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Giuseppe Tontodonati
Giuseppe Tontodonati (February 2, 1917 — January 6, 1989) was an Italian poet. Life Giuseppe Tontodonati was born in Abruzzo, a region in central Italy in the town of Scafa (at that time part of San Valentino AC municipality) in the Pescara province in 1917. When he was a child, in 1925, he moved with his family to Pescara. In this large city he came into contact with local artists, being influenced by painting and poetry, choosing at the end poetry as his means of expression. (ref youth poems edit in Poesie Inedite on 1993) From 1940 he was a soldier during World War II. On September 8th, 1943, Italy signed the Armistice. Giuseppe Tontodonati at that time was in the city of Volos (Greece) and like many other Italian soldiers, was captured by the German Army and deported to Germany not as prisoners of war but as Italian Military Internees at first to the Stammlager IV/B Mühlberg-Elbe registered with number IV/B 244512, and then moved to the Lager IV/D in Turgau and then to Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint John Capistran
John of Capistrano, OFM (, , , ; 24 June 1386 – 23 October 1456) was an Italian Order of Friars Minor, Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the town of Capestrano, Abruzzo. Famous as a preacher, theologian, and inquisitor, he earned himself the nickname "the Soldier Saint" when in 1456 at age 70 he led a Crusade against the invading Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Belgrade (1456), siege of Belgrade with the Hungarian military commander John Hunyadi. Elevated to sainthood, he is the patron saint of jurists and military chaplains, as well as the namesake of two Franciscan List of Spanish missions, missions, Mission San Juan Capistrano, one in Southern California and Mission San Juan Capistrano (Texas), the other in San Antonio, Texas. Early life As was the custom of this time, John is denoted by the village of Capestrano, in the Diocese of Sulmona, in the Abruzzi region, Kingdom of Naples. His father had come to Italy with the House of Valois-Anjou, Angevin court of Louis I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Deaths
1989 was a turning point in political history with the " Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected as State President of South Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million (equivalent to $ million in ). * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 – WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. * January 26 – The se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celestino V
Celestino is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Celestino Alfonso (1916–1944), Spanish republican and volunteer in the French liberation army *Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé (1957–2021), Equato-Guinean politician of the Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS) *Celestino Caballero (born 1976), professional boxer from Panama * Celestino Cavedoni (1795–1865), Italian ecclesiastic, archæologist, and numismatist *Celestino Corbacho (born 1949), Spanish politician, Minister of Labour and Immigration *Celestino Migliore (born 1952), Italian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church * Celestino Mukavhi (born 1972), Zimbabwean sculptor * Celestino Piatti (1922–2007), Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer *Celestino Rocha da Costa (1937–2010), former prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe *Celestino Rosatelli (1885–1945), Italian aeronautics engineer *Celestino Sfondrati (1644–1696), Italian Benedictine theologian, Prince- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Cascella
Pietro Cascella (February 2, 1921 – May 18, 2008) was an Italian sculpture, sculptor. His principal work consisted of large monumental sculptures, including the ''International Monument to the Victims of Fascism'' in the Auschwitz concentration camp#Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp in Poland (1957–1967), and an underground mausoleum for Silvio Berlusconi at his villa in Arcore in the 1980s. Life Cascella was born into a family of artists in Pescara on February 2, 1921. His father was Tommaso Cascella, a painter and ceramicist, and his mother was Susanna Federman. His elder brother was a sculptor. Two of his uncles were also artists, the painter Michele Cascella and painter and ceramicist Gioacchino Cascella, as was his grandfather, the painter, ceramicist, and lithographer Basilio Cascella. In 1945 he married Anna Maria Cesarini Sforza, an artist. From 1977 he lived with his second wife, , in the mediaeval in the comune of Fivizzano, above Carrara. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardino Of Siena
Bernardino of Siena, Order of Friars Minor, OFM (Bernardine or Bernadine; 8 September 138020 May 1444), was an Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of Scholasticism, scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his "bonfire of the vanities, bonfires of the vanities" established his reputation in his own lifetime; they were frequently directed against gambling, infanticide, sorcery/witchcraft, sodomy (male homosexuality), Jews, Romani people, Gypsies, usury, and the like. Bernardino was Canonization, canonised by Pope Nicholas V in 1450 and is referred to as "the Apostle of Italy" for his efforts to revive the country's Catholicism during the 15th century. Sources Two hagiographies of Bernardino of Siena were written by two of his friends; the one the same year in which he died, by Barnaba of Siena; the other by the humanist Maffeo Vegio. Another important contemporary biographical s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scafa
Scafa is a ''comune'' and town in the Province of Pescara in the Abruzzo region of Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b .... It has an exit of the motorway between Pescara and Rome. It’s lively center offers the surrounding communities many of the services that a bigger city would provide. Examples include a 24 hr Carrefour Market, two self service laundromats and a public pool. The two driving schools and multiple small shops offer a variety of products. Nearby the Parco Lavino offers amazing opportunities to connect to nature. The amazing high sulfur content of the pools above the historic mill vary in color from deep blue to aquamarine to cloudy pale baby blue. The nearby GlobuliGreen geodome offers a cool comfortable and meditative place to enjoy music, performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pescara
Pescara (; ; ) is the capital city of the province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo Regions of Italy, region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 118,657 (January 1, 2023) residents (and approximately 350,000 including the surrounding metropolitan area). Located on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coast at the mouth of the Aterno-Pescara, River Aterno-Pescara, the present-day municipality was formed in 1927 joining the municipalities of the old Pescara fortress, the part of the city to the south of the river, and Castellamare Adriatico, the part of the city to the north of the river. The surrounding area was formed into the province of Pescara. The main commercial street of the city is Corso Umberto I, which runs between two squares, starting from ''Piazza della Repubblica'' and reaching the seacoast in ''Piazza Primo Maggio''. The rectangle that it forms with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Via Nicola Fabrizi is home of the main shopping district, enclosed in a Road space ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Military Internees
"Italian Military Internees" (, , abbreviated as IMI) was the official name given by Germany to the Italian soldiers captured, rounded up and deported in the territories of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe in Operation Achse in the days immediately following the World War II armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces (September 8, 1943). After disarmament by the Germans, the Italian soldiers and officers were confronted with the choice to continue fighting as allies of the German army (either in the armed forces of the Italian Social Republic, the German puppet regime in northern Italy led by Mussolini, or in Italian "volunteer" units in the German armed forces) or, otherwise, be sent to detention camps in Germany. Those soldiers and officials who refused to recognize the "republic" led by Mussolini were taken as civilian prisoners too. Only 10 percent agreed to enroll. The others were considered prisoners of war. Later they were re-designated "military internees" by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
