Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Renaissance began in Tuscany in Central Italy and centred in the city of Florence. [2] The Florentine Republic , one of the several city-states of the peninsula , rose to economic and political prominence by providing credit for European monarchs and by laying down the groundwork for developments in capitalism and in banking . [ 3 ]
Vinci (English: / ˈ v ɪ n tʃ i / VIN-chee, Italian:) [3] is a comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. [4] The birthplace of Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci lies just outside the town.
The very mountainous nature of Italy's landscape was a barrier to effective inter-city communication. The Po plain was an exception: it was the only large contiguous area, and most city states that fell to invasion were located there. Those that survived the longest were in the more rugged regions, such as Florence or Venice, which was ...
That fall, the Roman Republic also collapsed and the French were by now virtually cleared from Italy. Political map of Italy in the years around 1810. After seizing power as consul in France, Napoleon launched a renewed invasion of Italy. Milan fell on June 2, 1800 and Austrian defeats there and in Germany ended the War of the Second Coalition.
041 – City of Venice, including landside Mestre area; 0421 – Metropolitan city of Venice – area of San Donà di Piave; 0422 – Province of Treviso, including its capital Treviso; 0423 – Province of Treviso – area of Montebelluna; 0424 – Province of Vicenza – area of Bassano del Grappa; 0425 – Province of Rovigo – area of Rovigo
This page was last edited on 20 January 2007, at 01:23 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
A depiction of two lovers at a wedding. From the Aldobrandini Wedding fresco. The precise customs and traditions of weddings in ancient Rome likely varied heavily across geography, social strata, and time period; Christian authors writing in late antiquity report different customs from earlier authors writing during the Classical period, with some authors condemning practices described by ...
City walls of Monteriggioni. Monteriggioni is a medieval walled town, located on a natural hillock, built by the Sienese in 1214–19 as a front line defensive fortification in their wars against Florence , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] by assuming command of the Via Cassia running through the Val d'Elsa and Val Staggia to the west.