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It was common to hear Barbarian languages in the Italian peninsula and to hear Greek in Rome, largely because the Greeks dominated the economic life of Rome. This dependence caused tension with the Romans, so in 440 the western emperor Valentinian III decided to expel "all the Greek merchants" from the city. This caused a total famine which ...
Giglio means "lily" in Italian, and though the name would appear consistent with the insignia of Medici Florence, it originally derives from the Latin name of the island, Igilium, which in turn could be related to the Ancient Greek name of the neighbouring Capraia, Αἰγύλιον (Aigýlion, Latinized as Aegilium), [3] from αἴξ aíx "goat".
The transmission of the Greek Classics to Latin Western Europe during the Middle Ages was a key factor in the development of intellectual life in Western Europe. [1] Interest in Greek texts and their availability was scarce in the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages, but as traffic to the East increased, so did Western scholarship.
The Guelphs and Ghibellines (/ ˈ ɡ w ɛ l f s ... ˈ ɡ ɪ b ɪ l aɪ n z / GWELFS... GHIB-il-ynze, US also /-l iː n z,-l ɪ n z /-eenz, -inz; Italian: guelfi e ghibellini [ˈɡwɛlfi e gɡibelˈliːni,-fj e-]) were factions supporting respectively the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy during the Middle Ages.
The naval Battle of Giglio or Montecristo was a military clash between a fleet of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and a fleet of the Republic of Genoa in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It took place on Friday, May 3, 1241 between the islands of Montecristo and Giglio in the Tuscan Archipelago and ended with the victory of the Imperial fleet.
Giglio Island, an Italian island and municipality of Tuscany Giglio Castello, Giglio Porto and Giglio Campese: hamlets of the island; Giglio v. United States, a U.S. Supreme Court criminal procedure case; Santa Maria Zobenigo, or Santa Maria del Giglio, a church in Venice, Italy; Stadio Giglio, a multi-purpose stadium in Reggio Emilia, Italy
The most important cultural transplant was the Chalcidean/Cumaean variety of the Greek alphabet, which was adopted by the Etruscans; the Old Italic alphabet subsequently evolved into the Latin alphabet. Many of the new Hellenic cities became very rich and powerful, like Neapolis , Syracuse, Acragas, and Sybaris.
Greek mathematicians lived in cities spread over the entire region, from Anatolia to Italy and North Africa, but were united by Greek culture and the Greek language. [119] The development of mathematics as a theoretical discipline and the use of deductive reasoning in proofs is an important difference between Greek mathematics and those of ...