The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy The Barber of Seville (1775). The première of Rossini's opera took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, with designs by Angelo Toselli.
Junio Valerio Scipione Ghezzo Marcantonio Maria Borghese, nicknamed The Black Prince, was an Italian Navy commander during the regime of Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party and a prominent hardline neo-fascist politician in post-war Italy. In 1970, he took part in the planning of a neo-fascist coup, dubbed the Golpe Borghese, that was called off after the press discovered it; he subsequently fled to Spain and spent the last years of his life there.
Francisco Remigio Morales Bermúdez Cerruti was a Peruvian politician and general who was the de facto President of Peru between 1975 and 1980, after deposing his predecessor, General Juan Velasco. His grandfather and all his original family were from the old Peruvian department of Tarapacá, which is now part of Chile. Unable to control the political and economic troubles that the nation faced, he was forced to return power to civilian rule, marking the end of the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces installed by a coup d'état in 1968.
Nomadi is an Italian band formed in 1963 and still present on the music scene.
Inigo Campioni was an Italian naval officer during most of the first half of the 20th century. He served in four wars, and is best known as an admiral in the Italian Royal Navy during World War II. He was later executed by the Italian Social Republic for refusing to collaborate.
Angelo Carletti di Chivasso was a noted moral theologian of the Order of Friars Minor; born at Chivasso in Piedmont, in 1411; and died at Coni, in Piedmont, in 1495.
Francesco de Martini was an Italian officer of the Military Information Service in Eritrea, when the Allies invaded Italian East Africa during World War II. He enlisted as a private in the Italian army in 1923, and left active service as brigadier general and the most decorated soldier of the Italian army during World War II.
Raffaele Fiorini, was an influential Italian violin maker.
Renato Ranucci, known by the stage name Renato Rascel, was an Italian film actor and singer. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1972. He represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 with the song "Romantica", which tied for eighth place out of thirteen entries.
Paolo Caccia Dominioni, 14th Baron of Sillavengo was an Italian soldier, officer in the Alpini mountain Infantry Corps, engineer and writer, most noted for his leadership in the North Africa Campaign in World War II.
Luis Ricardo Falero was a Spanish painter. He specialized in female nudes and mythological, orientalist and fantasy settings. His most common medium was oil on canvas. Falero’s paintings are held mostly within private collections in Europe and the United States, although a watercolour of the ‘Twin Stars’ is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini was an Italian writer and journalist, author of novels, poetry, and essays.
Francesco Carletti was a Florentine merchant, explorer and writer.
Tommaso Carletti was born in Viterbo (Italy) and was one of the Governors of Italian Somalia.
Cristian Carletti is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Serie C Group A club AlbinoLeffe.
Guido Keller was an Italian aviator and political activist who was closely associated with Gabriele D’Annunzio and played an important role in the seizure of Fiume in 1919.
Tino Santoni (1913-1987) was an Italian cinematographer.
The Village of Wrath is a 1947 French drama film directed by Raoul André and starring Louise Carletti, Paul Cambo and Micheline Francey. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Louis Le Barbenchon and Raymond Nègre.
Ugo Pio Enrico Natale Brusati, was an Italian General who participated in the First Italo-Ethiopian War and World War I. He gained notability for his service at the Battle of Adwa as well as being the First Adjudant General of Vittorio Emanuele III on June 2, 1902 until October 23, 1917 when Luigi Cadorna forced him out of the office.
Antonino Di Giorgio was an Italian general and politician, who fought in the First Italo-Ethiopian War, the Italo-Turkish War and the First World War, and served as Minister of War of the Kingdom of Italy from April 1924 to April 1925. He resigned after the rejection of his plan for a radical reform of the Royal Italian Army.
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