Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
Il Postino:The Postman is a 1994 comedy-drama film co-written by and starring Massimo Troisi and directed by English filmmaker Michael Radford. Based on the 1985 novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta,itself adapted from a 1983 film written and directed by Skármeta,the film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a friendship with a simple Procida postman (Troisi) who learns to love poetry. The cast includes Troisi,Philippe Noiret,and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. The screenplay was adapted by Radford,Troisi,Anna Pavignano,Furio Scarpelli,and Giacomo Scarpelli.
The Sanremo Music Festival,officially the Italian Song Festival,is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony,held annually in the city of Sanremo,Liguria,organized and broadcast by Italian public broadcaster RAI. It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
Maria Bello is an American actress,writer,and producer. Her first major film role was in 1998's Permanent Midnight. She followed this with a range of supporting and leading parts in films such as Payback (1999),Coyote Ugly (2000),The Cooler (2003),Secret Window (2004),Assault on Precinct 13,A History of Violence,Thank You for Smoking,World Trade Center (2006),The Jane Austen Book Club (2007),The Mummy:Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008),Grown Ups (2010),Prisoners (2013),and Lights Out (2016).
NiccolòAmmaniti is an Italian writer,winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands. He became noted in 2001 with the publication of I'm Not Scared,a novel which was later made into a movie directed by Gabriele Salvatores.
Mariangela Caterina Melato,sometimes billed as Maria Angela Melato,was an Italian film and theatre actress. She is most remembered for her roles in films of director Lina Wertmüller,including The Seduction of Mimi (1972),Love and Anarchy (1973),and Swept Away (1974). In cinema,she also appeared in films of Claude Chabrol,Elio Petri and Vittorio De Sica,and on stage in productions by Dario Fo,Luchino Visconti and Luca Ronconi. Her roles in English-language films include the 1980 science fiction film Flash Gordon.
Anna Maria Massetani,known professionally as Lea Massari,is an Italian actress and singer.
Anna Maria Ferrero was an Italian actress.
E le stelle stanno a guardare is a 1971 Italian adaptation of A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel The Stars Look Down. It was written and directed by Anton Giulio Majano and was produced by Radiotelevisione Italiana. The miniseries was a massive success,averaging about 20 million viewers per episode.
We Were Seven Widows is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Antonio Gandusio.
Nothing New Tonight is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli,Carlo Ninchi and Antonio Gandusio. It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini.
Anna Maria Ortese was an Italian author of novels,short stories,poetry,and travel writing. Born in Rome,she grew up between southern Italy and Tripoli,with her formal education ending at age thirteen. Her first book,Angelici dolori,was issued in 1937. In 1953 her third collection,Il mare non bagna Napoli,won the coveted Viareggio Prize;thereafter,Ortese's stories,novels,and journalism received many of the most distinguished Italian literary awards,including the Strega and the Fiuggi. Although she lived for many years in Naples following the Second World War,she also resided in Milan,in Rome,and for most of the last twenty years of her life in Rapallo. L'iguana,Ortese’s best-known work in English translation,was published in 1987 as The Iguana by the American literary press McPherson &Company. As of 2023,what she considered as her most important work,the novel Il porto di Toledo (1975),had not been translated into English yet.
Eternal Melodies is a 1940 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Gino Cervi,Conchita Montenegro and Luisella Beghi. It was one of several musical biopics directed by Gallone. The film was shot at Cinecittàin Rome.
Jasmine Paolini is an Italian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 5 in singles,achieved on 15 July 2024,and No. 13 in doubles,achieved on 1 July 2024.
Elisabetta Cocciaretto is an Italian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as No. 29 in singles,achieved on 21 August 2023,and No. 244 in doubles,which she attained on 10 August 2020.
Anna Costanza Baldry was an Italian social psychologist and criminologist. She was a professor at Universitàdegli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. An expert on issues related to violence against women and children,Baldry consulted with such organizations as the United Nations and NATO. For her contributions to society,she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
The 2021 Calabrian regional election took place in Calabria,Italy,on 3 and 4 October 2021,following the dissolution of the regional parliament after the death of regional president Jole Santelli. It was originally scheduled to take place on 14 February 2021,then on 11 April 2021,and was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
Damiano David is an Italian singer and songwriter. He is the frontman of the rock band Måneskin,which won the Sanremo Music Festival 2021 and subsequently the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 representing Italy with the song "Zitti e buoni".
The Legislature XIX of Italian Republic is the current legislature of the Italian Parliament,which started on 13 October 2022.
