| Famous Sardinians; This is a list of famous people born in the island of Sardinia | |
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| caesium | Feb 9 2017, 08:07 PM Post #111 |
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Moses Concas![]() Moses Concas is a sardinian harmonica beatboxer born in Iglesias in 1988 and grown up in Quartu Sant'Elena. In 2013, realising that making music was his main goal, Moses travelled through Europe ending up in London, where he resumed his passion as a street artist. With two albums under his belt in two years: I Wanna Breathe (2014) and Cannonau (2015), he is now preparing to release his debut album with Innuendo, the group built by Moses at the end of 2015. The songs provide a combination of his exciting beatbox harmonica sounds, with rhythmic beats of a cajon and a bass all accompanied by a voice, and punctuated throughout with elements of reggae, hip-hop and blues. Innuendo album, Human Revolution, is scheduled for release in June 2016. He is the winner of the Got Talent series Italia's Got Talent in 2016. |
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| Antoni Sias | Mar 15 2017, 01:47 AM Post #112 |
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Pier Michele Giagaraccio Pier Michele Giagaraccio (Sassari, ... - 1590?) was an jurist, lawyer, and poet. He flourished in sixteenth century Sassari. Giagaraccio studied law, and from 1565 to 1567, lectured on civil institutions at the University of Pisa. Later, he returned to Sassari, where he practiced law and taught jurisprudence for free. Giagaraccio was also interested in the humanities and became friends with the most famous Sardinian writers of his time. He died shortly after 1590. To commemorate him, Gerolamo Araolla wrote the sonnet onor di Sassari e delizia dell'Arno (Honor of Sassari and delight of the Arno). Giagaraccio's children were also dedicated students and successful lawyers. His ancient surname, Giagaraccio, has transformed into the modern name Cesaraccio |
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| caesium | Apr 27 2017, 05:03 PM Post #113 |
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Mario Aramu![]() Mario Aramu (7 April 1900 – 16 December 1940) was an aviator. Aramu was born in Cagliari. As Colonel of Regia Aeronautica, he participated in the Atlantic cruises organized by Italo Balbo and fell in combat near Marmarica, Libya, during an aerial action. Honours and Awards
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| caesium | Jun 2 2017, 01:06 AM Post #114 |
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Angelo Lobina![]() Angelo Lobina is a sardinian professional climber and alpinist, born in Nuoro in 1962. He climbed the main sardinian and alpine peaks (the Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Pizzo dei Tre Signori, Punta Penia Marmolada, etc) in 30 years of carrier. He with the "Sardegna7Summit Challenge" between 2016-17 has reached the top of the highest peaks in the 7 continents (Europe- Mont Blanc, South America - Aconcagua, Antarctica - Vinson Massife, North America - Denali Mount McKinley, Africa - Kilimangiaro, Papua New Guinea -Carstensz Pyramid and Himalaya- Everest) , which he concluded with the climbing of the Mount Everest in 2017. |
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| caesium | Jun 22 2017, 11:46 PM Post #115 |
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Salvatore Satta![]() Salvatore Satta (Nuoro, 9 August 1902 – Rome 19 April 1975) was a sardinian jurist and writer. He is famous for the novel The Day of Judgment (orig. Italian: Il giorno del giudizio) (1975), and for several important studies on civil law. He was the youngest son of notary Salvatore Satta and Antonietta Galfrè, and relative of Sebastiano Satta. After attending the Liceo classico in Nuoro and Sassari, he graduated in law in 1924 at the University of Sassari. He is considered one of Italy's foremost jurist, in particular for his works on the Italian civil code after the second world war, and one of the greatest Italian and Sardinian authors. |
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| Antoni Sias | Dec 7 2017, 02:13 PM Post #116 |
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Giuseppe Anedda![]() Giuseppe Anneda (born Cagliari, 1 March 1912 – died Cagliari, 30 July 1997) was an Italian mandolin virtuoso who helped the mandolin gain more importance in the classical music world in the 20th Century. He performed with his instrument in concert halls around the world, including some where mandolin "had never entered", and taught at the Conservatory Pollini of Padua (holding "First Chair.") He also was able to gain access to manuscripts in museums, rediscovering works by Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Beethoven and many others. Anedda started out a child prodigy, who began to study the violin at 5 years old, but had to switch to mandolin because of the family's inability to afford a violin. He was performing in theater and the opera by the time he was 10 years old. While still young, he also became part of a professional performing group, the Quartetto Karalis, with Flavio Cornacchia (mandola), Giovanni Scano (guitar), and Massimo Piredda (2nd mandolin). He enlisted with the police at the Palazzo Reale di Napoli (Royal Palace of Naples), and in 1938 there had the opportunity to compete in a musical composition organized by the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (Italian Fascist leisure and recreational organization) winning for two straight years. He started working for the Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche in 1941, and in 1948 was part of the first ever performance of the original concert of Vivaldi for two mandolins, strings and harpsichord, led by Maestro Nino Sanzogno. That performance was repeated at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in 1950. That performance led to a greater and longer term opportunity, when Maestro Renato Fasano wanted to include it in the repertoire of the Collegium Musicum Italicum. It was recorded in London for His Master's Voice and won the award organized by the Academy Vivaldiana Brussels for the interpretation of the soloist. Anedda went on to direct the Collegium Italicum, one of the best chamber orchestras in the world, for more than over 16 years (1952-1968). Giuseppe Anedda declared the "Paganini of the mandolin" in an Italian newspaper. Another performance in 1968 sealed his place as "the world's greatest mandolinist", when he performed in Igor Stravinsky's new ballet, Agon. The audience reacted strongly to the performance, crying "Bravo Mandolino!" and Stravinsky himself shook hands with Anedda. Anedda gave "countless concerts in all parts of the world", sometimes solo, or performing with orchestras or with pianist Franco Barbalonga. Beginning in 1970, he taught at the Manhattan School of Music. He gave concerts with Claudio Scimone in Switzerland, and the friendship between the two helped establish the "First Chair" for teaching the mandolin at the Conservatory Pollini of Padua, where Anedda remained until retiring in 1980. His service was honored with a gold medal from the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He was also invited to the inauguration of the Festival of Two Worlds in Charleston in South Carolina, one of two Italians there. Edited by Antoni Sias, Dec 7 2017, 02:13 PM.
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| Babborcu | Jan 31 2018, 03:33 AM Post #117 |
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Emanuela Loi![]() Emanuela Loi (Sestu, 1967 - Palermo, 1992) was the the first Italian female member of a police escort and the first one to be killed on. She was the escort agent of the italian Magistrate Paolo Borsellino. She was killed by the Mafia, by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, Palermo, Italy, with Paolo Borsellino and others four escort agents: Walter Edddie Cosina, Agostino Catalano, Claudio Traina and Vincenzo Li Muli. She was born in Sestu, (Cagliari), Sardegna, Italy and died at the age of 24. She was awarded a Gold Medal for Civil Valor in the August 5, 1992. To her dedicated, in Bagheria, (Palermo), Sicilia, Italy, there is a primary school, in Nettuno, (Roma), Lazio, Italy, there is a street and a polytechnic school and also in Italy there are many streets, squares and offices building dedicated to the her memory. |
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| caesium | Feb 10 2018, 04:52 AM Post #118 |
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Alessia Orro![]() Alessia Orro (born in Oristano, 18 July 1998) is a sardinian female volleyball player. She is the captain of the Italy women's under 18 national volleyball team. On club level she played for Club Italia in 2015. She competed at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro |
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| tiligherta | Mar 24 2018, 02:20 AM Post #119 |
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Pietro Delitala Pietro Delitala was the first Sardinian poet to write in Italian. His work was greatly influenced by Torquato Tasso, and the Sardinian poets Gerolamo Araolla and Gavino Sugner. Pietro Delitala's father, Nicholas was the mayor of Bosa in 1556. His mother, Sybil Dessena, was discussed in Anthony Lo Frasso's book Diez libros de fortuna d'Amor in 1575. Delitala was indicted in 1572 and taken into prison, possibly for a crime associated with vengeance. He was acquitted by a parliamentary committee in 1573. In 1583, he participated in the General Parliament. He sent his brother Agostino Angelo as his delegate. In 1589, Delitala was again imprisoned, this time under the Inquisition, which imposed a fine of 5,600 Sardinian lire upon him. He left prison in 1590 through the intervention of his friend the historian Giovanni Francesco Fara. In 1593, he was summoned to Parliament, and sent Ramon de Cetrilla as his delegate. He married around 1595 and had 5 children: Agostino Angelo, Giovanni Geronimo, Pietro, Diego and Francesco. In the spring and summer of 1594, Delitala was a guest of the Marquis Spinola in Genoa. He then went to the Sanctuary of Vicoforte near Mondovì on pilgrimage. In Rime Diverse, a book of poetry in Italian published by Galcerino Cagliari in 1596, he describes this pilgrimage, and also a miracle in Bosa in December 1594, when the Genoese captain Pàtron Natteri rescued a Codrongianosian who tried to cross the flooded Temo river on horseback. |
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| Pearl | Mar 31 2018, 05:17 PM Post #120 |
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Francesco Antonio Boi![]() Francesco Antonio Boi (1767 - 15 May 1850) was a Sardinian physician and professor of anatomy. He is known for his work with the sculptor Clemente Susini in preparing highly detailed and accurate wax anatomical models. Birth and education Francesco Antonio Boi was born in Olzai, Nuoro, Sardinia in 1767, the son of a farmer. As a child he showed a high level of intelligence, and was sent to the Franciscans of Fonni in Sardinia to train for a career in the church. At the time, the church provided the only way in which someone from a poor family could obtain an education. He remained at the seminary until he was eighteen. He completed his studies in grammar, literature and philosophy, but then became interested in medicine and left the friars to attend the University of Cagliari. On 22 October 1795 he graduated as a doctor of medicine, and was given a teaching position in the university. Career On 13 September 1796 Boi was appointed Associate Professor by royal decree, and on 16 March 1799 he was made Professor of Anatomy.Although the chair of anatomy had been founded in 1764, until Boi was appointed it had been filled by professors from other disciplines. Boi lectured at Cagliari for three years, but there were few students enrolled in the faculty. In 1801 he therefore asked for permission, which was granted, to visit other universities to continue his study of anatomy. Boi first visited the University of Pavia, where the famous anatomist Antonio Scarpa (1752-1832) was the professor of anatomy, and then the University of Pisa before going on to Florence. There was no university in Florence, but there was a flourishing school of anatomy at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova under Paolo Mascagni (1755-1816), whose friend Felice Fontana (1730-1805) was the founder and director of La Specola Wax Museum. Charles Felix (1765-1831), the younger brother of King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (1759-1824), financed Boi during his stay in Florence. Boi began to study anatomy in Florence under Mascagni. He initially assumed his maternal name of Pirisi, but his skill and knowledge of anatomy soon became apparent, and he was forced to reveal himself. He began a close collaboration with Mascagni, with whom he formed a deep friendship. It was during these years that he worked with the sculptor Clemente Susini at La Specola in preparing wax anatomical models for teaching purposes. Charles Felix had commissioned Boi to help prepare the models, for which Boi undertook the dissections that Susini then reproduced in wax. Charles Felix purchased the wax models for his Museum of Natural History and Antiquities at considerable expense. In 1805 Boi returned to Cagliari, where he resumed teaching, bringing the wax models with him. In 1818 he was appointed Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which included not just the island of Sardinia but also the territories of Liguria, Piedmont and Savoy. In 1824 he was knighted. On his retirement in 1844 he was made a professor emeritus of the faculty. He died in Cagliari on 15 May 1850. Works Most of Boi's lectures have been lost, and none of his work was printed, so he is known now mainly by the high reputation he earned during his life and for the wax models that he helped to create. Some of Susini's most important works are held in Cagliari, and were based on dissection by Boi. They highlight the nerves and do not show lymphatics in the brain, correcting a mistake made in Susini's earlier waxes. They represent the convolutions of the human brain, and show the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in accurate detail. It is clear that Susina and Boi worked closely together to ensure a high level of anatomical accuracy. The Cagliari models, with expressive faces and harmony of colors, are also artistic masterpieces. The models were transferred to the anatomy department of the University of Cagliari in 1858. In 1963 they were placed on display in a room in the Institute of Anatomy. In 1991 they were transferred to the Clemente Susini's Anatomical Waxes Museum (Cagliari) located in the Cittadella dei Musei in Piazza Arsenale, where they are now on display in a pentagonal room. |
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