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Suor may refer to: *Suor Angelica, an opera by Puccini * Suor Emanuelle, a 1977 film *Suor Letizia, "The Awakening" (1956 film) * Suor Prudenza Cambi (d. 1601), Florentine nun artist * Suor Barbara Ragnoni (1448–1533), Italian artist *Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples *Sweat (novel), in *Suor Uyata The Suor Uyata (; ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The village of Andryushkino, a small inhabited locality of the Lower Kolyma District, is located to the SSE.Google Earth Kigilyakhs, rock fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suor Angelica
''Suor Angelica'' (''Sister Angelica'') is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as ''Il trittico'' (''The Triptych''). It received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918. Roles Synopsis :Place: A convent in Italy :Time: The latter part of the 17th century The opera opens with scenes showing typical aspects of life in the convent. Sister Angelica and two lay sisters - Sister Genovieffa and Sister Dolcina - are late for chapel. All the sisters sing hymns, the Monitor chides Sisters Genovieffa and Dolcina for not doing penance as Sister Angelica has done, and everyone gathers for recreation in the courtyard. The sisters rejoice because, as the mistress of novices explains, this is the first of three evenings that occur each year when the setting sun strikes the fountain so as to turn its water golden. This event causes the sisters to remember B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suor Emanuelle
''Sister Emanuelle'' (Italian: ''Suor Emanuelle'') is a 1977 exploitation film. It can be classified under both the nunsploitation and sexploitation exploitation film subgenres. It is part of the long running Black Emanuelle series of films starring Laura Gemser. Plot Renouncing her sinful past, Emanuelle becomes a nun and moves into a convent, which also acts as an all-girl boarding school. Sister Emanuelle is eventually sent to pick up new student Monika, the daughter of a rich Baron. On a train back to the monastery, Monika tries to seduce Emanuelle. To do this, Monika lies about being previously raped by three men (whom she actually slept with willingly). When Monika kisses Emanuelle, the latter rejects her advances. In the middle of the night, Emanuelle wakes up and notices Monika missing. Emanuelle eventually finds her felating a man in the neighboring room. Ashamed, Emanuelle leaves without ever commenting on it. At the boarding school, the lecherous Monika freaks out aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suor Letizia
''The Awakening'' (, also known as ''When Angels Don't Fly'') is a 1956 Italy, Italian comedy drama film directed by Mario Camerini. For this film Anna Magnani was awarded with her fifth Nastro d'Argento, Silver Ribbon for Nastro d'Argento Best Actress, best actress. Plot Sister Letizia, after having worked in African missions, is sent to close a convent on an island in the Gulf of Naples and, as soon as she arrives at her destination, she successfully undertakes to obtain good offers for the sale of the land of the convent. Here he meets a boy named Salvatore whom he grows fond of. With great skill then, Sister Letizia goes beyond the task entrusted to her and undertakes to avoid the closure of the convent, and to reopen the kindergarten that the nuns once held; thus the sale is upset. During his stay he becomes more and more fond of little Salvatore, fatherless, whose mother plans to get married for a second time. Her boyfriend, however, has no intention of taking Salvatore into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suor Prudenza Cambi
Suor Prudenza Fiammetta Cambi (died 1601) was a Florentine nun and artist during the sixteenth century at Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, Italy. She has been identified as one of Plautilla Nelli’s artistic ‘disciples.’ Early life and background Prudenza Cambi came from a wealthy and noble family from the Florentine Drago neighborhood in the San Giovanni Quarter. She was the daughter of Filippo di Francesco Cambi and Maria di Francesco della Fonte. Her grandfather, Francesco di Guido Cambi, signed a petition in 1497 supporting Savonarola. Francesco di Guido Cambi held political office as a member of the Buonomini in 1501 and the Priori in 1504. Like her great-aunt, Suor Filippa di Bartolomeo Corsini, Prudenza entered the convent of Santa Caterina da Siena. Religious Life and Art Historian Catherine Turrill suspects that while Plautilla Nelli Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Renaissance painter of Florenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suor Barbara Ragnoni
Suor Barbara Ragnoni (1448–1533)Nouvelles sources et nouvelles méthodologies de recherche dans les études sur les femmes, Harmattan, 2004 was an Italian artist for whom only one work remains extant. Her signed painting, ''The Adoration of the Shepherds'', is now in the Pinacoeteca of Siena. The style of the painting, with its warm colors, is very much in keeping with the late quattrocento style. References * ''Women Painters of the World''Page 35 Italian women painters Year of birth unknown 15th-century Italian painters 15th-century women artists 1448 births 1533 deaths Nuns and art {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suor Orsola Benincasa University Of Naples
The Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples () is a private university located in Naples, Italy. It was founded in 1895, named after the venerable sister Ursula Benincasa and is organized into 8 departments. Organization The university is divided into 8 departments * Education * Law * Literature, Letters * Economics * Archaeology * Art History * Psychology * Social Sciences Pagliara Museum The school also administers the art collection of the Pagliara Foundation, established in 1947. Since the museum's inauguration in 1952, its collection has supported the school's educational and research activities. Works are organized chronologically and presented in the cells of the nun's cloister, with each representing the esthetic vision of a brief period from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The collection is open by appointment to those unaffiliated with the University. References 1895 establishments in Italy Universities and colleges established in 1895 {{Italy-university-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweat (novel)
''Sweat'' ( Portuguese: ''Suor'') is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1934. It has yet to be translated into English. Background ''Sweat'', Jorge Amado's third novel, was written in Rio de Janeiro in 1934, when he was 22 and an active communist supporter. The next year, the book was translated into Russian and published in Moscow, along with '' Cacau'', his second work. ''Sweat'' is directly linked to the author's personal experience. In 1928, at just sixteen, he took a small room in the Pelourinho (in Salvador, Bahia), where he could witness the daily lives of the men and women forced to live in cramped conditions. In a Postface to his book, '' Captains of the Sands'', Amado wrote that ''Sweat'' was the third work in the six-novel cycle he called "The Bahian Novels" in which he had tried to set down the "life, the customs, the language of my State". He described ''Sweat'' as exposing "the most failed aspect of the State, creatures who have already los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
