to Dresden and married Franz Joseph von Hoffmann, councilor to August III. He died in 1749, at which point her movements became unclear; Sartori remarried to a nephew of her late husband, Lothar Franz Hoffmann, and probably moved to Bamberg. The surviving works known to be hers are apparently all miniatures, mostly drawn from well-known works by Carriera; it is also recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicita Vestvali
Felicita Vestvali (born Anna Marie Stegemann, also known as Felicità von Vestvali; 23 February 1831 – 3 April 1880) was a German opera singer and actress. She became famous both in Europe and the United States. She was known in North America as "Vestvali the Magnificent" or "Magnificent Vestvali" and was praised by Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon III. Vestali was admired for her beauty and her contralto voice and for her independence from the norms of femininity at the time. She was a self-described "man-hater" (''Männerfeindin'') and widely described as Uranian (sexology), Uranian, with links to the feminist movement, the nascent movement for gay and lesbian rights, and to the movements for racial and religious emancipation.Rosa von Braunschweig: Felicita von Vestvali. In: Magnus Hirschfeld (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. 1903. Life Her family background is unclear. According to Ludwig Eisenberg (writer), Ludwig Eisenberg, Vestvali came from an old noble family. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminine Given Names
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
