Her fiance, who is with a publishing firm, translates many books from English into Italian.

Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.

Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology, legend, and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired.

Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily ( Fogg ) Mead, was a sociologist who studied Italian immigrants.

Her debut at Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as " Neocle " in the Italian version of Le siège de Corinthe, which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti ( as " Maffio Orsini "), Salvi and Pacini.

Her first story, Atlanta Girl Sees Italian Revolution, by Margaret Mitchell Upshaw, appeared on December 31, 1922.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

Her mother's maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant ; her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.

Her tenure as regent of the Italian lands of the Holy Roman Empire probably lasted from 1117 to 1119, whereupon she rejoined her husband in Lotharingia.

Her father was of Italian descent and her mother was Jewish.

Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen.

Her most successful term was when Philip was away touring his Italian domains for nine months in 1702.

Her talent in composition and translation is evidenced in her fine translations of the works of poets writing in French, English, Italian, Armenian, and Korean.

Her name references the motor scooter Vespa, which is Italian for " wasp.

Her style of designing garden rooms, defined outdoor spaces which transition distinctly from one to another, was inspired by studying Italian Renaissance gardens and villas in her travels.

Her design was inspired by her European ventures, especially from the Italian Renaissance gardens, and consisted of a establishing a sophisticated relationship between the architectural and natural environments, with formal terraced gardens stepping a down steep slope and transitioning to a more naturalistic aesthetic approaching the creek.

Her story was also put to the stage in the verse tragedy Canace ( 1588 ), by Italian playwright Sperone Speroni.

Her father was of German and Swiss descent and her mother is Italian American ( from Sicily ).

Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV.

Her annual world tours and Italian TV shows, however, continued to include her best of the late sixties.

He was also a noted conductor, directing Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre for seven years, among other conducting posts.

From 1846 to 1852 Balfe was appointed musical director and principal conductor for the Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre.

Her following album " Lo Que Son Las Cosas " ( What A Way For Things To Be ) in 1991 included a Spanish version of a song made famous by Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti.

His tenure of the Foreign Office was noteworthy for the famous dispatch in which he defended Italian independence: " Her Majesty's Government will turn their eyes rather to the gratifying prospect of a people building up the edifice of their liberties, and consolidating the work of their independence, amid the sympathies and good wishes of Europe " ( 27 October 1860 ).

Her poems have been translated into Italian, Japanese and Russian.

Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Her father's family was originally named " Tomchin ", but took the surname " Horowitz " when they immigrated to America.

Her surname probably reflects her father's lordship of Beaufort in Champagne, France, where she might also have been born.

Her sister Olivia was already a rising star under her father's surname.

Her surname was " Hamilton " on her report card, as was her father's when he tosses aside a piece of mail.

Her surname may have been taken from the name of a publishing house, l ' imprimeur Vandezande, which published a Tintin calendar in 1946.

Her surname " Lugn " also means " calm " in Swedish ; a double meaning she jokes with and uses.

* Her name is used as the surname of Princess Vivi in the manga series One Piece.

Her mother used to call her Blu ; Cantrell is her grandmother's surname.

Her apparent distant cousin ( and seducer ) Alec D ' Urberville proved to be a member of a nouveau-riche 19th-century family that had merely adopted the surname of Stoke-D ' Urberville in the hope of sounding more distinguished.

Her paternal grandfather, who played the accordion, mandolin and guitar, emigrated to the United States from Sicily ; his surname was " Mercante " before it was Anglicized.

Her mother's surname, " Rosenburg ", originates from German ancestry.

On March 13, 1939 Carnera married Giuseppina Kovacic ( Her surname was changed to " Cavazzi " due to the Fascist regime ).

Her mother moved to California, where she later married television writer Don Brinkley, and Christie adopted her stepfather's surname.

Her elder daughter Louise also used this surname until Alexander was born, when she ceased to use the surname and her brother used it.

Her father is said to have assumed the surname of Wilson about 1801.

Her family is Roman Catholic ; the surname was originally Sticia and of Northern Italian origin.

Her forename means " white " ( feminine ) in Italian, and her surname is Italian for " chaste flower ".

Her surname, Pataki, is originally a Hungarian surname, Patak (" brook ", in Hungarian ).

Her paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants from Salonika who anglicized their surname from " Pisperikos " to " Perkins " when they emigrated to the United States.

Her children from her first marriage to Clifton Brown, who Alfred Kroeber adopted and gave his surname to, were Ted Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber, historian.

Her surname ( pronounced kh-lum-skee ) is Czech in origin.