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Paul Taglioni (brother) Marie Taglioni, Comtesse de Voisins (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a Swedish-born ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era partially of Italian descent, a central figure in the history of European dance. She spent most of her life in the Austrian Empire and France. She was one of the most celebrated ballerinas of ...
1958. (1958) –2020. Literature portal. Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 – October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Her magnum opus is widely considered to be Loba, a collection of poems first published in 1978 then extended in 1998.
Carmen Dell'Orefice (/ d ɛ l ˈ ɔːr f ɪ tʃ eɪ, ˌ d ɛ l ɔːr ˈ f iː tʃ eɪ /, Italian: [delloˈreːfitʃe]; born June 3, 1931) [1] is an American model and actress. She is known within the fashion industry for being the world's oldest working model as of the Spring/Summer 2012 season.
South Italian samples clustered with southeast and south-central European samples, and northern groups with West Europe. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] A 2004 study by Semino et al. showed that Italians from the north-central regions had around 26.9% J2; the Apulians, Calabrians and Sicilians had 29.1%, 21.5% and 16.7% J2 respectively; the Sardinians had 9.7% J2.
Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. According to the Italian American Studies Association, the current population is about 18 million, an increase from 16 million in 2010, corresponding to about 5.4% of the total population of the United States.
Early life. Storni was born on May 29, 1892, in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland. Her parents were Alfonso Storni and Paola Martignoni, who were of Italian-Swiss descent. Before her birth, her father had started a brewery in the city of San Juan, Argentina, producing beer and soda. In 1891, following the advice of a doctor, he returned with his wife ...
Women in Etruscan society. The Etruscan civilization (/ ɪˈtrʌskən / ih-TRUS-kən) was an ancient civilization of people inhabiting Etruria (most of modern-day Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria) in ancient Italy. The Etruscans had a common language and culture; they formed a federation of city-states.
Cynthia von Buhler was born Cynthia Carrozza and raised in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the middle child in an artistic family with six children. Of her childhood, she says "As soon as we could hold a scissor, we learned every kind of craft imaginable, and worked in three dimensions, not just two." [3] Creative from the start, she created ...