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The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island, was believed to be a black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself. Described by Gerardus Mercator as 33 French miles in size, it provided a supposed explanation for why all compasses point to this location.
Inventio Fortunata (also Inventio Fortunate, Inventio Fortunat or Inventio Fortunatae), "Fortunate, or fortune-making, discovery", is a lost book, probably dating from the 14th century, containing a description of the North Pole as a magnetic island (the Rupes Nigra) surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents.
Mura di Como: Medieval architecture: Museo archeologico Paolo Giovio: Museo didattico della seta di Como: Museo storico Giuseppe Garibaldi: Novocomum: Giuseppe Terragni: rationalism: Ospedale Valduce: Palaghiaccio Casate: Palazzo Cernezzi, casa comunale: Pontificio Collegio Gallio: Porta Torre: Romanesque architecture: Seminario maggiore di ...
"Casa del Fascio, Como 1932-1936". Comunicare l'Architettura. Venti Monumenti Italiani. Torino: SEAT. Ada Francesca Marcianò (1987). Giuseppe Terragni. Opera completa 1925-1943. Roma: Officina. ISBN 978-8860490483. Valeria Pracchi, Federico Busnelli, Sara Mauri, Luca Ambrosini (2017). "Como: ottant'anni di vita della Casa del Fascio di ...
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Dermatosis papulosa nigra, a condition of many small, benign skin lesions on that face that closely simulate seborrheic keratoses, a condition generally presenting on dark-skinned individuals; Linea nigra, a dark vertical line that appears on the abdomen during pregnancy; Substantia nigra, a portion of the brain associated with dopamine production
The Villa d'Este, originally Villa del Garovo, is a Renaissance patrician residence in Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy, close to the city of Como.Both the villa and the 25-acre (100,000 m 2) park which surrounds it have undergone significant changes since their sixteenth-century origins as a summer residence for Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, who had been born in the village.
The Palazzo Littorio of Montevarchi The former Casa del Fascio of Asciano The former Casa Littoria in Bolzano, juxtaposed with a Hannah Arendt-quotation in 2017. A casa del Fascio, casa Littoria, or casa del Littorio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkaːza del ˈfaʃʃo, ˈkaːsa-]) was a building housing the local branch of the National Fascist Party and later the Republican Fascist Party under the ...