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Lazzaro
Lazzaro is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Lazzaro Baldi ( – 1703), Italian Baroque painter *Lazzaro Bastiani (1429–1512), Italian Renaissance painter *Lazzaro Calamech, 16th-century Italian painter and sculptor * Lazzaro Calvi (1512–1587), Italian Renaissance painter *Lazzaro Cattaneo (1560–1640), Italian Jesuit missionary *Lazzaro Donati (1926–1977), Italian painter *Lazzaro Mongiardini, Italian mathematician *Lazzaro Morelli (1619–1690), Italian Baroque sculptor *Lazzaro Pasini (1861–1949), Italian painter *Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799), Italian Roman Catholic priest, biologist and physiologist *Lazzaro Vasari (1399–1468), Italian painter Surname *Anthony Lazzaro (other), multiple people *Carol Lazzaro-Weis (1949–2022), American professor of Italian and French *Eva Lazzaro (born 1995), Australian actress *Leandro Lázzaro (born 1974), Argentine footballer *Marc Lazzaro (born 1955) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Lazzaro-Weis
Carol Marie Lazzaro-Weis (December 11, 1949 – February 26, 2022) was an American scholar of Romance languages. She was a professor of French and Italian at Southern University from 1984 to 2003, and at the University of Missouri from 2003 to 2017. From 2009 to 2015, she was president of the American Association for Italian Studies. Early life and education Carol Marie Lazzaro was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Domenic J. Lazzaro and Marie Caruso Lazzaro. She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1967, earned a bachelor's degree in French from the Pennsylvania State University, and completed a master's degree in French from Villanova University. She earned a second master's degree in Romance languages from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed doctoral studies in Romance languages in 1978, at the University of Pennsylvania. Career Lazzaro held teaching posts at Louisiana State University, University of Maryland, and Southern University (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy As Lazzaro
''Happy as Lazzaro'' ( it, Lazzaro felice) is a 2018 Italian drama film written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where Rohrwacher won the award for Best Screenplay. Plot On an estate called Inviolata, isolated since 1977, 54 farmhands work on a tobacco farm in a sharecropping arrangement, where they are constantly in debt and thus unpaid. The farm is run in a feudal manner by the notorious Marchioness Alfonsina De Luna, "Queen of Cigarettes". Lazzaro is a worker on the farm who dutifully follows every command given to him by the Marchioness, her son, Tancredi, and the estate manager. Tancredi befriends Lazzaro and decides to fake his own kidnapping to aggravate his mother and get some of her money. Tancredi and Lazzaro set out in the wilderness and badlands, where they write a false ransom note and bond with each other. They imitate a wolf's howl to make contact with a lone wolf roaming the cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Lazzaro Spallanzani (; 12 January 1729 – 11 February 1799) was an Italian Catholic priest (for which he was nicknamed Abbé Spallanzani), biologist and physiologist who made important contributions to the experimental study of bodily functions, animal reproduction, and animal echolocation. His research on biogenesis paved the way for the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation, a prevailing idea at the time that organisms develop from inanimate matters, though the final death blow to the idea was dealt by French scientist Louis Pasteur a century later. His most important works were summed up in his book ''Experiencias Para Servir a La Historia de La Generación De Animales y Plantas'' (''Experiences to Serve to the History of the Generation of Animals and Plants''), published in 1786. Among his contributions were experimental demonstrations of fertilisation between ova and spermatozoa, and ''in vitro'' fertilisation''.'' Biography Spallanzani was born in Scandian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbano Lazzaro
Urbano Lazzaro (November 4, 1924 – January 3, 2006) was an Italian resistance fighter who played an important role in capturing Benito Mussolini near the end of World War II. Lazzaro was born in Quinto Vicentino in the Veneto region. As a young man, he joined the Italian Guardia di Finanza before the war. When Italy's alliance with Germany collapsed in 1943, Lazzaro was among many Italian officials arrested by the Germans. Lazzaro escaped from German detention and joined the communist partisans in northern Italy. By April 27, 1945, he was serving as the political commissar of the 52nd ''Garibaldi'' Partisan Brigade. At Dongo, troops of the brigade had halted a convoy of German trucks trying to escape into Switzerland. A partisan became suspicious of an older "German" in a greatcoat, wearing glasses, and with his helmet pulled down over his head. Upon having the man brought to his attention, Lazzaro immediately recognized him as the former ''Duce''. Lazzaro was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazzaro Baldi
Lazzaro Baldi ( – 30 March 1703) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome.The idea of artist's death and his burial in the Italian seventeenth century in "Rivista d'arte", V ser., 2016 - a.51, n. 6 (2018), pp. 185-212 Biography Study Baldi was born in Pistoia around 1624. He is initially believed to have been a pupil of a little known Francesco Leoncini in his native city. Attracted by the fame of his fellow Tuscan |
Lazzaro Donati
Lazzaro Donati (January 8, 1926 - 1977) was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Studio Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazzaro Vasari
Lazzaro Vasari (1399–1468), also known as Lazzaro Taldi and as Lazzaro di Niccolò de' Taldi, was an Italian painter who was born in the Province of Arezzo. His father was a potter, as was Lazzaro Vasari’s son, Giorgio Vasari I. The painter Luca Signorelli (1441–1523) was Lazzaro Vasari’s nephew, and the art historian Giorgio Vasari was his great-grandson. Lazzaro Vasari’s best-known work is the fresco of Saint Vincent Ferrer in the Basilica of San Domenico in Arezzo, Italy. He died in Arezzo in 1468 and was buried at the Chapel of San Giorgio in the same city. References * Bénézit, Emmanuel, ed., Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Originally published 1911-1923, Paris, Librairie Gründ, 1976. * Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker, editors, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Reprint of 1907 edition, Leipzig, Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1980-1986. * Vasari, Giorgio, ''Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazzaro Morelli
Lazzaro Morelli (1619 – 1690) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. Born in Ascoli Piceno, the son of the Florentine sculptor Fulgenzio Morelli, who also trained Lazzaro's cousin, the artist Giuseppe Giosafatti. Lazzaro initially came to Rome to work under ''Francesco Fiammingho'' (François Duquesnoy), but left that studio to work under Bernini. He participated in Bernini's Funereal Monument for Pope Alexander VII Chigi, found in St. Peter's Basilica. He also was responsible for the ''Angel with the scourge'', based on a sketch by Bernini; this is one of the angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome. He is said to have sculpted the horse and the lion for Bernini's ''Fountain of the Four Rivers'' in Piazza Navona. Lazzaro also sculpted the statue of ''Benignity'' for the tomb monument of Clement X in St. Peter's. The tomb was designed by Mattia de' Rossi (1684) and the other sculptors who worked on this project were Ercole Ferrata (who sculpted the pope) and Giuseppe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazzaro Pasini
Lazzaro Pasini (1861–1949) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, but also some genre works. by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 356-357. Biography A pupil of engraver Romualdo Belloli in , the city of his birth, Lazzaro Pasini moved to after obtaining a scholarship to study at the Academy. He ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazzaro Cattaneo
Lazzaro Cattaneo (Sarzana, Italy, 1560 - Hangzhou, China, 19 January 1640), (), was an Italian Jesuit missionary who invented the first tone markings for Chinese transcription. Early life Cattaneo was born into a noble family at Sarzana, near Genoa, Italy. In 1581, he entered the Collegio di S Andrea of the Society of Jesus in Rome. He removed to Portugal in 1585 where he completed his training and was ordained in 1587. He sailed for the Portuguese colony of Goa, in India, on 1 April 1588, and, by 1589, became superior of the mission at Fishery Coast. Chinese mission Cattaneo joined Matteo Ricci in Shaoguan (formerly Shaozhou), Guangdong, in 1594, after first having spent a year in Macao. He had originally been headed for Japan but was redirected to Macao by the Society of Jesus' Visitor in the Indies, Alessandro Valignano. He accompanied Ricci on his first trip to Peking, arriving on 7 September 1598 in hopes of establishing a mission there, but failed to gain an imper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Lazzaro
Eva Lazzaro is an Australian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Caylin-Calandria in the 2006 film ''Jindabyne'' and Stacey in the 2009 film ''Blessed''. Biography Her first role was a guest spot in the television series ''Blue Heelers'' in 2002. She has also had minor parts in '' Underbelly'' and '' Nightmares and Dreamscapes''. She has a main role as Gigi Kovac in the drama '' Tangle'' and a recurring role as Zoe in the children's show ''The Elephant Princess''. Lazzaro has been nominated for a 2010 TV Week Logie Award, for a Graham Kennedy Award for Outstanding New Talent, and also for an ASTRA award in a similar category. Lazzaro debuted as a director with the short film ''Alice's Baby'', based on her own experience with her mother's miscarriage. The film's entrance into Tropfest Tropfest is the world's largest short film festival. It has also become known as the world's first global film festival. Founded by actor/director John Polson, Tropfest beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Loren
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( , ), is an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest female stars of Classical Hollywood cinema. As of 2022, she is one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and is the only remaining living person to appear on the AFI's list of the 25 greatest female stars of American film history, positioned at number 21. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age sixteen in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include ''The Pride and the Passion'', ''Houseboat'', and ''It Started in Naples''. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
