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  • where Barbaja, the impresario of the Naples theatre, concluded an agreement ... Some older composers in Naples, notably Nicolo Antonio Zingarelli ...
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  • Papyri in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples. Another very important set of early transcripts (made between 1802 and 1808) is in the Bodleian Library ...
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  • Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between ...
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  • enclave in France. The southern cities of Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia had ... Urbino under Federico da Montefeltro. In Naples, the Renaissance was ushered ...
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  • After the death of his wife, Howard returned to traveling. While in Naples, Italy, in 1770, he had a profound religious experience. It is believed ...
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  • | place_of_birth = Naples | date_of_death = November 28, 1680 ... Bernini was born December 7, 1598, in Naples to a capable Mannerist ...
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  • political prisoners. Disquiet spread to Naples, where the Neapolitan liberals ... 5 at Eboli, near Salerno. Meanwhile, Naples had been declared in a state ...
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  • Italian poet and a political asylum seeker from Naples, Italy. In addition to her two highly accomplished brothers, she had a sister, Maria Francesca ...
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  • the currently dormant Vesuvius near Naples and the very active Etna ... southwards (compare the tables for Rome, Naples, and Brindisi). ...
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  • *Lead pigments: lead white, Naples yellow, Cremnitz White, Foundation White, red lead *Copper pigments: Paris Green, verdigris *Titanium pigments: ...
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  • Florence, Turin, Bologna, Palermo, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Venice, and Trieste. In December, Gustav Mahler conducted the opera in Budapest. Soon thereafter ...
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  • In 1279, when Charles II, King of Naples, erected a Dominican convent at La Sainte-Baume, the shrine was found intact, with an explanatory inscription ...
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  • of Spain from 1556 until 1598, King of Naples from 1554 until 1598, king ... title=King of Naples|years=1554 – 1598 rows=3|after=Philip III of ...
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  • board, who were on their way from Spain to Naples. In 1505, they raided the ... before bombarding the ports in the Gulf of Naples. He then appeared in Lazio ...
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  • kill him. Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in his Ode to Naples alludes to the basilisk: Be thou like the imperial basilisk, Killing thy foe with unapparent ...
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  • years first visiting first Salerno, southeast of Naples, where there was a famous medical school. From Salerno Adelard traveled to Sicily, which at ...
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  • giving pleasant and varied views of the Bay of Naples. The Inca used some farming terrace methods for soil conservation. They used a system of ...
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  • requesting only that he be allowed to keep Naples (in Italy). He was, moreover ... empire, but ceded the Spanish Netherlands, Naples, Milan, and Sardinia to Austria; ...
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  • England, and convinced Gladstone to travel to Naples to view personally the inhumane conditions in which political prisoners were kept. ...
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  • formed a partnership between the University of Naples, the Libyan Department of Antiquities of Cirenica, and the Libyan Ministry of Culture which is ...
    13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020

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