Santa Maria della Stella, Alcamo MarinaSanta Maria della Stella (or Stella Maris) is a Catholic parish church located along the Trunk Road (Strada Statale 187), in the seaside resort of Alcamo Marina, in the province of Trapani. The construction of this religious building was financed in 1965 by the Pontificia Commissione centrale per l'arte sacra in Italia (the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Art in Italy) and the Ministry of Public Works. It was restored in 2007 and is run by the Salesians of Alcamo; it is at the service of the believers living at Alcamo Marina.
Nicola Serena di LapigioNicola Serena di Lapigio (22 May 1875 - 6 March 1938) was an Italian nobleman, writer and journalist. His father was baron Ottavio Serena, a historian and politician of the early years of the Kingdom of Italy, while his mother was Maria Priore. In his youth, he studied law in Rome and, after graduation, he went to war, serving as Ufficiale di artiglieria during World War I, until he was appointed Segretario con funzioni di Capo-gabinetto del Sottosegretario di Stato inside the Italian ministry Ministero Approvvigionamenti e Consumi.
Vincenzo de FeoVincenzo de Feo (September 16, 1876 in Campobasso – January 17, 1955 in Rome) was an Italian Admiral. He served as Governor of Italian Eritrea during 1937. Vincenzo de Feo was born in Mirabello Sannitico near Campobasso in September 1876. His paternal uncle, Francesco de Feo, was a patriot during the Risorgimento and in 1860 commanded the "First Samnite Legion". The young Vincenzo was formed in the Italian Naval Academy of Livorno, graduating in October 1890 with a degree in electrical engineering.
Mist on the SeaMist on the Sea (Italian: Nebbie sul mare) is a 1944 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and Hans Hinrich and starring Viveca Lindfors, Gustav Diessl and Umberto Spadaro. The film's sets were designed by the art director Salvo D'Angelo. Italian couple Maria and Pietro Rosati live in Brazil, where they manage an estate. One day Maria is sexually assaulted, and her husband kills the preparator. Pietro is pursued by the police and is shot and tumbles into a river.
Enrico AllevaEnrico Alleva (born 16 August 1953 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian ethologist. He has been president of the Società Italiana di Etologia (Italian Ethological Society) since 2008. After obtaining his degree in biological sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome (1975) with geneticist Giuseppe Montalenti, Alleva specialized in animal behaviour at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (tutored by it).
Pontifical Commission for Vatican City StateThe Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (Pontificia Commissio pro Civitate Vaticana, Pontificia Commissione per lo Stato della Città del Vaticano;) is the legislative body of Vatican City. It consists of a president, who also holds the title of President of the Governorate of Vatican City State which serves as the head of government of Vatican City, and six other cardinals appointed by the Pope for five-year terms. The Pontifical Commission was created in 1939 by Pius XII.
Nora FedericiFederici Nora (27 April 1910 in Rome – 9 September 2001 in Grottaferrata, Rome) was an Italian statistician. Federici obtained a degree in political science at the University of Rome in 1933. In 1934 she took part in Corrado Gini's expedition to study the anthropometrics of Polish minorities such as the Karaites. She subscribed to fascism and was antisemitic, and was responsible for furnishing as a demographer detailed proposals for ‘reducing the number of Jewish individuals resident in Italy and, specifically isolating them spiritually and socially from the life of the nation,’ a measure she openly admired in Nazism.
Umberto EcoUmberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
Giovanni Bernardo De RossiGiovanni Bernardo De Rossi (October 25, 1742 in Castelnuovo Nigra, Piedmont – March 23, 1831 in Parma) was an Italian Christian Hebraist. He studied in Ivrea and Turin. In October 1769, he was appointed professor of Oriental languages at the University of Parma, where he spent the rest of his life. His inaugural lecture on the causes of the neglect of Hebrew study was published in 1769 at Turin. De Rossi devoted himself to three chief lines of investigation—-typographical, bibliographical, and text-critical.
Palmiro TogliattiPalmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti (palˈmiːro toʎˈʎatti; 26 March 1893 – 21 August 1964) was an Italian politician and leader of Italy's Communist party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at the University of Turin, later served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor. Described as "severe in approach but extremely popular among the Communist base" and "a hero of his time, capable of courageous personal feats", his supporters gave him the nickname il Migliore ("The Best").
