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Sicilian born actor/writer/director was very popular with European audiences, but largely unknown to the west apart from his portrayal of the villainous SPECTRE agent "Emilio Largo" in the spectacular James Bond film Thunderball (1965). However, due to his heavy accent, Celi's voice was dubbed by Robert Rietty. Two years later Celi popped up in the appalling James Bond spoof Operation Kid Brother (1967) starring Neil Connery brother of Sean Connery.
Additional to his many film appearances in Italian productions, Celi spent many years on stage in South America to very positive reviews, and directed three films made in South America, Caiçara (1950), Tico-Tico no fuba (1952)_ and L'Alibi (1969)_.
He passed away on February 19th 1986 from a heart attack.- Gianna Maria Canale was born on 12 September 1927 in Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy. She was an actress, known for Clash of Steel (1962), Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) and Dead Woman's Kiss (1949). She was married to Riccardo Freda. She died on 13 February 2009 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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He grew up in Normandy. After finishing primary school, Dior moved with his parents to Paris, where he attended the Ecole de Sciences Politiques. After graduating from high school and training as a diplomat, Dior opened an art gallery in Paris in 1928, which quickly made a name for himself in the city's select art circles. Dior was also artistically active with numerous drawings and illustrations. From 1931 onwards, he created his first fashion creations in the form of hat sketches commissioned by the magazine "Le Figaro Illustré". In 1937, Dior expanded his field of activity to design the first women's models (costumes, coats, shoes). In 1938, Dior became a designer at "Piquet" and in 1940 he moved to "Lelong" as chief designer. After German troops invaded France in 1940, the designer fled to southern France from the occupiers until the end of the war in 1945.
With the financial help of a wealthy friend of the Boussac family, on December 16, 1946, he moved into a studio on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, where the flagship store of the Dior brand is still located today. His first collection was published on February 12, 1947. Shortly afterwards, Dior founded his own fashion house under the label "Christian Dior", which launched the perfume "Miss Dior" on the market that same year. He celebrated his greatest successes in the same year with his design of the "New Look" in America. The "New Look" term was coined by Carmel Snow, the editor-in-chief of "Harpers Bazaar" at the time. These creations consisted of feminine, figure-hugging dress tops with round shoulders and a wide, swinging skirt. Furthermore, Dior set completely new accents with color-coordinated accessories, such as a delicate hat and cane umbrella, which made him the groundbreaking couturier of his time. The "New Look" designs became popular under the name "Ligne Corolle" or "Bellflower Line".
After these successes in the USA, Dior founded "Christian Dior New York Inc." in 1949, which was also represented at ready-to-wear shows in Paris under this name. In the same year, 1949, the designer also presented his first fashion show in Hamburg. From 1947 to 1950 he employed Pierre Cardin as a tailor. In 1951 he introduced the "Dior" trademark for worldwide distribution of his production under license. Dior made the young Yves Saint Laurent his assistant in 1953. In 1955 Dior founded "Christian Dior London Ltd." into life. After the "New Look" a changed line appeared every season. The "Tulip Line" was created in 1953 to 1954, the "H Line" in 1954 to 1955, the "A Line" in the summer of 1955 and the "Arrow Line" in 1956 to 1957. In April 1957 he was the first fashion designer to appear on the cover of the US "Time Magazine". Dior was considered the most influential couturier in the world.
After a heart attack, Christian Dior died on October 24, 1957 in the Italian spa town of Montecatini at the age of just 52. Saint Laurent posthumously became Dior's successor as chief designer of the House of Dior in 1957.- Guido Mannari was born on 13 December 1944 in Rosignano Marittimo, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Caligula (1979), The Decameron (1971) and Il medium (1980). He died on 10 August 1988 in Rosignano Marittimo, Tuscany, Italy.
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Lindsay Kemp was born on 3 May 1938 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Wicker Man (1973), Velvet Goldmine (1998) and Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders (1970). He died on 25 August 2018 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.- Director
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Helmut Käutner was born on 25 March 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Captain from Köpenick (1956), The Last Bridge (1954) and The Rest Is Silence (1959). He was married to Erica Balqué. He died on 20 April 1980 in Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy.- Lisa Martinek studied acting at the Hamburg University for Music and Theatre from 1993 to 1997. During that time she also performed at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and acted in several TV and film productions. From 1997 to 2001 she was a member of the Schauspielhaus Leipzig, engagements with Schauspiel Frankfurt and Deutsches Theater Berlin followed. For her role as bike courier Lena in the movie Trial by Fire (Härtetest) she was nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis, the highest German movie award, in 1998. She was also nominated for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award) in the category Best Lead for her work in the made-for-TV movie Jagd auf den Flammenmann. She starred alongside Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz in the 2007 made-for-TV remake of Helmut Käutner's Die Zürcher Verlobung and played the role of Juliane, which, in the original 50 years prior, had been played by Lilo Pulver. From 2006 to 2011 she starred as inspector Clara Hertz alongside Charlotte Schwab in the ZDF crime series Das Duo. Lisa Martinek lives with her husband Giulio Ricciarelli and their children in Berlin and Munich.
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The son of Italian theatre critic Antonio Cervi, Gino Cervi was one of the most famous Italian actors, first on stage, then on screen and finally on television. He appeared in his first play in 1924, a year after his father's death. He won world fame with three movies directed by Alessandro Blasetti: Aldebaran (1935), Ettore Fieramosca (1938), and An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939). After the WWII, his film career flourished, and then on television, he found new fame as Inspector Jules Maigret in a series of TV Movies based on the novels of Georges Simenon.- Carlo Collodi was born on 24 November 1826 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany [now Tuscany, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), Pinocchio (2022) and Pinocchio (1940). He died on 26 October 1890 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Odette Bedogni was born in Bracciano 25th of September in 1929. when she was 8 years old, she entered at ballet school of Scala and remained for 7 years, appearing in various ballet as "La bottega fantastica" (Gioacchino Rossini) and "La bella addormentata nel bosco" (Ciakovsky). She started to work in cinema with the nickname Delia Scala after the second world war. The director Luigi Zampa considered she had a simple smile and a good girl face and he gave her an important character in the movie "Anni difficili". With her lively and nervy body she appeared in a lot of films. In 1954 Delia debuted in theatre with Carlo Dapporto in "Giove in doppiopetto" and with Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini in "L'adorabile Giulio" (1957), "Buonanotte Bettina" (1956), "My fair lady" (1964) and "Rinaldo in campo" (1966). 1956 was the year in that she appeared with Nino Taranto in variety show "Lui e Lei". In 1959 and 1960 she presented "Canzonissima" in conjunction with Nino Manfredi and Paolo Panelli, directed by Antonello Falqui and in 1969 came "Delia Scala story". In the 70s she was with Lando Buzzanca in "Signore e Signora".
Scala had breast cancer and difficulties following this meant she did not resume her career. In 2001 her partner, Arturo Fremura, died of liver cancer, leading her to fresh despair. The undisputed Queen of TV variety shows, Delia Scala died at 74 years old on 15th of January 2005, in her home in Livorno. - Actor
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For French art film lovers, Giorgio Albertazzi appeared out of nowhere and literally fascinated them in Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's unidentified object known as Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Elegant, seductive, with a hypnotizing Italian accent, he tried to persuade an elegant, seductive woman speaking in a singsong voice that he had been her lover the year before in the same luxury hotel ... The lady, the marvelous 'Delphine Seyrig'did not seem to remember him. And life imitating art, it looked as if Giorgio Albertazzi, despite a haunting presence in a haunting film would also return to oblivion immediately after the release of this atypical movie; The man of one film? Of course not. He did make others in his native country, but mainly minor unpretentious works, nothing on a par with Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Obviously, cinema has helped the actor to keep body and soul together, nothing more. His contribution to Italian television is more ambitious, either as an actor, a scriptwriter or a director. His best role on the small screen may be Dostoievsky's moving Prince Miskin in Giacomo Vaccari's remarkable mini-series L'idiota (1959). He also interpreted Dante Alighieri and Don Giovanni in two interesting TV films or series directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. And wearing the three hats of actor (as Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde), writer (adapting Robert Louis Stevenson and director, he was very successful with Jekyll (1969). However, Albertazzi's main activity and great love has always been the stage. An actor since 1949 and still active after all these years, he debuted in William Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" under the direction of Luchino Visconti. Since then he has performed in scores of plays by Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman, Gabriele D'Annunzio, among others. Into the bargain, this great name of the Italian theatre has been running a dramatic school from the mid-nineties as well as the Teatro di Roma since 2003. All in all, Giorgio Albertazzi did not come out of nowhere when Alain Resnais, a director who has always loved actors, chose him for being X the stranger in Last Year at Marienbad (1961). And he did not return to oblivion either. Just ask Italian theatre lovers if they have forgotten him and you will see!- Actress
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This colorful diva of the Metropolitan Opera was one of several who jumped on the operatic bandwagon during the 1930s to achieve film stardom. Following her prima donna peers Jeanette MacDonald, Lily Pons and Grace Moore to the silver screen, Gladys' turnout would be meager and a major disappointment. Born in Deepwater, Missouri, an Ozark mining town, in 1900 (some sources give the years 1898 and even 1904), Gladys was schooled in Kansas City. A delicate and sickly child, her singing talents were robust, however, and she showed great promise at an early age. A local church soloist by age 13, she attended the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago where she received a Doctorate of Music in 1923. She joined the Chicago Civic Opera Company the following year where she learned over 22 roles. Training and performing in Europe in the late 20s, she made her Metropolitan debut in 1929 with "La Gioconda". As one of the Met's finest mezzos, her vast repertoire (25 in all) would include "Norma", "Peter Ibbetson", "La Forza del Destino", "Mignon" and, notably, "Carmen", which would become her signature role. While MGM had a lucrative commodity in MacDonald, RKO was busy grooming Pons and Columbia was putting Moore on glossy display. Paramount, in turn, courted and recruited the lovely, brown-eyed Gladys for their operettas. Rather docile and slightly meek in countenance, she nevertheless signed a lucrative deal and her publicity was quite the envy. She made an ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful debut in dual roles with Rose of the Rancho (1936). Not only playing a Spanish senorita, she was handed the role of "Don Carlos", the masked vigilante leader, due to her reputation on the operatic stage for playing "trouser" roles. Opposite John Boles, the film died fairly quickly at the box office. Things did not get better. Give Us This Night (1936) fizzled despite a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and a strong leading man in Polish tenor Jan Kiepura, who managed to outshine her. Champagne Waltz (1937) lacked both fiery songs and an engaging script. The mediocre Romance in the Dark (1938), which paired her again tritely with Boles, top-lined a declining John Barrymore. But it was the dull, non-singing melodrama Ambush (1939) that clinched her final cinematic curtain. Radio, on the other hand, was a superlative medium for Gladys. She was a vibrant guest on a number of programs and had her own show in New York City, singing everything from arias to spirituals to standards. She was named the #1 classical radio singer throughout the war years with sold-out recordings and concert tours to match. It would take something tragic to stop this workhorse diva and that's exactly what happened. Having survived rheumatic fever as a child, she developed life-threatening heart problems in later years and, following major surgery to repair a valve, was forced into retirement by 1957. Her personal life was, thankfully, quite blissful. Her second husband was opera singer Frank Chapman, who gave up his own career to manage hers. In the twilight years, they divided their time between a Connecticut home and a villa in Italy. Chapman died in 1966 and Gladys, who remained childless, died of her heart ailment three years later.- Writer
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Italo Calvino was born on 15 October 1923 in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba. He was a writer, known for Boccaccio '70 (1962), Ti-Koyo e il suo pescecane (1962) and L'amore difficile (1962). He was married to Esther Judith Singer. He died on 19 September 1985 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.- Aldo Berti was born on 29 February 1936 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for A Stranger in Town (1967), Born to Kill (1967) and Night of Violence (1965). He died on 26 December 2010 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Giovanni Boccaccio was born in June 1313 in Certaldo, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Little Hours (2017), Decameron n° 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio (1972) and Decameron Nights (1953). He died on 21 December 1375 in Certaldo, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Antonio Monselesan was born on 2 August 1941 in Tripoli, Italian Libya. He was an actor, known for Cry of Death (1968), Ordine firmato in bianco (1974) and Convoy Buddies (1975). He died on 25 February 2015 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
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Tonino Cervi was born on 15 June 1929 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer and writer, known for Il quaderno della spesa (2003), Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968) and The Girls Who'll Do Anything (1975). He died on 1 April 2002 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.- Director
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Under the direction of Vittorio De Sica, Carlo Battisti left a remarkable mark in cinema history as the lead character in Umberto D. (1952), an Italian Neo-Realist classic about an elderly man who wanders through Rome with his dog Flike while trying to survive the Italy of post WWII. He was born on 10 October, 1882 in Trento - then an Austro-Hungary territory that later became part of Italy during the war years.
He wasn't an actor by trade, in fact, he was a Linguistic professor. At the age of 70, De Sica discovered Battisti and chose him for the lead role in Umberto D. (1952), who didn't want a professional actor for the role, wanting to give a more realistic approach to the story just like Rossellini did with his films in the late 1940's. Battisti received excellent reviews and praise from audiences who loved his heart-breaking performance and his memorable scenes with his loyal companion, the cute dog Flike.
After the movie, Battisti never appeared on another movie and returned to teaching until his retirement some years later. He died in 1977, aged 94.- Muriel Spark was born on 1 February 1918 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was a writer, known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), The Driver's Seat (1974) and Teletale (1963). She was married to Sidney Oswald Spark. She died on 13 April 2006 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Fiamma Breschi was born on 24 April 1934 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for Desiderio 'e sole (1954) and In amore si pecca in due (1954). She died on 21 November 2015 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Leopoldo Fregoli (1867-1936) was one of the first vaudeville actors who used film in his acts. Fregoli was famous for his rapid transformation acts, in which he did impersonations of famous artistic and political characters. In 1898 he bought a Cinematographe from the Lumière brothers and started to show shorts, named Fregoligraph, as part of his stage act. They were recordings of his transformation acts.- Costume Designer
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Anna Anni was born in 1926 in Marradi, Tuscany, Italy. She was a costume designer, known for Tea with Mussolini (1999), Otello (1986) and Callas Forever (2002). She died on 1 January 2011 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.- Producer
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Paul R. Picard was born on 17 July 1930 in Natick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for The Dukes of Hazzard (1979), CBS Summer Playhouse (1987) and Enos (1980). He was married to Louise Latham and Juliette. He died on 3 October 1994 in Tuscany, Italy.- Actor
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Gregor von Rezzori was born on 13 May 1914 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]. He was an actor and writer, known for Unter den Sternen von Capri (1953), Der liebe Augustin (1960) and Man nennt es Amore (1961). He was married to Beatrice Monti della Corte, Priska von Tiedemann and Hanna Axmann. He died on 23 April 1998 in Donnini, Reggello, Tuscany, Italy.- Costume Designer
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Marcella De Marchis was born on 17 January 1916 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was a costume designer and art director, known for Django (1966), Le fils de Tarass Boulba (1962) and Oci ciornie (1987). She was married to Roberto Rossellini. She died on 25 February 2009 in Sarteano, Tuscany, Italy.- Composer
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Along with Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Charles Aznavour and Jean Ferrat, Léo Ferré is a legend in french music. He was one of the best singer-songwriter in France, writing and performing memorable titles (Paris-Canaille, Paname, Jolie môme, Vingt ans, Thank You Satan, Quartier Latin, C'est extra, Avec le temps...) and putting into music the greatest french poets (Aragon, Appolinaire, Baudelaire, Verlaine).- In 1575 Galileo moved to Florence with his parents. He returned to Pisa in 1581 to study mathematics, where he studied until 1585. At the Florentine Accademia del Disegno he became acquainted with the writings of Archimdes and in 1586 constructed a hydrostatic balance. In 1589 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa and in 1592 at the University of Padua. In his precision engineering workshop he developed a proportion compass, found the laws for the string pendulum and derived the fall laws. His daughters Virginia and Livia were born in 1600 and 1601 and his son Vincenzo in 1591 in 1606. Galileo, who was enthusiastic about natural science, excelled in astronomical studies in 1606 following the appearance of a new star. For this purpose, in Padua he further developed a telescope that had been built in Holland, with the help of which he was able to demonstrate the structure of the Milky Way and the surface of the moon.
In January 1610 he discovered the first four moons of Jupiter, which he named "Medicea Sidera" in honor of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo II de' Medici. This discovery was significant because Jupiter's gravitational system led the researcher to gradually develop his theory of the solar-centered planetary system. After Galileo returned to Florence in July 1610, in the same year the Grand Duke of Tuscany appointed him the first mathematician and philosopher in the state for his astronomical research. His astronomical research results, which now also included sunspots and the ring of Saturn, were received by scientific and religious-philosophical experts, sometimes with extreme skepticism and sometimes with enthusiasm. In particular, Galileo came into conflict early on with the discovery of ever new celestial phenomena, particularly with Aristotelian philosophy, which was based on the perfection and immutability of the cosmos.
His scientific findings were initially recognized by the Catholic Church. In 1611, on the occasion of his visit to Pope Paul V, Galileo saw himself accepted into the Roman "Academia dei Lincei" and honored by the papal scholars. However, his research into the solar system led to far-reaching consequences for the religious-philosophical world view of the time: Galileo gained a heliocentric model of the world from this, which was based on the scientific knowledge that the planets revolved around the sun and therefore not the Earth but the sun was the center of the solar system system. In doing so, he demonstrated for the first time through scientific and astronomical observations and research a theory that had been developed and published by Nicholas Copernicus since 1514. As his teaching, which was in clear contradiction to the geocentric worldview of the Bible, became increasingly widespread, the Catholic authorities became increasingly concerned.
In 1615, a Dominican monk denounced Galileo as a heretic at the Congregation of the Sacred Uffizi in Rome, i.e. H. at the Papal Inquisition Court. In 1616, the Inquisition court condemned the Copernican doctrine as an error. Galileo was forbidden from further disseminating it, and Nicholas Copernicus's 1543 treatise was placed on the index of forbidden literature. In the following years, which Galileo Galilei spent in Florence until 1631 and then in nearby Arcetri, he adhered to the commandment imposed on him, but devoted himself increasingly to the refutation of Aristotelian-scholastic physics. During this time, one of his most witty writings, the "Saggiatore" (Tester with the Gold Scales), was written. As a result of the change of pope (Urban VIII), in 1632 he was able to obtain initial ecclesiastical approval to publish another work, the "Dialogue on the two principal world systems, the Ptolemaic and the Copernian". Soon afterwards, however, the Jesuits banned the publication.
In the same year, Galileo was again summoned before the Roman Inquisitorial Court, which sentenced him on June 22, 1633 to renounce the disputed doctrine. The prison sentence imposed on him was converted into banishment by Pope Urban VIII a few months later. The legend is considered historically controversial, according to which Galileo immediately after the forced renunciation said "And it (the earth) moves!" would have insisted on the validity of the Copernican theory of the Earth revolving around the fixed star, the Sun. Galileo spent the following years in exile on his estate in Arcetri near Florence, where he continued the research he had begun earlier in the areas of mechanics, motion and gravity. It was not until 1638 that he achieved a partial relaxation of the banishment sentence so that he could also stay in Florence. In 1634 his dearest daughter Virginia died. Another stroke of fate struck him in the same year t because he became blind and could only continue his work to a limited extent.
Galileo Galilei died on January 8, 1642 at the age of 77 in Arcetri and was buried in Santa Croce, the Church of the Holy Cross, in Florence.
It took the Catholic Church more than a century to recognize the teachings of Copernicus and Galileo in 1757 and to remove their works from the index of banned books. It was only under Pope John Paul II in 1992/93 that she acknowledged the miscarriage of justice that had once been committed with the rehabilitation of both scholars. In recent research, the theory is increasingly being put forward that Galileo was condemned at the time because of his deviation from the Tridentine doctrine of the Eucharist. Galileo and René Descartes founded a new age of scientific teaching through a change in method. He doesn't ask the "why" of a process but rather the "how." - Tino Schirinzi was born on 12 August 1934 in Taranto, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Chopin (1982), Un certo Harry Brent (1970) and Paganini (1976). He was married to Daisy Lumini. He died on 18 August 1993 in Barberino di Mugello, Tuscany, Italy.
- Luisa Pasello was born on 4 October 1957 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for La Venere di Willendorf (1997), Smalltown, Italy (2005) and La vita altrui (2000). She died on 7 October 2013 in Volterra, Tuscany, Italy.
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Paolo Rossi was born on 23 September 1956 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for Lucignolo (1999), See You in Montevideo (2014) and Paolo Rossi: A Champion Is a Dreamer Who Never Gives Up (2020). He was married to Simonetta Rizzato and Federica Cappelletti. He died on 9 December 2020 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.- Franco Silva was born on 18 February 1920 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Hannibal (1959), The Tough and the Mighty (1969) and The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961). He died on 11 November 1995 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.
- Germana Paolieri was born on 29 August 1906 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Dream of Butterfly (1939), The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938) and La Wally (1932). She was married to Tramarallo, Piero. She died on 8 August 1998 in Montecatini, Tuscany, Italy.
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Robert Katz was born on 27 June 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Salamander (1981), Il caso Moro (1986) and Kamikaze 89 (1982). He was married to Beverly Gerstel. He died on 20 October 2010 in Montevarchi, Tuscany, Italy.- Director
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Jerzy Grotowski was born on 11 August 1933 in Rzeszów, Podkarpackie, Poland. He was a director and actor, known for Akropolis (1969), Spoleto 1967 (1967) and Camera Three (1955). He died on 14 January 1999 in Pontedera, Tuscany, Italy.- Laura Pestellini was born on 27 April 1919 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), Don Matteo (2000) and Sedotta e bidonata (2007). She died on 23 November 2010 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Marcello Marziali was an actor, known for Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), I delitti del BarLume (2013) and Pinocchio (2019). He died on 1 December 2023 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.
- Howard Pyle was born on 5 April 1853 in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He was a writer, known for The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), World Fairy Tale (1994) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (2018). He died on 9 November 1911 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Carlo Monni was born on 23 October 1943 in Campi Bisenzio, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Capri (2006), 10 ragazze (2011) and I delitti del BarLume (2013). He died on 19 May 2013 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Lia Angeleri, stage name of Rosalia Angeleri was a theater actress, film actress and Italian television actress. Born in Genoa Sampierdarena district, she debuts in the show, such as a row Genoese violinist in an orchestra, who will leave soon to arrive to prose, first in a dramatic society of her hometown and then in various theater companies including those of Emma Gramatica and Renzo Ricci, to arrive at the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, directed by Strehler, which will act in different representations. Various investments in radio and television prose of Rai, since the beginning of the experimental television broadcasts, both dramas and comedies that in the years 50 and 60. She died still young, at age 47, in 1969.
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Andrea Frazzi was born in 1944 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Andrea was a director and writer, known for A Children's Story (2004), Il cielo cade (2000) and Il fascino dell'insolito (1980). Andrea died on 3 May 2006 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.- Lina Cavalieri was born on 25 December 1874 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Manon Lescaut (1914), The Eternal Temptress (1917) and The Two Brides (1919). She was married to Lucien Muratore, Robert W. Chanler, Giovanni Campari and Aleksandr Beriatinskij. She died on 7 February 1944 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Giancarlo Bigazzi was born on 5 September 1940 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), Mediterraneo (1991) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He was married to Gianna Albini. He died on 18 January 2012 in Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.- Lilia Landi was born on 24 August 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for The White Sheik (1952), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956) and Il Grido (1957). She died on 9 July 2019 in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy.
- Born into a time of extreme political upheaveal, Niccolò Machiavelli was a member of the old Florentine nobility. He received a proper humanistic Renaissance education, and as a young man began the climb up the perilous political ladder of Italy. In 1502 he was sent to Romagna as an envoy to Cesare Borgia, the infamous papal prince and despot who would later influence Machiavelli's political philosophy. The return of the Medici dynasty in 1512 resulted in Machiavelli's downfall. He lost his office and was imprisoned and tortured before finally being banished from Florence. It was during his exile that Machiavelli wrote his most famous work, "Il Principe (The Prince)", a handbook of sorts for autocratic rulers. Though his sympathies lay with republicanism, he was first and foremost intensely pragmatic, a quality which did not endear him to later, more idealistic, generations.
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Cesare Barbetti was born on 29 September 1930 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for Cinema Paradiso (1988), Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and The Affairs of Messalina (1951). He died on 13 September 2006 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.- Nikolai Romanov was born on 26 September 1922 in Cap d'Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was married to Sveva della Gherardesca. He died on 15 September 2014 in Tuscany, Italy.
- Gino Bechi was born on 16 October 1913 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Come Back to Sorrento (1945), Music on the Run (1943) and The Lovers (1946). He died on 2 February 1993 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Franco Freda was born on 6 January 1925 in Foligno, Perugia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Divorce Italian Style (1961), Avanti! (1972) and A Bay of Blood (1971). He died on 8 January 2019 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy.- Writer
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Jacques Mayol was born on 1 April 1927 in Shanghai, China. He was a writer, known for The Big Blue (1988), Ushuaïa, le magazine de l'extrême (1987) and Gaia Symphony II (1999). He died on 22 December 2001 in Capoliveri, Tuscany, Italy.- Arnold Böcklin was born on 16 October 1827 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for The Isle of the Dead (1913) and Bir Resim Bir Hikaye (2019). He was married to Angela Pascucci. He died on 16 January 1901 in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy.