Famous People with Name Donati

Donatien Alphonse François De Sade            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Donatien Alphonse François De Sade: was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and novelist. His novels were philosophical and sadomasochistic, exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia. He was a proponent of extreme freedom (or at least licentiousness), unrestra

Donatien Bouché            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Donatien Bouché: was a French sailor who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis De Sade            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis De Sade: was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. His works include novels, short stories, plays, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously and Sade denied being their author. He is best known for his erotic novels, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting bizarre sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality,

Enrico Donati            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Enrico Donati: was an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth.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. His first one-man shows were in New York in 1942, at the New School for Social Research and the Passedoit Gallery. At this stage he was clearly drawn to Surrealism. This was reinforced by meeting André Breton and coming into contact with Marcel Duchamp and the other European Surrealists in New York at the time. A typical work of this period, St Elmo’s Fire (1944; New York, MoMA), contains strange organic formations suggestive of underwater life.

Aldo Donati            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Aldo Donati: was an Italian football (soccer) midfielder. Born in Bologna, he played in the 1930s for Bologna and Roma. He played 201 matches in Serie A and scored 4 goals. He debuted in Serie A at 19 years of age and played for eight seasons for Bologna winning the scudetto in 1936 and 1937. The following year he was acquired by Roma where he played seven seasons. In 1942 he won his third scudetto (Roma's first) before retiring.

Massimo Donati            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Massimo Donati: an Italian football midfielder currently contracted to Scottish Premier League club Celtic.Donati is a central midfielder and started his career at Atalanta and moved to AC Milan in 2001 for £10 million.[citation needed] However, due to the competition at the club, Donati was unable to claim a first team place, spending the 2002–03 season on loan at Parma and Torino respectively.

Giovanni Battista Donati            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giovanni Battista Donati: was an Italian astronomer.Donati graduated at the university in his native city Pisa and afterwards he joined the staff of the Observatory of Florence in 1852 and was appointed director in 1864. Donati was the first to obtain and analyze the spectrum of comets. Between 1854 and 1864 he discovered six new comets, including the spectacular Comet Donati (C/1858 L1), found in 1858. He also pioneered spectroscopy of comets to determine their physical composition, discovering that the spectrum changed when a comet approached the Sun and heating caused it to emit its own light rather than reflected sunlight, concluding that the composition of comets is, at least in part, gaseous.

Antonietta Lucia Maria Donatiello            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Antonietta Lucia Maria Donatiello: is an Italian teacher and writer.Born at Bisaccia, Campania, she began her job writing poems on the fanzine La torre; later, when her son Michele was born (1989), she wrote the book Lettere ad un bambino nato, a diary who tells the first years of her son.