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14 mag 2024 · Stylish rooster pitchers or the motif of a feisty cock as a centerpiece on pottery across Italy are not alone in their “eggs-ceptional” reputation, however. Another fowl tale emerged from the hilly greens between Florence and Siena, which gave this unique region an equally iconic rooster image, that of the Gallo Nero, now the proud emblem of the Chianti Classico Region of Tuscany.
4 giorni fa · Italian German annexed by Bulgaria. The Italian zone was taken over by the Germans in September 1943. On 28 October 1940, Italy started the Greco-Italian War by launching an invasion of the Kingdom of Greece from Albania. In part, the Italians attacked Greece because of the growing influence of Germany in the Balkans.
5 giorni fa · Matilda of Tuscany (Italian: Matilde di Canossa [maˈtilde di kaˈnɔssa], Latin: Matilda, Mathilda; c. 1046 – 24 July 1115 or Matilda of Canossa after her ancestral castle of Canossa), also referred to as la Gran Contessa ("the Great Countess"), was a member of the House of Canossa (also known as the Attonids) in the second half of the eleventh century.
2 giorni fa · Rome, historic city and the capital of Italy. It is in the central part of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber River. Once capital of an ancient republic and empire and seat of the Roman Catholic Church, it became the site of major pinnacles of artistic and intellectual development and is called the Eternal City.
29 apr 2024 · Galileo (born February 15, 1564, Pisa [Italy]—died January 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence) was an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. His formulation of (circular) inertia ...
5 mag 2024 · The fascinating story of Greek scholars in Renaissance Italy is too long and important to end in the confines of an article. It is more than just a story of academic migration, too. It is a real testament of cultural and intellectual exchange between two regions that have been so similar and yet so different throughout history.
6 mag 2024 · The city became the capital of the kingdom of Sardinia in 1720 and in the 19th century became the political and intellectual centre of the Risorgimento, the movement for Italian political unification. It served as the first capital of a united Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin sustained heavy air-raid damage during World War II.
