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Scarpa
Scarpa is an Italian surname It may refer to: *Andrea Scarpa (born 1987), Italian boxer *Antonia Scarpa, American filmmaker and musician *Antonio Scarpa (1752–1832), Italian anatomist and professor *Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978), Italian architect * Carola Scarpa (1971–2011), Brazilian actress and socialite * Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa, (1897–1946) an Italian magic realist painter * Daniele Scarpa (born 1964), Italian sprint canoer *David Scarpa, American screenwriter *Fernando Scarpa, director and actor * Francesco Scarpa (born 1979), Italian football player * Gino Scarpa (1924–2022), Italian-born Norwegian painter, printmaker and sculptor, and mountaineer *Gregory Scarpa Sr. (1928–1994), American capo and hitman for the Colombo crime family * Gregory Scarpa Jr. (born 1951), American capo for the Colombo crime family and informant on international terrorists *Gustavo Scarpa (born 1994), Brazilian footballer *Lawrence Scarpa (born 1959), American architect *Luke Joseph Sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Scarpa
Gregory Scarpa (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994) nicknamed the Grim Reaper and also the Mad Hatter, was an American caporegime and hitman for the Colombo crime family, as well as an informant for the FBI. During the 1970s and 80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. He is suspected by the FBI to have murdered at least 100 people over the course of his criminal career. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1993 for three murders, and died on June 4, 1994. Biography Scarpa was born to first-generation immigrants, Salvatore and Mary, from the small village of Lorenzaga of Motta di Livenza near Treviso, Italy. He was raised in the working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. As a child living in the Great Depression, Scarpa helped his father deliver coal throughout New York City. His older brother, Salvatore Scarpa, may have introduced Gregory to the Colombo crime family which he reportedly joined in the 1950s. In the 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the techniques of the artist and craftsman into ingenious glass and furniture design. Biography Scarpa was born in Venice. Much of his early childhood was spent in Vicenza, where his family relocated when he was 2 years old. After his mother's death when he was 13, he moved with his father and brother back to Venice. Carlo attended the Academy of Fine Arts where he focused on architectural studies. Graduated from the Accademia in Venice, with the title of Professor of Architecture, he apprenticed with the architect Francesco Rinaldo. Scarpa married Rinaldo's niece, Nini Lazzari (Onorina Lazzari). However, Scarpa refused to sit the ''pro forma'' professional exam administrated by the Italian Government after World War II. As a consequence, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Scarpa
Gustavo Henrique Furtado Scarpa (born 5 January 1994) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Nottingham Forest. Club career Fluminense Scarpa was born in Hortolândia, São Paulo, and played for Guarani, Santos, Paulínia, and Desportivo Brasil before joining Fluminense in 2012. He made his first-team – and Série A – debut on 1 June 2014, coming on as a late substitute for Rafael Sóbis in a 1–1 home draw against Internacional. Red Bull Brasil loan Scarpa was rarely used during the season, and was loaned to Red Bull Brasil on 22 December 2014. He scored his first senior goal for the latter side the following 11 February, netting his team's first in a 3–2 Campeonato Paulista away win against Bragantino; ten days later he added a further goal, scoring in a 2–2 home draw against São Bento. Breakthrough After featuring regularly, Scarpa returned to ''Flu'' in May 2015. He started to feature more re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Scarpa
Marc Scarpa (born September 25, 1969, in New York City) is an American entrepreneur, Executive Producer, producer and Film Director, director specializing in live participatory media. He is the executive board member and the founding New York Chair of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council and a recipient of the Marc A. Levey distinguished service award. Scarpa has received a Webby Award in 2010 for Best Event / Live Webcast for his work on the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, a Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, Cannes Bronze Lion for Branded Content and Entertainment for the X Factor Pepsi Digital Preshow and Xtra Factor App and fouSocial TV Awardsincluding Best of Show for X Factor Pepsi Digital Preshow and Xtra Factor App. Additionally, he has been a panelist for conferences such as NATPEX-Summit Digital Hollywood and Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Scarpa
Lawrence Scarpa (born October 28, 1959) is an American architect based in Los Angeles, California. He used conventional materials in unexpected ways and is considered a pioneer and leader in the field of sustainable design. Personal life Scarpa was born into a Jewish-Italian family in Queens, New York. After his mother's death from cancer in 1967, the family moved to Miami, Florida. As a child, Scarpa became interested in architecture while helping his father after school with small construction projects that his father undertook to supplement his regular income as a mailman. While on job sites with his father, Scarpa would often build little buildings made from construction debris and other small scraps of wood found there. This interest in making and construction has followed Scarpa his entire life. He is married to American architect Angela Brooks. Career In 1976, Scarpa's father moved the family to Winter Haven, Florida where he opened a restaurant. While working in the rest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Scarpa
Andrea Pio Scarpa (born 3 June 1987) is an Italian professional boxer. He held the WBC Silver light-welterweight title in 2016 and challenged twice for the European light-welterweight title in 2018 and 2019. Professional career Scarpa made his professional debut on 9 April 2011, scoring a fourth-round technical knockout (TKO) victory over Cristian Spataru in Biella, Italy. He went on to lose his next two fights by points decision (PTS) – against Carmine Tommasone in June and Vincenzo Finiello in July 2011 – before embarking on a six fight winning streak, after which he faced Nicola Cipolletta for the vacant Italian super-featherweight title. The bout took place on 27 July 2012 in Castel Volturno, Italy, with Scarpa capturing the Italian title via ninth-round knockout (KO). He scored a TKO win against Istvan Petrovics in a non-title fight in October before successfully defending his Italian title via TKO against Floriano Pagliara in January 2013. In his next fight he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Scarpa
Antonio Scarpa (9 May 1752 – 31 October 1832) was an Italian anatomist and professor. Biography Scarpa was born to an impoverished family in the frazione of Lorenzaga, Motta di Livenza, Veneto. An uncle, who was a member of the priesthood, gave him instruction until the age of 15, when he passed the entrance exam for the University of Padua. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Marc Antonio Caldani. Under the former, he became doctor of medicine on 19 May 1770; in 1772, he became professor at the University of Modena. For a time he chose to travel, visiting Holland, France and England. When he returned to Italy, he was made professor of anatomy at the University of Pavia in 1783, on the strong recommendation of Emperor Joseph II. His lectures were so popular with students that Emperor Joseph II commissioned Leopoldo Pollack to build a new anotamic theater, now called Aula Scarpa, inside the Old Campus of the University of Pavia. He remained in that post until 1804 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romano Scarpa
Romano Scarpa (September 27, 1927 – April 23, 2005) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics. Biography Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories. In the 1940s he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short titled ''E poi venne il diluvio'' and another one titled ''La piccola fiammiferaia'' (1953, based on Hans Christian Andersen's '' The Little Match Girl''), distributed in Italy together with Robert Aldrich's '' Attack!'' (1956). Right after that he stopped working in animation for a while and dedicated wholly to creating Disney comics. When in 1956 Italian editors had no more new Floyd Gottfredson's stories to reprint, he was given the responsibility to continue Gottfredson's stories about Mickey Mouse. Also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Scarpa
Fernando Scarpa, AKA Fernando J. Scarpa, (born in Milan, Italy) is an international award-winning director and actor. Film Fernando Scarpa is a graduate of the motion picture directing program at New School University of New York City. Since 2011 he teaches the ‘Directing Movies/TV Workshop’ and the 'Advanced Directing Workshop' at UCLA Extension Entertainment Studies in Los Angeles. His debut short film, ‘Brothers’, won Best Short, Best Screenplay and Best Directorial Debut Awards at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles and New York in 2006. In 2013 he produced together with Marco Beltrami the short movie ‘Band’, directed by Coleman Beltrami. In 2014 he wrote and directed ‘Doradus’, a short mystery drama on a modern ghost story. Fernando described it as a possible pilot episode for a TV series. ‘Doradus’, was nominated as 'Best Short' and was part of the Opening Night at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino Scarpa
Gino Scarpa (8 November 1924 – 4 December 2022) was an Italian-born Norwegian painter, printmaker, sculptor and mountaineer. Scarpa was born in Venice, where he also grew up, to inspector Silvio Scarpa and Linda Gaggio. He studied architecture in Venice, and printmaking in Malmö. He worked several years as mountain guide in the Dolomites, until he moved to Copenhagen in 1958, where he established himself as a full-time artist. He moved to Oslo in 1970, and became a Norwegian citizen in 1978. He is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with the painting ''Daggry'' from 1978, as well as prints. He is represented in the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo with the sculptures ''Signum'' (1972) and ''Bølge'' (1973). Scarpa died in Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Scarpa
David Scarpa is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the screenplays to ''The Last Castle'', the 2008 remake of ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' and ''All the Money in the World'', about the John Paul Getty III kidnapping, which was released in December 2017. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Early life He was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and raised in Tennessee and Connecticut before attending New York University's film program. Career Scarpa began writing features. In 2005, he began developing a remake of ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. Scarpa felt everything about the original film was still relevant, but changed the allegory from nuclear war to environmental damage because "the specifics of owwe now have the capability to destroy ourselves have changed." Scarpa noted the recent events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 informed his mindset when writing the screenplay. He scrapped Klaatu's speech at the conclusion of the story because "audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Scarpa
Renato Scarpa (14 September 1939 – 30 December 2021) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 85 films from 1969 to 2019. Scarpa died on 30 December 2021, at the age of 82. Selected filmography * ''St. Michael Had a Rooster'' (1972) * '' Don't Look Now'' (1973) * ''Giordano Bruno'' (1973) * ''Somewhere Beyond Love'' (1974) * ''Piedone a Hong Kong'' (1975) * '' Suspiria'' (1977) * '' An Average Little Man'' (1977) * '' Il mostro'' (1977) * ''Fun Is Beautiful'' (1980) * '' Men or Not Men'' (1980) * '' Ricomincio da tre'' (1981) * '' Buddy Goes West'' (1981) * ''West of Paperino'' (1981) * '' Spaghetti House'' (1982) * '' I'm Going to Live by Myself'' (1982) * ''A.D.'' (1985) * '' Via Montenapoleone'' (1987) * '' The Icicle Thief'' (1989) * '' Les secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelglück'' (1991) * '' Il Postino'' (1994) * ''Joseph'' (1995) * '' Roseanna's Grave'' (1997) * '' The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999) * '' The Son's Room'' (2001) * '' Palestrina - Prince of Music'' (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
