| Famous people with Sardinian Ancestry (but not born in Sardinia) | |
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| Scarletnight | Oct 15 2013, 12:38 AM Post #31 |
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| Enigma | Oct 15 2013, 12:43 AM Post #32 |
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Orazio Satta Puliga![]() Orazio Satta Puliga (October 6, 1910, in Torino - March 22, 1974, in Milan) was an Italian automobile designer known for several Alfa Romeo designs, of Sardinian ancestry. He studied mechanical engineering (1933) and aeuronautical engineering (1935) at the Politecnico di Torino and joined the design department of Alfa Romeo (March 2, 1938), working under the direction of Wifredo Ricart. Satta followed Ricart as head of design (1946), overseeing the 158 and 159, Alfa Romeo 1900, Alfa Romeo Giulietta, Alfa Romeo Giulia, Alfa Romeo Montreal and Alfa Romeo Alfetta. He later became central director (1951) and finally general vice president (1969–73), before retiring due to Brain Cancer. |
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| Raingirl | Oct 20 2013, 04:04 PM Post #33 |
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Aligi Sassu ![]() Aligi Sassu (July 17, 1912 – July 17, 2000) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Biography Aligi Sassu was born in Milan, Lombardy, from Lina Pedretti, from Parma, Lombardy, and Antonio Sassu, from Sassari, Sardinia. His father Antonio was one of the founders of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano) at Sassari in 1894, and had moved to Milan in 1896, where he had married Lina Pedretti in 1911. At the beginning of 1920, the Sassu family moved back to Sardinia to Thiesi, where Antonio opened a shop. After three years, the family returned to Milan, where Aligi got interested into arts. Together with friend and Futurist designer Bruno Munari, he decided to present himself to the Futurism leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. In 1928, he established, along with Bruno Munari, the Manifesto della Pittura (Painting Manifesto), taking as basic assumption the display of anti-naturalistic forms. He deeply studied Diego Velázquez and the plastic nude. Of this period is L'Ultima cena, a painting that sums up Sassu's visual poetic. In 1930, in Milan, he met Giacomo Manzù, Giandante X (also known as Dante Persico) and Giuseppe Gorgerino. In 1934, Sassu started studying Delacroix and the history paintings of the Louvre in Paris. In this period he also painted what will be his "logo" in the future, the horse, omnipresent in his future production. In 1935, he established the Gruppo Rosso with, among others, Nino Franchina and Vittorio Della Porta. In 1936, he finished one of his most known paintings Il Caffè, as well as the Fucilazione nelle Asturie, painted in favour of the Spanish resistance. He joined the anti-fascist cultural movement of Corrente di Vita in 1938. After the Spanish Civil War, he started studying Vincent van Gogh and moved back to Sardinia for some time. During this period, several paintings were dedicated to the Sardinian rural life. He also studied mural painting. In 1963, he moved to the Balearic Islands, to Cala San Vicente then to Majorca, to the village of Pollença, Palma, Spain. In 1967, the cycle Tauromachie was presented by the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti. Red became Sassu's favourite colour. In 1976, he worked for the frescoes of Sant'Andrea in Pescara. In 1964, the Spanish period begins, Sassu bought a house in Majorca, in Cala San Vicente. Sassu focused on Bull Fightings and on landscapes of the island, besides the mythological themes, which he deepened through the use of the acrylic technique. From this year on he lives between Majorca and Italy, and in 1967 he moved to Monticello Brianza. In 1973, he created scenes and costumes of the Sicilian Vespers for the reopening of èTeatro Regio in Turin, and was dedicated a room in the Gallery of Modern Art in Vatican City. In 1976 he completed two mosaics for Saint Andrea in Pescara. In 1977 he moved to Can Marimon in Pollença. In 1982, he received the acknowledgment "The Man who Made Milan Great" and presented fifty eight watercolours he had made in 1943 as an illustration to Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed. In 1986, he completed 113 works inspired by the Divine Comedy, three of which were purchased by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In 1993, he completed "Miti del Mediterraneo", a ceramic mural of 150 square meters for the new building of the European Parliament in Brussels. The following year he presented Manuscriptum, a folder with engravings shown in Sweden at the itinerant exhibition "The bridges by Leonardo". In 1995, he exhibited at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bergamo and he is nominated Cavaliere della Gran Croce by the Italian president. In 1996 three hundred sixty two works, created between 1927 and 1996, were donated to the city of Lugano, founding the Aligi Sassu and Helenita Olivares Foundation is created. On 17 July 1999, the day of the artist's eighty-seventh birthday, a big anthological display was opened in Palazzo Strozzi at Florence. He died on his birthday, in 2000, at Pollença. |
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| Pearl | Nov 6 2013, 06:16 PM Post #34 |
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Melissa Satta![]() Melissa Satta (born February 7, 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is a television presenter, communications expert and former athlete. She spent her youth in the island of Sardinia, land of origin of her parents. She was a showgirl in the Italian satirical series Striscia la notizia. Satta has appeared in Maxim magazine and was featured in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Satta lives and works in Italy. Biography Satta was born to ethnic Sardinian parents, Mariangela Muzzu and Enzo Satta, on February 7, 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She has spent the early years of her childhood living in both the U.S. and in Sardinia. Satta's father, Enzo Satta, is an architect and he was a Sardinian government and central government politician in politics of Sardinia and political consultant and business partner to Prince Aga Khan IV from 1986 until 2003, in which he politically represented Costa Smeralda and was responsible for the architectural planning of Costa Smeralda in Sardinia. Satta has two brothers; an older brother, Riccardo, a business incubator and entrepreneur resident in the Principality of Monaco, and a younger brother, Maximilian. After graduating from high school in the United States; Satta graduated with a doctorate degree from the faculty of Communication studies at the private university IULM. Satta has a history of sports, having practiced both women's football, where she played for the women's team of Sardinian Helena Quartu formally of the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione and karate, with which she was a Sardinian karate champion and was both a Sardinian Karate Championships bronze medalists and an Italy Karate Championships gold medalists. Satta began working in the fashion industry at age 16 in 2002, and the following year (2003), at 17, she was among the finalists of the beauty contest Miss wall (edition 2003), and obtaining the title of Miss extreme. In 2005, she began working as an communications expert and television presenter in the Italian television program Mio fratello è Pakistano, which was starred by presenter Teo Mammucari on Canale 5. In the same year she was appointed as spokesperson for the advertising of TIM. She appeared on the Italian television program Striscia la notizia from years 2006 to 2007 and 2007 and 2008. In 2006, Satta featured in numerous Mediaset television programs, such as Judge Mastrangelo 2, as well as a minor part in the Italian movie Bastardi. In the fall of 2006, Satta paraded the catwalks in Milan's fashion spring / summer 2007 to the Pin Up Stars collection. In the summer of 2007, she starred in the MTV Italy program the last part of Total Request Live, along with Alessandro Cattelan, and also presented on Fashion TV and the Italian The White Party Fashion TV satellite channel. In the autumn of 2008, alongside Teo Mammucari, Satta presented the Italian quiz-show First and last, which was inspired by an English format of Endemol UK, and was broadcast on Rai 1 in Italy. At the beginning of 2009, Satta became advertising protagonist of the commercials of Peugeot 107 Sweet Years and in September 2009, Satta replaced the Chilean model Maria Jose Lopez, on the role of the female face of the Italian talk show Controcampo on Rete 4. In 2009, Satta television presented for Victoria's Secret. In February 2010, Satta featured in the magazine Sports Illustrated for the special year dedicated to swimwear (Sports Illustrated Magazine Swimsuit Issue) for a photo shoot that "wearing" a body painting representing the top of the Italy national football team.[9] Throughout 2010, Satta presented Italian television show episodio pilota along with presenter Platinette;aired on Sky Italy. Also in 2010, Satta appeared on the June 2010 cover of the Maxim. In June 2011, Satta lead presented the scientific program Insideout (Tutti pazzi per la scienza); aired on Rai 2.[11] In December of 2011, Satta featured on talk show Kalispéra! along with television presenters Pamela Prati and Alfonso Signorini; aired on Canale 5.[12] Throughout 2011, Satta was selected as the testimonial and commercials endorser of different multi-national brands such as Nike and Nicole (luxury fashion and jewelry company of Nicole Miller). In May 2012, Satta featured on television program Punto su di te! presented with Elisa Isoardi; aired on Rai 1. On 23 January 2012, Satta began filming episodes throughout 2012 and into 2013 of Intitolata Amici a letto sitcom by Comedy Central Italy subdivision Comedy Central. In September 2013, Melissa Satta and Rafael Benítez together were appointed as presenter of Italy sports program TikiTaka on Italia 1, Mediaset Italia and which will see Satta together with Rafael Benítez; the world renowned Spanish manager of Italian giants S.S.C. Napoli presenting together through to May 2014. |
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| Pearl | Nov 30 2013, 02:09 PM Post #35 |
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Annalisa Piras![]() Annalisa Piras is an Italian journalist, film-maker and communications advisor. She wrote, produced and directed the acclaimed film documentary " Girlfriend in a Coma". She was the London Correspondent for L'Espresso 1997-2011 and for La7 TV for six years. In 2006-2007 she was the first Italian president of the London Foreign Press Association. She is a regular member of the BBC Dateline London panel. She also provided analysis on European and Italian Current Affairs for The Guardian. As a political and social commentator she frequently appears on BBC News, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera and CNBC. Her BBC Radio 4 documentary The Italian Patient was shortlisted as the FPA Best Story of the Year by a UK-based foreign correspondent. Her TV documentary on the Hutton Enquiry, written and directed for La7 TV, was shortlisted for the same award in 2003. As EU senior editor, she was part of the initial team which launched Euronews, the pan-European multilingual news television channel, on 1 January 1993 in Lyon, France. In 2011–12 she produced, co-wrote and directed the first independent feature documentary on Italy seen from abroad, Girlfriend in a Coma, co-written and narrated by Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist, inspired by his book Good Italy, Bad Italy (Yale University Press). In 2012 Annalisa Piras produced, co-wrote and directed the first independent feature documentary on Italy as seen from abroad, Girlfriend in a Coma, working with Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist, as co-author and narrator.The film was made by Springshot Productions. The documentary is inspired by Emmott’s book Good Italy, Bad Italy (Yale University Press), as well as by Piras’s patriotic passion and insight about the country she left in the early 1990s. The film aims to introduce Italians and the World to the dark side of the country's political, economic and social decline, the product of a moral collapse in the West. It was broadcast on BBC Four, Sky Italia and La7 TV channels early in 2013, and subsequently on other channels worldwide as well as in public screenings. The “Girlfriend in a Coma” title is a citation of a British musical hit by The Smiths from their album Strangeways (1987). |
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| Raingirl | Dec 8 2013, 05:19 PM Post #36 |
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Aurelio Galleppini![]() Aurelio Galleppini (b. August 28, 1917, Casale di Pari – d. March 10, 1994, Chiavari), better known with his nickname Galep, was an Italian comics artist and illustrator. Aurelio Gallepini was born in Tuscany from sardinian parents. Galep is the graphic creator of Tex Willer, whose adventures he drew for more than 40 years. Other illustrators alternated with him on the pages of this popular comic book. He also illustrated all the covers of the regular series from the 1st issue in 1948 until issue #400 in 1994. Tex Willer ![]() Tex Willer is the main fictional character of the Italian comics series Tex, created by writer Gian Luigi Bonelli and illustrator Aurelio Galleppini, and first published in Italy on 30 September 1948. It is among the most popular characters of Italian comics, with translations to numerous languages all around the world. The fan base in Brazil is especially large, but it is very popular also in Finland, Norway, Turkey, Croatia, France, the southern state of Tamilnad in India and Spain. The Tex Willer series is an Italian-made interpretation of the American Old West, inspired by the classical characters and stories of old American Western movies. Tex is depicted as a tough guy with a strong personal sense of justice, who becomes a ranger (even if living in Arizona) and defends Native Americans and any other honest character from exaction and greed of bandits, unscrupulous merchants and corrupt politician and tycoons. Native Americans are portrayed in a complex way, emphasizing positive and negative aspects of their culture. The same can be said of the American authorities, like the US Army, the politicians, the business-men, the sheriffs or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Tex had a son, named Kit Willer (who would become a ranger too), with a Native American woman, named Lilyth, the daughter of a Navajo Chief (she would later die of smallpox). Later, Tex himself went on to become the Chief of the Navajo tribe. Tex is not only featured in a monthly comic book series, but also in a special series called Tex Albo Speciale (sometimes called Texone, meaning big Tex, because of their bigger size). The Texone have around 240 pages and some artists known outside the Tex universe have been involved, like Jordi Bernet, Joe Kubert and Ivo Milazzo. |
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| marco80 | Dec 28 2013, 04:42 AM Post #37 |
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Francesco Renga![]() Pierfrancesco Renga (born June 12, 1968 in Udine, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the Sanremo Music Festival (the main popular Italian song contest) in 2005 with the song Angelo. He also took part to Sanremo Music Festival in 2009 with Uomo senza età and in 2012 with La tua bellezza. His father is sardinian. Album 2001 Francesco Renga (ITA #46) 2002 Tracce (ITA #6 - Platinum 100,000+) 2004 Camere con vista (ITA #4 - 2X Platinum 200,000+) 2007 Ferro e cartone (ITA #1 - Platinum 120,000+) 2009 Orchestraevoce(ITA #7 - Platinum - 100,000+) 2010 Un giorno bellissimo (ITA #7 - Gold - 30,000+) 2012 Fermoimmagine Edited by marco80, Dec 28 2013, 04:43 AM.
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| Angioy | Dec 31 2013, 06:42 PM Post #38 |
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Corrado Augias![]() Corrado Augias (born 26 January 1935) is an Italian journalist, writer and TV host. He was also a member of the European Parliament in 1994–1999 for the Democratic Party of the Left. Born in Rome, Augias became popular in Italy as host of several shows dealing with mysteries and cases of the past, such as Telefono giallo and Enigma. His current show is Le storie. Diario italiano, aired in the morning by Rai 3. As writer, Augias issued a series of crime novels set in the early 20th century and others. His other works include several essays about peculiar features of the world's most important cities: I segreti di ("The Secrets of...") Rome, Paris, New York and London. In 2006, in collaboration with scholar Mauro Pesce, he published a work dealing with the gospel's description of the life of Jesus (Inchiesta su Gesù), which was a bestseller in Italy. This work received a succinct response from Pietro Ciavarella and Valerio Bernardi in their Risposta a Inchiesta su Gesù (Edizioni GBU, 2007). As a journalist, Augias worked for La Repubblica, L'Espresso and Panorama. He has also been a playwright. He is an atheist. |
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| Scarletnight | Feb 13 2014, 07:54 PM Post #39 |
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Claudia Loy![]() She was elected Miss Cinema in 2009, she was born in Rome. |
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| caesium | Feb 14 2014, 01:42 AM Post #40 |
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Mario Pisu![]() Mario Pisu (Montecchio Emilia, 21 May 1910 – Velletri, 17 July 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1935 and 1976. Partial Filmography
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