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Ethiopia. c1000BC Semite. 1C Aksumite Kingdom. 10C Zagwe dynasty. 1270 Solomonic dynasty. 17C Divided. 1855 Re-united. 1935 Italy (Italian East Africa). 1941 Independent. 1952 +Eritrea. 1974 Coup, Republic. 1993 -Eritrea.
Italian East Africa. 1936-41. Italian colonies in Africa. Ethiopia, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland.
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.
Alpini, Prospero. 1553-1616. Italian physician. Introduced coffee and bananas to Europe.
Amati. 16-17C. Italian family of violin makers-taught Stradivari.
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.
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.
Betti, Ugo. 1892-1953. Italian dramatist. La Padrona 1927.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. 1313-75. Italian “father” of vernacular novel. Decameron 1348-53.