Lisa del Giocondo Italian pronunciation: ; née Gherardini ; 15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542 was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany. Her name was given to the Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa’s life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to
John of Montecorvino or Giovanni da Montecorvino in Italian 1247–1328 was an Italian Franciscan missionary, traveller and statesman, founder of the earliest Latin Catholic missions in India and China, and archbishop of Peking. Contents 1Biography 2Legacy 3See also 4References 5Bibliography 6Further reading 7External links Biography Further information: Europeans in Medieval China John was born at Montecorvino Rovella, in what is now Campania, Italy. As a member of a Latin Catholic religious
Ugolino della Gherardesca 1220 – March 1289, Count of Donoratico, was an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander. He was frequently accused of treason and features prominently in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Contents 1Biography 2Literary afterlife 2.1Ugolino in Dante’s Inferno 2.2Ugolino and his children 2.3Ugolino in Borges 3Scientific analysis of the remains 4Notes 5Literature 6External links Biography In the 13th century, Italy
Sonia Gandhi Maino; born 9 December 1946 is an Indian politician. She is the president of the Indian National Congress, the left-of-centre political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998, seven years after the assassination of her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, a former Prime Minister of India,
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José Greco (December 23, 1918 – December 31, 2000) was an Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer known for popularizing Spanish dance on the stage and screen in America mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. Contents 1Background 2Career 3Death 4Filmography 4.1Film 5Sources 6References 7External links Background[edit] José Greco was born in Montorio nei Frentani of Italian parents, Paolo Emilio Greco and Maria Carmela
Andrea Fogli is an Italian interior and furniture designer based in Milan. His office, Andrea Fogli Studio, is known for the originality of its hotels, restaurants and private houses projects. Career[edit] Amongst the most important projects are: Riviera Golf Resort & Spa (2004) , Argentario Golf Resort & Spa (2007), Mondial Resort & Spa (2008) and private houses in Milan and Paris. Since 2006 he is designer and creative
Rosina Ferrario 1888–1959 was the first Italian woman to receive a pilot’s licence when she passed her test on 3 January 1913 at Vizzola, Lombardy, in a Caproni monoplane. She received Licence No. 203 from the Aeroclub of Italy. Biography[edit] Born into an affluent bourgeois family, Ferrario worked as a clerk. She was an avid sportswoman and mountain
Giovanni Falcone Italian: ; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992 was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 23 May 1992, Falcone was assassinated by
Giuseppe Donati 2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925 was the inventor of the classical ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator. Donati was born in Budrio. Legend has it that he created his first “little goose” (“ocarina” in Italian dialect) in 1853, aged 17, whilst still working as a brickmaker. His