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The 1454 Peace of Lodi ended their struggle for hegemony in Italy, attaining a balance of power (see Italian Renaissance). [ 11 ] At the beginning of the 16th century, apart from some city-states like Genoa, Lucca or San Marino , only the Republic of Venice was able to preserve its independence and to match the European monarchies of France and ...
Peter Thornton, The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400–1600. (New York: Abrams) 1991 "Cassone - Italian Renaissance Marriage Chest" in Eclectique, 23 September 2009. Helen Webberley, "Marriage, fertility and courtly love in Renaissance Italy: cassone" in Art and Architecture, mainly, 1 February 2011
Map of Italy and some of its major cities. The following is a list of Italian municipalities with a population over 50,000.The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census. [3]
The Italian Renaissance (Italian: Rinascimento [rinaʃʃiˈmento]) was a period in Italian history between the 14th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Western Europe and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.
Twenty-five Italian sites were added during the 1990s, including 10 sites added at the 21st session held in Naples in 1997. Italy has served as a member of the World Heritage Committee five times, 1978–1985, 1987–1993, 1993–1999, 1999–2001, and 2021–2025. [3] Out of Italy's 60 heritage sites, 54 are cultural and 6 are natural. [3]
Masolino, Banquet of Herod, Castiglione Olona. In the first half of the 15th century, Lombardy was the Italian region where the International Gothic style had the greatest following, so much so that in Europe the expression ouvrage de Lombardie was synonymous with an object of precious workmanship, referring especially to the miniatures and jewelry that were an expression of an elitist ...
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes tied the knot in “the wedding of the century,” 17 years ago.. While it’s unclear exactly who officially gave it that title — a term used by the media, including ...
At the time, the struggle for Italian unification was perceived to be waged primarily against the Habsburgs, since they directly controlled the predominantly Italian-speaking northeastern part of present-day Italy and were the most powerful force against the Italian unification. The Austrian Empire vigorously repressed nationalist sentiment ...