List of personalities from Gentilino

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This list contains personalities born in Gentilino in the canton of Ticino and those who had their sphere of activity in Gentilino without being born there. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities

  • Poncini family
    • Tommaso Poncini / o (* around 1590 in Viglio near Gentilino; † April 26, 1659 in Warsaw ), architect
    • Andrea Poncino (* around 1600 in Viglio; † after 1650 in Warsaw?), Master builder
Ferdinando Fontana (left) and Giacomo Puccini , around 1885
Bruno Walter, Vienna 1912
Hanns Bolz : Portrait of Emmy Hennings , 1911
Hugo Ball, 1916
Ostrowski in Washington (1964)
  • Artist family Fè
    • Giambattista Fé (* 1700 in Viglio; † June 13, 1755 in Varese ), Franciscan priest, theologian, author, Guardian of the Santa Maria degli Angeli monastery in Lugano
    • Carlo Fè (* around 1710 in Viglio; † after 1741 there?), Plasterer, pupil of Gian Rodolfo Furlani from Montagnola ; worked in Tuscany . 1730–1732 Stucco work in the church of Sant'Abbondio and in the Villa Argentina in Gentilino
    • Alberto Fè (* around 1735 in Viglio; † 1807 there), Carlo, hydraulic engineer and architect
    • Giuseppe Fé (* 1741 in Viglio; † 1807 ibid), architect
  • Giovanni Battista Casasopra (born September 18, 1720 in Gentilino; † 1772 ibid), architect
  • Paolo Casasopra (* around 1745 in Gentilino; † after 1792 there?), Plasterer in the Tyszkiewicz Palace in Warsaw together with Giuseppe Amadio from Lugano
  • Angelo Somazzi (1803-1892), politician and journalist
  • Ferdinando Fontana (1850–1919), poet and comedian
  • Gerolamo Battista Gargantini (born November 5, 1861 in Gentilino (today the municipality of Collina d'Oro ), † May 4, 1937 in Lugano), entrepreneur, had the Palazzi Gargantini built on the lake shore in Lugano
  • Luigi Simona (1874–1968), theologian, cultural historian and author
  • Gaetano Donini (born August 1, 1874 in Gentilino; † April 27, 1926 ibid), politician, Grand Councilor, Council of State, National Council, editor
  • Bruno Walter (1876–1962), conductor, pianist and composer
  • Emmy Hennings (1885-1948), Dadaisti
  • Hugo Ball (1886–1927), writer, Dadaist
  • Fritz Huf (1888–1970), sculptor, painter, draftsman
  • Cesare Lepori (born February 10, 1893 in Massagno ; † December 2, 1944), priest, restorer
  • Alexander Ostrowski (1893–1986), mathematician
  • Bruno Balmelli (born November 15, 1909 in Gentilino, † May 21, 2001 in Territet ), entrepreneur, member of the executive branch of Renens
  • Edmondo Dobrzanski (born August 2, 1914 in Zug (city) , † August 24, 1997 in Lugano), painter
  • Sergio Emery (born March 4, 1928 in Chiasso ; † July 5, 2003 in Gentilino), from Chardonne VD , painter, draftsman, engraver, lytographer, mosaic worker
  • Arnaldo Bolla (* 1942 in Bellinzona ; † January 5, 2020 in Lugano), lawyer and notary, former president of the Federazione svizzera degli avvocati, lived in Gentilino
  • Dario Calloni (born July 7, 1928 in Pazzallo; † February 17, 2007 in Gentilino), lecturer, school inspector, former member of the Fondazione Filippo Ciani , general director of the municipal schools of Lugano, author: Silvio Calloni. Un naturalista dell'Ottocento. Editore Armando Dadò, Locarno 1993
  • Claudio Generali (born January 17, 1943 in Lugano, † May 19, 2017 in Gentilino), economist, politician
  • John Noseda (* 1948 in Mendrisio), lawyer, politician ( SP ), Ticino Grand Councilor (1979–1995), former Attorney General of the Canton of Zessin (2010), he lives in Gentilino

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tommaso Poncini. In: Mariusz Karpowicz: Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nel '600. Stato del Cantone Ticino, Bellinzona 1983, pp. 97, 99, 100, 139
  2. ↑ Mariusz Smoliński: Tommaso Poncini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 26, 2010 , accessed January 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Andrea Poncino. In: Mariusz Karpowicz: Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nel '600. Stato del Cantone Ticino, Bellinzona 1983, p. 97
  4. ^ Celestino Trezzini : Giovanni Battista Fè. In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz p. 127 (PDF digitized version , accessed on October 13, 2017)
  5. ↑ Pablo Crivelli: Giambattista Fè. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 11, 2003 , accessed January 17, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Carlo Fè. In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz p. 127 (PDF digitized version , accessed on October 13, 2017)
  7. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Alberto Fè. In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz p. 127 (PDF digitized version , accessed on October 13, 2017)
  8. ^ Eliana Perotti: Alberto Fé. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 8, 2006 , accessed January 17, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Giuseppe Fé. In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz p. 127 (PDF digitized version , accessed on October 13, 2017)
  10. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Giovanni Battista Casasopra In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz p. 45 (PDF digitized , accessed on October 20, 2017)
  11. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giovanni Battista Casasopra. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved March 13, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Editor: Amadio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 5, 2001 .
  13. ^ Antonio Gili: Gerolamo Battista Gargantini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 5, 2007 , accessed March 20, 2020 .
  14. ^ Andrea Ghiringhelli: Gaetano Donini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 16, 2004 , accessed January 17, 2020 .
  15. ^ Gilbert Marion: Bruno Balmelli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 17, 2001 , accessed December 18, 2019 .
  16. ^ Matteo Bianchi: Edmondo Dobrzanski. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 27, 2004 .
  17. ↑ Anita Guglielmetti: Sergio Emery. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 2, 2004 , accessed April 3, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Sergio Emery. In: Sikart
  19. ↑ Sergio Emery career on sohesi.ch/soci
  20. ↑ Arnaldo Bolla's obituary on todeskundenportal.ch/todesbeispiel/
  21. ↑ Claudio Generali on ticinonews.ch/ticino (accessed on May 20, 2017)
  22. ^ John Noseda in the Ticino Grand Council
  23. ↑ John Noseda Attorney General (Italian) on cdt.ch/Ticino/Cronaca/36131 (accessed on October 13, 2017)