Donati
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Donati is a surname, and may refer to:
  • Angelo Donati
    Angelo Donati
    Angelo Donati was a Jewish Italian banker and philanthropist, and a diplomat of San Marino Republic in Paris.- Biography :Donati was born in Modena...

     (1885-1960), Italian banker and philanthropist
  • Baldassare Donati
    Baldassare Donato
    Baldassare Donato was an Italian composer and singer of the Venetian school of the late Renaissance. He was maestro di cappella of the prestigious St...

     (1525/30–1603), Italian composer of the late Renaissance
  • Buoso Donati (—ca. 1285), character in Dante's Divine Comedy
  • Cianfa Donati (—bef. 1289), character in Dante's Divine Comedy
  • Corso Donati
    Corso Donati
    Corso Donati was a leader of the Black Guelph faction in 13th- and early 14th- century Florence.-Bologna and Pistoia:In the late thirteenth century, power in Florence and the other Tuscan cities was divided between the Podestà, an outsider who served as chief magistrate, and the guildmasters; Corso...

     (–1308), leader of the Black Guelphs in Florence, brother of Forese and Piccarda
  • Danilo Donati
    Danilo Donati
    Danilo Donati was an Italian costume designer and production designer. He won the Academy Award for Costume Design twice: the first time for his work in Romeo and Juliet , the second time for his work in Fellini's Casanova...

     (1926–2001), Italian costume designer
  • Enrico Donati
    Enrico Donati
    Enrico Donati was an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth.-Life and work:Enrico Donati studied economics at the Università degli Studi, Pavia, and in 1934 moved to the USA, where he attended the New School for Social Research and the Art Students League of New York...

     (1909–2008), American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth
  • Forese Donati
    Forese Donati
    Forese Donati Forese Donati, brother of Corso and Piccarda Donati, was a childhood friend of Dante Alighieri. In their youth, Forese and Dante exchanged a series of playful sonnets called tenzone, which take the form of a series of exchanged insults.In the Divine Comedy Dante encounters Forese on...

     (–1296), brother of Corso and Piccarda, a friend of Dante Alighieri included as a character in the Divine Comedy
  • Giovanni Battista Donati
    Giovanni Battista Donati
    Giovanni Battista Donati ; 16 December 1826, Pisa, Italy – 20 September 1873, Florence, Italy) was an Italian astronomer.Donati graduated from the university of his native city, Pisa, and afterwards joined the staff of the Observatory of Florence in 1852...

     (1826–1873), Italian astronomer
  • Giulio Donati
    Giulio Donati
    Giulio Donati is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie B club Padova, on loan from Internazionale.-Club career:Born in Pietrasanta, the Province of Lucca, Donati started his career at hometown club Lucchese...

     (born 1990) Italian footballer
  • Giuseppe Donati
    Giuseppe Donati
    Giuseppe Donati was the inventor of the classical ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator....

     (1836–1925), inventor of the modern ocarina
  • Ignazio Donati
    Ignazio Donati
    Ignazio Donati was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet.Donati was born in Casalmaggiore...

     (c. 1570–1638), Italian composer
  • Massimo Donati
    Massimo Donati
    Massimo Donati is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a Central Midfielder for Serie B club Bari.-Italy:...

     (born 1981), Italian footballer
  • Piccarda
    Piccarda
    Piccarda Donati was a 13th century Italian noblewoman. She appears as a character in Dante's classic Divine Comedy.Piccarda, sister of Corso Donati and of Dante's friend Forese Donati, is the first character Dante encounters in Paradise. She is on the Sphere of the Moon, the lowest sphere of Heaven...

     (XIII cent.), sister to Corso and Forese, included as a character in Dante's Divine Comedy
  • Virgil Donati
    Virgil Donati
    Virgil Donati is an Australian drummer, frequent drum clinician and a producer. He is currently playing with the band Planet X and Seven the Hardway among other projects. Virgil is perhaps most well known for his fast, highly technical drumming skills...

    , Australian drummer
  • Vitaliano Donati
    Vitaliano Donati
    Vitaliano Donati , born in Padua in Italy, was an Italian doctor, archeologist, and botanist. He took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1739....

     (1717–1762), Italian botanist


See also:
  • Donati (crater)
    Donati (crater)
    Donati is a lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. It lies just to the northwest of the crater Faye, and the two outer rims are separated by a gap of less than 10 kilometers. To the north is the comparably sized Airy, and farther to the southeast is...

    named after Giovanni Battista Donati
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