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Asserting the value of the unique contribution that federated Italians might make
to world civilization, he recommended ... July 1, 1515, Rome), Italian humanist,
architect, and engineer, whose designs and written works signal the transition in
...
Asserting the value of the unique contribution that federated Italians might make
to world civilization, he recommended ... July 1, 1515, Rome), Italian humanist,
architect, and engineer, whose designs and written works signal the transition in
...
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There he was discovered by a Lombard nobleman who took him to Milan, where
Gluck, apart from fulfilling his duties in the Melzi family chapel, spent four years
studying composition with the Italian organist and composer Giovanni Battista ...
There he was discovered by a Lombard nobleman who took him to Milan, where
Gluck, apart from fulfilling his duties in the Melzi family chapel, spent four years
studying composition with the Italian organist and composer Giovanni Battista ...
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Guelf and Ghibelline, of the two opposing factions in Italian politics during the
Middle Ages. The split between the Guelfs, sympathetic to the papacy, and the
Ghibellines, sympathetic to the German (Holy Roman) emperors, contributed to
the ...
Guelf and Ghibelline, of the two opposing factions in Italian politics during the
Middle Ages. The split between the Guelfs, sympathetic to the papacy, and the
Ghibellines, sympathetic to the German (Holy Roman) emperors, contributed to
the ...
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