Franco Cuomo (22 April 1938, Naples – 23 July 2007, Rome) was an Italian journalist and writer. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends
Best known for his historical novels set in the Middle Ages, he was short-listed twice for the Strega Award (the most prestigious literary prize in Italy), first with Gunther d'Amalfi, cavaliere templare (Gunter D’Amalfi, Knight Templar) in 1990 and then Il Codice Macbeth in 1997. An historical novel is a Novel in which the story is set among historical events or more generally in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the Author A literary award is an Award presented to an Author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest
Born in Naples, Cuomo earned his degree in law. Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the He then simultaneously worked in journalism and the theatre, moving on fiction and historical studies. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes.
His most recent works included the novels I sotterranei del cielo, Il tatuaggio, and Anime perdute. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Notturno veneziano con messa nera e fantasmi d'amore and the nonfiction I dieci examined the Italian scientists who signed the "Racial Manifesto" in 1938 leading to the introduction of racial laws. Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as Fact. A scientist, in the broadest sense refers to any person that engages in a systematic activity to acquire Knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices The term race or racial group usually refers to the concept of categorizing Humans into Populations or groups on the basis of various sets
Among his other works of fiction are I semidei, a spy story set in contemporary Italy with clear references to many of the major figures involved in Tangentopoli inspired by his work as journalist, Il signore degli specchi on the life of Nostradamus, and Scroll on the legend that Shakespeare may not have been English. The Genre of spy fiction —sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to Spy-fi —arose before Tangentopoli ( Italian for bribesville) was the name used to indicate the corruption -based system in politics that had its heyday in Italy Michel de Nostredame (14 December 1503 or 21 December 1503 &ndash 2 July 1566 usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French Apothecary William Shakespeare ( baptised He is also the author a five-volume series on the origins of Europe, Il romanzo di Carlo Magno, and a biography of Rita da Cascia, Santa Rita degli impossibili. The latter, rejecting a sort of hagiographic stance, instead reconstructs the mystery in which the medieval mystic was involved surrounding the murder of her husband. Hagiography ( is the study of Saints. A hagiography, from Greek (hağios (ἅγιος "holy" or "saint" and graphē (γραφή
His works of nonfiction include works on idleness (L'ozio), seduction (Elogio del libertino), Oscar Wilde and Victorian era decadentism (Chi ha guardato negli occhi la bellezza), the tragedy of Beatrice Cenci and historical themes concerning the formation and influence of the collective imagination, such as Le grandi profezie (on prophecies from the dawn of human civilization to the modern age) and on knighthood (Gli ordini cavallereschi nel mito e nella storia). Culture The Victorian fascination with novelty resulted in a deep interest in the relationship between modernity and cultural continuities Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages.
He is the author of a vast theatrical body of works, put on stage and abroad by such directors as Carmelo Bene, Maurizio Scaparro, Sergio Fantoni, and Françoise Petite. Among the latter are: Faust o Margherita (with Carmelo Bene), Romeo e Giulietta (with Carmelo Bene and Roberto Lerici), Compagno Gramsci, Il caso Matteotti, Caterina delle misericordie (Premio Riccione), Nerone (Premio Idi), Giovanna d'Arco e Gilles de Rais (Premio Vallecorsi), Addio amore (Beatrice Cenci) (Premio Fondi), Una notte di Casanova (Premio Flaiano) and the recent Gladiator. Among the awards he won are: the Fregene Prize for journalism (1984), the Premio per la Cultura della Presidenza del Consiglio (1989), the Ravello (1990), the Vanvitelli (1995), and the Blow In (1997). Luigi Vanvitelli ( May 12, 1700, Naples &ndash March 1 1773, Caserta) was an Italian engineer and architect
He translated Utopia by Thomas More and numerous classics for stage productions including Cyrano de Bergerac and Albert Camus’ Caligula, directed by Maurizio Scaparro, as well as works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Plautus and Musset. Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535 from 1935 Saint Thomas More, was an English Lawyer, author and statesman who in his lifetime gained Albert Camus ( (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 was an Algerian born French Author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize
He worked with public broadcaster RAI and was in charge of (or worked as consultant for) a wide variety of radio and television programmes dealing with cultural topics (L'occhio sul teatro and Magico e nero for Videosapere) and ones appealing to a more general audience (Cararai, Cronache del cinema e del teatro, Obbiettivo Europa and Cineteatro). Public broadcasting refers to radio television and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public
Over his life he was on the editorial staff of a number of newspapers and periodicals as special correspondent, critic and editor-in-chief of culture sections, as well as co-director of magazines (Fiera and Achab) and author of monographs for specialized magazines (Medioevo and Ulisse 2000).
He frequently appeared as a guest on television programmes on RAI, Mediaset and other broadcasters, taking part in the programmes Stargate, Voyageur, Unomattina, Maurizio Costanzo, Top Secret and SpecialestoriaTG1, as well as others.
He died in Rome on 23 July 2007 at the age of 69. Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
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