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Famous Sardinians; This is a list of famous people born in the island of Sardinia
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Mavie Bardanzellu

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Mavie Bardanzellu, pseudonym of Maria Vittoria Bardanzellu (Luras, 1938) is a theater and film actress.


Biography

Mavie was born in Luras, Sardinia. She graduated at the Studio Fersen di Arti Sceniche in Rome, where studied the Stanislavskij method.

In 1962 she debuted as protagonist in Una Storia Sarda, a neorealistic movie directed by Piero Livi.

She acted in A Question of Honour by Luigi Zampa, Menage all'italiana in 1965, in Carogne si nasce di Alfonso Brescia (1968) and in Silvia e l’amore by Silvio Bergonzelli.

In 1969 acted in "Beatrice Cenci" by Lucio Fulci and as co-protagonist in “La battaglia del Sinai” (Hamisha Yamin B’Sinai), a movie set during the Six-day war. In the same year she got the role of protagonist in Pelle di Bandito by Piero Livi, which ran at the Venice International Film Festival.

In 1972 she worked in the movie “Abuso di potere ” by Camillo Bazzoni (1972).



Filmography


  • Una storia sarda, Piero Livi (1962)
  • Una questione d'onore, Luigi Zampa (1965)
  • Menage all'italiana, Franco Indovina (1965)
  • Carogne si nasce, Alfonso Brescia (1968)
  • Silvia e l’amore, Sergio Bergonzelli (1968)
  • Beatrice Cenci, Lucio Fulci
  • La battaglia del Sinai, Maurizio Lucidi (1969)
  • Pelle di bandito, Piero Livi (1969)
  • Abuso di potere, Camillo Bazzoni (1972)
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Mario Sironi


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Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms.

Biography

He was born in Sassari on the island of Sardinia. His father was an engineer; his maternal grandfather was the architect and sculptor Ignazio Villa. Sironi spent his childhood in Rome. He embarked on the study of engineering at the University of Rome but quit after a nervous breakdown in 1903, one of many severe depressions that would recur throughout his life. Thereafter he decided to study painting, and began attending the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. There he met Giacomo Balla, who became "his first real teacher". Sironi also met Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni, and like them he began painting in a Divisionist style under the guidance of Balla. By 1913, Balla, Boccioni and Severini had developed a new style—Futurism—which Sironi also adopted for a brief time.

Sironi served in World War I as a member of the Lombard Volunteer Cyclists and Drivers. After the war, his version of Futurism gave way to an art of massive, immobile forms. In paintings such as La Lampada of 1919 (Pinateca di Brera, Milan), mannequins substitute for figures, as in the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. In 1922, Sironi was one of the founders of the Novecento Italiano movement, which was part of the return to order in European art during the post-war period. Paintings such as Venere of 1921–1923 (Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin) and Solitudine ("Solitude", 1925; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome), with their contained, geometric forms, bear some kinship to the neoclassicism evident in works produced at the same time by Picasso.

Sironi's works of the late 1920s, many of which feature monumental, archaic figures of families in bare, mountainous landscapes, are "marked by a sense of humanity burdened with history ... [and] an almost Romanesque spirit of a solemn expressionism".The pure forms of his earlier work were replaced by a primitivist form of classicism, and his style became more painterly.

A supporter of Mussolini, Sironi contributed a large number of cartoons—over 1700 in all—to Il Popolo d'Italia and La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo d'Italia, the Fascist newspapers. Rejecting the art market and the concept of the easel painting, he became committed to the ideal of a fusion of decoration and architecture, as exemplified by Gothic cathedrals. He felt that the mural was the proper basis of a popular national art. The state commissioned from him several large-scale decorative works in the 1930s, such as the mural L'Italia fra le arti e le scienze (Italy Between the Arts and Sciences) of 1935, and he also contributed to the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution in 1932. Although his esthetic of brutal monumentality represented the dominant style of Italian Fascism, his work was attacked by right-wing critics for its lack of overt ideological content.

As an artist closely identified with Fascism, Sironi's reputation declined dramatically in the post-World War II period. Embittered by the course of events, he had returned to easel painting in 1943, and worked in relative isolation. His withdrawal from society increased after the death of his daughter Rossana by suicide in 1948. The paintings of his later years sometimes approach abstraction, resembling assemblages of archaeological fragments, or juxtaposed sketches. He continued working until shortly before his death on August 13, 1961, in Milan.


Legacy

During his lifetime Sironi exhibited internationally. It is possible that the cellular style of his compositions exhibited in the US during the 1930s influenced WPA muralists. In the postwar years, Sironi fell from favor due to his earlier association with Fascism, and was accorded little attention from art historians. A revival of interest in Sironi's work began in the 1980s, when his work was featured in major exhibitions, notably Les Réalismes at the Centre Georges Pompidou (1981) and Italian Art in the Twentieth Century at the Royal Academy, London (1989).
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Eva Mameli

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Giuliana Luigia Evelina Mameli (February 12, 1886 – March 31, 1978), was a botanist, mathematician and naturalist.

A native of Sassari in Sardinia and 11 years younger than her husband, Mario Calvino, whom she married while still a junior lecturer at Pavia University. Born into a secular family, Eva was a pacifist educated in the "religion of civic duty and science".

She graduated in mathematics at the University of Cagliari in 1905.

She moved in Pavia where his brother Efisio Mameli was a chemist and pharmacologist professor at the local university.

In 1907 she graduated in Natural Science and became the first woman in Italy to gain a botanist habilitation.

She moved in Cuba in 1920, together the husband. She came back in Italy in 1925. She died at San Remo, aged 92.

Eva Mameli was the mother of Italo Calvino, writer and journalist, an the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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:above: in regards to famous women in science even the first female who became medical doctor in Italy was a Sardinian: Adelasia Cocco
http://www.regione.sardegna.it/messaggero/2001_ago-sett_30.pdf
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Gloria Milland

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Gloria Milland (born 11 October 1940) is an actress.
Born in Cagliari, Sardinia as Maria Fiè, she debuted in 1959 with her real name that she changed shortly after following a fashion of the time for American-sounding stage names. In 1960s she was very active in light comedies and adventure films, often in main roles, but dissatisfied with her career she chose to retire from showbusiness in late sixties.

Filmography


  • 1968Un uomo e una colt
  • 1967 Odio per odio
  • 1967 Aquí mando yo
  • 1967 ...E divenne il più spietato bandito del sud
  • 1966 Gringo, getta il fucile!
  • 1965 L'uomo dalla pistola d'oro
  • 1965 Ocaso de un pistolero
  • 1965 Seven Hours of Gunfire
  • 1965 Il gladiatore che sfidò l'impero
  • 1964 D'Artagnan contro i tre moschettieri
  • 1964 I sette del Texas
  • 1964 Maciste nell'inferno di Gengis Khan
  • 1964 Delitto allo specchio
  • 1964 Maciste alla corte dello zar
  • 1964 I tre spietati
  • 1963 Le tre spade di Zorro
  • 1963 Goliath e la schiava ribelle
  • 1963 Il duca nero
  • 1962 Ursus, il gladiatore ribelle
  • 1962 The Fury of Achilles
  • 1962 L'Arciere delle Mille e Una Notte
  • 1962 Dieci italiani per un tedesco
  • 1962 Twist, lolite e vitelloni
  • 1961 Le magnifiche sette
  • 1961 Bellezze sulla spiaggia
  • 1961 Goliath contro i giganti
  • 1961 Scandali al mare
  • 1960 Ferragosto in bikini
  • 1960 Rapina al quartiere Ovest
  • 1960 Il mio amico Jekyll
  • 1960 La strada dei giganti
  • 1959 Girl at the club
  • 1959 Fantasmi e ladri
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Graziano Origa

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Graziano Origa is a cartoonist and punk artist. In 1979, he founded the magazine Punk Artist.

Graziano is easily one of the most controversial Italian art directors no-code, although he's possibly the least comfortable fit in border line seminal. Traditional, also trash, naïve, cult, but still very old fashion. In 1972, Graziano began to work in comics at StudiOriga in Milan.

He draws black and white pen/ink portraits: Presley, Divine, Krisma, Eva Robin's, Armani, Fiorucci, Cadinot, Sid Vicious, Pasolini, Warhol.

From 1977 to 1979 he directed the monthly magazine of underground music Gong.

In the 80's he lives in New York, making illustrations for the Italian daily newspaper Progresso Italoamericano. Also for the chic-gay monthly Advocate, Torso, Blueboy and the weekly Screw.

With his partner phographer, Joe Zattere, founded fashion magazines such as Punk Artist (1979), Focus (1985), and Fumetti d'Italia (1992).



Books


  • Enciclopedia del Fumetto, Ottaviano, due volumi, 1977
  • Diary of a Punk Artist, Iride, 1980
  • Origa Dessins, Ed. de la Mouette, Francia, 1991
  • I mondi di Dylan Dog, Unilito, 1992
  • Videomax, Scarabeo, 1994
  • Monografia Corrado Roi, Borsa del Fumetto, 1994
  • L'Isola dei fumetti, con Bepi Vigna, Scarabeo, 1994
  • Magnus: Lo Sconosciuto, Edizioni ReM, 1999
  • Magnus: 110 pillole Storyboard, Edizioni ReM, 2000
  • Diavolo meridiano, con Giuseppe Pusceddu, Aipsa, 2001
  • Edifumetto Index, Edizioni ReM, 2002
  • Incredibili Comics!, Edizioni ReM, 2003
  • Vietato ai minori, Rizzoli, 2007
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Raingirl
Oct 18 2013, 06:12 PM
:above: in regards to famous women in science even the first female who became medical doctor in Italy was a Sardinian: Adelasia Cocco
http://www.regione.sardegna.it/messaggero/2001_ago-sett_30.pdf
It's nteresting to know, i thought was Maria Montessori the first woman to do the medical doctor in Italy! :flirty:
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Pearl
Oct 20 2013, 02:07 AM
It's nteresting to know, i thought was Maria Montessori the first woman to do the medical doctor in Italy! :flirty:
No, the first italian woman who graduated in medicine was Ernestina Paper in 1877 in Florence, Montessori graduated in 1894, and was the 4th woman in Italy. Adelasia Cocco was the first woman to obtain an habilitation to work as medical doctor in Italy, but not the first woman graduated in medicine, neither the first one in Sardinia, because Paola Satta graduated at the Faculty of Medicine of Cagliari in 1902 while Adelasia Cocco in 1913 in Sassari.
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Antonio Fais

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Antonio Fais (Ploaghe, April 25th 1841 – Sassari, April 20th 1925) was a mathematician and engineer. He was rector at the University of Cagliari from 1897 to 1898.

As an engineer he worked for the Royal Sardinian Railways for the development of the rail line sector located next to the town of Oristano.

In 1865 was appointed professor of infinitesimal calculus and algebra at the University of Cagliari.

He moved at the Accademia di Bologna in 1876, where he taught infinitesimal calculus and algebra, and graphical static.

His main scientific activity in the field of mathematics was focused on the study of the differential geometry of curves and surfaces and the differential equations, on which he published several articles.

Fais due to his scientific activity was awarded with the Benedictine medal by the Accademia di Bologna, in 1897, with the Cross Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus in 1897 and was appointed Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy in 1905.

During his life Fais could meet and work together prominent mathematicians of his time such as the Italians Felice Casorati, Antonio Pacinotti and Eugenio Beltrami, and the French J.L.Bertrand.




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Maria Luisa Pierangeli

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Maria Luisa Pierangeli, known also as Marisa Pavan (born 19 June 1932 in Cagliari, Sardinia) is an actress who first became famous as the twin sister to movie star Pier Angeli (Anna Maria Pierangeli) before achieving movie stardom on her own. Her breakthrough came in the film The Rose Tattoo (1955) as Anna Magnani's daughter; her role was first assigned to her twin, who at the time was unable to play the part. When Magnani won the Academy Award for Best Actress, Pavan accepted on her behalf as Magnani was not present at the awards ceremony. Pavan was nominated for best supporting actress, losing to Jo Van Fleet (for East of Eden). Both Magnani and Pavan won Golden Globe awards that year.

Afterwards, Marisa Pavan co-starred in films such as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Diane, John Paul Jones and The Midnight Story.

She married, divorced, and later remarried the French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont between 1956 until his death in 2001; they had two sons.
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