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Vita Nuova

Vita Nuova, also written Vita nova, is a prosimetrum by Dante Alighieri, composed around 1292 to 1295, mixing thirty-one poems with prose about his love for Beatrice.

Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West (Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 1892–1962), English poet, novelist, and gardener; winner of the Hawthornden Prize twice (The Land, Collected Poems); author of The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, model for Woolf's Orlando, creator of Sissinghurst garden; distinguishable from other Sackville-West family members by her Knole inheritance and Virginia Woolf relationship.

Vitalic

Vitalic, born Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, is a French electronic music producer from Dijon whose 2001 Poney EP and 2005 album OK Cowboy made him a leading figure.

Vitalogy

Vitalogy is Pearl Jam's third studio album (Epic, 1994), vinyl-first on November 22 and wide December 6, produced by Brendan O'Brien and Pearl Jam. Known for its book-like packaging, experimental tracks like Bugs, and a record 172-place jump to number one.

Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (Виталий Здоровецкий)

Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (Виталий Здоровецкий), aka VitalyzdTv, Russian-American YouTuber and prankster born 1992 in Murmansk; known for the Miami Zombie prank, 2014 World Cup field invasion, 2020 jogger assault case, Philippine detention and 2026 deportation, and a false predator accusation livestream.

Vitamin C (singer)

Vitamin C (Colleen Fitzpatrick, b. Old Bridge, NJ), former Eve's Plum frontwoman turned dance-pop singer. Debut album Vitamin C (1999, Elektra) went platinum; hits "Smile" and "Graduation (Friends Forever)". Later VP of Music at Nickelodeon, then Netflix executive.

Vitamin String Quartet

Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) is a Los Angeles classical-crossover project formed in 1999 on Vitamin Records, with 300+ albums of string-quartet covers; famous for Bridgerton, which raised its streams 350%.

Vitão

Vitão is the stage name of Victor Carvalho Ferreira (born 1999), a Brazilian singer from São Paulo who broke through in 2018 with R&B-influenced romantic rap.

Vitas

Vitas (Витас), born Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachyov in Daugavpils, is a Russian pop singer known for his striking falsetto, his 2000 debut hit Opera #2, and fame in China.

Vitchyzna

Vitchyzna (Вітчизна, "Fatherland") was a Ukrainian literary-artistic and socio-political monthly magazine of the Writers' Union of Ukraine, founded in Kharkiv in 1933 as Radyanska literatura and published until 2012.

Vitebsk Summer Amphitheatre

The Vitebsk Summer Amphitheatre (Летний амфитеатр) is an open-air concert hall in Vitebsk, Belarus, built in 1988 and the main stage of the Slavianski Bazaar festival.

Vítězslav Nezval

Vítězslav Nezval (1900–1958) was a Czech poet, writer, and translator who co-founded poetism in the 1920s, founded the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia in 1934, and ranks among the foremost Czech poets of the twentieth century.

Vítězslav Novák

Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949) was a Czech composer and Dvořák pupil whose late-romantic music drew on Moravian and Slovak folklore; he taught more than 40 composers at the Prague Conservatory.

Vitis labrusca

Vitis labrusca, the fox grape, is a North American grapevine native from southeastern Canada to the eastern USA, ancestor of Concord, Catawba, and Niagara; slipskin berries with foxy methyl anthranilate flavor and fungal disease resistance useful in breeding.

Vitis rotundifolia

Vitis rotundifolia, the muscadine grape (also Muscadinia rotundifolia, scuppernong), is a southeastern U.S. grapevine with 2n=40 chromosomes, thick-skinned bronze to purple berries, and resistance to Pierce's disease and phylloxera.

Vito Coppola

Vito Coppola (born 1992, Eboli, Italy) is an Italian ballroom and Latin dancer, 11-time Italian Latin American champion, Strictly Come Dancing 2023 winner with Ellie Leach, and 2024 Celebrity MasterChef UK winner.

Vito Schnabel

Vito Schnabel (born 1986) is an American art dealer and curator, son of Julian Schnabel; founded Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz in 2015 in Bruno Bischofberger's former space, after a career of independent, site-specific exhibitions in New York.

Vito Scotti

Vito Scotti (born Vito Giusto Scozzari) was an American character actor known as "a man of a thousand faces" who made more than 200 screen appearances.

Vitruvian Man

Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1490 pen-and-ink drawing in Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia, shows a male figure inscribed in circle and square illustrating Vitruvius's ideal human body proportions, with arm span equal to height.

Vittal Mallya

Vittal Mallya (1924–1983), Telugu విఠల్ మాల్య, was an Indian entrepreneur who took over United Breweries in 1947 at age 22 and built a Rs 500 crore conglomerate in beer, spirits, foods, and pharma, later led by his son Vijay Mallya.

Vitthal Teedi

Vitthal Teedi (વિઠ્ઠલ તિડી) is a 2021 Gujarati drama web series directed by Abhishek Jain, adapted from Mukesh Sojitra's short story, starring Pratik Gandhi as a village gambler; six episodes premiered May 7, 2021 on OHO Gujarati.

Vittore Carpaccio

Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460/1466–1525/1526), Venetian Renaissance painter famous for narrative confraternity cycles such as the Saint Ursula series and Saint George and the Dragon; namesake of the raw-beef dish.

Vittoria Colonna

Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian poet (1490–1547), the most celebrated female Petrarchist of the sixteenth century, whose Rime were first printed in 1538.

Vittorio Alfieri

Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian tragic poet and political thinker who wrote nineteen tragedies between 1776 and 1786, including Saul and Mirra, and is counted among the precursors of the Risorgimento.

Vittorio Angelone

Vittorio Angelone (born 1996) is a Belfast-born Italian-Northern Irish stand-up comedian, podcast co-host of Mike & Vittorio's Guide to Parenting, Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee for Translations, and star of BBC NI's Rewarding.

Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica (1901–1974), Italian actor and director and, with Rossellini, a father of neorealism; made Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, and Umberto D. with Cesare Zavattini and won four foreign-language film Oscars.

Vittorio De Sica filmography

Vittorio De Sica filmography covers the more than 150 films the Italian director and actor acted in and the roughly 30 he directed, including neorealist landmarks.

Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman (born Gassmann, 1922-2000), Italian stage and film actor called il Mattatore; star of postwar theater, commedia all'italiana films with Dino Risi, Cannes 1975 and Leone d'oro 1996.

Vittorio Mussolini

Vittorio Mussolini (1916-1997), son of Benito Mussolini and Rachele Guidi, was an Italian film producer, screenwriter (pseudonym Tito Silvio Mursino), and editor of Cinema (1938-1943), later a Salò collaborator and Argentina exile.

Vittorio Reggiani

Vittorio Reggiani, a title variant for the Italian painter Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1938), born in Modena and a professor at its academy; costume genre painter of Empire-style interiors, Florentine silks-and-satins school, works in Mainz Museum.