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Bianca

fem. proper name, from Italian, literally fem. of bianco "white" (see blank (adj.)). A doublet of French Blanche.

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Bianca (moon)
There is also an asteroid called 218 Bianca.

Bianca is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on January 23, 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 9. It was named after the sister of Katherine in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew. It is also designated Uranus VIII.

Bianca belongs to Portia Group of satellites, which also includes Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Other than its orbit, radius of 27 km, and geometric albedo of 0.08 virtually nothing is known about it.

At the Voyager 2 images Bianca appears as an elongated object, the major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of the Bianca's prolate spheroid is 0.7 ± 0.2. Its surface is grey in color.

Bianca

Bianca is a feminine given name or an Italian family name. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche. Bianca may refer to:

Bianca (1913 film)

Bianca is a 1913 silent American short film, written by Hanson Durham, and directed by Robert Thornby.

Bianca (Othello)

Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604). She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to incite Othello's jealousy of Cassio. Bianca is traditionally regarded as a courtesan, although this occupation is not specifically designated in the drama. The character was occasionally cut from performances in the 19th century on moral grounds. Bianca is not to be confused with Bianca Minola in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

Bianca (disambiguation)

Bianca is a given name.

Bianca may also refer to:

  • Bianca (moon), one of the moons of Uranus
  • 218 Bianca, an asteroid
  • Bianca (1984 film), a 1984 film by Italian director Nanni Moretti
  • Bianca (1913 film), a silent film starring Patricia Palmer
  • Bianca (opera), a 1918 one-act opera by Henry Kimball Hadley
  • bianca.com, the first web-based chat room
Bianca (opera)

Bianca is a one act opera by American composer Henry Kimball Hadley. The opera's libretto was an English-language adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's comedy The Mistress of the Inn by Grant Stewart. Hadley finished the score in January, 1917, and entered it in a competition for the best American opera without chorus, for which William Wade Hinshaw offered a $1000 prize and a promise to produce the opera in New York City by the American Society of Singers. It won, and was produced on October 19, 1918, at the Park Theater in Manhattan, with the composer conducting, and soprano Maggie Teyte in the title role.

Bianca (grape)

Bianca is a white Hungarian wine grape variety that was developed in 1963 in the Eger wine region of northeast Hungary. The grape is a hybrid crossing of Bouvier and Eger 2 (an offspring of Villard blanc). The grape was officially register for use in wine production in 1982 and today is used to make a wide assortment of wines from dry varietals to sweet dessert wines. Bianca is growing in popularity among organic vineyards due to its natural high resistance to many fungal diseases that affect grapevines.

Bianca (telenovela)

Bianca is a 1980 Argentine telenovela starring Amelia Bence, Dora Baret, Víctor Hugo Vieyra and Arturo Bonín.

Usage examples of "bianca".

Beside it, and apart, though connected by a passage, a studio stood, and about that studio--of white rough-cast, with a black oak door, and peacock-blue paint--was something a little hard and fugitive, well suited to Bianca, who used it, indeed, to paint in.

The baptisms of Martin, Cecilia, and Bianca, son and daughters of Sylvanus and Anne Stone, were to be discovered registered in Kensington in the three consecutive years following, as though some single-minded person had been connected with their births.

It summed up the mother of Cecilia and Bianca, and, in more subtle fashion, Cecilia and Bianca, too.

What with the dark, malignant Hughs and that haunting vision of Bianca, the matter seemed almost Italian.

It was still active tragedy with Bianca, the nerve of whose jealous desire for his appreciation was not dead.

Furtive and fascinated, her eyes remained fixed on Bianca, while her hand moved, mechanically ticking the paragraphs.

She longed to ask what Bianca had said, but did not dare, for Hilary had his armour on, the retired, ironical look he always wore when any subject was broached for which he was too sensitive.

His figure had become almost too publicly conspicuous before Bianca, finding him one day seated on the roof of his lonely little top-story flat, the better to contemplate his darling Universe, had inveigled him home with her, and installed him in a room in her own house.

Here Bianca found him presently motionless, without a hat, in the full sun, craning his white head in the direction from which he knew the little model habitually came.

Something about his patient stooping figure and white head, on which the sunlight was falling, made Bianca slip her hand through his arm.

He was trembling like a leaf in the wind he spoke of, and Bianca moved hastily towards him, holding out her arms.

For more than an hour after this he was so absolutely still that Bianca rose continually to look at him.

The sudden grim coherence of his last two sayings terrified Bianca more than all his feverish, utterances.

Through the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux the mind could see at that same moment Bianca leaving her front gate.

Her hungry eyes, gazing at Bianca, had in them the aspirations of all Nonconformity.