Giovanni Della Casa

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9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

8 of the Largest Empires in History

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Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

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Born	June 28, 1503 • Italy
Died	November 14, 1556 (aged 53) • Montepulciano • Italy

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Giovanni Guareschi

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Michelangelo

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Dante

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Niccolò Machiavelli

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Petrarch

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Luigi Pirandello

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Leo XIII

pope

Torquato Tasso

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Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.

Ludovico Ariosto

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Elena Ferrante

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Gabriele D’Annunzio

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Poliziano

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Aldo Rossi

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Pietro Metastasio

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Umberto Eco

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Giacomo Leopardi

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Alessandro Manzoni

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