Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
By far the most famous composer of church music in 16th-century Italy was Palestrina, the most prominent member of the Roman School, whose style of smooth, emotionally cool polyphony was to become the defining sound of the late 16th century, at least for generations of 19th- and 20th-century musicologists. Other Italian composers of the late ...
In addition to its loss of political power, the Church came under increasing attack during the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. [15] As Spain declined in the 16th century, so did its Italian possessions in Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, and Milan. Southern Italy was impoverished, stagnant, and cut off from the mainstream of events in Europe.
16th-century Italian literature (2 C, 2 P) N. 16th century in the Kingdom of Naples (3 C, 1 P) P. 16th century in the Papal States (15 C, 4 P) 16th-century Italian ...
The 16th century began with the Julian year 1501 ... The Renaissance in Italy and Europe saw the emergence of important artists, authors and scientists, ...
Italian Renaissance (14th–16th c.) Italian Wars (1494–1559) ... (in particular from the 11th century), the Italian Peninsula was divided into numerous states.
Verdi was the composer of the Italian Risorgimento, the movement to unify Italy in the 19th century. Later in the century is also the time of the early career of Giacomo Puccini, perhaps the greatest composer of pure melody in the history of Italian music. Frontispiece from the score of Cavalleria rusticana, a masterpiece of Italian Verismo ...
Italy takes part in the Iraq War, although populations show disapproval through peace flags. 2004: 30 March: It is established the National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe. 2005: 4 March: Nicola Calipari, Italian secret agent, is shot dead by friendly fire from a US patrol during the rescue of journalist Giuliana Sgrena from kidnappers in ...
Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political states, some independent but others controlled by external powers.