Padania is an alternative name and proposed independent state encompassing Northern Italy, derived from the name of the Po River, whose basin includes much of the region, centered on the Po Valley, the major plain of Northern Italy.
Franco Mimmi is an Italian journalist and novelist.
Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.
Enrico Brizzi is an Italian writer. He is best known for his debut novel Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band, which is so far the only one translated into English. It also inspired the same name Italian movie in 1996.
Commedia all'italiana, or Italian-style comedy, is an Italian film genre born in Italy in the 1950s and developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street in 1958, and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961). According to most of the critics, La Terrazza (1980) by Ettore Scola is the last work considered part of the commedia all'italiana.
Vittorio Umberto Antonio Maria Sgarbi is an Italian art critic, art historian, writer, politician, cultural commentator, and television personality. He is president of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. Appointed curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, Sgarbi is also a columnist for il Giornale and works as an art critic for the Panorama and IO Donna. A popular ecletic and mediatic phenomenon, Sgarbi is well known for his glib, verbal aggressiveness, and insults, which often led to libels.
Baldini is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with this surname include:
Felice Maniero is a former Italian crime boss who was the head of the Mala del Brenta, a criminal organisation based in the region of Veneto throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His nickname is Faccia d'Angelo, which he shares with the Milanese mobster Francis Turatello and Camorra boss Edoardo Contini. He was born at Campolongo Maggiore, in the province of Venice. Originally the leader of a small band of thieves, through connections with Sicilian mafiosi in exile in Veneto he was able to expand and enlarge his organization and modeled it after the mafia. He was a prolific drug trafficker and was particularly notorious for taking part in many armed robberies, some with extremely high loots.
Raffaello "Lello" Baldini, was an Italian poet in the Romagnol language.
Luigi Augusto Fontanella is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.
Fulvio Croce was an Italian lawyer. The president of the Turin Bar Association, he was killed by a terrorist group, the Red Brigades.
Paolo Alberto Brera was an Italian economist, academic, journalist, multilingual translator and novelist.
Mauro Macario is an Italian poet, essayist and director.
Gabriele Basilico was an Italian photographer who defined himself as "a measurer of space".
Luigi Vignali and Michele Mozzati, best known as Gino & Michele, are writers, television and theater authors, and editors.
Lamberto Caimi is an Italian cinematographer.
Mario Landi was an Italian director known for his giallo movies such as Giallo a Venezia and his television series Le inchieste del commissario Maigret.
Più bello di così si muore is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Enrico Montesano, Monica Guerritore and Ida Di Benedetto. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Antonio Amurri, who also collaborated to the screenplay.
Franco Loi was an Italian poet, writer, and essayist. He was born in Genoa, and died in Milan, aged 90. He made his debut in 1973 as a poet using dialect and had a good success with the work I cart, and the following year, 1974, with Poems of love. In 1975, the poet proved to have reached complete maturity of expression with the poem Stròlegh, published by Einaudi with a preface by Franco Fortini. In 1978, Einaudi published the collection Teater and in 1981 the work L'Angel followed by Edizioni San Marco dei Giustiniani. Also in 1981, thanks to the collection L'aria, he won the "Lanciano" national prize for dialectal poetry. In 2005, he published L'aria de la memoria for Einaudi, in which he collected all the poems written between 1973 and 2002. He has been Honorary President of the Contemporary Arts Centre of Cilento and Milan founded in 2019 by Menotti Lerro, and, starting in 2020, member of the Empathic School Movement / Empathism. In 2019, he won the Cilento Poetry Prize conferred on him by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
Elisabetta Sgarbi is an Italian filmmaker, publisher, and editorial director based in Milan.
