Francesco Alliata

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Francesco Alliata

Francesco Alliata (born November 21, 1919 in Palermo , † July 1, 2015 in Bagheria ) was an Italian film producer , documentary director and entrepreneur .

Life

Francesco Alliata was the head of the aristocratic family Alliata , which belonged to the patriciate of Pisa and whose lineage begins with Philippo Alliata, who moved to Sicily around 1300. The family received the title of Baron di Villafranca (for Antonio Alliata (1494–1561)) from Emperor Charles V on February 12, 1536 . He was the 2nd son of Gabriele Alliata and 12th Principe di Villafranca and the family's other nobility titles (1874-1927) and Vittora San Martino Ramandetta (1890-?).

He had the historical titles XIV. Principe di Villafranca e del Sacro Romano Impero, Duca di Salaparuta, Principe di Valguarnera e di Montereale, di Ucria, Trecastagni, Buccheri, Castrorao e Saponara, Grande di Spagna di prima classe (Altezza Serenissima) . He was involved in the Second World War as a war correspondent and photographed the events on the Italian front with an Arriflex . After the war he made an ethno-anthropological documentary about the Aeolian Islands with friends . For the first time underwater recordings were used on a large scale. Cacciatori sottomarini was a success at the Cannes Film Festival , also thanks to the music of Renzo Rossellini . The production company Panaria Films financed further documentaries.

Alliata and his friend Fosco Maraini planned a full-length film about Stromboli , which did not materialize (but was made by Roberto Rossellini without the participation of Panaria); instead, they were responsible for the recordings of the volcano for the "competing film" Volcano , alongside the production of the film. In the following years he produced other films. For one of them, Vacanze d'amore , he shot the documentary parts again.

In the middle of the decade, Alliata finished his work for the film industry and dedicated himself to the production of ice cream . He lived in Bagheria in Sicily; his full name was Francesco Giuseppe Felice Immacolata Melchiorre Baldassarre Gaspare Dazio Signoretto Alliata, XIV Principe di Villafranca e del Sacro Romano Impero, Altezza Serenissima, Grande di Spagna di prima classe (since 1978), Duca di Salaparuta, Principe di Valguarnera e di Monterealea di Ucria, Trecastagni, Buccheri, Castrorao e Saponara .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orazio Leotta: Si è spento a 95 anni il principe Francesco Alliata di Villafranca, il pioniere delle riprese subacquee. In: Gazetta Jonica, July 1, 2015 (Italian, accessed July 2, 2015).
  2. ^ Genealogical manual of the nobility, Fürstl. Houses, Volume IV, page 350
  3. ^ Genealogy. Handbook, Volume Fü IV., 354
  4. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, pp. 18f
  5. ↑ Peter Amann: Lipari Islands, 2005, p. 26
  6. ↑ http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?s=37782
  7. ^ Architecture in Context: The Villas of Bagheria, Sicily, 1995, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Alliata, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film producer and documentary director
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2015
Place of death Bagheria