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Italy comes late to the Gothic | HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Italian Gothic

Italy comes late to the Gothic style but makes of it something very much its own. To move from the west façade of Chartres cathedral to the equivalent in Siena or Orvieto, dating from two centuries later, is like...

The ghettos of Italy, Germany and | HISTORY OF JUDAISM

The ghetto

The ghettos of Italy, Germany and Poland begin to be demolished in the Napoleonic period, when the notions of the French Revolution make such segregation seem medieval. The ghettos of modern times, such as Warsaw, are de...

The partition of Italy settled upon | HISTORY OF VENICE

Italian realignment

The partition of Italy settled upon in the mid-16th century remains the basic pattern for more than 200 years, though the regions of Milan, Naples and Sicily continue to be pawns in Europe's conflicts. The War of the Spa...

The partition of Italy settled upon | HISTORY OF ITALY

Italian realignment

The partition of Italy settled upon in the mid-16th century remains the basic pattern for more than 200 years, though the regions of Milan, Naples and Sicily continue to be pawns in Europe's conflicts. The War of the Spa...

The partition of Italy settled upon | HISTORY OF THE PAPACY

Italian realignment

The partition of Italy settled upon in the mid-16th century remains the basic pattern for more than 200 years, though the regions of Milan, Naples and Sicily continue to be pawns in Europe's conflicts. The War of the Spa...

Sicily and southern Italy are now | HISTORY OF THE PAPACY

The popes and Sicily

Sicily and southern Italy are now in French hands, to the satisfaction of Rome. The French and the papacy share a profound hostility to the German empire - a rivalry expressed in Italian terms in the opposition of the pa...

Sicily and southern Italy are now | HISTORY OF SICILY

The popes and Sicily

Sicily and southern Italy are now in French hands, to the satisfaction of Rome. The French and the papacy share a profound hostility to the German empire - a rivalry expressed in Italian terms in the opposition of the pa...

Whereas Spain and Italy are clear | HISTORY OF THE BALKANS

The Balkan peninsula

Whereas Spain and Italy are clear geographical regions, defined in the north by mountain ranges, the third peninsula projecting south into the Mediterranean is more amorphous. The Adriatic and Ionian seas define the Balk...

Manuscripts written in Italy in the | HISTORY OF WRITING

Classical scripts

Manuscripts written in Italy in the 7th to 8th centuryare entirely in capital letters, giving a neat and intensely formal look. But Celtic monks in Ireland, who are among the most prolific of scribes at this time, prefer...