** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U. S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

They include the Organization of American States, British High Commission, Mexican Embassy, Embassy of The Republic of China ( Taiwan ) ( in Rodney Bay ), Dominican Republic Consulate, French Embassy, Italian Vice Consulate, Jamaican Consulate, Netherlands Consulate, Norwegian Consulate, and Venezuelan Embassy.

The presence in western Pará was so pronounced that there was a representation of the Consulate of Italy in Óbidos, considered the largest city of the Italian State.

His father Graziano Cavalera, was an employee of the Italian Consulate in São Paulo and died at 40 years of age and is buried in Belo Horizonte ; Max was nine when his father died.

On 17 July 1918 the proposal was formally approved in Boston, and the Italian Consulate accepted provided it became a unit in the Italian Army.

Benvenuta's ownership passed to the Italian Consulate prior to Italy's participation in World War II.

The Italian presence was so significant that during the first half of the 20th century, the Italian government had a consulate branch in São Carlos.

* Special ethnic foods and restaurants that are frequently found in Brazil include Arab cuisine ( Lebanese and Syrian ), local variations of Chinese cuisine ( nevertheless closer to the traditional than American Chinese cuisine ), Italian cuisine, and Japanese cuisine ( sushi bars are a constant in major metropolises, and people from Rio de Janeiro are more used to temaki than people from São Paulo, the home of most of the 70 % national Japanese diaspora ).

Palmeiras was founded on August 26, 1914, initially as Palestra Italia, by Luigi Cervo, Vicenzo Ragognetti, Luigi Emanuele Marzo and Ezequiel Simone, four Italian men who were members of the Italian community of São Paulo.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, several young Italians decided to start a club whose main goal was to form a soccer team that would be representative of the Italian community, and face the big names of São Paulo's soccer elite.

Similar to the Italians of São Paulo ( who founded Palestra Itália, now known as Palmeiras ) the people of Belo Horizonte wanted the Italian colonies in Minas Gerais to have its own club as well.

Both his parents had raced production cars shortly after the Second World War and Wilson Sr was also responsible for the first Mil Milhas race in 1956, in São Paulo, having been inspired by the 1949 Italian Mille Miglia.

Forces commanded by King John I of Portugal and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira, with the support of English allies, opposed the army of King John I of Castile with its Aragonese, Italian and French allies at São Jorge place, between the towns of Leiria and Alcobaça, in central Portugal.

Born to Giovan Battista Portinari and Domenica Torquato, Italian immigrants from Veneto, in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo, Portinari studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes ( ENBA ) in Rio de Janeiro.

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With the expansion of coffee plantations throughout northeastern São Paulo state, many immigrants, mainly Italian, arrived in Franca.

Wilson Sr was also responsible for the first Mil Milhas race in 1956, in São Paulo, having been inspired by the 1949 Italian Mille Miglia.

José Serra was born in São Paulo's neighbourhood called Mooca to Francesco Serra, an Italian immigrant from Corigliano Calabro, Calabria and Serafina Chirico, a Brazilian born to Italian parents.

Similarly and unexplainably, Barret was replaced by the Italian scenery designers Rambois and Cinatti ( who worked on the theatre designs of the São Carlos Theatre ), to continue the remodelling within the monastery in 1867.

The city is also known for its furniture industry developed by Italian immigrants, who helped São Bernardo do Campo become a High-Tech industrial pole.

From 1947 to 1950, he worked as researcher and physics instructor at the Escola Politécnica and in the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of São Paulo, where he studied cosmic radiation under Italian physicists Gleb Wataghin and Giuseppe Occhialini.

Juninho got transferred to São Paulo FC, he won a number of trophies with the club, including the 1993 South American Copa Libertadores championship, the 1993 Intercontinental Cup against Italian team AC Milan, and the 1994 Copa CONMEBOL under the management of Telê Santana.

Rita Lee was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to an American Brazilian father, descended from the Confederados, a dentist, and a Brazilian mother of Italian ancestry.

Pietro Ubaldi ( August 18, 1886 – 1972, in São Vicente, Brazil ) was an Italian philosopher.

In 1980, after Italian arms manufacturer Beretta had completed its contracts to produce firearms for Brazil's military, Taurus purchased Beretta's São Paulo manufacturing plant along with the tooling, technical drawings, and work force necessary to produce several different pistol designs.

After not having appeared in the São Paulo State League in 2010, Edmílson cancelled his contract with Palmeiras and, on 31 January, returned to Spain, signing a five-month contract with struggling Real Zaragoza – at that time, he was already the bearer of an Italian passport, thus not counting as a foreign player.

Mia's frequent absence begins to put Lilly on-edge, and after Mia receives a makeover from Italian hairdresser Paulo ( Larry Miller ), Lilly confronts her and accuses her of trying to be like the popular girls.

File: Enrico Caruso, 1873-1921, funeral at Church San Francisco de Paulo in Naples 3. png | The lying in state of Italian tenor Enrico Caruso at the Church San Francisco de Paulo in Naples, 1921.

* Paul Di Christina ( Paulo Marchese ), leader of the New Orleans Black Hand, is killed by an Italian grocer Pietro Pepitone during an extortion attempt in Pepitone's store.

Son of coffee grower Paulo Cochrane Suplicy and Filomena Matarazzo, he is an heir of the well-known coffee company Suplicy Cafés, besides belonging to the traditional Italian Brazilian Matarazzo family.

She became aware that two Italian workmen, carrying a large azalea pot, were standing before her and wanted her to move so that they could begin arranging a new row of the display.

Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

Over the next several years Metastasio gave Salieri informal instruction in prosody and the declamation of Italian poetry, and Gluck became an informal advisor, friend and confidante.

As Salieri's political position became very insecure he was retired as director of the Italian opera in 1792.

Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all ' antica, in the " ancient mode ", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance ; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.

Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

In 1545 he became minister of the Italian Protestant congregation at Augsburg.

Because of the popularity of Italian opera throughout 18th-century Europe ( except France ), singers such as Ferri, Farinelli, Senesino and Pacchierotti became the first operatic superstars, earning enormous fees and hysterical public adulation.

As in other theatrical works of the time and place, the characters in Goldoni's Italian comedies spoke originally either the literary Tuscan variety ( which became modern Italian ) or the Venetian dialect, depending on their station in life.

Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant " Italian Plastic ", which became a crowd favourite at concerts and the hidden track " I'm Still Here ".

The parties of these MEPs also became full members of the EPP ( with the exception of the British Conservatives who did not join the Party ) and this consolidation process of the European centre-right throughout the ' 90s with the acquisition of members from the Italian Forza Italia.

By the time William Grindal became her tutor in 1544, Elizabeth could write English, Latin, and Italian.

Darnley quickly became unpopular in Scotland and then infamous for presiding over the murder of Mary's Italian secretary David Rizzio.

He was so taken with Italian culture and language during his travels that after his return he became known as the " Italian Earl " at court.

For instance, Erasmus became an intimate friend of an Italian Humanist Publio Fausto Andrelini, poet and " professor of humanity " in Paris.

Following the 1960s boom of shockumentary " Mondo films " such as Gualtiero Jacopetti's Mondo Cane, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Italian cinema became internationally synonymous with violent horror films.

Between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Italian cinema was in crisis ; " art films " became increasingly isolated, separating from the mainstream Italian cinema.

At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the Italian political left became severely split over its position on the war.

" Some have argued that, in spite of Italian Fascism's attempt at totalitarianism, it became an authoritarian cult of personality around Mussolini.

Instead of the original fattoria, the phonetic adaptation American Italian farma ( Weinreich 1963: 49 ) became the new signifier for " farm "— see " one-to-one correlation between signifiers and referents ".

He became involved with Italian Neorealism when Roberto Rossellini, at work on Stories of Yesteryear ( later Rome, Open City ), met Fellini in his shop proposing he contribute gags and dialogue for the script.

Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate 1983, a position he held until 1985, when he became the President of Italy.