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| Cecilia Bartoli |
| One
may need more than half of one’s life to understand,
relish and praise the aura of Cecilia Bartoli. To come
out of the spell of her music it takes days and months
and still one long for more of the heavenly nectar of
her music. Yes we are discussing the beautiful and famous
mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. |
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| Renzo Piano |
| God
created this world and the living beings. Off all wonders
created by god not every time he has chiseled himself,
but has sent the artists and geniuses to make the wonders.
Renzo Piano the 1998 Laureate of Pritzker Architecture
prize is one such craftsmen of outer world, for the
creation he created demands the attention and respect
of the highest order in the field of architecture. |
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| Reinhold Messner |
| Reinhold
Messner is arguably the most famous name in mountain
climbing in history. He was born in South Tyrol in Italy
in the year 1944. Climbing since he was just five years
old, this 61-year old had the gumption to climb the
mighty Everest, solo and without oxygen in 1980. |
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| Sofia Loren |
| The
life story of Sofia Loren, one of the best-loved and
most phenomenal film stars of cinema, reads like a fairy
tale. Born with the tag of an illegitimate baby, in
a charity ward of a hospital in Naples on September
20, 1934, her childhood was anything but a bed of roses.
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| Enrico Caruso |
| Enrico
Caruso was born on February 25th, in the year 1873,
in Naples, Italy. Though his impoverished parents were
not to know it at that time, Lady Luck had already entered
their house with the birth of Enrico, the 18th child,
who along with his siblings were the last three to survive
out of twenty-one children. |
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| Benito Mussolini |
| This
world has seen lot many dictators and persons who changed
the world the way liked. Leaving apart the atrocities
and the marks of cruelties left by these dictators towards
humanity, it is very interesting to know the way they
achieved the zenith of power and then used it in all
possible way to dictate the nation to achieve their
goal. |
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| Silvio Berlusconi |
| Being
a businessman heading varied businesses is hard enough
for the toughest of people, but when one imagines handling
Prime Ministerial responsibilities as well, it all becomes
mind-boggling. |
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| Salvador E. Luria |
| Salvador
Edward Luria was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine at a formal ceremony on December 10, 1969.
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm,
Sweden awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
annually. |
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| Bernardo Bertolucci |
| “This
is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive
at the point at which one can live for films, can think
cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep
cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats,
sleeps painting”. |
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| Luciano Pavarotti |
| Luciano
Pavarotti, the prodigy who could charm angels with a
melodious voice…the tenor whose arias brought
forth nine effortless high Cs…a double Guinness
World record holder, one for receiving a record breaking
165 curtain calls and the other for the best selling
classical album, ‘In Concert’ by the Three
Tenors... |
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| Dr. Renato Dulbecco |
| The
Karolinska Institute in Stockholm awards the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine annually on December 10. From
1901 to date there have been five winners of Italian
descent. |
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| Giovanni Verga |
| Writing
is a noble profession of expression of thoughts and
ideas with the help of not only intellect, literary
expertise and subject knowledge but also with a gross
understanding of human life. |
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| Franco Modigliani |
| Franco
Modigliani is the most famous economist of Italian origin.
In 1985 he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
The Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel instituted
the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. |
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| Archimedes –
The Inventor |
| Give
me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will
move the world. These daring and bold words were quoted
by the genius whose contribution in the field of science
changed the entire world forever. Yes we are discussing
no other than the famous mathematician and scientist
Archimedes. |
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| Giulio Andreotti |
| The
boy who spent a hard childhood in Rome, brought up by
his mother under severe financial constraints, evolved
into Italy’s world-famous elder statesman and
can name several US Presidents and British Prime Ministers
among his personal friends. |
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| Eugenio Montale |
| Eugenio
Montale is one of the most famous Italian poets, prose
writer, editor and translator. He was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1975 at a formal ceremony on
December 10. The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded
annually by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. |
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| Neurologist Rita Levi
- Montalcini |
| The
Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awards the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It is awarded
annually on December 10 in Sweden, Stockholm. From 1901
there have been five winners of Italian origin who have
received this prize. |
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| Dario Fo |
| The
Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually on December
10 by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm. Since 1901 there
have been six winners of Italian descent. In 1997 Dario
Fo was the last Italian to receive this prestigious
prize. |
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| Noble Laureate Riccardo
Giacconi |
| Alfred
Nobel the founder of dynamite established the Nobel
Prize in 1901. It is awarded to person or persons who
have contributed to important modern discoveries and
inventions. |
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| Giulio Natta |
| Giulio
Natta has the singular honour of being the only Italian
up to date to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
From 1901 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The award consists
of a medal, a citation and a cash award. |
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| Daniel Bovet |
| Daniel
Bovet was a Swiss born Italian pharmacologist who was
awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine in 1957. He is the fifth Italian who has won
this prize awarded from 1901. |
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| Emilio Gino Segre |
| Emilio
Gino Segre was an Italian American physicist who was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 along with
Owen Chamberlain. The Nobel Prize in Physics had been
awarded to recipients from 1901. |
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| Mario Soldati |
| There
are very few people in this world who have the ability
and wish to show the immense creativity of imagination
in the form of jewels of words. |
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| Carlo Rubbia |
| The
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize
in Physics annually. To date there have been six winners
of Italian descent. Carlo Rubbia, who was born in Italy,
was awarded this prestigious prize along with Simon
van der Meer in 1984 for his contributions, which led
to the discovery of W and Z particles. |
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| Salvatore Quasimodo |
| Salvatore
Quasimodo was one of the most famous Italian poets of
the twentieth century. He was honoured with the prestigious
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959. |
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| Federico Fellini |
| Federico
Fellini is considered one of the top film directors
of all time, especially in Italy. His films highlighted
artistic fantasy and desire and the line between reality
and magic vanished in the scenes that he depicted in
his movies, thereby creating the surreal imagery that
many Italians, and in fact many playgoers around the
world, have come to relish. |
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| Camillo Golgi |
| Camillo
Golgi was the first Italian to have received the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. The Nobel Assembly
at the Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine. This prize has been awarded
annually from 1901. |
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| Guglielmo Marconi |
| In
1907 Guglielmo Marconi was the first Italian to receive
the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Nobel Prize in Physics
has been awarded annually from 1901 by the Royal Swedish
Academy of Science. It is awarded at a formal ceremony
held on December 10 at Stockholm, Sweden. |
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| Ernesto Teodoro Moneta |
| The
Nobel Prize is an international award, which is given
annually since 1901 for outstanding achievements in
Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature
and for Peace. In 1968 the Bank of Sweden instituted
a Prize in Economic Sciences in Honour of Alfred Nobel. |
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| Luigi Pirandello |
| Almost
all humans in this globe have a different set of mind
and every mind in different from the other in not only
the capacity but also in content thus creating the possibility
of enormous, never ending storehouse of creations. |
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| Giosue Carducci |
| Giosue
Carducci was the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize
in Literature. The Nobel Prize has been awarded from
the year 1901 and there have been six winners of Italian
descent. |
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| Enrico Fermi |
| Enrico
Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in the
year 1938 for his discovery of the existence of new
radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation
and also for his discovery of nuclear reactions brought
about by slow neutrons. |
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| Grazia Deledda |
| Grazia
Deledda was the first Italian woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Since 1901 she has been the only woman to win a Nobel
Prize in Literature. |
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| Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe
Maria Ferdinando Francesco |
| Luigi
Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco (January
29, 1873 – March 18, 1933), popularly called Luigi
Amedeo, Duke of Abruzzi, was an Italian mountaineer
and was the first to climb Mount Saint Elias in 1897. |
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| Gonzaga Family |
| One
of the well-known historical families of Renaissance
Italy is the Gonzaga family who ruled Mantua from 1328-1708.
Mantua, known to Italians as Mantova, is a city in the
Lombardy region of Italy and a capital also of a province
that goes by the same name. |
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| Isabella Rossellini |
An actor, a model, a businesswoman and a person who is passionate about wildlife conservation. That’s Isabella Rossellini for you. |
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