Sanseverino
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Sanseverino is a surname, and may refer to:
- Roscemanno Sanseverino, 12th century cardinal
- Ferdinando SanseverinoFerdinando SanseverinoFerdinando Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno was an Italian condottiero.-Biography:Born in Naples, he was the son of Roberto Sanseverino and a noble girl from a Salerno family. Fernando Sanseverino was the last of the Sanseverino Princes of Salerno.He fought for Emperor Charles V in Germany and France...
(1507–1572), prince of Salerno and Italian condottiero - Gaetano SanseverinoGaetano SanseverinoGaetano Sanseverino was an Italian philosopher and theologian. He made a comparative study including the scholastics, particularly St...
(1811–1865), Italian theologian - Stéphane SanseverinoStéphane SanseverinoStéphane Sanseverino is a French singer, guitarist and songwriter of Napolitan descent.He is a self-taught guitarist and an admirer of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. His music is inspired by Tzigan music...
, contemporary French singer
- SanseverinoSanseverino (family)The Sanseverino are one of the historical families most famous in the Kingdom of Naples and all of Italy, having 300 strongholds, 40 counties, nine marquisates, twelve duchies and ten principalities primarily distributed in Calabria, Campania, Basilicata, and Apulia. Among its members, one finds a...
(family): The Sanseverino are one of the historical families most famous in the Kingdom of NaplesKingdom of NaplesThe Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...
and all of ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, having 300 strongholds, 40 counties, nine marquisates, twelve duchies and ten principalities primarily distributed in CalabriaCalabriaCalabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....
, CampaniaCampaniaCampania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...
, BasilicataBasilicataBasilicata , also known as Lucania, is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south, having one short southwestern coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea between Campania in the northwest and Calabria in the southwest, and a...
, and ApuliaApuliaApulia is a region in Southern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its most southern portion, known as Salento peninsula, forms a high heel on the "boot" of Italy. The region comprises , and...
. Among its members, one finds a cardinal, a viceroy, marshals and condottiere.
Fictional characters
- Robyn Sanseverino, an FBI agent with a recurring role on HBO's popular crime-drama series, The Sopranos