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Paolo Virzì, Film Director
Paolo Virzì (right) in conversation with comedian Paolo Ruffini, at Effetto Venezia, LivornoPaolo Virzì was born in Livorno on 4th March 1964. He spent his early years in Turin, Piedmont, but grew up in the Sorgenti district of Livorno.
Having studied Literature and Philosophy for a time at the University of Pisa, Virzì moved to Rome where he frequented the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. It was here that he met Furio Scarpelli, a teacher at the school, who became his mentor and collaborator.
Byron and Shelley in Livorno
Two English Poets in Livorno in the 19th Century
Via Giorgio Byron, the Road named after Byron in Montenero, LivornoGeorge Gordon Byron (London 1788 - Missolunghi 1824) spent the winter of 1822 in Pisa, in Palazzo Lanfranchi on the Lungarno, where the Shelleys also spent that winter.
In early April 1822 he came to Montenero with Count and Countess Gamba, staying in Villa Dupouy, owned by the banker Francesco Dupouy. On the 2 July they returned to Pisa.
While in Livorno Byron received a message in verse from Goethe (to whom Byron had dedicatd his tragedy Werner). He had it translated by Enrico Mayer, then only 20 years old, and answered saying that he was about to embark for Greece to help in the battle for freedom. He did so aboard the Ercole.
In 1900 the road in Montenero, Via Giorgio Byron, was named after him, commemorating his short stay in Livorno.
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