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Pisa acquired a mainly cultural role spurred by the presence of the University of Pisa, created in 1343, and later reinforced by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (1810) and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (1987). Pisa was the birthplace of the important early physicist Galileo Galilei. It is still the seat of an archbishopric. Besides ...
In 1304, he was engaged in works of sculpture and architecture in his native Pisa, and was called upon to adorn the facade of the Church of San Michele di Borgo with historical bas-reliefs. These labours, together with his work on other parts of that church, and the construction of a pulpit, engaged him for the remaining nine years of his life.
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. This list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises the many different Italian populations that existed in antiquity.
The Piasa (/ ˈ p aɪ. ə s ɔː / PY-ə-saw) or Piasa Bird is a creature from Native American mythology depicted in one of two murals painted by Native Americans on cliffsides above the Mississippi River. Its original location was at the end of a chain of limestone bluffs in Madison County, Illinois, at present-day Alton, Illinois. The ...
The province of Pisa (Italian: provincia di Pisa) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Pisa . With an area of 2,448 square kilometres (945 sq mi) and a total population of 421,642 (As of 2014 [update] ), it is the second most populous and fifth largest province of Tuscany.
Pisano, a native or inhabitant of Pisa, Italy; Pisano (surname), a list of people; Pisano, Piedmont, commune in the province of Novara, in northern Italy; Pisano period, in number theory; Pisanello (1380–1456), Italian artist sometimes erroneously called Vittore Pisano
A native of Pisa, she was born in the parish of San Martino in Guazzolongo. Her mother, Berta, was Corsican; her father, named Bernardo, was a Pisan merchant. When she was three years old, her father left and never returned, leaving his family in difficult straits. [2] By the age of ten, she had dedicated herself as an Augustinian tertiary.
The Archdiocese of Pisa (Latin: Archidioecesis Pisana) is a Latin Church metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in Pisa, Italy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was founded in the 4th century and elevated to the dignity of an archdiocese on 21 April 1092 by Pope Urban II .