Andronikos was portrayed in the novel Baudolino by Umberto Eco, with much detail being given to his grisly end.

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

In 1952 Umberto D was released, usually considered the last film of this type.

Partially paralyzed, he was first transferred to Ferrara for rehabilitation and then to the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome to be near his wife, also hospitalized.

On 29 July 1900, King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated, a deed that horrified the aged composer.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

In the 1946 with decree Liutenant one ( Umberto II of Savoia ) the new Municipality of Apuania was melted and the province ( for error and / or historical ignorance ) resumptions the denomination does not date from 1859 when it was " Massa and Carrara " but Massa ( name with which it came designated to the city of Massa or Massa of Carrara from 1700 until Kingdom of Italy ( 1860 ), denomination that, in order to distinguish it from the other homonymous cities, the chief town continued till the institution of the unified Municipality of Apuania ) and with same the decree liutenant were placed to Massa.

Norge, though Norwegian-owned, was designed and piloted by the Italian Umberto Nobile.

In 1989 with Umberto Angelucci, Benni directed the film Musica per vecchi animali, adapted from his book Comici spaventati guerrieri with the actors Dario Fo, Paolo Rossi, and Viola Simoncioni, and just two years before that he was also the screenwriter of another film, Topo Galileo by Francesco Laudadio, starring his friend Beppe Grillo and with music by Fabrizio De André and Mauro Pagani.

The screenplay for the movie was written by Bertolucci himself, Umberto Contarello and Niccolò Ammaniti, and expected to release late 2012.

This was also the time period when a more upbeat neorealism emerged, which produced films that melded working-class characters with 1930s-style populist comedy, as seen in de Sica's Umberto D.

According to the Books of Chronicles chapter 9 line 2, the Israelites, who took part in The Return to Zion are from the Tribe of Judah alongside the Tribe of Simeon that was absorbed into it, the Tribe of Benjamin, the Tribe of Levi ( Levites and Priests ) alongside the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, which according to the Book of Kings 2 Chapter 7 were exiled by the Assyrians ( The Biblical scholars Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom claim these two tribes ' names to be a reference to the remant of all Ten Tribes that was not exiled and absorbed into the Judean population ).

This insistent quarrel ( or dispute ) was well configured by Umberto Eco when, exposing the example of divergences about the concept of " Denotation " in Stuart Mill and Hjelmslev, concluded that:

In 1900 he was named senator by king Umberto I.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Trieste was a buzzing cosmopolitan city frequented by artists and philosophers such as James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Sigmund Freud, Dragotin Kette, Ivan Cankar, Scipio Slataper, and Umberto Saba.

This campaign against Modernism was run by Umberto Benigni in the Department of Extraordinary Affairs in the Secretariat of State, distributing anti-Modernist propaganda and gathering information on " culprits ".

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

She was married at Rome, Italy on 8 January 1930 to Prince Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piemonte ( born 15 September 1904 and died on 18 March 1983 at Geneva, Switzerland ).

On August 22, 1891 was opened the first hospital dedicated to St. Gerard of Dyers, patron of the city with St. John the Baptist, thanks to the large donation by King Umberto I.

As the royal park, near the Royal Villa that was open to the public, he went there to inquire into the habits of the King Umberto I.

Umberto I ( c. 980 – 1047 / 1048 ) ( in French, Humbert aux blanches-mains ; in Italian, Umberto Biancamano ) was the first Count of Savoy from 1032, when the County of Vienne, which had been sold to the Archdiocese of Vienne, was divided between the County of Albon and the Maurienne.

Umberto married Ancilla ( Auxilia or Ancilia ) of Lenzburg, the daughter of the master of ceremonies of Burgundy, and had at least four sons:

Umberto married four times:

In 2008 Aimone of Savoy-Aosta married Princess Olga of Greece, his second cousin, and they became the parents of sons Umberto and Amedeo born, respectively, in 2009 and 2011.

On 7 July 2006 Vittorio Emanuele's kinsman and dynastic rival, Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta declared himself to be the head of the House of Savoy and Duke of Savoy, claiming that Vittorio Emanuele had lost his dynastic rights when he married without the permission of King Umberto II in 1971.

She married her first cousin Umberto, Prince of Piedmont on 21 April 1868.

Clotilde Courau announced her engagement on 10 July, and on 25 September 2003 at the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, she married Prince Emanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Rene Maria of Savoy, the Prince of Venice and Piedmont.

On 8 January 1930, she married in Rome Prince Umberto, at that time the Crown Prince of Italy from the House of Savoy, and so became The Princess of Piedmont ( in Italian: Principessa di Piemonte ).

Umberto and Antonella later divorced, and Umberto married Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto in 1974, who is the first cousin of his sister in law Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, both members of and old Neapolitan noble family, that has the titles of nobility of Prince of Castagneto and Duke of Melito, among others.

On February 12, 1955, Alexander married Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, daughter of King Umberto II of Italy and of his wife, Princess Marie-José of Belgium.

She was married at Rome, Italy, on 8 January 1930 to Prince Umberto Nicola Tomasso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont, born on 15 September 1904, and died on 18 March 1983, at Geneva, Switzerland.

Luisa's father was made a count by King Umberto I. Countess Amman died when Luisa was thirteen, and Count Amman died two years later, making his daughters, Luisa and her elder sister, Francesca ( 1880 – 1919, married Giulio Padulli ), reportedly the wealthiest women in Italy.

* HRH Hereditary Prince Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto of Hesse ( born 17 October 1966 ) married Countess Floria of Faber-Castell in 2003, has a daughter and a son, twins, and a further son.

Umberto II of Italy | Umberto II of Savoy, the King of MayThe King was asked to pass all his powers to his son Umberto, who was appointed as General Lieutenant of the Kingdom just after the Allied occupation of Rome on 4 June 1944.

* On 18 March, the King ( now formally the lieutenant ) issued the decrees together with a letter in which he anticipated his intention of abdicating in favor of his son Umberto II ( who was named lieutenant general ); the date for abdication being the anniversary of the Allied forces ’ entry into Rome.

Rome was liberated two months later, and Victor Emmanuel transferred his remaining powers to Umberto and named him Lieutenant General of the Realm.

This status was formalized after Rome was liberated in June, when Victor Emmanuel transferred his remaining constitutional powers to Umberto, naming his son Lieutenant General of the Realm.

Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni, 1916by Umberto Boccioni Galleria Nazionale d ' Arte Moderna, Rome

Umberto Eco, in his book Baudolino, has the young Baudolino invent a story about seeing the holy foreskin and navel in Rome to the company of Frederick Barbarossa.

The military operation played a major political role, since the King Vittorio Emanule III of Italy, the queen Elena, the crown prince and future king Umberto, the prime minister Generale Badoglio, and other high ranking Italian officers hastily escaped from Rome and the German danger, early in the morning of the 9th of September, embarked the Corvetta Baionetta in Ortona, and arrived the same day into the port of Brindisi.

Umberto Guidoni ( born in Rome 18 August 1954 ) is an Italian politician and a former ESA astronaut.

* Fortis, Umberto and Zolli, Paolo, La parlata giudeo-veneziana: Assisi / Rome 1979 ISBN 88-85027-07-5

Among the best-known people who have attended Sapienza University of Rome are Somali President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke ; Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti ; Italian political leaders Franco Frattini and Antonio Tajani ; Italian Constitutional Court President Leopoldo Elia ; Roman Catholic Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe ; Nobel Laureate in Physics Emilio Segrè ; actors Carlo Verdone and Christian De Sica ; archaeologist Carlo Fea ; architects Pietro Belluschi, Romaldo Giurgola and Massimiliano Fuksas ; astronaut Umberto Guidoni ; civil servant Mario Catania ; diplomat Sergio Balanzino ; economists Paolo Leon, Mario Draghi and Ignazio Visco ; footballers Valerio Fiori and Andrea Stramaccioni ; mathematicians Ennio De Giorgi and Gaetano Fichera ; microbiologist Clelia Giacobini ; physicists Domenico Pacini, Piero Giorgio Bordoni, Giovanni Ciccotti and Giorgio Parisi ; writers Daria Galateria and Cristina Ali Farah

Born into a very well respected Maltese family in Senglea, Pisani enrolled as a student at the Umberto Primo art lyceum, where he won a scholarship to study in Rome.

Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti, who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor old man in Rome desperately trying to keep his room.

He was also in regular contact with other royal and princely houses ; in 1930 he attended the Rome wedding of the Prince of Piedmont ( later King Umberto II of Italy ) to Princess Marie-José of Belgium, and in 1935 he attended the Rome wedding of Infante Jaime of Spain.