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Simonetta Sommaruga is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2010 to 2022. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2015 and 2020.
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Simonetta Stefanelli is an Italian actress, entrepreneur and fashion designer. Internationally, she is best known for her performance as Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Her other roles include appearances in Moses the Lawgiver, Scandal in the Family and Three Brothers. In 1992, Stefanelli made her last film appearance in the drama Le amiche del cuore directed by her then husband Michele Placido.
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This is my mom's name. Her parents named her after Simonetta Vespucci - they had read about her being the inspiration for Botticelli's Birth of Venus painting which they saw in Florence. I think it's a beautiful name and it's much better than Simone. (My mother and her parents are Italian.)
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In Italy Simonetta was typical of the 1950s (8th most popular name in Rome in 1956). It was an ephemeral fashion: in the 1960s and 1970s the variant Simona was preferred.
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The pronunciation is see-maw-NAYTT-tah.
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Simonetta was the name of Sandro Botticelli's model for "The Birth of Venus" and most of his mythological female figures and madonnas. She was reputed the most beautiful woman of her time (c. 1450). Her last name was Vespucci, and she was related to Amerigo Vespucci, after whom the continent of America is named.
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