In 1995, a Milan judge ordered some of the top names in Italian fashion, including Giorgio Armani, Gianfranco Ferre and Krizia, to stand trial on corruption charges.
From there we can see dozens of rectangular slabs set into the pavement, marking the burial places of centuries of Florentine families, and along the walls, funerary monuments to some of the greatest names in Italian history, including Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo and Rossini, which make Santa Croce the Italian equivalent of Paris's Pantheon or London's Westminster Abbey, a shrine to the so-called lay saints of a modern nation-state.
WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca
The group, with a name that translates as Feminine Toponymy, began collecting names of notable Italian women that city councils use on their street signs.
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For those enamored of esoteric complications and names to match, Italian brand Officine Panerai offers the sure-to-lure Luminor 1950 Rattrapante 8 Days Titanio .
Other presidential candidate names mentioned by members of parliament in interviews with the Italian press include Monti and respected Radical Party leader and former European Union Member of Parliament Emma Bonino.
Of all the candidates on Nigeria's wish-list to lead the Super Eagles to the World Cup, one of the names that stands out is that of the vastly experienced Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni.
In honoring illustrious figures of Italian culture and politics, as well as the Florentine banking families whose names still grace the chapels they paid to decorate, Santa Croce ("Holy Cross") embraces and claims them as its own.
WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca
Names like Pedro Malvez For Puerto Rican Americans, and Bruno San Martino for Italian Americans, and Chief Jay Strong-boat for the Native Indian Americans.
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Giovanni Schiaperelli, an Italian astronomer, created a detailed gazetteer of the planet in the 19th century, using such beguiling names as Olympus and Elysium for the features he saw through his telescope.
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