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Franca (given Name)
Franca is a feminine given name which may refer to: * Franca Afegbua (1943–2023), Nigerian politician, first elected woman senator in Nigeria * Franca Arena (born 1937), Australian politician and activist * Franca Bettoia (born 1936), Italian actress * Franca Bianconi (born 1962), Italian figure skating coach and former competitor * Franca Faldini (1931–2016), Italian writer, journalist and actress * Franca Florio (1873–1950), Italian noblewoman and socialite * Franca Helg (1920–1989), Italian designer and architect * Franca Masu (born 1962), Italian singer and songwriter * Franca Mattiucci (born 1938), Italian retired operatic mezzo-soprano * Franca Parisi (born 1933), Italian actress * Franca Raimondi (1932–1988), Italian singer * Franca Rame (1929–2013), Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist * Franca Scagnetti (1924–1999), Italian film actress * Franca Sozzani (1950–2016), Italian journalist and longtime editor-in-chief of ''Vogue Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Afegbua
Franca Afegbua (20 October 1943 – 12 March 2023) was a Nigerian beautician and politician who represented Bendel North in the Nigerian Senate in 1983. Elected as a National Party of Nigeria (NPN) senator, she was the first elected woman senator in Nigeria. Afegbua was born in Okpella, Edo State in 1943 and completed her post-secondary education in Sofia, Bulgaria. Prior to the beginning of the second republic, she worked as a hairdresser in Lagos serving high-income clients. Afegbua had a close relationship with Joseph Tarka Senator Joseph Sarwuan Tarka (10 July 1932 – 30 March 1980) was a Nigerian politician from Benue State and a former minister for Transport and then Communications under General Yakubu Gowon. He was one of the founding members of the United Middl ..., who introduced her to his party, NPN. In 1983, when she announced her intention to make a challenge for a senatorial seat in Bendel, few felt that she could win. Her party was in opposition and the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Raimondi
Franca Raimondi (8 July 1932 – 28 August 1988) was an Italian singer. She is best known for representing in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 with the song "Aprite le finestre". Biography Born in Monopoli, Province of Bari, Apulia, Raimondi studied operatic singing and foreign languages. In 1955, Raimondi was among the winners of a RAI contest of new voices and got the chance to perform at the Sanremo Music Festival 1956, 1956 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, which she eventually won with the song "Aprite le finestre". That same year she represented in Eurovision Song Contest 1956, the first Eurovision Song Contest with the same song, alongside Tonina Torrielli with "Amami se vuoi". Between 1956 and 1958 Raimondi was leading vocalist in the Gian Stellari Orchestra. In 1960 she entered the competition at the Festival di Napoli with "Canzone all'antica" ("Old-style song"). In the later years she slowed her activities, focusing her career on live performances. She died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Visalta
Franca Visalta (1170–1218), also known as Franca of Piacenza, was a Cistercian abbess. Born in Piacenza, Italy, she became a Benedictine nun in St Syrus Convent at the age of seven and became abbess at a young age. However, she was removed and isolated because of the severe austerities she imposed. Only one nun, Carentia, agreed with Franca's discipline and she moved to a Cistercian convent in Rapallo. Franca then persuaded her parents to build a Cistercian house in Montelana where she and Carentia both entered. Franca became abbess and maintained the strict austerities on herself, even when her health was failing, and spent most nights praying for several hours in chapel. She later moved the Cistercian community to Pittoli, where she died in 1218. Franca was canonised by Pope Gregory X Pope Gregory X (; – 10 January 1276), born Teobaldo Visconti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 September 1271 to his death and was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Viola
Franca Viola (born 9 January 1948) is a Sicilian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a " rehabilitating marriage" () to her rapist after being kidnapped, held hostage for over one week, and raped frequently. She is considered to be the first Italian woman who had been raped to publicly refuse marriage. She and her family successfully prosecuted the rapist. The trial had a wide resonance in Italy, as Viola's behavior clashed with traditional social conventions in Southern Italy, whereby a woman would lose her honour if she refused to marry the man to whom she had lost her virginity. Franca Viola became a symbol of the cultural progress and emancipation of women in post-war Italy. Kidnapping and rape Franca Viola was born in the rural town of Alcamo, Sicily, the oldest daughter of Bernardo Viola, a farmer, and his wife, Vita Ferra. In 1963, at the age of 15, she became engaged to Filippo Melodia, then aged 23, a nephew of mafia member . Melodia was subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Treur
Franca Treur (born 1979) is a Dutch writer and a freelance journalist for ''NRC Handelsblad'' and ''nrc.next''. Biography Youth and education Treur grew up in a strict Reformed Christian farming family in her Zeelandic birthplace of Meliskerke. After secondary school at the Calvijn College, she went on to study psychology at Leiden University. Later she switched to Dutch language and literary science. In Leiden, she became a member of the Reformed student association Panoplia. According to a newspaper interview, during her studies she discovered the similarities between stories from Ancient Near Eastern cultures and those related in the Bible, which convinced her that such stories were merely invented to console human beings. Moreover, she says that she had never felt the existence of God, and therefore abandoned her faith, informing the board of Panoplia about it on 11 September 2001. Literary career In 2006, Treur won an essay competition, themed 'Macht en onmacht' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Squarciapino
Franca Squarciapino (born 1940) is an Italians, Italian costume designer recognized for her exceptional work in theatre and film. She won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 63rd Academy Awards, 1990 for her work on ''Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film), Cyrano de Bergerac''. Throughout her career, she has designed costumes for major theatres and opera houses, including the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Royal Opera, London, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Zurich Opera, among others. Squarciapino frequently collaborated with Ezio Frigerio (1930–2022), who was also her life partner. References External links * 1940 births Living people Best Costume Design Academy Award winners Best Costume Design BAFTA Award winners César Award winners European Film Awards winners (people) Film people from Rome Goya Award winners Italian costume designers Italian women costume designers Nastro d'Argento winners Opera designers {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Sozzani
Franca Sozzani (; 20 January 1950 – 22 December 2016) was an Italian journalist and the editor-in-chief of '' Vogue Italia'' from 1988 until her death in 2016. Biography Sozzani was born and grew up in Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy. She was descended from a long line of aristocrats, including Princess Catherine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. She studied Germanic languages and literature and philosophy at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, graduating in 1973. She married at the age of 20; the union was dissolved three months later. Sozzani's career began as an assistant at the children's fashion magazine ''Vogue Bambini'' in 1976. She directed the publications ''Lei'' beginning in 1980 and ''Per Lui'' starting in 1982 before heading up '' Vogue Italia'' in 1988. In the 1990s, Sozzani helped create the phenomenon of the supermodel with one of her closest long-term collaborators, Steven Meisel. She also championed a group of photographers including Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Scagnetti
Franca Scagnetti (17 May 1924 – 1 November 1999) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1969 and 1999. She was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Ehi amigo, sei morto!'' (1970) - Nathaniel's Wife (uncredited) * ''Trastevere'' (1971) - Andrea's wife * '' I due assi del guantone'' (1971) - Mother of a Boxer (uncredited) * '' In the Name of the Italian People'' (1971) - Porter * ''Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria'' (1971) - Woman Looking for Judge Stammati (uncredited) * ''Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto'' (1972) - Woman in Hospital (uncredited) * '' Il sindacalista'' (1972) - Worker (uncredited) * ''Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino'' (1972) - Villager (uncredited) * ''Crime Boss'' (1972) - Don Faiena's Maid (uncredited) * ''Girolimoni, il mostro di Roma'' (1972) - (uncredited) * '' Alfredo, Alfredo'' (1972) - Maid (uncredited) * '' The Scientific Cardplayer'' (1972) - Pasqualina * ''Meo Patacca'' (1972) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Rame
Franca Rame (18 July 1929 – 29 May 2013) was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo and is the mother of writer Jacopo Fo. Fo dedicated his Nobel Prize to her. Biography Franca Rame was born in Parabiago, Lombardy, Italy, in 1929, into a family with a long theatre tradition. She made her theatrical debut in 1951. Shortly thereafter, she met Dario Fo, whom she married in 1954. Their son, Jacopo was born on 31 March 1955. In 1958, she co-founded the Dario Fo–Franca Rame Theatre Company in Milan, with Fo as the director and writer, and Rame the leading actress and administrator. Rame continued working with Fo through many plays and several theatre companies, popular success and government censorship. She was active in Soccorso Rosso (Red Aid), writing letters and providing books for prisoners and assisting their families and lawyers. In the 1970s, Rame began writing plays (often stage monologu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Parisi
Franca Parisi is an Italian actress. Biography Parisi graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome in 1955, and made her screen debut that same year in Raffaello Matarazzo's film '' The White Angel''. She then acted in a number of films of the peplum or drama genre, sometimes under the pseudonym ''Margaret Taylor''. In 1959, she married the Austrian actor Erwin Strahl. In the '60s, Parisi came to television, where she starred in many television dramas : memorably, she played Jane in Anton Giulio Majano's ''The black arrow''. Selected filmography Cinema * 1954: ''The Shadow on the Hill'' * 1955: '' The White Angel'' * 1958: ''Scampolo'' * 1960: ''Atom Age Vampire'' * 1962: '' Julius Caesar Against the Pirates'' * 1962: ''The Old Testament The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Arena
Franca Arena (; born 23 August 1937) is an Australian politician and activist. She was a Member of the New South Wales New South Wales Legislative Council, Legislative Council from 1981, first for the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party then as an Independent (politician), Independent from 1997 until she left the Council in 1999. Long recognised as a colourful and influential figure in New South Wales politics, Arena shot to national prominence in 1996 when, under Parliamentary privilege, she named retired judge David Yeldham and former New South Wales MP Frank Arkell as potential paedophiles. Life and career Arena was born in Genoa, Italy, the daughter of Francesco Dellepiane and Onorato Rosita. She received her education in Italy, at Syskon College in London, and after migrating to Australia in 1959, took several courses at Workers' Educational Association, WEA Sydney. In 1961, Arena married Joseph Nicholas Arena. The couple had twin sons in 1966. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Mattiucci
Franca Mattiucci (Rome, 1938) is an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career from 1963 to 1987. In her native country she made appearances at the Arena di Verona Festival, the Baths of Caracalla, La Fenice, La Scala, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Teatro della Pergola, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro Donizetti, the Teatro Margherita, the Teatro Massimo Bellini, the Teatro Massimo, the Teatro Regio di Parma, and the Teatro Regio di Torino. On the international stage she performed at the Hamburg State Opera, the Hungarian State Opera House, Hungarian State Opera, the Liceu, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Sofia National Opera, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the Teatro Real, and the Vienna State Opera among others. Some of the roles Mattiucci performed on stage were Adalgisa in ''Norma (opera), Norma'', Amneris in ''Aida'', Azucena in ''Il trovatore'', Beppe in ''L'a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
