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Academic advisors. Giovanni Antonio Magini. Conte Carlo Antonio Manzini (5 October 1600 – 1677) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. (His last name is sometimes given as Mangini or Mansini ). Manzini was one of the best scholars of astronomy and optics of his time. [1]
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni ( UK: / mænˈzoʊni /, US: / mɑːn ( d) ˈzoʊni /, Italian: [alesˈsandro manˈdzoːni]; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) [1] was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. [2] He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces ...
The Betrothed at Wikisource. The Betrothed ( Italian: I promessi sposi Italian: [i proˈmessi ˈspɔːzi]) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes, and significantly revised and rewritten until the definitive version published between 1840 and 1842. It has been called the most famous and ...
Rocco Schiavone is a widowed detective superintendent who has recently been transferred from his beloved Rome to Aosta in the Italian Alps for disciplinary reasons. While hating his new posting, Schiavone investigates crimes that disrupt the peaceful Aosta Valley, although he sometimes resorts to questionable methods when doing so.
Niccolò Ammaniti ( Italian pronunciation: [nikkoˈlɔ ammaˈniːti]) is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands (also published under the title The Crossroads ). He became noted in 2001 with the publication of I'm Not Scared ( Io non ho paura ), [2] a novel which was later made into a movie directed by ...
Antonio Scurati (born 25 June 1969) is an Italian writer and academic. A professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the IULM University of Milan, mass media scholar, and editorialist for the Corriere della Sera, Scurati has won the main Italian literary prizes. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for his novel ...
Portrait of Antonio Mancini by John Singer Sargent, c.1898. Mancini was born in Rome, Papal States, and showed precocious ability as an artist.At the age of twelve, he was admitted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied under Domenico Morelli (1823–1901), a painter of historical scenes who favored dramatic chiaroscuro and vigorous brushwork, and Filippo Palizzi.
Gianna Manzini (24 March 1896 – 31 August 1974) was an Italian writer whose Ritratto in piedi won her the Premio Campiello in 1971. It is a semi-autobiographical portrait of her father, an Italian anarchist. After several banishments for his political activities, her anarchist father was exiled to the small hilltop town of Cutigliano in 1921 ...