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Giacomo (name)
Giacomo () is an Italian given name corresponding to English James. It is the Italian version of the Hebrew name Jacob. People bearing the name include: *Giacomo Acerbo (1888–1969), Italian economist and Fascist politician *Giacomo Agostini (born 1942), Italian motorcycle road racer *Giacomo Antonelli (1806–1876), Italian cardinal * Giacomo Aragall (born 1939), Catalan tenor *Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), Italian painter *Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507–1573), Italian Mannerism architect *Giacomo Beltrami (1779–1855), Italian jurist, author, and explorer *Giacomo Biffi (1928–2015), Italian cardinal * Giacomo Bonaventura (born 1989), Italian footballer *Giacomo Boni (archaeologist) (1859–1925), Italian archaeologist specializing in Roman architecture * Giacomo Boni (painter) (1688–1766), Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa * Giacomo Brodolini (1920–1969), Italian politician *Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674), Italian Baroque composer *G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James (name)
James is an English language given name that is a derivative of the name Jacob (name), Jacob, most commonly used for males. Etymology It is a modern descendant, through Old French ''James'', of Vulgar Latin ''Iacomus'' (cf. Italian ''Giacomo (name), Giacomo'', Portuguese ''Tiago'' or ''Thiago'' (in ancient spelling although still used as a first name), Spanish ''Santiago_(name), Iago, Santiago''), a derivative version of Latin ''Iacobus'', Latin form of the Hebrew language, Hebrew name Jacob (name), ''Jacob'' (original ). The final ''-s'' in the English first names is typical of those borrowed from Old French, where it was the former masculine subject case (cf. Jules, Jules, Miles (name), Miles, Charles, etc.). James is a very popular name in English-speaking populations. Forms of James Abbreviations * Jas. (English) Diminutives * Jack (given name), Jack Jake (given name), Jak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Ceruti
Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (13 October 1698 – 28 August 1767) was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy in Milan, Brescia, and Venice. He acquired the nickname Pitocchetto (the little beggar) for his many paintings of peasants dressed in rags. He was born in Milan, but worked primarily in Brescia. He may have been influenced early by Antonio Cifrondi and/or Giacomo Todesco (Todeschini), and received training from Carlo Ceresa. While he also painted still-life paintings and religious scenes, Ceruti is best known for his genre paintings, especially of beggars and the poor, whom he painted realistically and endowed with unusual dignity and individuality. Ceruti gave particular attention to this subject matter during the period 1725 to 1740, and about 50 of his genre paintings from these years survive.Spike, 1986, pp. 66. Mira Pajes Merriman, in her essay titled ''Comedy, Reality, and the Development of Genre Painting in Italy'', observes that "Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Leopardi
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest authors of his time worldwide, as well as one of the principals of literary Romanticism, his constant reflection on existence and on the human condition—of sensuous and materialist inspiration—has also earned him a reputation as a deep philosopher. He is widely seen as one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century but routinely compared by Italian critics to his older contemporary Alessandro Manzoni despite expressing "diametrically opposite positions." Although he lived in a secluded town in the conservative Papal States, he came into contact with the main ideas of the Enlightenment, and, through his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era. The strongly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Leoni
Giacomo Leoni (; 1686 – 8 June 1746), also known as James Leoni, was an List of Italian architects, Italian architect, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florence, Florentine Renaissance architecture, Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti, who had also been an inspiration for Andrea Palladio. Leoni thus served as a prominent exponent of Palladian architecture, Palladianism in English architecture, beginning in earnest around 1720. Also loosely referred to as Georgian architecture, Georgian, this style is rooted in Italian Renaissance architecture. Having previously worked in Düsseldorf, Leoni arrived in England, where he was to make his name, in 1714, aged 28. His fresh, uncluttered designs, with just a hint of Baroque architecture, Baroque flamboyance, brought him to the attention of prominent patrons of the arts. Early life Leoni's early life is poorly documented. He is first recorded in Düsseldorf in 1708, and arrived in England sometime before 1715. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Leone
Giacomo Leone (born 10 April 1971 in Francavilla Fontana, Brindisi) is a retired male long-distance runner from Italy. He set his personal best (2:07:52) in the marathon on 4 March 2001 in Otsu, Japan. Leone is best known for winning the 1996 edition of the New York City Marathon. Biography He was the last European to win New York City Marathon before the African dominance, except for Brazilian victories in 2006 and 2008. Leone still holds the record of "Italian most quick" to NYC Marathon. When 18–20 years old he started to run distances over 20 km and in 1989 won the bronze medal in European Athletics Junior Championships (in 1989 edition in Varaždin, on 20 km Road Race); in the next year he places himself at fifth place at Juniores World Championship on the same distance. When he was 20 he debuted in a marathon at Sheffield Universiade The FISU World University Games, formerly the Universiade, is an international multi-sport event, organized for university a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Da Lentini
Giacomo da Lentini, also known as Jacopo da Lentini or with the appellative Il Notaro, was an Italian poet and inventor of the 13th century. He was a senior poet of the Sicilian School and was a notary at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. Giacomo is credited with the invention of the sonnet. His poetry was originally written in literary Sicilian, though it only survives in Tuscan. Although some scholars believe that da Lentini's Italian poetry about courtly love was an adaptation of the Provençal poetry of the troubadours, William Baer argues that the first eight lines of the earliest Sicilian sonnets, rhymed ABABABAB, are identical to the eight-line Sicilian folksong stanza known as the ''Strambotto''. Therefore, da Lentini, or whoever else invented the form, added two tercets to the ''Strambotto'' in order to create the 14-line Sicilian sonnet. As with other poets of the time, he corresponded often with fellow poets, circulating poems in manuscript and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (11 December 1892 – 17 March 1979) was an Italian tenor with a lyric voice of exceptional range and technical facility. He performed throughout Europe and the Americas in a top-class career that spanned 40 years. Career and assessment Born in Lanuvio, Italy, he was orphaned at the age of 11. After completing his secondary education at the seminary at Albano and graduating from the University of Rome ''La Sapienza'', he began vocal studies under the great 19th-century baritone Antonio Cotogni at the Liceo Musicale (later Conservatorio) Santa Cecilia in Rome. His nascent singing career was put on hold, however, by the outbreak of World War I in 1914, during which he served with the Italian armed forces reaching the rank of captain and emerged as one of Italy's most decorated soldiers. The war over, he made a successful operatic debut as Arturo in Bellini's ''I Puritani'' in Viterbo, Italy, on 2 September 1919—performing under the name Giacomo Rubini, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Di Grassi
Giacomo () is an Italian given name corresponding to English James. It is the Italian version of the Hebrew name Jacob. People bearing the name include: * Giacomo Acerbo (1888–1969), Italian economist and Fascist politician *Giacomo Agostini (born 1942), Italian motorcycle road racer * Giacomo Antonelli (1806–1876), Italian cardinal * Giacomo Aragall (born 1939), Catalan tenor *Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), Italian painter *Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507–1573), Italian Mannerism architect * Giacomo Beltrami (1779–1855), Italian jurist, author, and explorer *Giacomo Biffi (1928–2015), Italian cardinal * Giacomo Bonaventura (born 1989), Italian footballer * Giacomo Boni (archaeologist) (1859–1925), Italian archaeologist specializing in Roman architecture * Giacomo Boni (painter) (1688–1766), Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa * Giacomo Brodolini (1920–1969), Italian politician *Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674), Italian Baroque compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Gastaldi
Giacomo Gastaldi (, in Villafranca Piemonte – October 1566, in Venice) was an Italian cartographer, astronomer and engineer of the 16th century. Career Gastaldi, sometimes referred to as Jacopo,Tooley, R.V, and Charles Bricker, ''Landmarks of Mapmaking'', (Elsevier-Sequoia, Amsterdam, 1968). or Iacobo,Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik, ''Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography'', (Dover Publications, New York, Reprint 1973), p. 40. began his career as an engineer, serving the Venetian Republic in that capacity until the fourth decade of the sixteenth century. From about 1544 he turned his attention entirely to mapmaking, and his work represents several important turning points in cartographic development. According to the author Philip Burden, Gastaldi's 1548 edition of Ptolemy's ''Geography'', "was the most comprehensive atlas produced between Martin Waldseemüller, Martin Waldseemüller's ''Geographia'' of 1513, and the Abraham Ortelius ''Theatrum'' of 1570," becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Ferrari (other)
Giacomo Ferrari may refer to: * Giacomo Ferrari (politician), Italian engineer and politician * Giacomo Ferrari (rugby union), Italian rugby union player * Giacomo Ferrari (sailor), Italian sailor * Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, Italian composer and singing teacher {{hndis, Ferrari, Giacomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Ferrara
Giacomo Ferrara (born 24 November 1990) is an Italian actor best known for his role as Alberto "Spadino" Anacleti in the 2015 neo-noir crime film ''Suburra'' and its subsequent spin-off series, '' Suburra: Blood on Rome'' (2017–2020) and '' Suburræterna'' (2023). Biography Ferrara was born in Chieti and grew up between Chieti, Villamagna, and Pretoro. His parents are hotel managers. He later moved to 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, ... at the age of 18 to attend the ''Accademia Corrado Pani''. Filmography Film Television Music videos References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrara, Giacomo 1990 births Living people 21st-century Italian male actors Italian male actors Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Feo
Giacomo Feo (c. 1471 – 27 August 1495), was the second husband of Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forlì. He was born and died in Forlì. Biography Giacomo Feo was the brother of Tommaso Feo, the castellan who had remained faithful to Caterina Sforza after the assassination of her husband. Following the assassination in 1488 of Caterina Sforza's first husband, Count Girolamo Riario, lord of Imola and Forlì, she appointed Giacomo Feo, a handsome stable groom in her household, to be the castellan of the fortress Ravaldino in Forlì. Feo and Sforza became lovers and they married in secret so she could avoid the possibility of losing custody of her children and the regency. The chronicles and diplomatic dispatches of the period reported that Sforza was very enamoured with Feo, and it was feared that she would give political precedence and power to him, passing over her eldest son and Riario's heir, Ottaviano. These fears led to two failed conspiracies to assassinate Feo and Sf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
