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Cortusi Family
The Cortusi family was prominent in Padua in the 13th through 15th centuries. In contemporary documents, their surname may also appear as da Cortusiis, da Curtosiis, de Curtexis or de Cortisiis. Of humble origin, the Cortusi seem to have emigrated from Germany to Italy in the 11th century. Late sources place their arrival in Italy in 1014, but the first document to mention them is the ''Descriptio civium per quatuor quarteria patavinorum'' (Description of the citizens of the four quarters of the Paduans) of 1275. Some modern historians have incorrectly ascribed nobility to the family, but in fact it was just well-established and wealthy by the later 13th century. The Cortusi were based in the district of Ponte Altinate and the village of Ognisanti. Along the river Brenta to the east of the city, they held lands and rights to tithes in fief from the bishopric of Treviso. Writing around 1317 in his ''Liber de generatione aliquorum civium urbis Padue'', Giovanni da Nono describes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 214,000 (). The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian ''Venezia'') and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000. Padua stands on the Bacchiglione, Bacchiglione River, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (''Pianura Veneta''). To the city's south west lies the Colli Euganei, Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley. Padua appears twice in the UNESCO World Heritage List: for its Botanical Garden of Padua, Botanical Garden, the most anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassano Del Grappa
Bassano del Grappa ( vec, Basan or ''Bassan'', ) is a city and ''comune'', in the Vicenza province, in the region of Veneto, in northern Italy. It bounds the communes of Cassola, Marostica, Solagna, Pove del Grappa, Romano d'Ezzelino, Campolongo sul Brenta, Conco, Rosà, Cartigliano and Nove. Some neighbourhoods of these communes have become in practice a part of the urban area of Bassano, so that the population of the whole conurbation totals around 70,000 people. The 16th century painter Jacopo Bassano was born, worked, and died in Bassano, and took the town name as his own surname. History Prehistoric and Roman periods The city was founded in the 2nd century BC by a Roman called Bassianus, whence the name, as an agricultural estate. However, an ancient bronze sword (called "spada di Riccardo"), found in 2009 and dating back to the 7th century BC, possibly between the 18th and 15th century BC, suggests that the area of Bassano was already inhabited not just in the pre-Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovico Cortusi
Ludovico () is an Italian masculine given name. It is sometimes spelled Lodovico. The feminine equivalent is Ludovica. Persons with the name Ludovico Given name * Ludovico D'Aragona (1876–1961), Italian socialist politician * Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet * Ludovico Avio (1932–1996), Argentine football forward * Ludovico Baille (1764–1839), Italian historian * Ludovico Balbi (1540–1604), Italian composer * Ludovico Barassi (1873–1953), Italian jurist * Ludovico Barbo (1381–1443), Italian monastic life reformer * Ludovico Bertonio (1552–1625), Italian Jesuit missionary * Ludovico Bidoglio (1900–1970), Argentinian footballer * Ludovico Brea (c. 1450–c. 1523), Italian painter * Ludovico di Breme (1780–1820), Italian writer * Ludovico Ottavio Burnacini (1636–1707), Italian architect and stage designer * Ludovico Buti (c. 1560–after 1611), Italian painter * Ludovico Camangi (1903–1976), Italian politician * Lodovico Campalastro, Italian pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Cortusi
Guglielmo Cortusi (fl. 1305–1361) was a Paduan judge, diplomat and chronicler whose ''Chronica de novitatibus Padue et Lombardie'' is the principal primary source for Paduan history in the early years of Carraresi rule. Life Guglielmo belonged to the Cortusi family. He was born in Padua probably around 1285, since he first witnesses a document on 27 February 1305. His father was Bonzanello Cortusi. In December 1315, Guglielmo entered the judicial college in Padua. After graduating, he became a judge, a position he held until 1356. Between 1321 and 1353, he was the ''gastaldione'' of the college six times. Besides acting as a judge, Guglielmo acted on occasion as a diplomat. In 1327, he was one of the Paduan representatives sent to deal with the representatives of the Emperor Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV in Verona. Their efforts to preserve Padua's autonomy failed and the city was forced to submit to Cangrande I della Scala, Cangrande della Scala. In March 1336, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belluno
Belluno (; lld, Belum; vec, Belùn) is a town and province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Located about north of Venice, Belluno is the capital of the province of Belluno and the most important city in the Eastern Dolomites region. With its roughly 36,000 inhabitants, it is the largest populated area of Valbelluna. It is one of the 15 municipalities of the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park. Geography The ancient city of Belluno rises above a cliff spur near the confluence of the Torrente Ardo and the Piave River. To the north is the imposing Schiara range of the Dolomites, with the famous ''Gusela del Vescovà'' (Bishopric's needle), and Mounts Serva and Talvena rising above the city. To the south, the Venetian Prealps separate Belluno from the Venetian plain. Also to the south is the Nevegal, in the Castionese area, a skiing resort. History The name of the city is derived from Celtic ''belo-dunum'' which means "splendid hill." The name was inspired by its fav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feltre
Feltre ( vec, Fèltre) is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Belluno in Veneto, northern Italy. A hill town in the southern reaches of the province, it is located on the Stizzon River, about from its junction with the Piave, and southwest from Belluno. The Dolomites loom to the north of the town. An area incorporating Feltre and 12 contiguous municipalities is known as . In 2014, the Feltrino area was formalised in the Unione Montana Feltrina (Feltrino Mountain Community). History It was known in Roman times as Feltria and described as an ''oppidum'' by Pliny, who assigned its foundation to the Alpine tribe of the Rhaetians. The city obtained the status of ''municipium'' in 49 BC with its citizens inscribed into the Roman tribe of ''Menenia''. In spite of its rigorous climate, which led a Roman author, perhaps Caesar, to write: ''Feltria perpetuo niveum damnata rigore'' ''Atque mihi posthac haud adeunda, vale'' Feltria lay on a Roman road mentioned in the Antonine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prior
Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be lower in rank than the abbey's abbot or abbess. Monastic superiors In the Rule of Saint Benedict, the term appears several times, referring to any superior, whether an abbot, provost, dean, etc. In other old monastic rules the term is used in the same generic sense. With the Cluniac Reforms, the term ''prior'' received a specific meaning; it supplanted the provost or dean (''praepositus''), spoken of in the Rule of St. Benedict. The example of the Cluniac congregations was gradually followed by all Benedictine monasteries, as well as by the Camaldolese, Vallombrosians, Cistercians, Hirsau congregations, and other offshoots of the Benedictine Order. Monastic congregations of hermit origin generally do not use the title of abbot for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Venice
The Republic of Venice ( vec, Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic ( vec, Repùblega Vèneta, links=no), traditionally known as La Serenissima ( en, Most Serene Republic of Venice, italics=yes; vec, Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia, links=no), was a sovereign state and Maritime republics, maritime republic in parts of present-day Italy (mainly Northern Italy, northeastern Italy) that existed for 1100 years from AD 697 until AD 1797. Centered on the Venetian Lagoon, lagoon communities of the prosperous city of Venice, it incorporated numerous Stato da Màr, overseas possessions in modern Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Greece, Albania and Cyprus. The republic grew into a Economic history of Venice, trading power during the Middle Ages and strengthened this position during the Renaissance. Citizens spoke the still-surviving Venetian language, although publishing in (Florentine) Italian became the norm during the Renaissance. In its early years, it prospered on the salt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podestà
Podestà (, English: Potestate, Podesta) was the name given to the holder of the highest civil office in the government of the cities of Central and Northern Italy during the Late Middle Ages. Sometimes, it meant the chief magistrate of a city state, the counterpart to similar positions in other cities that went by other names, e.g. ''rettori'' ("rectors"). In the following centuries up to 1918, the term was used to designate the head of the municipal administration, particularly in the Italian-speaking territories of the Austrian Empire. The title was taken up again during the Fascist regime with the same meaning. The podestà's office, its duration and the residence and the local jurisdiction were called ''podesteria'', especially during the Middle Ages, and in later centuries, more rarely during the fascist regime. Currently, ''podestà'' is the title of mayors in Italian-speaking municipalities of Graubünden in Switzerland, but is not the case for the rest of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiesa Di Santa Maria Maddalena (Oriago, Mira, Italy) 03
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