What is "vendetta"

Vendetta \Ven*det"ta\, n. [It.] A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.

"a private war in which a kinsman wreaks vengeance on the slayer of a relative," 1846, from Italian vendetta "a feud, blood feud," from Latin vindicta "vengeance, revenge" (see vindictive). Especially associated with Corsica.

n. A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans(,) or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.

n. a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other [syn: blood feud]

Vendetta, known in Japan as , is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up arcade game developed and published by Konami. It is the sequel to the 1989 Konami game Crime Fighters.

Vendetta is a 1950 film based on the 1840 novella Colomba by Prosper Mérimée, about a young Corsican girl who pushes her brother to kill to avenge their father's murder.

The film, produced by Howard Hughes as a vehicle for his latest discovery, Faith Domergue (pronounced "Dah-mure"), began principal photography for United Artists in 1946, but was not released until four years later through RKO Pictures, which Hughes had recently purchased. Hughes fired director Max Ophüls as well as his producing partner, Preston Sturges, who replaced Ophüls. Stuart Heisler completed the film, but Hughes decided he wanted more changes and brought in actor/director Mel Ferrer, who is the only credited director on the film. Hughes himself did some direction of pick-up scenes. The screenplay was credited to W. R. Burnett, but the script was worked on by a number of writers, including Sturges, who originated the project at Hughes's behest.

Vendetta is estimated to have cost around $4 million, an extraordinary amount for the time. The film was neither a critical nor a box office success.

Vendetta may refer to:

• Feud, a long-running argument or fight

Vendetta is the fourth album by the metalcore band Throwdown. This album marks the group's initial shift from hardcore punk to metal. "Burn," was the album's lead single.

Vendetta is a 1999 HBO original movie based on actual events that took place in New Orleans on March 14, 1891. Nineteen Italian-Americans were accused of the murder of the police chief. After their acquittal, eleven of them were shot or hanged in one of the largest mass lynchings in American history.

The teleplay by Timothy Prager is based on Richard Gambino's book, Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History (ISBN 1550711032).

Vendetta is a 1986 prison action movie starring Karen Chase and Sandy Martin. It was released in September 1986.

Vendetta is the second album by rapper Mic Geronimo, released on November 4, 1997 through TVT Records.

The album featured production from a wide range of hip hop producers including legends like Marley Marl and Pete Rock. It was an improvement on the Billboard charts over his previous album, peaking at 112 on the Billboard 200 and 20 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album also featured his only Billboard Hot 100 hit, " Nothin' Move But the Money", which managed to find minor-success and peaked at 70 on the chart. The album is now out of print.

Vendetta is the fourth album by Russian singer Zemfira. The album sold around 500,000 copies in Russia and about 200,000 copies in other post-Soviet republics.

Vendetta is a 1989 beat 'em up video game released by System 3 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.

Vendetta is a 1995 film directed by Mikael Håfström. It stars Stefan Sauk as the Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton and as his adversary Don Tommaso, Ennio Fantastichini. A mini series for television was filmed at the same time. It was aired as 6 episodes of 50-60 minutes each.

Vendetta is a novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the second book in the popular Aurelio Zen series.

Zen has earned a return to the fold of actual police work, but now Officials in a high government ministry are desperate to finger someone—anyone—for the murder of an eccentric billionaire, whose corrupt dealings have enriched some of the most exalted figures in Italian politics. However, Oscar Burolo's murder would seem to be not just unsolvable but impossible. The magnate was killed on a heavily fortified Sardinian estate, where every room was monitored by video cameras. Those cameras captured Burolo's grisly death, but not the face of his killer.

Zen grapples, in his idiosyncratic fashion, with this apparent "locked door" mystery by launching an ill-advised solo undercover investigation, amongst the fallout from which he is confronted by an almost forgotten face from the past, who now stalks him with vengeful intent.

Vendetta is the fourth full-length album by the Finnish power metal band Celesty. It was released on March 18, 2009 via Spinefarm. Unlike Celesty's previous effort, Mortal Mind Creation, where the band experimented with its sound, incorporating technical and progressive elements, Vendetta is more traditional stylistically, while partially retaining the dark atmosphere of its predecessor. At the same time, the band concentrated on making its sound more epic, which was achieved by collaborating with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and a professional choir in the recording of the album.

Vendetta is a Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel written by Peter David and published by Pocket Books in 1991. The book was a New York Times best-seller, peaking at #4 on the Paperback Best Sellers list in late April 1991.

The novel was subject to a dispute between Peter David and Richard Arnold, who wished the Borg character Reannon to be removed, with the logic that Borg could not be female. This was prior to a regular female Borg character, Seven of Nine, appearing in Star Trek: Voyager. Because of this, the novel was printed with a disclaimer making it explicitly apocryphal.

The plot centers around the actions of a woman named Delcara from a race which has been assimilated by the Borg, who has gone to extreme lengths to exact her revenge upon them. Delcara controls a Planet Killer, later revealed to be the finished version of the one fought by the USS Enterprise during the events of "The Doomsday Machine" episode of the original Star Trek. This Planet Killer is also 'inhabited' by the psychic impressions of its creators which exist as part of the Planet Killer's control system. Both Delcara and the 'ghosts' within the Planet Killer share a hatred of the Borg, and both Planet Killers are claimed to have come from just outside the galactic barrier surrounding our own galaxy. The Borg, having assimilated a Ferengi ship along the way, invade the Planet Killer, and force Delcara to attempt to reach Warp 10, then assumed unbreakable in Star Trek canon (later disproven in Voyager, though with grave consequences if the proper protection isn't in place), in order to reach the heart of Borg space to exact her revenge before she dies from severe phaser wounds.

Vendetta are a thrash metal group from Schweinfurt, Germany. Founded in 1984, the band dissolved in 1990 and re-activated in 2002.

Vendetta is an action film written and directed by Stephen Reynolds and starring Roxanne McKee, Danny Dyer, Vincent Regan and Bruce Payne.

Vendetta: The Project ( English: Revenge: The Project), also known simply as Vendetta, is the ninth studio album by Puerto Rican reggaetón singer-songwriter Ivy Queen, released on 3 February 2015. An extended play version of the album was released on 9 December 2014. The studio album version was originally announced for a release in February 2014, and later some time in 2014.

The extended play version of the album, entitled Vendetta: First Round, includes the first four singles from the album: " Soy Libre", "Vamos A Guerrear", "Naci Para Amarte", and the title track "Vendetta", on disc one. Disc two features a DVD with the music videos to these songs as well as a forty-five-minute documentary of the making of the album.

The album is composed of four separate simultaneously released albums, in the genres of urban, hip hop, bachata and salsa. Each releases contains eight songs musically devoted to the specific genre. The urban releases features Farruko, J Alvarez, Jowell & Randy and J King & Maximan, the hip hop release features Vico C, Fat Joe, Ñengo Flow and MC Ceja, the salsa release features Tito Rojas, Andy Montañez and Luisito Carrión, while the bachata release features Óptimo.

Vendetta is a film directed by The Soska sisters. It is the first film in the Action Six-Pack series. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on June 12, 2015.

Vendetta or Blood Revenge'' (German:Blutrache'') is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Pola Negri, Emil Jannings and Harry Liedtke.

Vendetta is a band with ska, punk rock, and punk influence from the Navarre region of Spain.