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John Giorno is an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep (1963). He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser, and a long-time practitioner of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Giuseppe Parini was an Italian Enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period.
Lariosaurus is an extinct genus of nothosaurid from the Middle Triassic of central and western Europe and China. With a length of just 60 centimetres (2.0 ft), it was one of the smallest known nothosaurs. First discovered at Perledo on the Lake Como in 1830, it was named in 1847 by Curioni, its name meaning "Lizard from Larius", the ancient name of the lake. This makes it one of the earliest studied reptiles from the Alps. It is known from an almost complete skeleton holotype and several other fairly complete fossils.
Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques.
Mass media of Italy includes a variety of online, print, and broadcast formats, such as radio, television, newspapers, and magazines.
il Resto del Carlino is an Italian newspaper based in Bologna, and is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. Its rather evocative name means "the change you get from a Carlino," the smallest part of the Papal baiocco, which was legal tender at the time, when a sheet of local news was given out in shops to make up for any change owing after buying a cigar.
Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
Quotidiano.net is an Italian news website, launched in 2000 and owned by the publishing house Poligrafici Editoriale.
Francesco Scianna is an Italian actor.
Ermanno Corsi is an Italian journalist and writer. He was born in Carrara.
Arrigo Petacco was an Italian writer, historian and journalist.
The Shortest Day is a 1962 Italian comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia and Franco Franchi in the leading roles. Dozens of other well-known actors, from both European and American cinema, agreed to appear in the movie in cameo roles for free to avert the bankruptcy of the production company, Titanus.
Nanni Cagnone is an Italian poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. He debuted as a poet in 1954 and since then has written several books, mostly poetry but also plays and novels, theoretical essays and aphorisms, from The Disabled Youth (1967) to The Oslo Lecture (2008). He is the father of Benedicta Froelich, and is married to Sandra Holt. Currently lives in Bomarzo.
Adolfo Tommasi was an Italian painter.
Enzo Forcella was an Italian essayist, historian and journalist.
Andrea Lavezzolo was an Italian novelist and short story writer who created and wrote many prominent Italian comics of the 1940s and 1950s.
Il Giorno dei Ragazzi was a weekly comic supplement magazine of the Italian newspaper Il Giorno, published between 1957 and 1968.
Giuseppe Perego was an Italian comic artist, active between the early 1930s and the early 1980s.
Bustese Milano City Football Club is an Italian association football club located in Busto Garolfo, Lombardy. It currently plays in Serie D.
