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6 unusual facts about Carpi


Alida Chelli

Born in Carpi as Alida Rustichelli, Chelli was daughter of composer Carlo Rustichelli.

Carpi, Emilia-Romagna

Carpi is distinguished by its great Renaissance square (piazza), the largest in the region.

Giulio Belli

For the rest of his life he worked in a number of Italian cities in a similar capacity: in Carpi (1591), Venice, at Cà Grande (1594 or 1595), Montagnana (1595), Ferrara (1597), Osimo (1599), Ravenna (1600), Reggio (1603), Forlì (later in 1603).

Gregorio Paltrinieri

Gregorio Paltrinieri (Carpi, 5 September 1994) is a male Italian swimmer who won the gold medal in the 1500 m freestyle event at 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) and 2012 European Aquatics Championships.

Luis Alberto Fernández Alara

On Januari 24, 2009, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Carpi.

Wei Yanan

Instead, she made her European debut in October at the Maratona d'Italia in Carpi and was the runner-up behind Rosaria Console.


Battle of Occhiobello

The Austrians had sustained only 400 casualties and had established a bridgehead around Occhiobello from where they would able to launch attacks against Carpi and Casaglia.

Eula Bingham

2000 - Ramazzini Award for Science and Policy, Collegium Ramazzini, Carpi, Italy

Gianluigi Zuddas

Zuddas was born at Carpi, near Modena, but moved to Livorno with his family when he was very young and many biographies list the latter as his birthplace.

Uberto Gambara

Uberto Gambara was born in Brescia on January 23, 1489, the son of Gianfrancesco Gambara and Alda Pio di Carpi.

Veronica Gambara

Born in Pralboino (now in the Province of Brescia), in Lombardy, Italy, Gambara came from a distinguished family, one of the seven children of Count Gianfrancesco da Gambara and Alda Pio da Carpi.

Zachariah Carpi

Zachariah Carpi was an Italian-Jewish revolutionary, born at Revere in the second half of the 18th century.

When Napoleon reached that city in 1800, Carpi was sent to Venice, thence to Sebenico in Dalmatia, and through Carinthia and Croatia to Peterwardein in Hungary, where he was at last released by Napoleon's orders on 3 April 1801.

Zoltán Bonta

Since 1979 assistant to Gábor Bódy among other filmdirectors, az Ferenc András, Ferenc Kardos, Sándor Simó, Lajos Koltay, Pál Sándor, János Dömölky, Tamás Sas, Fabio Carpi, Gary Jones, Rakesh Mehra.


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