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Pages in category "Italian feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 226 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Frank Capra, Sicilian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Maria Grazia Cucinotta , actress who has featured in many films and television series since 1990, and internationally known for her role in the Italian film Il Postino .
The Italian nome is not analogous to the ancient Roman nomen; the Italian nome is the given name (distinct between siblings), while the Roman nomen is the gentile name (inherited, thus shared by all in a gens). Female naming traditions, and name-changing rules after adoption for both sexes, likewise differ between Roman antiquity and modern ...
Sicilian Catholics. For Catholics in Sicily, the Virgin Hodegetria is the patroness of Sicily. The Sicilian people are also known for their deep devotion to some Sicilian female saints: the martyrs Agatha and Lucy, who are the patron saints of Catania and Syracuse respectively, and the hermit Saint Rosalia, patroness of Palermo. Sicilian people ...
In historical Sicilian folklore, the doñas de fuera} would make contact with humans, mostly women deemed to have “sweet blood”, whom they took to Benevento ("the Blockula of Sicily" [1]), by mounting them on magical, flying goats. The fairies were called doñas de fuera, which was also a name for the women who associated with them. They ...
Salvatore Giuliano (1922–1950), Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giunta (born 1985), US Army staff sergeant and a recipient of the Medal of Honor Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born 1945), American mobster, former underboss of the Gambino crime family
Other names, especially female names, were derived from this verb form, such as "Miranda". The name "Amanda" occasionally appears in Late Antiquity, such as the Amanda who was the "wife of the ex-advocate and ex-provincial governor Aper (q.v.); she cared for his estates and raised their children after he adopted the monastic life: 'curat illa ...
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