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... Italy . Elected deputy to the Italian parliament in 1861 , Fabrizi sat on the extreme left . On his way to Sicily in 1862 to persuade Garibaldi to give up his march on Rome , he was arrested by the king of Italy's lieutenant in Naples ...
... Italy . Elected deputy to the Italian parliament in 1861 , Fabrizi sat on the extreme left . On his way to Sicily in 1862 to persuade Garibaldi to give up his march on Rome , he was arrested by the king of Italy's lieutenant in Naples ...
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... Italians during the turbulent epoch of the French Revolution , the Napoleonic Wars , and the restoration of Austrian rule ; they rank among the masterpieces of Italian litera- ture . Foscolo , born of a Greek mother and a Venetian ...
... Italians during the turbulent epoch of the French Revolution , the Napoleonic Wars , and the restoration of Austrian rule ; they rank among the masterpieces of Italian litera- ture . Foscolo , born of a Greek mother and a Venetian ...
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... Italian GENOVA , port city in northwestern Italy , capital of the Genoa prov- ince in the Liguria region ; historically impor- tant as the centre of a Mediterranean com- mercial empire in the Middle Ages . The text article recounts how ...
... Italian GENOVA , port city in northwestern Italy , capital of the Genoa prov- ince in the Liguria region ; historically impor- tant as the centre of a Mediterranean com- mercial empire in the Middle Ages . The text article recounts how ...
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