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268 matches to Alia
Abyssinia-Italy War. 1894-6. Ended Italian colonialism.
Alba Longa. Italian birthplace of Romulus and Remus. Oldest Latin city (1152BC).
Alberti, Leon. 1404-72. Italian Renaissance Man. Artist, poet, geographer, mathematician.
Alia, Ramiz. 1925-. Albanian President 1982-92.
Alpini, Prospero. 1553-1616. Italian physician. Introduced coffee and bananas to Europe.
Amati. 16-17C. Italian family of violin makers-taught Stradivari.
ANZAC. Australian+New Zealand forces in WWI. Gallipoli.
ANZUS, Pact. 1951. Australia, NZ, US mutual defence in Pacific.
Apollinaire, Guillaume. 1880-1918. Italian/French avant-garde poet, coined term Surrealism to describe Chagall work.
Arcadia, Academy of. 1690. 1925 =Italian Literary Academy. Originally known for poetic, pastoral style.
Arcadian. Venetian paintings with Greek gods in Italian dress.
Aretino, Pietro. 1492-1556. Italian satirical poet.
Ariosto, Ludovico. 1474-1533. Italian Renaissence poet, playwright: Orlando Furioso 1516.
Australia. c28,000BC Australoids. 1606 Sighted by Portuguese. 1668 Dampier lands. 1770 Cook claims for England. 1788-1868 Penal colonies. 1901 Independent commonwealth.
Aventine Secession. 1924. 150 Italian government members protest Fascist government. Matteotti.
Axis Pact. 1936-45. German-Italian Agreement, 1936. Cooperative alliance maintained through WWII. Allied with Spain, 1939; Japan, 1936. Yugoslavia 1941. Tripartite Pact.
Badoglio, Pietro. 1871-1956. Italian. Conquered Ethiopia 1936. Arranged 1943 armistice. Prime Minister 1943-44.
Baronius, Caesar. 1538-1607.Italian. RC historian. Annales Eccles 1586-93.
Bassi, Agostino. 1773-1856. Italian microscopist: contagion by microbes.
Bayard, Pierre. 1476-1524. French knight in Italian wars. “The fearless and blameless knight.”
Beccaria, Cesare. 1738-94. Italian writer. Treatise on Crime and Punishment 1764. Influenced 19C penal reform and capital punishment.
Bellarmine, St. Robert. 1542-1621. Italian Jesuit defender of RC church vs Protestantism, Copernican theory, heretics. Galileo.
Bellini, Vincenzo. 1801-35. Italian Romantic opera composer. Norma 1831.
Benedict of Nursia, St. 480-547. Italian monastic. Benedictine Rule 535.
Bernini, Lorenzo. 1598-1680. Italian Baroque painter, sculptor, architect. Louis XIV bust. Apollo and Daphne 1616. St. Theresa 1646.