Bayard, Pierre. 1476-1524. French knight in Italian wars. “The fearless and blameless knight.”

Cateau-Cambresis, Treaty. 1559. Ended Italian Wars. Italy, Savoy to Spain. Calais to France.

Italian Wars. 1494-1559. Spain, HRE defeat France for control of Italy.

Louis XII. Father of the People. 1462-1515. French King 1498-. Italian Wars.

Madrid, Treaty. 1526. Charles V, Francis I truce in Italian Wars. 1670. Spain cedes Jamaica to Britain.

Maximilian I. 1459-1519. HRE 1493-. Expanded Hapsburg empire by marriage and conquest. Italian Wars.

Paix des Dames. Cambrai Treaty. 1529. Francis I’s mother and Charles V’s aunt negotiate halt to Italian Wars.

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.

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.

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