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Famous Sardinians; This is a list of famous people born in the island of Sardinia
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Rossana Ghessa


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Rossana Ghessa (born in Carbonia 24 January 1943) is an actress from Sardinia, and a naturalized Brazilian. She appeared in 43 films between 1966 and 1996.
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Carmen Melis

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Carmen Melis (15 August 1885 – 19 December 1967) was an operatic soprano who had a major international career during the first four decades of the 20th century. She was known, above all, as a verismo soprano, and was one of the most interesting singing actresses of the early 20th century. She made her debut in Novara in 1905 and her career rapidly developed in her native country over the next four years. From 1909-1916 she performed with important opera companies in the United States; after which she was busy performing at many of Europe's most important opera houses. From 1917 until her retirement from the stage in 1935 she was particularly active at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome and at La Scala in Milan. After her singing career ended, she embarked on a second career as a voice teacher. Her most notable student was soprano Renata Tebaldi.
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Paolo Lodde

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Paolo Lodde aka DUSTY KID was born in the first half of the decade of the 80’s in Cagliari, Sardinia. As a new “enfant prodige” he immediately showed his natural attitude for the variegated “music world”. At 10, after just one year of private lessons of the basic notions of piano and violin, he was admitted directly to the 6° year of the piano course in the conservatory of his native city. DUSTY KID started to manipulate synthesizers, samplers and sequencers, and he realized that one passion was growing and growing: the ardor for arranging and producing his own compositions. He released his first single “I Found A Reason” at 19 on the English label Lowered Recordings. During 2004 that Dusty Kid creates the project Duoteque with DJ Andrea Ferlin and releases numerous EPs on Boxer Recordings and the tracks were immediately included in the DJ sets of some of the most important names, like Richie Hawtin, Tiefschwarz, Ricardo Villalobos, Domenic Eulberg, Sven Vath and Magda. After the Duoteque experience Paolo decides to take his own way and to release his own productions as DUSTY KID.
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Anna Tifu

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Anna Tifu was born in Cagliari, Italy on January 1st, 1986. Under the guidance of her father, she began studying the violin at the age of six, and graduated from the Cagliari Conservatorium at the age of fifteen with a Diploma, having acheived full credits, as well as a Special Mention Award. Anna has also studied with the pedagogue Salvatore Accardo since the young age of eight, and has attended courses at the W. Stauffer Academy in Cremona.

Ms. Tifu began her professional career very early at the age of eleven when she made her solo debut with the National des pays de la Loire Orchestra, and toured through France, earning an invitation to perform at the Tenth International Mozart Festival at Rovereto as soloist with the Orchestra Haydn of Bolzano & Trento, going on to make her debut at the Scala in Milan, playing Bruch's First Violin Concerto at the age of twelve.

Her active career as soloist and chamber musician includes solo performances with the Philharmonic of the Nation, the Toscanini Symphony Orchestra, the Romanian Symphony Orchestra "P. Constantinescu di Ploiesti". the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra of Miskolc, the Piemonth Youth Orchestra, the Essen Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Chamer Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Opera House of Cagliari, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest.

Her ability to keep a massive repertoire at her fingertips at any given day is one of her talents. Her current repertoire includes concerti by: Viotti, Rode, Spohr, Viextemps, Mozart, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Wieniawski, Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Paganini, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. Her sonati include: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Franck, Ravel, Prokofiev, and Ysaye, as well as the complete 24 Caprices by Paganini.

Her latest mentors as Aaron Rosand and Pamela Frank, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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Franco Solinas

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Franco Solinas (19 January 1927 - 14 September 1982) was a sardinian writer and screenwriter.
He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers which was nominated for the Academy Awards.


Filmography

Hanna K. (original scenario) / (written by)
1976 Mr. Klein (written by)
1975 Il sospetto
1972 L'amerikano (original scenario) / (written by)
1972 L'assassinio di Trotsky (uncredited)
1969 Queimada (screenplay) / (story)
1969 Tepepa (screenplay) / (story)
1968 Il mercenario (story)
1966 Quién sabe? (adaptation and dialogue)
1966 La resa dei conti (story)
1966 La battaglia di Algeri (story - as F. Solinas) / (written by)
1965 Le soldatesse (screenplay)
1962 Una vita violenta (screenplay)
1962 Salvatore Giuliano
1961 Madame Sans-Gêne
1961 Vanina Vanini (adaptation)
1960 Kapò
1960 Ombre bianche (adaptation)
1957 La grande strada azzurra (novel "Squarciò") / (screenplay)
1957 La rosa dei venti (Documentary) (segment "Giovanna")
1957 I fidanzati della morte
1955 Giovanna (Short)
1955 La donna più bella del mondo (Lina Cavalieri)
1955 Bella non piangere
1954 Di qua, di là dal Piave
1951 Persiane chiuse
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Antonio Gramsci

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Antonio Gramsci (22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was a Marxist theoretician and politician. He wrote on political theory, sociology and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how states use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies.


In 1911 Gramsci began a brilliant scholastic career at the University of Turin, where he came in contact with the Socialist Youth Federation and joined the Socialist Party (1914). During World War I he studied Marxist thought and became a leading theoretician. He formed a leftist group within the Socialist Party and founded the newspaper L’Ordine Nuovo (May 1919; “The New Order”). Gramsci encouraged the development of factory councils (democratic bodies elected directly by industrial workers), which undercut the control of trade unions. The councils participated in a general strike in Turin (1920), in which Gramsci played a key role.

Gramsci led a leftist walkout at the Socialist congress at Livorno (January 1921) to found the Italian Communist Party (see Democrats of the Left) and then spent two years in the Soviet Union. Back in Italy, he became head of his party (April 1924) and was elected to the country’s Chamber of Deputies. After his party was outlawed by Benito Mussolini’s fascists, Gramsci was arrested and imprisoned (1926). At his trial the fascist prosecutor argued, “We must stop his brain from working for 20 years.” In prison, despite rigorous censorship, Gramsci carried out an extraordinary and wide-ranging historical and theoretical study of Italian society and possible strategies for change. Plagued with poor health in the 1930s, he died not long after being released from prison for medical care.

Extracts of Gramsci’s prison writings were published for the first time in the mid-20th century; the complete Quaderni del carcere (Prison Notebooks) appeared in 1975. Many of his propositions became a fundamental part of Western Marxist thought and influenced the post-World War II strategies of communist parties in the West. His reflections on the cultural and political concept of hegemony, on the Italian Communist Party itself, and on the Roman Catholic Church were particularly important. The letters he wrote from prison also were published posthumously as Lettere dal carcere (1947; Letters from Prison).
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Antonio Pigliaru


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Antonio Pigliaru (Orune, 17 August 1922 - Sassari, 27 March 1969) was a Sardinian jurist and philosopher. He was the most important Sardinian intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century, and one of the most vivid contemporary Italian thinkers. He engaged with manifold themes, but he devoted special attention to the interpretation of the socio-economic problems of interior areas of Sardinia, which he framed and attempted to explain according to his own ethical and political views.




Life

Pigliaru was born in Orune, in Nuoro province, the youngest of five children. His parents, Pietro and Maria Murgia, were schoolteachers. They belonged to different social classes but shared the same education and job. Pietro came from a family of peasants, which at the time were a marginal group in the town, where sheep-breeding prevailed. Despite the family’s scarce resources, after elementary school he continued studying. Maria, whose mother was also a schoolteacher, came from Sassari, a rather different context from Orune, where she moved after her degree to work as a teacher. Pietro and Maria got married in 1909. After school Antonio, whose father had died in the meantime, left his town to move to Sassari with his maternal grandparents, to complete his classical studies training. He always maintained strong ties with his town of origin. In 1940 he joined the GUF (University Fascist Group), where he first experienced intellectual engagement, contributing to the Group’s journal, writing mostly on theatre. Like many youths of his generation, he believed the ‘fascist revolution’ could fulfil some expectations, but he always rejected the "aberrations" that the regime was exhibiting. He attended the University in Cagliari from 1941, studying in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy. In March 1944 he was arrested together with other people, accused of serious offences such as espionage, civil war and political conspiracy. He was condemned to 7 years of imprisonment by the Military Tribunal of Oristano, and he served 17 months. While in jail he contracted the illness that was to cause his premature death. He was released in May 1946 following the Togliatti Amnesty. He then resumed his graduate studies, passing all exams in a few months, earning a degree with a thesis on existentialism in Giacomo Leopardi. In April 1949 he became voluntary assistant to the chair of Legal Philosophy at the University of Sassari, and then ordinary assistant a year later. He then acquired the position of permanent lecturer in 1967, holding the chair of Doctrine of the State. In 1949 he contributed to the foundation of the journal Ichnusa. The journal was published, albeit irregularly, until 1964. From 1956 Pigliaru decided to give a different style to the journal, focussing its contents on the so-called ‘Sardinian issue’ (Questione sarda): the editorials, written by him, were often devoted to the region’s problems. The journal was meant to be an intellectual workshop for all young Sardinian intellectuals that wanted to commit to the island’s renaissance, and for whom he became an inspiring figure. Pigliaru died on March 27, 1969 in Sassari, during a haemodialysis session, a therapy he regularly undertook to cure his grave kidney deficiency, a condition that had affected him for most of his life




Activities

Pigliaru wrote several essays of considerable insight, that even nowadays are still considered a crucial reference for any debate on Sardinian culture. Unpublished works surface every now and then. After an initial approach to Giovanni Gentile’s philosophy, especially in his first works "Considerazioni critiche su alcuni aspetti del personalismo comunitario" and "Persona umana ed ordinamento giuridico," he leaned towards Giuseppe Capograssi’s historicist personalism. He followed Capograssi but re-interpreted his theories with an original reading of it, especially the interpretation of the theory of plurality of legal orders of Santi Romano (see "La vendetta barbaricina come ordinamento giuridico"). He subsequently developed questions of Gramscian Marxism, especially in his "Struttura, soprastruttura e lotta per il diritto", "Gramsci e la cultura sarda" and in the unfinished essay on "L'estinzione dello Stato". Among his several contributions the following are noteworthy: "Meditazioni sul regime penitenziario italiano" (1959); "La piazza e lo Stato" (1961); "Promemoria sull'obiezione di coscienza" (1968). He accompanied his scientific commitment with an intense teaching activity, organising several courses for adults and working class citizens. His pedagogic vocation emerges in "Scuola", a periodical with many authors, founded in 1954 to support and train teachers preparing to be admitted to the profession. He was elected to the regional Committee of the Sardinian section of the Italian Libraries Association (AIB) for 1955–1958 and again 1958–1961. The communal libraries of Orune and Porto Torres are named after him, as well as the Interfaculty Library for Juridical, Political and Economic Sciences of the University of Sassari.




bibliography

Considerazioni critiche su alcuni aspetti del personalismo comunitari - Sassari, 1950
Persona umana ed ordinamento giuridico - Milano, 1953 (now Nuoro, 2008 with a Foreword by Giovanni Bianco)
Meditazioni sul regime penitenziario italiano - Sassari, 1959 (now Nuoro, 2009 with a Foreword and an Afterword by Salvatore Mannuzzu)
La vendetta barbaricina come ordinamento giuridico - Milano, 1959 (now Nuoro, 2000 with an Introduction by Luigi Lombardi Satriani)
La piazza e lo Stato - Sassari, 1961
Il banditismo in Sardegna - Milano, 1970 and following editions
Antonio Pigliaru, politica e cultura: antologia degli scritti pubblicati sulla rivista Ichnusa - Sassari, 1971 (edited by Manlio Brigaglia, Salvatore Mannuzzu, Giuseppe Melis Bassu; with texts by Gigi Ghirotti ... et al.)
Il rispetto dell'uomo - Sassari, 1980 (with a Note by Antonio Delogu)
Scritti sul fascismo - Sassari, 1983
La lezione di Capograssi - Roma, 2000 (with an Introduction by Antonio Delogu)
Saggi capograssiani - Roma, 2010 (with an Introduction by Antonio Delogu)
Per un primo giorno di scuola: lettera a una professoressa - Sassari, 2002
Le parole e le cose: alfabeto della democrazia - Sassari, 2005
Sardegna, una civiltà di pietra - Roma, 1961 (with Franco Pinna and Giuseppe Dessì)
Struttura, soprastruttura e lotta per il diritto - Padova, 1965
"Promemoria" sull'obiezione di coscienza - Sassari, 1968 (now Nuoro, 2009 with a Foreword by Virgilio Mura)
Gramsci e la cultura sarda - Roma, 1969 (now Nuoro, 2008 with a Foreword by Paolo Carta)
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Jan 31 2013, 07:01 PM
Eleanor of Arborea

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Eleanor of Arborea (Sardinian: Elianora de Bas; Catalan: Elionor d'Arborea or Elionor de Molins de Rei; 1347–1404) was the giudicessa ("female judge") of Arborea from 1383 to her death. She was one of the last, most powerful and significant Sardinian judges, as well as the island's most renowned heroine.

Biography

Born at Molins de Rei, Catalonia, Eleanor of Bas-Serra was the daughter of Marianus IV of Arborea, who had become in 1346 giudice of Arborea, on the west coast of Sardinia, and his wife Timbora de Rocabertí. It has been said that their family, the Bas, belonged to the House of Visconti[citation needed]. The house of Arborea, whose power extended over about one third of Sardinia, was the only independent part of the island at that point in history. During her childhood, she was raised with a natural tendency towards war and weapons.

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Marriage of Eleanor with Brancaleone Doria

Her father married Eleanor to Brancaleone Doria, a Genoese nobleman who held the fief of Castelgenovese, in order to strengthen local alliances. Marianus died in 1376 and was succeeded by his son Hugh III. In March 1383, there was a republican uprising in Arborea and Hugh was murdered. Eleanor defeated the rebels and became regent to her infant son Frederick, who as next male heir became the official monarch of Arborea.

For the next four years Arborea was at war with the Crown of Aragon, which claimed the island. It lost much of its Sardinian possessions to Eleanor. Arborea obtained almost all of the island during this war. After rallying Sardinian forces, Eleanor was able to negotiate a favourable treaty. Her eldest son Frederick died during this war and was succeeded by her younger son, Marianus V. An alliance was formed with Genoa which sustained Arborea's independence for another generation. She died at Oristano/Aristanis, Sardinia, in 1404.

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Eleanor holding the Carta de Logu (the first sardinian constitution)

Eleanor composed the Carta de Logu, a body of laws which came into force in April 1395. They were considered to be far in advance of the laws of other countries, the penalty for most crimes being a fine, and the property rights of women being preserved. These laws remained in force in Sardinia until the code issued by king Charles Felix in 1827.

Eleanor was particularly interested in ornithology. As a friend of birds, she was the first to legislate protection to a certain species of bird (falcon). Based on this, the Eleonora's Falcon (Falco eleonorae) was named after her.

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Eleonora's Falcon
Does anyone have any more information on this amazing woman. I have been searching everywhere but the literature in english on Eleonora is limited.

This story fascinates me and I want to research more on her. Does anyone have any links?? or even just a timeline of her and her fathers battles.
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MURGIA
Apr 20 2016, 10:39 AM
Does anyone have any more information on this amazing woman. I have been searching everywhere but the literature in english on Eleonora is limited.

This story fascinates me and I want to research more on her. Does anyone have any links?? or even just a timeline of her and her fathers battles.
Welcome to the forum Murgia! :)

Sardinian Medieval History and in particular the giudicati's period is completely ignored by english literature, infact if i browse an english book about medieval Europe i will not find any reference about Sardinia or in the worst cases a total fictional history which show Sardinia like a colony of populations which never settled on the island like the muslim saracens, trying an improbable historic association with Sicily. It's shameful.
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Vicente Bacallar y Sanna

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Vicente Bacallar y Sanna, Marquis of Saint Philip and Viscount of Fuentehermosa, in Italian Vincenzo Bacallar (Cagliari - Sardinia), 6 February 1669 – The Hague (Netherlands), 11 June 1726). He was a nobleman, military officer, linguist, historian, politician and Spanish ambassador. He was born to a noble Sardinian family when the kingdom of Sardinia was part of the Spanish crown.




Biography

He belonged to a noble Sardinian family. When he was young, he probably fled to Spain, where he got an attentive military and policy education. He was appointed by Charles II of Spain governor of the Cape of Cagliari and Gallura and military governor of Sardinia. During the war of the Spanish succession, when Sardinian aristocracy divided between Philip of Anjou (of the house of Bourbon) and Charles of Habsburg, Bacallar was loyal to the heir designated by Carles II, Philip of Anjou, who became king as Philip V. Due to his loyalty, the king awarded him as Marquis of Saint Philip (Marqués de San Felipe, in Spanish; not a feudal title, but given in homage to the king's patron saint) and Viscount of Fuentehermosa (Fuente Hermosa de Miranda, fief in the kingdom of Navarre) in 1709.

When the kingdom of Sardinia surrendered to Archduke Charles, he had to fly to Spain, without giving up the hope to re-conquere Sardinia. The treaty of Utrecht (1714), where he had been part of the Spanish delegation, decided for Sardinia to be part of the Austrian crown. Aftermath he was appointed as an envoy plenipotentiary at the republic of Genoa, from where he supported the attempt by cardinal Alberoni to re-conquer Sardinia to the Spanish crown. The island was actually conquered in 1717, but had to be left in 1720 (War of the Quadruple Alliance) and was acquired by the Dukes of Savoy.

Meanwhile, Vicente Bacallar dedicated to a strong intellectual activity: in 1713 he founded – with other intellectuals – the Real Academia Española, where he hold the seat N and cooperated to its first dictionary, that would be published in 1726. He wrote the short poem Las Tobias (The Tobies, 1709), the poem El Palacio de Momo (Momo's Palace, 1714), the treaty Monarchia Hebrea (The Hebrew Monarchy, 1719) and historical works, such as Description geographique, historique et politique du royaume de Sardaigne (Geographical, historical and political description of the Kingdom of Sardinia).

About the war of the Spanish succession he wrote Commentarios de la guerra de España y historia de su Rey Phelipe V el Animoso desde el principio de su regnado hasta la paz general del año 1725 (Commentaries of the war of Spain and history of its king Philip V the Brave since the beginning of his kingdom to the general peace of the year 1725, 1726). In this work, asked by his monarch, the Marquis intended to inform about the facts happened in and outside Spain during the war objectively. His objectiveness is proved by the respect used with regard to both parties. Doubtless, the work was not appreciated by the power and the first edition – published in Genoa – was retired from the market.

In 1724 he was appointed as ambassador in the Netherlands, with the aim of convincing them to remain neutral, where he died two years after due to a stroke. He left a library of sixteen-thousands volumes.
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