Who was born first, Daphne du Maurier or Pietro di Donato?
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Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE ( ; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.
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Pietro di Donato Pietro Di Donato (April 3, 1911–January 19, 1992) was an American writer and bricklayer best known for his novel, "Christ in Concrete", which recounts the life and times of his bricklayer father, Geremia, who was killed in 1923 in a building collapse. The book, which portrayed the world of New York's Italian-American construction workers during The Great Depression, was hailed by critics in the United States and abroad as a metaphor for the immigrant experience in America, and cast di Donato as one of the most celebrated Italian American novelists of the mid-20th century.
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Bartolomeo della Gatta Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448–1502), born Pietro di Antonio Dei, was an Italian (Florentine) painter, illuminator, and architect. He was the son of a goldsmith. He was a colleague of Fra Bartolommeo. In 1468, Bartolomeo became a monk in the Order of Camaldoli, which his brother Nicolo had already entered. Upon taking holy orders, he changed his name to Bartolomeo. About 1481, he was summoned to Rome where he contributed to the cycle of frescos on the walls of the Sistine Chapel.
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Pietro Gaietto Pietro Gaietto is an Italian artist, scientist, and writer. He is associated with the Museum of the Origins of Man, an institution in the city of Genova, Italy in which he also resides. He has a wife, Licia Filingeri, and a son.
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Catherine Dunne (writer) Catherine Dunne (born 1954) is an Irish writer. She was born in Dublin and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming a teacher. In 2013, she was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction for "The Things We Know", which was published in Italy as "Quel che ora sappiamo".
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Simone Del Duca Simone Del Duca (18 July 1912 – 16 May 2004) was a French businesswoman, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and major philanthropist. Married to French publishing magnate Cino Del Duca, on his death in 1967 she was left with a considerable fortune. Although she remained on the Board of Directors of her late husband's companies, Simone Del Duca devoted a great deal of her time to philanthropic causes. In 1969 she established a prestigious literary prize in her husband's name. The Prix mondial Cino Del Duca provides a substantial cash prize and was made open to qualified persons from anywhere in the world.
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Pietro Masturzo Pietro Masturzo is an Italian freelance photographer. He was born in Naples, in 1980. He studied "International Relations" in Naples. After that he moved to Rome to study photography. He has been working as a professional photographer since 2007.
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Pietro de' Medici Don Pietro de' Medici (3 June 1554 – 25 April 1604) was the youngest son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo.
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Daphne Guinness The Honourable Daphne Diana Joan Susanna Guinness (born 9 November 1967) is a British and Irish fashion designer, art collector, model, musician, film producer and actor. She is an heir by direct descent of the 18th century Irish brewer Arthur Guinness.
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Daphne Mabel Maugham Daphne Mabel Maugham or Daphne Maugham-Casorati (1897–1982) was a British painter, who emigrated to Turin, Italy.
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Peter O'Donnell Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was a British writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of "Modesty Blaise", an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also an award-winning gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent, in 1978, his novel "Merlin's Keep" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Pietro Pezzati (artist) Pietro Pezzati (1828–1890) was an Italian painter.
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Chetta Chevalier Chetta Chevalier, born Henrietta Scerri (2 April 1901 – 7 September 1973), a Maltese woman of British nationality resident in Rome, was a critical node in Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty's "Rome Escape Line" network operating in the Vatican during World War Two. Her third-floor flat on the Via Imperia was used as a depot for supplies, and to lodge escapees fleeing the Fascist regimes of Europe. She was known within the organization as "Mrs. M." The provenance of her "nom de guerre" — whether this was a reference to her home island of Malta, her mother's maiden name, or another factor — is unknown.
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Donatus of Arezzo Saint Donatus of Arezzo (Italian: "San Donato di Arezzo" ) is the patron saint of Arezzo, and considered a bishop of the city.
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Giuseppe Di Bianco Giuseppe Di Bianco (born 21 October 1969) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, mainly of choral music.
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Dorothy Doughty Dorothy Susan Doughty (Sanremo 1892 – 6 October 1962) was a British sculptor and potter. She was the daughter of poet, writer, and traveller Charles Montagu Doughty.
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Melchiorre Delfico (caricaturist) Baron Melchiorre De Filippis Delfico (1825 – 22 December 1895) was an Italian artist, composer, singer, conductor, writer, librettist and a master of the Neapolitan art of caricature who inspired, among others, Carlo Pellegrini.
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Dano Raffanti Dano Raffanti (born April 5, 1948) is an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian baroque and bel canto repertory.
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Bruno Dutot Bruno Dutot (born 19 October 1962) is a French-born Australian painter, known especially for his public mural of 'Oucha' a woman with cat in Edgecliff, Sydney.
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Pietro Canonica Pietro Canonica (1 March 1869 – 8 June 1959) was an Italian sculptor, painter, opera composer, professor of arts and senator for life.
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Mary Anne Daphne du Maurier's novel Mary Anne (1954) is a fictionalised account of the real-life story of her great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776-1852).
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Donato Piazza Donato Piazza (2 January 1930 – 14 September 1997) was an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 22 of the 1956 Giro d'Italia.