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Italy has been the centre of the Roman civilization, the Catholic Church, and of the Renaissance, as well as the starting point of movements with a great international impact such as the Baroque, Neoclassicism, and Futurism and significantly contributed to historical phenomenons such as the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution. [1]
Genies or djinns are supernatural creatures from pre-Islamic and Islamic mythology. [1] [2] [3] They are associated with shapeshifting, possession and madness.[1] [2] In later Western popular representation, they became associated with wish-granting [1] [3] and often live in magic lamps or bottles.
The Majare are the witches of the popular culture of Sicily. [21] The Pantàsema is an ancient female figure linked to the agricultural rites of the pagan culture of Central Italy, particularly present in the Molise, Lazio, Abruzzo, Umbria e Marche territories. [22] The witches of Valcamonica were persecuted between the 16th century in the ...
In the 1950s, the government of Italy forcefully relocated most of the population of the Sassi to areas of the developing modern city. Beset by extreme poverty and riddled with malaria , the unhealthy living conditions were considered inhuman and an affront to the modern new Italian Republic of Alcide De Gasperi . [ 4 ]
Because they weren't published in print until the tail end of the 16th century, the origins of the fairy tales we know today are misty. That identical motifs — a spinner's wheel, a looming tower, a seductive enchantress — cropped up in Italy, France, Germany, Asia and the pre-Colonial Americas allowed warring theories to spawn.
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore, Roman mythology may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period.
Dante is depicted (bottom, centre) in Andrea di Bonaiuto's 1365 fresco Church Militant and Triumphant in the Santa Maria Novella church, Florence. In 1373, a little more than half a century after Dante's death, the Florentine authorities softened their attitude to him and decided to establish a department for the study of the Divine Comedy.
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy Augustus' Regio V – Picenum, from the 1911 Atlas of William R. Shepherd. Picenum was a region of ancient Italy. The name was assigned by the Romans, who conquered and incorporated it into the Roman Republic.