Tag Archive: Italy

Fans of antiquity can also go north of Rome to the historical region of Etruria, where the Etruscans lived before the Romans, who created the first developed civilization on the Apennine Peninsula. The closest city to Rome in this region…
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Among the most important changes that took place in Italy in the course of the Eighties, the evolution of the settlement structure should be noted. Like what happened in the territorial systems of the most advanced countries, the Italian urban…
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LATE 14TH CENTURY – FIRST HALF OF THE 15TH CENTURY In the Italy the great state organisms affirmed themselves, having swallowed up and more or less assimilated the cities and small neighboring lordships. According to Travelationary, the Savoy State is…
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SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY According to Transporthint, the weakening of the power of the double branch of the Habsburgs represented by the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the Pyrenees (1659), while not for the moment forcing Spain to make any…
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END 10TH CENTURY. – EARLY 11TH CENTURY According to Timedictionary, the Kingdom of Italy joins the Kingdom of Germany in its fortunes. Trentino, Friuli and Istria are organized into German fiefdoms to better ensure communication between the two kingdoms. Consolidated his authority…
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12th century Birth of the Municipalities: in Italy In the north, the cities extend and consolidate their autonomy, starting to become real states, expanding into the countryside, attracting and absorbing it into their economy, into the network of their mercantile…
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Arcadia . The inanity of the novelty that marinism had established was soon evident, and the effort that the search for the unexpected and the artificial required of poets and readers did not take long to tire both of them; so when in…
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Because the subject is chivalrous, indeed because Ariosto himself said that he wanted to continue the count’s invention, Orlando furioso  can in a speech like this, which, in order to be a literary history, cannot fail to be a history of culture,…
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No less lively, but more naive and intuitive awareness of humanity had Giovanni Boccaccio, a little younger than Petrarch, and tied to Petrarch by bonds of friendship and devotion. Traditions and new literary movements converge on him from all sides. The French…
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Del Cavalcanti was a friend and at first a follower in the art of rhyming, Dante Alighieri, whose life is in his intimacy a mighty life of thought and passion, which breaks out in an indefatigable, fluent, ardent apostolate for…
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In historical studies the scholarly introduction, although so fruitful of useful results, tended towards the end of the century. XIX to restrict himself to the investigation and illustration of extrinsic facts, renouncing, in homage to an alleged scientific objectivity, the guide…
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From what has been said it follows that Italian literature does not have the Middle Ages. Arising from that powerful rebirth of human spiritual energies which created national unity at the opening of the new millennium, it unfolded without interruption until…
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From Germany, which had repudiated French academic classicism and exalted the national spirit and traditions against Romanism, while celebrating the triumph of passion over reason and the most unbridled individualism over any limitation of the ego; from France, where Madame de…
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The Carducci. – In Carducci classicism is not an extrinsic imitation of ancient forms; on the contrary, it is the immediate and natural form of that soul of his, alien to any sentimentality, trusting in the free development of human energies, yearning…
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The comedy . – According to Itypeauto, the comic theater had essentially remained in the seventeenth century as the sixteenth century had shaped it, a theater of intrigue modeled on classical comedies, nor had it had the fortune of talents that gave…
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The Foscolo. – In Ortis , the writer’s soul is distorted by exotic eighteenth-century make-up in the representation of an aesthetically incoherent character and in the emphasis of a declamatory and ostentatiously “poetic” prose. Only here and there does that soul shine forth…
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The Manzoni. – An energetically unitary spirit, Alessandro Manzoni is in art and in aesthetic doctrine what he is in life and in moral doctrine. His work as a poet is profoundly moral without having moral intentions; his aesthetic doctrines are formed and…
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The historical novel, which from the civil end had derived the reasons and elements of his life, lost vogue after the middle of the century and was transformed, also by the action of the French novels by Stendhal, Balzac and…
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Arcade il Metastasio; arcade the Parini. He too has a large copy of sonnets, chapters, melodies, songs, madrigals, epigrams, where are the silly jokes of the Bernese rimeria, the swooning or mischievous wits that delighted the ladies, the elegant frivolity of Metastasian…
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The tragedy. – A century of tenuous passions and an elegantly trimmed life, the eighteenth century had its tragedy in the metastasian melodrama, born spontaneously from the condition of the times. But a conscious critical purpose at the same time gave him…
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Tasso in his troubled existence composed numerous works of various kinds: hundreds of lyrics, among which not a few of new and profound inspiration; letters, which span the entire last thirty years of that life, philosophical, literary, autobiographical; dialogues of moral, literary,…
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In the first five years of the 21st century. the Italian GDP grew by 0.4 % overall, defining a picture of serious stagnation, which only at the beginning of 2006 seems to be overcoming. Both public finances, investment levels and…
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Sicily According to abbreviationfinder, Sicily is the  the largest island of Italy and the Mediterranean, 25,426 km 2, with a minor islands as an autonomous region of 25,707 km 2, (2017) 5020000 residents; The capital is Palermo. Country nature Sicily is…
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The deaths of Frederick II and Conrad IV meant the collapse of imperial power in northern and central Italy. The Hohenstaufen could not hold out in southern Italy either. Manfred fell in 1266 in the battle of Benevento against Charles…
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Rome According to abbreviationfinder, Rome is the capital of Italy, on the lower Tiber, with (2019) 2.85 million residents. The Vatican city. Rome, the “Eternal City”, is the cultural center of Italy with universities, scientific institutes and famous museums. Every…
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Administration According to trackaah, Italy is divided into 20 regions, 5 of which (Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the Aosta Valley) enjoy a special autonomous status. Except for the Aosta Valley, the regions are subdivided into provinces. The…
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According to abbreviationfinder, Naples is the largest city in southern Italy, on the Gulf of Naples, reaching to the north and west foot of Vesuvius, surrounded by the Phlegraean Fields, 15 m above sea level, (2019) 959 200 residents. Administrative headquarters…
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According to abbreviationfinder, Milan is the capital of the Città metropolitana Milan and the Lombardy region, Italy, 100–130 m above sea level, in the northern Po Valley, with (2019) 1.37 million residents, the second largest city in Italy. Seat of an…
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According to Abbreviation Finder, the Italian capital Rome hardly has its equal in terms of history and sights. The city has existed for more than 3,000 years, and is today one of the most popular destinations in the world. A…
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