Proper noun
Villani (plural Villanis)
A surname from Italian.
" A typical medieval account is given by Giovanni Villani (1300): He relates that "it measured eighty miles round, and it was already 4,000 paces high, or convert and 1,000 paces thick, and each pace is three of our feet." Source: Internet
Eydie Gorme (born Edith Garmezano), Sophia Loren (born Sofia Villani Scicolone), and Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino), are three more well known examples of this trend. Source: Internet
But Dr. Villani, above center, is running anyway as a dissident candidate. Source: Internet
French media reported that party leaders met discreetly with Villani on Saturday, a possible sign of the breadth of its frantic search for a new candidate. Source: Internet
The City of Light may not be ready to have a scientist at the helm just yet, but Cédric Villani will make his voice heard nonetheless. Source: Internet
The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani reports gossip that he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France by a formal agreement before his elevation, made at St. Jean d'Angély in Saintonge. Source: Internet