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San Francesco d'Assisi is a Roman Catholic church building in the town of Gela, in the province of Caltanissetta, region of Sicily, Italy. History [ edit ] The Baroque church was built in 1659 to replace a prior church built in 1499.
Gela ( Sicilian and Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒɛːla]; Ancient Greek: Γέλα[ 3]) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Autonomous Region of Sicily, Italy; in terms of area and population, it is the largest municipality on the southern coast of Sicily. Gela is part of the Province of Caltanissetta and is one of the few comuni in Italy ...
Santa Cristina Gela was founded in 1691 by 82 descendants of the earlier Albanian settlers from Piana degli Albanesi, specifically from the Musacchia family from Myzeqe plain in Albania, and various families of Arvanite Nobility from Morea. The settlers acquired the area under a contract with the Archbishop of Palermo and had to pay to him ...
www .laciviltacattolica .it. ISSN. 0009-8167. La Civiltà Cattolica ( Italian for Catholic Civilization) is a periodical published by the Jesuits in Rome, Italy. It has been published continuously since 1850 [ 1] and is among the oldest of Catholic Italian periodicals. All of the journal's articles are the collective responsibility of the ...
Italian. And the Ship Sails On ( Italian: E la nave va) is a 1983 Italian film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. It depicts the events on board a luxury liner filled with the friends of a deceased opera singer who have gathered to mourn her. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th ...
La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa (The White Rose and the Red Rose) is an opera in two acts composed by Simon Mayr to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. It premiered at the Teatro Sant'Agostino, Genoa, on 21 February 1813. Set in England against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, Romani's libretto is based on René-Charles Guilbert de ...
Andreas de Silva (fl. 1520) was a composer, probably of Portuguese origin, who is known mainly from inclusion of five motets in the Medici Codex. Now attributed to de Silva is a madrigal Che sentisti Madonna , misattributed to Verdelot in 1537.
Cc'è la luna n menzu ô mari" (Sicilian for 'There's the moon amid the sea'), mostly known in the English-speaking world as "C'è la luna mezzo mare", "Luna mezz'o mare" and other similar titles, is a comic Sicilian song with worldwide popularity, traditionally styled as a brisk 6 8 tarantella. The song portrays a mother-daughter "coming of ...