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Renzo Pezzani
Renzo Pezzani (4 June 1898 – 14 July 1951) was an Italian poet and writer. Biography He was born in Parma on 4 June 1898. After graduating as a primary school teacher, he became a teacher in the early 1920s and began writing. He founded the magazine ''Difesa artistica'', and also collaborated with other magazines such as the ''Giornale del Balilla'', ''Cuor d'Oro'' and '' Corriere dei Piccoli''. In his copious production there are numerous volumes of texts for children and for elementary schools, poems in the Italian language and Parmesan dialect, and lyrics for musical works. He translated from French the novel ''Le Signe sur les Mains'' by the Catholic writer Émile Baumann. In 1926 he gave up teaching due to political problems. He died in Castiglione Torinese on 14 July 1951. He is buried in Parma, in the Villetta cemetery. Works * ''Ombre'' (verses), Parma, M. Fresching, 1920. * ''Artigli'', Parma, Eto, 1923. * ''La Stella verde, storia d'un ragazzo e d'un sogno'' (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donnino Pozzi
Donnino Pozzi (1894 – 1946) was an Italian painter, known for his still-life works, but also sacred subjects, frescoes, and even portraits. Biography He moved to Parma with his mother as a boy. In 1917, he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Parma as a pupil of Daniele de Strobel. But soon stopped studies. He went on to collaborate with Carlo Casanova in some fresco decorations for the Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua. In 1928, he travelled to Milan, then moved to Milan, where he lived until 1940, when he moved back to Parma. He painted canvases for the church of San Vitale and Santa Cristina in Parma, Bibliography * R. Lasagni, ''Dizionario biografico dei Parmigiani''. ed. PPS, Parma 1999 * Baldassarre Molossi, ''Dizionario biografico dei parmigiani grandi e piccini'', Parma 1957 * Gazzetta di Parma ''Gazzetta di Parma'' is a daily newspaper published in Parma, Italy. It is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the country. History and profile ''Gazzetta di Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresching
Fresching was an Italian publishing house based in Parma. History The publishing house was founded in Parma, Emilia Romagna, Italy, by Mario Fresching. Mario Fresching was the most important typographer in Parma in his day. Politically, Fresching was initially a socialist, then an interventionist leading up to Italy's entry into World War I, and finally one of the founders of the fascio of Parma in 1919. In 1941 Fresching printed an anthology of young authors, including a number of local writers who would go on to leave a mark on the culture of the city of Parma. It published works by authors such as Renzo Pezzani, Francesco Salata, Pietro Giordani Pietro Giordani (January 1, 1774 – September 2, 1848) was an Italian writer, classical literary scholar, and a close friend of, and influence on, Giacomo Leopardi. Biography Born in Piacenza, Giordani originally set out to become a monk. But ..., Ferdinando Bernini, Giuseppe Balestrazzi, Giovanni Copertini, Luigi Sorrento, Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Parma
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Deaths
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, '' J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper '' L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latino Barilli
Latino Barilli (1883 – 1961) was an Italian painter. Latino was born in Parma, son of the painter Cecrope Barilli, who became director of the Parmesan Academy of Fine Arts The Accademia di Belle Arti di Parma (Academy of Fine Arts of Parma) is an artistic institution in the city of Parma, Italy. It is presently located in a wing of the Palazzo della Pilotta in the center of the city. History The Academy originated ... in 1889. Latino had a retrospective exhibition at the Galleria Nazionale di Parma in 1963. catalogue curated by Roberto Tassi. References 1883 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its shorter length, the operetta is usually of a light and amusing character. It sometimes also includes satirical commentaries. "Operetta" is the Italian diminutive of "opera" and was used originally to describe a shorter, perhaps less ambitious work than an opera. Operetta provides an alternative to operatic performances in an accessible form targeting a different audience. Operetta became a recognizable form in the mid-19th century in France, and its popularity led to the development of many national styles of operetta. Distinctive styles emerged across countries including Austria-Hungary, Germany, England, Spain, the Philippines, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. Through the transfer of operetta among different countries, cultural cosm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Baumann
Émile Baumann (24 November 1868 – 24 November 1941) was a French writer. Biography Baumann was born in Lyons in 1868. He was descended from a Lutheran family converted to Catholicism. In Algiers he met Saint-Saëns, and devoted his first work to him. He was directly involved in the ''Catholic Literary Renaissance'' movement, alongside such people as François Mauriac, Paul Claudel and Pierre Reverdy. Sister Mary Keeler, in her ''Catholic Literary France'' says that of all French novelists of the time Baumann was perhaps the most completely Catholic. He was awarded the ''Prix Balzac'' in 1922 for his novel ''Job le Prédestiné''.Sheen, Fulton J. (2009). ''Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen.'' New York: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, p. 134. In 1931 he married the engraver and artist Elisabeth de Groux, daughter of Belgian painter Henry de Groux. He died in Vernègues Vernègues (; oc, Lo Vernegue) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône ''dépa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parma
Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 inhabitants, Parma is the second most populous city in Emilia-Romagna after Bologna, the region's capital. The city is home to the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world. Parma is divided into two parts by the stream of the same name. The district on the far side of the river is ''Oltretorrente''. Parma's Etruscan name was adapted by Romans to describe the round shield called '' Parma''. The Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci (born in a hamlet in the countryside) wrote: "As a capital city it had to have a river. As a little capital it received a stream, which is often dry", with reference to the time when the city was capital of the independent Duchy of Parma. History Prehistory Parma was already a built-up area in the Bronze Age. In the curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmesan Dialect
The Parmigiano dialect, sometimes anglicized as the Parmesan dialect, (''al djalètt pramzà n'') is a variety of the Emilian language spoken in the Province of Parma, the western-central portion of the Emilia-Romagna administrative region. Terminology The term ''dialetto'', usually translated as ''dialect'' in English, is commonly used in reference to all local Romance languages native to Italy, many of which are not mutually intelligible with Standard Italian and all of which have developed from Vulgar Latin independently. Parmigiano is no exception and is a variety of Emiliano-Romagnolo, not of Italian. Classification Parmigiano is a subdialect of Emilian, which is itself a dialect of the Emiliano-Romagnolo language, which is identified as "definitely endangered" by UNESCO. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility among the various Emilian-Romagnol dialects. Emiliano-Romagnolo is part of the Gallo-Italic family, which also includes Piedmontese, Ligurian, and Lom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corriere Dei Piccoli
The ''Corriere dei Piccoli'' ( Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones"), later nicknamed ''Corrierino'' ("Little Courier"), was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995. It was the first Italian periodical to make a regular feature of publishing comic strips. Publication history ''Corriere dei Piccoli'' was established in 1908. The first issue (24 pages, 80,000 copies) was published on 27 December 1908, with Silvio Spaventa Filippi as editor-in-chief. It was founded by Luigi Albertini. The magazine was formally a supplement for children of ''Corriere della Sera'', but it was also sold separately for 0.10 lira Its upmarket rival ''Il giornalino della Domenica'', founded in 1906, sold for two and a half times the price. At its acme, the magazine sold 700,000 copies. By 1970 the magazine started having financial difficulties due to rising costs and competition by other magazines and comics books. Feeling that the quaint name was partly to blame, on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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