Antonetti, Lorenzo Cardinal b. July 31, 1922 d. April 10, 2013 Roman Catholic Cardinal. Born in Romagnano Sesia within the Northern region of Italy, he completed the necessary requirements to enter the priesthood and was ordained at the age of twenty-three in 1945. He was assigned to the Diocese of Novara and furthered his studies at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. He served as a diplomat and was allocated to Lebanon and later Venezuela from the late 1940s until the mid 1950s. This experience was followed by his assignment as the first section for...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.) Cimitero Comunale di Romagnano Sesia, Novara, Provincia di Novara, Piemonte, Italy
Bada, Angelo b. May 27, 1876 d. March 23, 1941 Opera Singer. A tenor, he was probably his generation's leading comprimario, one of opera's character performers called upon to take the stage virtually every night singing a wide range of roles in a multiplicity of languages. Trained in the Northern Italian city of his birth, he made his January 1900 professional bow as a Messenger in Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida"; over the next eight years he refined his craft in such major venues as La Scala Milano, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, and Covent Garden...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Cimitero Comunale di Novara, Novara, Provincia di Novara, Piemonte, Italy
Riemann, Bernhard Georg Friedrich b. September 17, 1826 d. July 20, 1866 Bernhard Riemann has been one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. His contributions span from algebra to analysis, from non-euclidean geometry to topology. After the solution of the Last Theorem of Fermat, the Riemann's Hypothesis on the distribution of the Prime Numbers is the last big problem still open from the 19th century. He spent the last years of his life mainly in Italy, in the disperate tentative to recover from tubercolosys. He passed away in Selasca, Lake Maggiore, assisted...[Read More] (Bio by: Duke) Biganzolo di Selasca - Verbania, Novara, Provincia di Novara, Piemonte, Italy
Varzi, Achille b. July 7, 1904 d. July 1, 1948 Auto Race Car Driver. Born in Galliate (NO), Novara, Piedmont, Italy, he was the son of a prosperous textile manufacturer. As with many racing drivers, he began with racing motorcycles until he progressed to four wheels in 1928 where for the next ten years, he would rival Tazio Nuvolari. One of his big victories came in the prestigious Targa Florio, where he would beat the favorite Louis Chiron. After racing Alfa Romeo cars he moved to Auto Union in 1935. His driving became overshadowed by...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul Narramore) Cimitero do Galliate, Novara, Provincia di Novara, Piemonte, Italy
b. July 31, 1922 d. April 10, 2013
