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  • The Congregation for Borders (Congregazione dei Confini) was a congregation of the Roman Curia. It was set up by Pope Urban VIII in his apostolic constitution...
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    The Duchy of Castro was a fiefdom in central Italy formed in 1537 from a small strip of land on what is now Lazio's border with Tuscany, centred on Castro...
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    Senerchia (Sinerchia in the local dialect) is an Italian municipality with 1370 registered voters, but only 1036 inhabitants, in the Province of Avellino...
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    Burial of Saint Lucy is a painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio. It is located in the church of Santa Lucia al Sepolcro in Syracuse, Sicily. According...
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    The great refusal (Italian: il gran rifiuto) is the error attributed in Dante's Inferno to one of the souls found trapped aimlessly at the Vestibule of...
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    Morgante (sometimes also called Morgante Maggiore lit. 'Greater Morgante', the name given to the complete 28-canto, 30,080-line edition published in 1483)...
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  • Polygonal masonry is a technique of stone wall construction. True polygonal masonry is a technique wherein the visible surfaces of the stones are dressed...
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    A muda was the convoy of merchant ships that usually left Venice in spring and came back in autumn. In the earliest times, the mudas only visited ports...
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    The House of Zamagna (in Italian; Zamanja, Džamanjić or Zamanjić in Serbo-Croatian) was one of the noble families (post-Roman patriciates) of the Republic...
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    45°9′24″N 10°46′19″E / 45.15667°N 10.77194°E / 45.15667; 10.77194 The Belfiore martyrs were a group of pro-independence fighters condemned to death...
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  • The Hirpini (Latin: Hirpini) were an ancient Samnite tribe of Southern Italy. While generally regarded as having been Samnites, sometimes they are treated...
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    The State Archives of Naples (Italian: Archivio di Stato di Napoli), with its more than 50,000 linear meters of book and document shelving, is of fundamental...
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  • Monte Roncalla is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. Marco Salvo and Daniele Canossini (2003). Appennino ligure e tosco-emiliano...
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  • The Battle of Calcinato was a military engagement during the wars between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. It took place on 9 August 1201 near Calcinato, southeast...
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    The Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary at the Trajan Forum (Italian: Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano, Latin: Ss. Nominis Mariae ad forum Traiani)...
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    45°28′N 09°11′E / 45.467°N 9.183°E / 45.467; 9.183 Early Christian churches in Milan are the first churches built immediately after the Edict of Milan...
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    Flavian art is the artistic production of the Roman Empire during the Flavian dynasty (emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian) from 69 to 96 AD. Already...
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  • Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (fl. 4th century) was a Latin poet, possibly a native of Africa. Porfyrius has been identified with Publilius Optatianus...
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    Early Christian sarcophagi are those Ancient Roman sarcophagi carrying inscriptions or carving relating them to early Christianity. They were produced...
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  • The Formazioni Di Difesa Proletaria (transl. Proletarian Defense Formations) were Italian anti-fascist formations, born during the two-year Biennio Rosso...
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