Famous Italian People: 3D Gallery

FEDERICA PELLEGRINI

Federica Pellegrini was born on 5th August 1988 in Milan, she is a former Italian swimmer, freestyle specialist of which she is the reigning world record holder in the 200 mts and European in the 400 m.She took part in five Olympic events: the first in 2004 when, only sixteen, she won the silver medal in the 200 m freestyle becoming at the time the youngest Italian athlete to get on an individual Olympic podium. then at the Beijing Games, she won the gold medal in that same race, giving Italy the first women's Olympic success in the history of swimming.Pellegrini is the only swimmer to have won eight medals in a row in the same event (200 meters freestyle) at the World Championships.She is also the first female Olympic champion in the history of Italian swimming and the only Italian swimmer to have set world records in more than one event. At the 2020 Summer Olympics , she became the first female swimmer to qualify for five consecutive Olympic finals in the same specialty (200m freestyle)

MIUCCIA PRADA

Miuccia Prada Bianchi is an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. Together with her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, she led and transformed Prada into one of the most renowned fashion houses on the international market. In 2021, according to a ranking by Forbes magazine, it is the 10th richest in Italy and the 565th in the world, with assets of 5.3 billion euros.In 1971, after graduating, she joined Prada, a family business founded by her grandfather Mario Prada in 1913. In the early 80s, he designed a collection of black bags in fine nylon that soon became in great demand all over the world

MANESKIN

The Maneskin is a pop rock group from Rome,made up of 4 guys:Damiano,Vittoria,Thomas and Ethan.The name takes origin from Danish and means “moonlight”.This band was formed in 2015 when the four guys started playing and the opportunity came to partecipate to X Factor,and they came second in the ranking,obtaining success from the general public.The Maneskin hit songsare :Coraline,Vent’anni,Ztti e buoni,Beggin,Mamma mia and Morirò da re.These compositions let the Maneskin win the Sanremo 2021 festival and after the Eurovision Song Contest.

ANTONINO CANAVACCIUOLO

Antonio Cannavacciuolo was born in Naples, April 16, 1975 is an Italian chef and television personality in various tv kitchen programmes. After the first experiences in the Sorrento peninsula, he followed internships in two French restaurants in the Alsace region, He also had the opportunity to work in the restaurant of the Grand. In 1999 he assumed, together with his wife, the management of the historic Moorish-style residence Villa Crespi, in Orta San Giulio on Lake Orta, covering the role of chef patron.In 2003 he received his first Michelin star and in 2006 he was awarded his second. Since 2012 Villa Crespi, with hotel and restaurant, has entered the Relais & Châteaux circuit. In 2022 the restaurant received the third Michelin star, becoming one of the 140 restaurants that boasts this recognition

GIANNI VERSACE

He was born on December 2, 1946 in Reggio Calabria and was assassinated on July 15, 1997 in Miami.was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman. He was the founder of VERSACE , an international luxury fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings and clothes. He also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world.

The place where he was born and raised,REGGIO CALABRIA (our city), greatly influenced his career. In fact , he was strongly influenced by ancient Greek history, which dominates the historical landscape of his birthplace.

DANTE ALIGHIERI

Dante Alighieri was the greatest Italian poet, writer and politician,He is considered the father of the Italian language; its fame is due to the authorship of the Comedìa, which became famous as the Divine Comedy and universally considered the greatest work written in Italian and one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Expression of medieval culture, filtered through the lyric of the Dolce stil novo, the Comedy is also an allegorical vehicle of human salvation. Our school is named after him.

MARCELL JACOBS

Marcell Jacobs has entered the history of Italian sport, becoming the first Italian to win a final in the 100 meters at the 2020 Olympics, closed with a historic gold. No one had ever succeeded, not even two legends of the 'athletic queen' like Livio Berruti and Pietro Mennea, in the most awaited race of the Games: the fastest man in the world is Italian. Jacobs returned to competition in February 2022, winning the 60 m race at the ISTAF Indoor in Berlin with a time of 6.51

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo da
Vinci is considered the greatest genius in history, a brilliant and
multifaceted man, a man of great talent, scientist,inventor, artist, engineer,
anatomist.

He has been called a Universal Genius having made important
discoveries and innovations in the most disparate fields, from mechanical
engineering, to science, from anatomy to painting. Unique,
fruitful, and universal genius Leonardo is considered one of the most
ingenious and prolific minds of the Renaissance.

In addition to his famous paintings, Leonardo da Vinci left to posterity an enormous mass of notebooks (now called “codes“) full of notes and drawings, some still not completely
deciphered today, in which the fascinating activity of the man of science, of
genius and of writer.

Trained in Florence in 1500, and therefore at
the height of the Florentine Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci had the extraordinary merit of
tackling complex problems and ambitious projects, pursuing, for example, the dream of flying, a recurring desire in man’s thoughts since older era.
Impossible to tell in a few lines the rich and complex existence of this
extraordinary man, much has been written about him

ANDREA BOCELLI

Andrea Bocelli is the most successful tenor of all time. He has sung
for Popes, Presidents, and royalty, performed in many of the greatest concert
halls and opera houses, and has sold 85 million records worldwide. He has a
Golden Globe, 7 Classical BRITs, and 7 World Music Awards under his belt, plus
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.On the 6th May 2023 he is going to sing for the incoronation ceremony of the British King Charles III.

Andrea
Bocelli was born 22 September 1958 visually
impaired and at the age of 12, Bocelli
became completely blind. After performing evenings in piano bars and competing
in local singing contests, Bocelli signed his first recording contract with the
Sugar Music Label. He rose to fame in 1994, winning the newcomer’s section of
the 44^th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera

Since 1994, Bocelli has recorded 15 solo studio albums
of both pop and classical music, three greatest hits albums, and nine complete
operas, selling over 75 million records worldwide

LAURA PAUSINI

Laura Pausini is the most
influential and popular female Italian singer in the world.

1993 is the year in which Laura Pausini won the Sanremo Festival with
“La solitudine”. From that moment onwards, all along her hit-studded
career with more than 70 mln albums sold and 226 platinum records,
the greatest female Italian singer has never stopped topping international
charts.

The acknowledgements received during this memorable career include
1 Grammy Award won in 2006 (first Italian woman ever), 4 Latin Grammy Awards, 6
World Music Awards, 5 ASCAP Awards, 1 Legend Award, 4 IFPI Platinum Awards, 3
Lo Nuestro Awards, 2 Billboard Latin Awards, 1 Platinum Globo, 1 Icon award and
recently 1 Golden Globe, 1 Satellite Award, 1 Hollywood Music in Media
Award thus resulting the only Italian female singer in history to have
received such award, not to forget the nomination at the Emmy and the
most recent Oscar nomination for best original song with “Io sì/Seen”.

Her thirteen studio albums and two greatest hits were released worldwide
in Italian and Spanish, with songs performed in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,
English and French.

Laura Pausini has collaborated
with top artists such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Ennio Morricone, Luciano
Pavarotti, Phil Collins, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bublé, Ray Charles, James
Blunt, Alejandro Sanz, Luis Fonsi, Gloria Estefan, Marc Anthony, Kylie Minogue
and many others

On February 27, Laura Pausini
celebrated 30 years of her career with an unprecedented live marathon: three
special performances in just 24 hours in New York, Madrid and Milan, at the end
of which she presented the new single "Un buon inizio/Un buen inicio"
anticipating her new project.

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