Gaetano
Encyclopedia
Sports
- Gaetano BelloniGaetano BelloniGaetano Belloni was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlights of his career were his overall win in the 1920 Giro d'Italia, the two victories in Milan – San Remo , and the three victories in the Giro di Lombardia .Belloni was born at Pizzighettone, near Cremona, and made his...
(1892-1980), Italian professional road racing cyclist - Gaetano CaridiGaetano CaridiGaetano Caridi, born on July 22, 1980 in Reggio Calabria, is an Italian footballer currently playing for Grosseto.Caridi began his career playing for minor Tuscan club Pontedera. He made his debut with the then-Serie C2 club in 1999, aged 19, playing 22 matches and scoring four goals...
(born 1980), Italian footballer - Gaetano D'AgostinoGaetano D'AgostinoGaetano D'Agostino is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Siena. Usually a playmaker, D'Agostino is best known for his incisive passing.-Club career:...
(born 1982), Italian footballer - Gaetano De RosaGaetano De RosaGaetano De Rosa is an Italian retired football defender.-History:Although born in Germany, De Rosa is entirely of Italian background with family from the Alps and Naples. Indeed it was with local side Napoli that he first broke through into the youth side, before making it professionally with the...
(born 1973), Italian football defender - Gaetano FontanaGaetano FontanaGaetano Fontana was an Italian football midfielder. His last club was Ascoli.-Honours and awards:*Serie A promotion: 2004 *Serie B promotion: 2002 *Serie B promotion: 2006...
(born 1970), Italian football midfielder - Gaetano GiallanzaGaetano GiallanzaGaetano Giallanza is a Swiss-Italian professional footballer, who last played for FC Basel as a striker. He has previously played for Darlington, Norwich City and Bolton Wanderers.-External links:*...
(born 1974), Swiss professional footballer - Gaetano Lamonaca (born 1982), Italian football player
- Gaetano OrlandoGaetano OrlandoGaetano "Gates" Orlando is an Italian-Canadian retired professional ice hockey Centre and later ice hockey coach.-Achievements:*1990 - Serie A Champion with HC Bolzano*1992 - Serie A Champion with Milano Devils...
(born 1962), Italian-Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre - Gaetano ScireaGaetano ScireaGaetano Scirea was an Italian football player who is considered one of the greatest defenders of all-time.Scirea is one of only five players in European football history to have won all international trophies for football clubs recognized by UEFA and FIFA...
(1953-1989), Italian football player - Gaetano StarrabbaGaetano StarrabbaPrince Gaetano Starrabba di Giardinelli is a former racing driver from Italy. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on September 10, 1961. He scored no championship points...
(born 1932), former racing driver - Gaetano VasariGaetano VasariGaetano "Tanino" Vasari is an Italian former football midfielder.-Career:Vasari, a native of the Palermo neighbourhood of Borgo Vecchio, started his playing career with Partinicaudace, a team from Partinico playing in the Serie D...
(born 1970), Italian former football midfielder - Gaetano VastolaGaetano VastolaGaetano Vastola is an Italian football player, who plays as defender for S.S. Lanciano.-Career:In the past he played with Scafatese, Giugliano, Narnese, Maceratese, Salernitana, U.S. Avellino, Ascoli Calcio 1898 and Gallipoli Calcio.-References:...
(19th century), Italian footballer
The arts
- Gaetano BerenstadtGaetano BerenstadtGaetano Berenstadt was an Italian alto castrato who is best remembered for his association with the composer George Frideric Handel. Berenstadt created roles in three of Handel's operas. Berenstadt's parents were German and his father was timpanist to the Grand Duke of Tuscany...
(1687-1734), Italian alto castrato - Gaetano BragaGaetano BragaGaetano Braga was an Italian composer and cellist.He was born in Giulianova in Abruzzi and died in Milan....
(1829-1907), Italian composer and cellist - Gaetano Callido, organ maker
- Gaetano BrunettiGaetano BrunettiGaetano Brunetti was a prolific Italian composer active in Spain under kings Charles III and IV...
(1744-1798), prolific Italian composer - Gaetano CastelliGaetano Castelli- External links :* .* exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute, London, July 12, 2007 – September 13, 2007.Ate a lot of cheese, he loved soap operas...
(20th century), Italian painter and set designer - Gaetano ChiaveriGaetano ChiaveriGaetano Chiaveri was an Italian Baroque architect and master builder, most notable for his work as part of the second phase of the Dresden Baroque. His works include the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden and a new wing of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, whilst he also oversaw the construction of the...
, architect - Gaetano Curreri, musician
- Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
(1797-1848), Italian opera composer - Gaetano GandolfiGaetano GandolfiGaetano Gandolfi was an Italian painter of the late Baroque and early Neoclassic period, active in Bologna.Gaetano was born in San Matteo della Decima, near Bologna, to a family of artists. Ubaldo Gandolfi was his brother, Mauro Gandolfi was his son, and Democrito Gandolfi was his grandson...
(1734-1802), Bolognese painter - Gaetano GrecoGaetano Greco- External links :...
(circa 1657-1728), Italian Baroque composer - Gaetano GuadagniGaetano GuadagniGaetano Guadagni was an Italian mezzo-soprano castrato singer, most famous for singing the role of Orpheus at the premiere of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762.- Career :...
(1729-1792), Italian mezzo-soprano castrato singer - Gaetano LapisGaetano LapisGaetano Lapis was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.He was born in Cagli and trained under Sebastiano Conca. He painted a Birth of Venus for the ceiling of the Palazzo Borghese in Rome.-References:...
(1704-1776), Italian painter - Gaetano MartorielloGaetano MartorielloGaetano Martoriello was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active near his natal city of Naples. He painted mainly marine vedute and landscapes.-References:...
(circa 1680-1733), Italian painter - Gaetano MerolaGaetano MerolaGaetano Merola was an Italian conductor and founder of the San Francisco Opera.-Biography:Merola was born in Naples, the son of a Neapolitan court violinist and studied piano and conducting at the Naples conservatory...
(1881-1953), Italian conductor - Gaetano PesceGaetano PesceGaetano Pesce is an Italian architect and designer.-Biography:Gaetano Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939. He studied Architecture at the University of Venice. He has since worked worldwide as an architect and a designer for companies such as B&B Italia, Vitra and Cassina. His most famous building...
(born 1939), Italian architect and designer - Gaetano PollastriGaetano Pollastri-Biography:Gaetano Pollastri Gaetano, Augusto's younger brother,was a professional violinist but after the first world war he devoted himself to violin making. He worked with the same company as his brother in via Castiglione, that was devoted to the construction, repair and commerce of string...
(1886-1960), professional violinist - Gaetano PreviatiGaetano PreviatiGaetano Previati was an Italian painter.-Biography:Previati moved from Ferrara to Milan in 1876 and enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, winning the Canonica competition in 1879. Having settled in Milan definitively in 1881, he came into contact with the Scapigliatura movement...
, artist - Gaetano PugnaniGaetano PugnaniGaetano Pugnani was born in Turin. He trained on the violin under Giovanni Battista Somis and Giuseppe Tartini. In 1752, Pugnani became the first violinist of the Royal Chapel in Turin. Then he went on a large tour that granted him great fame for his extraordinary skill on the violin...
(1731-1798), Italian violinist - Gaetano SabatiniGaetano SabatiniGaetano Sabatini was an Italian draftsman and painter.Sabatini died young and little is known about his life. He studied in Bologna, and perfected his style first in drawing, then in painting. He was deaf-mute and was nicknamed "Il Mutolo" . The Getty Museum has a self-portrait by...
(1703-1734), Italian draftsman and painter - Gaetano Sgarabotto (1878-1959), Italian violinmaker
- Gaetano TrentanoveGaetano TrentanoveGaetano Trentanove was an Italian and American sculptor.Trentanove was born in Florence, Italy, a goldsmith's son...
(1858-1937), Italian-American sculptor - Gaetano ZompiniGaetano ZompiniGaetano Zompini was an Italian printmaker and engraver, known for his prints depicting workers from the lower classes in Venice....
(1700-1778), Italian printmaker and engraver
Clergy and religious figures
- Gaetano AlibrandiGaetano AlibrandiArchbishop Gaetano Alibrandi of the Roman Catholic Church was a senior papal diplomat and former Personal Secretary to Giovanni Battista Montini .Mgr. Alibrandi was ordained priest on 1 November 1936, and Consacreted Bishop in 1961...
(1914-2003), archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church - Gaetano BediniGaetano BediniGaetano Bedini was an Italian ecclesiastic, Cardinal and diplomat of the Catholic Church.- Biography :Bedini was born in Senigallia into the peasant Bedini family of Ostra, the son of Alessandro Pellegrino and Marianna Spadoni.Last of 7 sons, Bedini was destined by his father to be a priest...
(1806-1864), Italian ecclesiastical, Cardinal and diplomat of the Catholic Church - Gaetano BisletiGaetano BisletiGaetano Bisleti S.T.D. was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education.Gaetano Bisleti was born in Veroli, Italy...
(1856-1937), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church - Gaetano CatanosoGaetano CatanosoSaint Gaetano Catanoso was an Italian parish priest canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.Born to a prosperous and generous family in Chorio, a small village outside of Reggio Calabria in the Aspromonte. Gaetano was one of eight children. He was ordained on September 20, 1902 and served as a...
(1879-1963), Italian parish priest - Gaetano CicognaniGaetano CicognaniGaetano Cicognani was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1954 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.-Biography:...
(1881-1962), Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church - Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene (Saint Cajetan, 1480-1547), Catholic saint
- Pope Nicholas IIIPope Nicholas IIIPope Nicholas III , born Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, Pope from November 25, 1277 to his death in 1280, was a Roman nobleman who had served under eight Popes, been made cardinal-deacon of St...
(Giovanni Gaetano Orsini), Pope from 1277–1280
Writers and journalists
- Gaetano ArféGaetano ArféGaetano Arfé was an Italian politician, historian, and journalist. From 1966 to 1976 he published the Avanti!, the official newspaper of the Italian Socialist Party, whom he represented in the European parliament from 1979 to 1984...
(1925-2007), Italian politician, historian, and journalist - Gaetano MilanesiGaetano MilanesiGaetano Milanesi was an Italian scholar and writer on the history of art.-Biography:Milanesi was born at Siena, where he studied law, and in 1838 he obtained an appointment in the public library....
(1813-1895), Italian scholar and writer - Gaetano MoroniGaetano MoroniGaetano Moroni was an Italian writer, the author of the well-known Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica.- Biography :Moroni was born in Rome....
(1802-1883), Italian writer - Gaetano MoscaGaetano MoscaGaetano Mosca was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of the Political class and is one of the three members constituting the Italian School of Elitists together with Vilfredo Pareto and Robert...
(1858-1941), Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant - Gaetano PolidoriGaetano PolidoriGaetano Polidori was an Italian writer and scholar living in London. He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori , a physician and poet who lived and practised in his native Bientina, near Pisa, Tuscany....
(1764-1853), Italian writer and scholar - Gaetano SalveminiGaetano SalveminiGaetano Salvemini was an Italian anti-fascist politician, historian and writer.- Biography :Salvemini was born in Molfetta, Apulia....
(1873-1957), Italian anti-fascist politician, historian and writer
Crime figures
- Gaetano BadalamentiGaetano BadalamentiGaetano Badalamenti was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. Don Tano Badalamenti was the capofamiglia of his hometown Cinisi, Sicily, and headed the Sicilian Mafia Commission in the 1970s...
(1923-2004), powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia - Gaetano "Tommy" Gagliano (1884-1951), Sicilian-American mobster
- Gaetano GianollaGaetano GianollaGaetano Gianolla was an Italian-American mobster and former boss of the Detroit Partnership criminal organization.During the Prohibition era, the Detroit River was the most important commercial waterway for the illegal importation of intoxicants from Canada into Detroit, Michigan...
(20th century), Italian-American mobster - Gaetano LococoGaetano LococoGaetano Lococo, also known as "Thomas" or "Tano was a mobster identified as one of the "Five Iron Men" of Kansas City, Missouri by Americanmiafia.com. Lococo was known within the Kansas City crime family as an enforcer in his early years...
(20th century), Italian-American mobster - Gaetano ReinaGaetano ReinaGaetano "Tommy" Reina was the first Boss of the Lucchese crime family in New York City.-Early years:Gaetano Reina was born in September 1889 in Corleone, Sicily to Giacomo Reina and Carmela Runmore. In the early 1900s the Reina family moved to New York City and settled on 107th Street in East Harlem...
(1889-1930), American mobster
Other
- Gaetano Arturo CroccoGaetano Arturo CroccoGaetano Arturo Crocco was an Italian scientist and aeronautics pioneer, the founder of the Italian Rocket Society, and went on to become Italy's leading space scientist. He was born in Naples....
(1877-1968), founder of the Italian Rocket Society - Gaetano BresciGaetano BresciGaetano Bresci was an Italian American anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy. Bresci was the first European regicide not to be executed, as capital punishment in Italy had been abolished since 1889.-Militancy:...
(1869-1901), Italian-American anarchist - Francesco Gaetano CaltagironeFrancesco Gaetano CaltagironeFrancesco Gaetano Caltagirone is an Italian businessman. He controls the holding company Caltagirone S.p.A. with interests in cement manufacturing, real estate, construction and publishing .Caltagirone was born in Rome...
(born circa 1943), Italian businessman - Gaetano CasatiGaetano CasatiGaetano Casati was an Italian and an explorer of Africa, born in Lesmo in upper Italy. After studying at the Academy in Pavia he entered the Italian army in 1859 and served there until 1879. On December 24, 1879, he sailed for Africa under commission of the Società d'Esplorazione Commerciale...
(1838-1902), Italian explorer of Africa - Gaetano Arturo CroccoGaetano Arturo CroccoGaetano Arturo Crocco was an Italian scientist and aeronautics pioneer, the founder of the Italian Rocket Society, and went on to become Italy's leading space scientist. He was born in Naples....
, space scientist - Gaetano De SanctisGaetano De SanctisGaetano De Sanctis was an Italian historian and lifetime senator .He was president of the "Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana" from 1947 to 1954....
(1870-1957), historian and senator - Gaetano FilangieriGaetano FilangieriGaetano Filangieri , Italian jurist and philosopher, was born in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, a country near Naples....
(1753-1788), Italian jurist and philosopher - Gaetano Gagliano (businessman)Gaetano Gagliano (businessman)Gaetano Gagliano, CM is a Canadian entrepreneur, who founded St. Joseph Communications and Salt + Light Television. Born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, he immigrated to Canada in the 1950s and worked for CP Rail before launching St. Joseph Communications in 1956.Gaetano moved from Italy with his...
(born 1917), Canadian businessman - Gaetano Gifuni, politician
- Gaetano MartinoGaetano MartinoGaetano Martino was an Italian politician and university teacher.A native of Messina, Sicily, he was a member of Italian Liberal Party. Gaetano Martino was one of the participants of the Messina Conference in 1955, which would lead to the Treaty of Rome in 1957...
(1900-1967), Italian politician and university teacher - Gaetano Negri, politician
- Gaetano SanseverinoGaetano SanseverinoGaetano Sanseverino was an Italian philosopher and theologian. He made a comparative study including the scholastics, particularly St...
(1811-1865), Italian philosopher and theologian - Gaetano SayaGaetano SayaGaetano Saya is a far right Italian politician, leader of the National Right neo-fascist party.Saya has claimed he was a former member of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind anti-Communist network during the Cold War, involved in Italy's strategy of tension during the "Years of Lead."Gaetano Saya was...
(born 1956), far right Italian politician - Gaetano TantiGaetano TantiGaetano Tanti is a Maltese trade unionist. He joined the Union Haddiema Maghqudin in February 1976. In November 1987 he was appointed part-time Secretary of the General Service Section. In January 1991 he was appointed full-time Secretary of the same Section and a few months later the General...
(20th century), Maltese trade unionist - Gaetano Ciancio Transplant Surgeon and Professor of Surgery and Urology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
People with the surname Gaetano
- Giuseppe de GaetanoGiuseppe de GaetanoGiuseppe de Gaetano is a retired male race walker from Italy. He competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics, finishing in 12th place in the men's 50 km walk event. De Gaetano set his personal best in the men's 50 km walk event in 1993.-Achievements:-References:*...
, Italian race walker - Juan Gaetano (16th century), Spanish sailor
- Nick GaetanoNick GaetanoNick Gaetano created the 35th Anniversary Edition cover art for the works of Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, We the Living, Philosophy: Who Needs It, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, For the New Intellectual, The Early Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto, and The Virtue of Selfishness...
(21st century), prolific illustrator - Paul DiGaetanoPaul DiGaetanoPaul DiGaetano served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 36th legislative district from 1992 – 2006 and from 1986 – 1987. DiGaetano also served as a member of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission, the Legislative Service Commission and the New Jersey Commission on...
, American politician - Rino GaetanoRino GaetanoSalvatore Antonio "Rino" Gaetano , was an Italian singer-songwriter.-Biography:Rino Gaetano was born in Crotone, in the southern Italian region of Calabria...
(1950-1981), Italian singer-songwriter
Other variations
- Caetano VelosoCaetano VelosoCaetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
, musician - Gae AulentiGae AulentiGae Aulenti is an Italian architect, lighting and interior designer, and industrial designer. She is well known for several large-scale museum projects, including Musée d'Orsay in Paris , the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice , and the Asian Art...
, architect - Gaétan VestrisGaétan VestrisGaetano Apolline Baldassarre Vestris , French ballet dancer, was born in Florence and made his debut at the opera in 1749....
, ballet dancer