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Flaminio Cemetery
The Cimitero Flaminio (also known as Cimitero di Prima Porta or Cimitero di Montebello) is a cemetery in Rome (Italy), outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare to the north, between the Via Flaminia and the Via Tiberina. History The cemetery was established in 1945 on a project by the architect Elena Luzzatto. Description With its extension of 140 hectares, it is the largest cemetery in Italy; it is crossed by 37 km of internal roads, on which vehicles and buses circulate. The graves are mainly mound tombs; many of them are arranged into buildings or constructions which, due to their shape, are called "semicircular". There are some distinct departments for the different religious denominations, as well as numerous common fields and a crematorium. It is considered a masterpiece of contemporary cemetery architecture. It houses the tombs of many famous personalities of Italian culture, art, entertainment, sport and politics of the last century. Within the cemetery rises a church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Bernabucci
Angelo is an Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger". People People with the given name *Angelo Abenante (1927–2024), Italian trade unionist and politician *Angelo Accardi, Italian visual artist * Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church * Angelo Acciaioli, multiple people *Angelo Acerbi (born 1925), Catholic archbishop * Angelo Achini or Angiolo Achini (1850–1930), Italian painter *Angelo Acosta (born 2001), Filipino rapper *Angelo Agostini (1843–1910), illustrator, journalist and founder of several publications, and although born in Italy, is considered the first Brazilian cartoonist *Angelo Agrizzi, South African businessman and whistleblower * Angelo Aimo (born 1964), Italian footballer *Angelo Albanesi (late 1765–1784), Italian engraver *Angelo Alessandri (born 1969), Italian politician *Angelo Alessio (born 1965), Italian football manager and player *Angelo Alistar (born 1975), Romanian footballer *Angelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzo Cerusico
Enzo Cerusico (22 October 1937 – 26 November 1991) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1948 and 1984. Life and career The son of a production manager, Cerusico started his career as a child actor in 1948, playing a role of weight in Alessandro Blasetti's '' Heart and Soul''. He studied acting first at the and later with Alessandro Fersen, and had his breakout on stage in the 1960s, playing the title role in ''Meo Patacca''. Career in the United States Cerusico's first role on American television was in a 1966 episode of '' I Spy'' filmed in Rome. Producer Sheldon Leonard held a casting call for an English-speaking actor to play the kid brother of the female Italian guest star. Cerusico spoke no English but with a friend's help he memorized one line — "I studied English in the school since four years" — and managed to bluff his way into an interview with Leonard.Goodwin, Fritz. (1969, 31 May – 6 June). ''The operation was a failur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenzo Cerami
Vincenzo Cerami (2 November 1940 – 17 July 2013) was an Italian screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ..., novelist and poet. Biography From 1967, he contributed or wrote screenplays or adapted screenplays for more than 40 films. In 1996, he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1976, his first novel ''Un borghese piccolo piccolo'' (''A Very Normal Man'') was published, through the efforts of Italian novelist Italo Calvino. The book was immediately successful, and adapted for film in 1977 by Mario Monicelli. Also critically acclaimed was the verse novel, ''Addio Lenin'' (''Goodbye Lenin''), published in 1981. In 1999, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film '' Life Is B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memmo Carotenuto
Memmo Carotenuto (23 August 1908 – 23 December 1980) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1941 and 1980. Selected filmography *'' The Wedding Trip'' (1969) * '' Assassination in Rome'' (1965) * '' Male Companion'' (1964) * '' Cocagne'' (1961) * ''Ten Ready Rifles'' (1959) * '' Ferdinando I, re di Napoli'' (1959) * '' Everyone's in Love'' (1959) * '' My Wife's Enemy'' (1959) * ''Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!'' (1958) * ''The Italians They Are Crazy'' (1958) * '' Legs of Gold'' (1958) * '' Big Deal on Madonna Street'' (1958) * '' The Most Wonderful Moment'' (1957) * '' Fathers and Sons'' (1957) * ''Poor, But Handsome'' (1957) * '' The Bigamist'' (1956) * '' Lucky to Be a Woman'' (1956) * '' The Band of Honest Men'' (1956) * '' Chéri-Bibi'' (1955) * ''Bread, Love and Jealousy'' (1954) * '' A Slice of Life'' (1954) * '' Too Bad She's Bad'' (1954) * '' Disowned'' (1954) * '' The Three Thieves'' (1954) * ''House of Ricordi ''House of Ricordi'' () is a 1954 Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Caracciolo
Franco Caracciolo (29 March 1920 – 28 September 1999) was an Italian conductor. Life He was born in Bari in 1920. He studied piano and composing at the Conservatoire of S. Pietro a Majella in Naples, and conducting at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Career He toured widely as a concert and opera conductor, was leading conductor of the Scarlatti Orchestra of Naples from 1949 to 1964 and became the permanent conductor of the Sinfonica di Milano Orchestra of Radiotelevisione Italiana. His repertory ranged from baroque to contemporary, including operas by Cherubini, Cimarosa, Haydn, Paisiello, and Scarlatti, and 20th century works by Darius Milhaud, Riccardo Malipiero, Nino Rota, and Gino Marinuzzi. He retired in 1987.Claudio Casini. "Caracciolo, Franco." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 6 Mar. 2012 Main positions held * 1944–5 Conductor of the Amici della Musica SO in Bari. * 1949–64 Conductor of Alessandro Scarlatti Orchestra, Naples. * 1964 to 1971 Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavio Bucci
Flavio Bucci (25 May 1947 – 18 February 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film producer. Biography Born in Turin, Bucci began appearing in film and television in 1971, making his debut appearance in the film '' The Working Class Goes to Heaven''. He is known for playing Daniel, the blind pianist, in Dario Argento's ''Suspiria'' and for playing the thuggish Blackie in Aldo Lado's 1975 '' Night Train Murders''. Another one of Bucci's iconic appearances was in the 1978 film '' Closed Circuit'' directed by Giuliano Montaldo, with whom he made several film collaborations with. On stage, Bucci appeared in adaptations of ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''; '' The Clown'' and more. He also recited poems written by Giacomo Leopardi. Bucci had a rare career as a voice dubber during the 1970s and 1980s. He dubbed John Travolta in his earlier films as well as Sylvester Stallone in ''The Lords of Flatbush''. His character dubbing roles for television include Potsie Weber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primo Brown
Primo Brown, pseudonym of David Maria Belardi (Rome, June 14, 1976 - Rome, January 1, 2016), was an Italian rapper, known for having played in the rap band Cor Veleno. Introducing himself to the music scene since the late 1980s, Primo is remembered as an artist of fundamental importance for the development of hip hop culture in Italy, especially in the capital. Biography Initially known under the pseudonym of ''Scheggia'', the rapper began to make his name known within the Italian hip hop scene in 1993, when he performed together with Grandi Numeri at the Palladium, on the occasion of the Zulu Party. Thus begins to form the first nucleus of the musical group Cor Veleno (in which DJ Squarta will also be present), so much so that this name is also mentioned in an episode of the broadcast Italy in direct, conducted by the presenter Alda D'Eusanio, in which Primo and Grandi Numeri performed in connection by the Circolo degli Artisti. Track 21 Tyson will then be released un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Brezza
Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003), industrialist * Gianni Alemanno (born 1958), politician * Gianni Amelio (born 1945), film director * Gianni Baget Bozzo (1925–2009), Roman Catholic priest and political expert * Gianni Bellocchi (born 1969), scientist * Gianni Benvenuti (1926–2005), Italian artist * Gianni Brera (1919–1992), journalist * Gianni Bugno (born 1964), cyclist * Gianni Danzi (1940–2007), Roman Catholic bishop * Gianni Davito (born 1957), high jumper * Gianni De Biasi (born 1956), Italian football coach * Gianni De Fraja (born 1960), economics professor * Gianni De Michelis (1940–2019), politician * Gianni Garko (born 1935, Giovanni Garcovich), actor * Gianni Ghidini (1930–1995), cyclist * Gianni Infantino (born 1970), President o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He was known for playing roles that typified the suave, romantic leading man archetype, both in his native country and in Hollywood. Brazzi trained as a stage actor and was a matinee idol of Italian cinema, before moving to Hollywood in the early 1950s. He was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film '' Three Coins in the Fountain'' (1954), followed by leading male roles in David Lean's '' Summertime'' (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn. and the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical '' South Pacific''. His other notable English-language films include '' The Barefoot Contessa'' (1954), '' The Story of Esther Costello'' (1957), opposite Joan Crawford, '' Count Your Blessings'' (1959), '' Light in the Piazza'' (1962), and '' The Italian Job'' (1969). He also wrote and directed several films in his native Italy, sometimes using the pseudonym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Boni
Carla Gaiano (17 July 1925 in Ferrara – 17 October 2009 in Rome), known professionally as Carla Boni, was an Italian people, Italian singer. Life and career Boni worked as a singer for RAI, the Italian state radio and television network, since 1951. She sang the Italian version of the song "Johnny Guitar". She then won the Sanremo Music Festival 1953 with Flo Sandon's, singing "Viale d'autunno". In 1955, Boni won the Festival di Napoli with the song E stelle 'e Napule", which she sang with her husband, Gino Latilla. In 1956, she released a new version of the standard "Mambo Italiano (song), Mambo Italiano", which went on to become her greatest hit. In 1957, she released the song "La casetta in Canadà". During her career she formed a band with her husband, Nilla Pizzi and Giorgio Consolini. During the 1990s she introduced a new version of "Mambo Italiano". In 2007, she pulled out of the making of an album which was to be titled ''Aeroplani e angeli'', with songs written b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Bongusto
Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019), known by his stage name Fred Bongusto, was an Italian light music singer, songwriter and composer who was very popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Career history Bongusto was born in Campobasso. He made his recording debut with the song "Bella Bellissima", a song written by Ghigo Agosti and produced by the Milan-based label Primary. It was released on phonographic record in 1960. Some of his most successful songs include "Amore fermati", "Una rotonda sul mare", "Spaghetti a Detroit" and "Prima c'eri tu", which won the 1966 edition of Un disco per l'estate. Bongusto's proclivity for exploring Latin American rhythms and American Big Band swing made him very popular in South America, especially in Brazil. He had collaborated with Toquinho, Vinicius de Moraes and João Gilberto, who successfully covered Bongusto's song "Malaga" in his 1991 album João. He composed the soundtracks of more than 30 films, including '' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
