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Pedro Caro y Salas, 4th Marquis of La Romana (d. 1855), son of the 3rd Marquis; Pedro Caro y Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of La Romana (1827-1890), son of the 4th Marquis; Pedro Caro y Széchényi, 6th Marquis of La Romana (1849-1916), son of the 5th Marquis; Pedro Caro y Martínez de Irujo, 7th Marquis of La Romana (1884-1965), son of the ...
Pedro Caro Sureda, 3rd Marquis of La Romana (2 October 1761 – 23 January 1811) was a Spanish Army officer and nobleman who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. His two younger brothers, José Caro Sureda , [ 2 ] and Juan Caro Sureda [ 3 ] also served in the Spanish army during the Peninsular War .
Il ponte degli angeli (The Bridge of Angels,1930), painting by Scipione (Gino Bonichi). Scuola romana or Scuola di via Cavour was a 20th-century art movement defined by a group of painters within Expressionism and active in Rome between 1928 and 1945, and with a second phase in the mid-1950s.
Relief found in Neumagen near Trier, a teacher with two discipuli and a puer capsarius (180-185 AD). At the height of the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, the Roman system of education gradually found its final form.
The first two centuries of the Empire saw a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana (lit. ' Roman Peace '). Rome reached its greatest territorial extent under Trajan (r. 98–117 AD), but a period of increasing trouble and decline began under Commodus (r. 180–192).
Arnaldo Momigliano noted that "Pax Romana is a simple formula for propaganda, but a difficult subject for research." [8] The Pax Romana began when Octavian (Augustus) defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the Battle of Actium on 2 September 31 BC and became Roman emperor. [1] [9] [3] He became princeps, or first citizen.
The Toledo School of Translators (Spanish: Escuela de Traductores de Toledo) is the group of scholars who worked together in the city of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries, to translate many of the Islamic philosophy and scientific works from Classical Arabic into Medieval Latin.
A phalera was a sculpted disk, usually made of gold, silver, bronze or glass, and worn on the breastplate during parades by Roman soldiers who had been awarded it as a kind of medal. [1]