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38 unusual facts about Italy


2007 Pitch and putt European Championship

The 2007 Pitch and putt European Teams Championship held in Chia (Italy) was organized by the Federazione Italiana Pitch and Putt and promoted by the European Pitch and Putt Association (EPPA), with 10 teams in competition.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Although the paper mentions the Telecommunications Act, it also accuses China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, and Italy of stifling the Internet.

Aldrovandi

Aldrovandi is a family name of the Emilia-Romagna in Italy, and especially from Bologna.

Alfred Galpin

He attended the Sorbonne in Paris in 1931–1932, thereafter during the 1930s living with his wife in fascist Italy where he was a professional composer and pianist.

Antonio Curò

Antonio Curò (21 June 1828, Bergamo – 10 May 1906) was an Italian engineer and entomologist.

Brachylogus

Its value is chiefly historical, as it furnishes evidence that a knowledge of Justinian's legislation was always maintained in northern Italy.

Bridgetta

Bridgetta is the Italian version of the Irish name, Bridget.

Corioli

After this it does not appear in history, and we hear soon afterwards (443 BC) of a dispute between Ardea and Aricia about some land which had been part of the territory of Corioli, but had at an unknown date passed to Rome with Corioli.

David Block

In May, the advance of the 1st Guards Brigade was halted by the enemy dug in on Monte Piccolo, a bleak and stony hill south of Arce.

Deo optimo maximo

Thus the phrase or its abbreviation can be found on many Renaissance-era churches and other buildings, especially over sarcophagi, particularly in Italy.

Esther Charlotte Emily Weisbrodt Francis

Esther Charlotte Emily Weisbrodt Francis, wife of Samuel Francis, was born June 24, 1836, in Turin, Italy, of German parentage, her parents coming from Saxony.

Francisco Antonio Camassa

Francisco Antonio Camassa (1588–1646) was an Italian Jesuit scholar who taught at the Colegio Imperial de Madrid.

Franzoni

Franzoni is a surname of Italian origin.

Gorgona Abbey

Gorgona Abbey, later Gorgona Charterhouse (Certosa di Gorgona), was a monastery on the small island of Gorgona in the Mediterranean between Corsica and the coast of Tuscany.

Guillermo Posadas

He composed the Mexican folk song Noche Feliz (Happy Night), recorded by the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso and sung in Spanish.

Helen Zimmern

Through her advocacy and translations, Zimmern made European culture - whether that of Germany, or, increasingly, Italy - accessible to English speakers.

Henry, Duke of Parma

Enrico died at Pianore, never Lucca, Italy, unmarried and without issue and was succeeded as titular pretender of Parma by his brother Joseph upon his death.

Italian colonists in Albania

In addition, southern Italy contained Albanian-speaking communities (Arbëreshë people), who had taken refuge there from the Ottoman invasion of Albania during the Skanderbeg era, and who were favorable to a possible union of Albania and Italy.

La Casa del Lago

La Casa del Lago is the second and final album by the Italian progressive rock group Saint Just.

Licola

Licola, Italy, a subdivision of Pozzuoli in the province of Naples

Medical anthropology

The ethnographic evidence supported the criticisms of the institutional custodialism and contributed decisively to policies of deinstitutionalizing psychiatric and social care in general and led to in some countries such as Italy, a rethink of the guidelines on education and promoting health.

Menahem ben Saruq

Thus Rashi in the second half of the eleventh century refers to Menahem as a philological authority; Rashi's grandson, Jacob b. Meïr Tam, composed a work for the special purpose of vindicating Menahem against the attacks of Dunash; and (about 1140) Menahem ben Solomon composed in Italy a dictionary which was based for the most part on the "Mahberet."

Michele Celeste

Michele Celeste is an award-winning Italian playwright.

Morselli

As of 2013, in Italy there are approximately 1,200 people with the surname Morselli, approximately half of which reside in Emilia-Romagna.

Neo-Guelph

The Neo-Guelph or Neo-Guelphism movement was a Nineteenth century Italian political society which wanted to unite Italy into a single kingdom with the Pope as its king.

Non timor domini, non timor malus

Non timor domini, non timor malus is the second studio album by the Italian Black ambient/Gothic rock band Militia Christi.

Opera Nazionale Balilla

Nationalists in the years after the war thought of themselves as combating the both liberal and domineering institutions created by cabinets such as those of Giovanni Giolitti, including traditional schooling.

Paul Triquet

On 14 December 1943 during the attack on Casa Berardi, Italy, when all the other officers and half the men of his company had been killed or wounded, Captain Triquet dashed forward and, with the remaining men, broke through the enemy resistance.

Pearle Opticians

The Pearle chain of opticians in Europe has more than 1000 branches in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Finland and Estonia.

PlayStation 2 retail configurations

The V12 model was first released in black, but a silver edition was available in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, United Arab Emirates and other GCC Countries, France, Italy, South Africa, and finally, North America.

Potestas

In some of the Italian city states, the term "Potestas" describing the authority of a magistrate developed into "Podestà", which was the chief magistrate's title.

Roman theatre, Cartagena

The scaenae frons had three semicircular exedras and decorated by two orders of columns, with bases and capitals in Luni's marble, and shaft in pink travertine of Mula.

Romantic Tragedy's Crescendo

Romantic Tragedy's Crescendo is the debut album of the Italian gothic metal band Macbeth.

Santa Maria degli Angeli

Santa Maria degli Angeli ("St. Mary of the Angels") is the name of several churches in Italy.

Santa Maria Incoronata

Santa Maria Incoronata or Holy Mary Crowned is an Italian of veneration of the Virgin as Queen.

Sector No Limits

Sector No Limits is an Italian watch brand, which was created in 1973 by the Giardiello family, in Naples, Italy, then also owners of Philip Watch.

SIAI-Marchetti SM.101

The SIAI-Marchetti SM.101 was a 1940s Italian single-engined light transport cabin monoplane designed and built by SIAI-Marchetti.

Woodchurch

It was closed in 2006 with production transferred to Italy.


1685 in art

Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica (died 1743)

2011 European Masters Games

The 2011 European Masters Games is the second edition of the multi-sport event for masters sport, scheduled to take place between 10–20 September 2011 in the areas of Lignano Sabbiadoro and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy.

A Season with Verona

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on the pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power).

Alessandro Mendini

As architect, he designed several buildings; for example the Alessi residence in Omegna, Italy; the theater complex "Teatrino della Bicchieraia" in the Tuscan city of Arezzo; the Forum Museum of Omegna, a memorial tower in Hiroshima, Japan; the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands and the Arosa Casino in Switzerland.

Alfred Gause

Bodo Zimmermann is in the background Gause rejoined Rommel in his postings in Italy and Northern France.

Ankur Bhatia

The film was selected in over 10 film festivals worldwide, including Cannes Film Festival Short film Corner in France and River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival in Italy.

Betti reaction

Betti worked at many universities in Italy, including Florence, Cagliari, Siena, Genoa and Bologna, where he was the successor of Giacomo Ciamician.

Boffille de Juge

When John of Anjou, duke of Calabria, was conquered in Italy (1461) and fled to Provence, Boffille followed him.

Bresso

At the 2001 census the municipality had a population of 27,132 inhabitants and a population density of 8,027.2 persons/km², making it the most densely populated comune in Italy outside the Province of Naples (although it was only seventh overall, behind Portici, Casavatore, San Giorgio a Cremano, Melito di Napoli, Naples, and Arzano).

Carlo Farina

From 1629 to 1631, he was a prominent member of the electoral court orchestra in Bonn, until he returned to Italy, where he worked in Parma and later in Lucca until 1635.

Cesare Segre

Cesare Segre (born 4 April 1928 in Verzuolo, Province of Cuneo) is an Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic of Jewish descent, currently the Director of the Texts and Textual Traditions Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS).

Cherimoya

The first planting in Italy was in 1797, and it became a favored crop in the Province of Reggio Calabria.

Clodovero Ferri

A native of Cropani ,a little town in Calabria, Italy, Clodoveo Ferri graduated cum laude at the University of Pisa and later specialized in internal medicine and rheumatology.

Fernando Fernández de Córdova, 2nd Marquis of Mendigorría

In May 1849 he was sent to Italy to help to protect Pope Pius IX against the Italian Revolution of 1848.

Fig leaf

Eugen Sandow, often considered the first modern-day bodybuilder, was an admirer of the human physique, and in addition to strongman sideshows, he performed "muscle displays" by posing in the nude — save for a fig leaf that he would don in imitation of statues he had seen in Italy as a boy.

Fleming College Florence

Originally founded in Lugano, Switzerland in 1968, the College relocated to Florence, Italy in 1972 to Torre Di Gattaia, just off Viale Michelangelo on a hill above the city.

Fort Montecchio-Lusardi

The main function of the fort was to control the roads of Spluga, Maloja and Stelvio, in case the Central Powers decided to invade northern Italy, violating the neutrality of Switzerland.

Franco Belgiorno-Nettis

After the war he returned to Italy to complete his studies in engineering at the University of Turin.

Giampaolo Stuani

Giampaolo Stuani (born 1966 in Castiglione delle Stiviere, Province of Mantua) is an Italian pianist.

Gray squirrel

The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa

Gyrotonic

After spending 6 months in a refugee camp in Italy, Horvath was granted asylum in the United States, subsequently dancing professionally with the New York City Opera and the Houston Ballet.

Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale

A change of scene being deemed necessary to insure his recovery, he obtained, through Dr. Batty, the post of medical attendant to Edward, fifth earl of Oxford, who was then on a tour in Italy.

Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson

He strongly advocated the invasion of Germany via the Danube plain, but this did not take place when the armies in Italy were weakened to support other theatres of war.

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

Jalari in corto

The film international festival, Jalari in Corto, was born in the summer of 2004 from an idea of the youth of the Cultural Environment Ethnographic "Jalari" Andrea and Italian, in order to promote, raise awareness and bring the art of cinema and in general the communicative power of artistic expression with as many people as possible through short films and meetings with authors, actors and critics.

James Tont operazione U.N.O.

James Tont operazione U.N.O. or Operation Goldsinger is a 1965 Italian spy film spoof based on James Bond directed by Bruno Corbucci.

Japodian burial urns

The Japodian burial urn art was a unique form of art influenced to a degree by the Situla art of northern Illyria and Italy and by Greek art.

John Francis Bentley

After deciding on a Byzantine Revival design, Bentley travelled to Italy to study some of the great early Byzantine-influenced cathedrals, such as St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley

Norton was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Thomas Norton, 4th Baron Grantley and his wife, Maria, née Federigo, and a grandson of Caroline Norton, the writer, and was educated at Harrow School and the University of Dresden.

Juan Cruz Gill

In 2011, he traveled to Venezuela and signed for Estudiantes de Mérida and the next year, Cruz Gill returned to Chile and joined to Primera B side Unión Temuco, team of the Chilean star Marcelo Salas, who currently is retired after a successful career at his country Argentine and Italy.

Leon Golub

While in Italy, both Golub and Spero were profoundly influenced by the figurative works of Etruscan and Roman art, whose narratives addressed ancient themes of power and violence.

Mandaloun

Fakhr-al-Din chose to seek exile in Italy from 1613 until 1618 where he was hosted by Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Marisa Lang

Lang was born in Trieste, Italy and lived there for brief periods during her youth but spent the majority of her life in Toronto, Canada.

Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes

Pedro Henriquez d'Azevedo y Alvarez de Toledo, Count of Fuentes de Valdepero (Zamora, Spain, 1525 – Milan, Italy, 22 July 1610, aged 85) was a Spanish general and statesman.

Piero Calamandrei

The German general Albert Kesselring who was responsible for various war crimes during the Nazi occupation of Italy had been sentenced to death, a sentence that was later commuted.

Remo Lauricella

Upon his death, his antique Vesuvio Stradivarius (ex antonio brosa) violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1727, was left to the Italian town of Cremona.

Sallie Wilson

She then choreographed two ballets,Pandora's Box and Eve, in Italy for her fellow ballerina and longtime friend Carla Fracci.

Sella Nevea

Because both Italy and Slovenia are members of the European Schengen area, skiers are able to freely cross the border between Italy and Slovenia, effectively merging the Sella Nevea and Bovec ski resorts into one large ski resort covering both sides of the Canin mountain.

Semplicemente

"Semplicemente" (en: Simply) is a pop song by Italian duo Zero Assoluto, released in 2005.

Seventh Municipality of Naples

The Seventh Municipality (In Italian: Settima Municipalità or Municipalità 7) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

Sir William Fitzherbert, 1st Baronet

After leaving Paris they visited the major cities of Italy, including Rome and Florence, where Fitzherbert commissioned portraits of himself and his companion from Thomas Patch and Pompeo Batoni respectively.

Sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly

In the first round of voting, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently and independently elected Giorgio Gaja (Italy), Hisashi Owada (Japan), Peter Tomka (Slovakia), and Xue Hanqin (China), but the two organs were deadlocked between two African candidates for the fifth available seat.

Soldo

It quickly became widespread in Italy where it was coined in Genoa, Bologna and numerous other cities.

Sparrenberg Castle

After some preliminary work starting in 1535, from 1556 on the Italian fortress master builder Alessandro Pasqualini and his son managed the reconstruction, which was finished in 1578 and created the largest fortress in Westphalia.

Stephen Worobetz

During World War II, he served as a medical officer with the Canadian Army in Italy and was awarded the Military Cross.

Stratos Boats

Stratos began building boats in 1984, and sells throughout a network of dealers throughout the United States, Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Italy and Venezuela.

Vickers Vulcan

# G-EBEM; Type 61 - Delivered to Douglas Vickers MP in September 1922, competed in King's Cup Air Race in September 1922, taking 7th place, disappeared off the coast of Italy in May 1926.

Wilhelm Marstrand

He returned to Italy several times, the last visit being in 1869, and when in Rome he spent summer months each year in the hill towns Olevano Romano, Civitella and Subiaco.

Wunderteam

Referee Ivan Eklind was criticized for partiality toward the host nation, especially after he also refereed the final which Italy also won.