Giovanni Arduino
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Giovanni Arduino (Turin, June 30, 1966) is a present-day fiction writer, freelance editor, translator and consultant from Moncalieri, Turin, Italy.
His best-selling novels, which span and mix various genres such as young adult, dark fantasy, modern fables, erotica and pop culture, are published in Italy, the U.S., Japan, Germany, and Spain. Giovanni Arduino has written under many different pseudonyms such as Joe Arden and Jonathan Snow, but has mostly used his real name since 2003 for novels as Chiudimi le labbra (Lain Books, Rome, 2005) and Mai come voi (Sperling & Kupfer, Milan, 2004).
As an editor (senior editor first and editor-at-large since the late Nineties at Sperling & Kufer Editori, Milan, Italy) and scout, Giovanni Arduino introduced Italian readers to an eclectic, quirky, and highly personal mix of foreign authors such as Jim Carroll, Nicholas Sparks, Mark Leyner, Poppy Z. Brite, Ben Sherwood, Marilyn Manson, Rosemary Altea, Sherman Alexie, James O'Barr, Francesca Lia Block, Neale Donald Walsch, Stephen Chbosky and many others, not to mention a vast array of media-related products, ranging from Pokemon and Beverly Hills 90210 to Hamtaro, Dawson's Creek, Desperate Housewives and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Giovanni Arduino (Caprino Veronese, October 16, 1714 – Venice, March 21, 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology."
Arduino was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northern Italy. In 1735, he divided the history of the Earth into four periods: Primitive, Secondary, Tertiary and Volcanic,or Quaternary.
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