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Timeline Of Pistoia
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Pistoia in the Tuscany region of Italy. Prior to 17th century * 62 BCE - Battle of Pistoria fought near town. * 5th C. CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Pistoia established. * 595 CE - Cattedrale di San Zeno dedicated. * 8th C. CE - Sant'Andrea church, likely date of origin. * 772 CE - built (approximate date). * 12th C. - Church of Sant' Andrea expanded. * 1108 - Pistoia Cathedral damaged by fire. * 1117 - Pistoia "defeated by Lucca." * 1150 - City walls expanded (approximate date). * 1240 - City walls rebuilt (approximate date). * 1294 - San Domenico church construction begins. * 1302-1306 - Pistoia besieged by Florentine and Luccan forces. * 1325 - Luccan Castruccio Castracani in power. * 1348 - Black Death plague. (includes timeline) * 1351 - Surrendered to Florence. * 1353 - expanded (approximate date). * 1359 - Battistero di San Giovanni in corte (baptistery) built. * 1368 - built. * 1401 - Pistoia becomes pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Ganucci Cancellieri
The Palazzo Ganucci Cancellieri is a late- Mannerist-style palace located at Via Curtatone e Montanara #51 in central Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... Description In 1609, the place at the site came into the possession of the prominent Cancellieri family; they refurbished it under the designs (circa 1615) of Jacopo Lafri. In 1795, the palace was inherited by Giacinto Ganucci. A the coat of arms of the Cancellieri family (1598) sits awkwardly atop the doorway into the small balcony, the top entrance portal in the center of the facade; it was moved here from the family's former home (Palazzo delle Cancellieri Bianchi) on the west flank of Piazza Bartolomeo. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Pistoia
The province of Pistoia ( it, provincia di Pistoia) is a province in the Tuscany region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Pistoia and the province is landlocked. It has an area of and a total population of 291,788 inhabitants (as of 2015). There are 22 ''communes'' in the province. The province was formed in 1927 under the rule of Mussolini, and had the lowest income per capita in Tuscany in 1966 due to high poverty levels. This is because the province was mainly agricultural before World War II ended, and has since had to rapidly progress towards industrial capitalism and abandon its agricultural roots. The population of the province has recently been increasing, moving from 268,437 in 2011 to around 292,000 in 2015. The Mountains of Pistoia and the resorts Abetone and Val di Luce are tourist destinations for skiers, and the province contains a combination of flat land such as the area of the valley of the Ombrone and the river flowing through it, and mountainou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy ( it, Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Kingdom of Sardinia, Sardinia was proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when civil discontent led to an 1946 Italian institutional referendum, institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italy, Italian Republic. The state resulted from a decades-long process, the ''Italian unification, Risorgimento'', of consolidating the different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single state. That process was influenced by the House of Savoy, Savoy-led Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered Italy's legal Succession of states, predecessor state. Italy Third Italian War of Independence, declared war on Austrian Empire, Austria in alliance with Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia in 1866 and received the region of Veneto following their victory. Italian troops Capture of Rome, entered Rome in 1870, ending Papal States, more tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pistoia Railway Station
Pistoia railway station is the railway station, station of Pistoia in Piazza Dante. It is on the Viareggio–Florence railway, which connects Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station, Florence and Viareggio and it is at the beginning of the Porrettana railway to Bologna Centrale railway station, Bologna. Overview The station has a subway linking platform 1 with platforms 2 and 3. It has no lifts for the disabled. The station is heavily used by students going to Prato, Florence, Lucca railway station, Lucca and Pisa Centrale railway station, Pisa. During the summer traffic is concentrated towards Versilia and Viareggio. It is used by three million passengers each year. Only regional trains stop at the station since it is near Florence, which is served by long-distance trains. Gallery File:Stazione di Pistoia.JPG See also *History of rail transport in Italy *List of railway stations in Tuscany *Rail transport in Italy *Railway stations in Italy External links Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Rossi, Pistoia
The Palazzo Rossi is a former aristocratic palace located at Via Rossi in central Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy. The palace now serves in part to house collections and offices of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia. Description Properties on the site were owned by the Rossi family since the 13th-century, and combined in the 18th-century in to the present building. The Rossi family branched out through Italy, and Porzia de Rossi, daughter from a Rossi living in the Kingdom of Naples was the mother of the author Torquato Tasso. Bocchino di Girolamo Rossi was a mathematician in Siena in 1593, and Andrea d'Antonio Rossi was dean of the University of Pisa in 1608. Giulio Rossi was the bishop of Pistoia in 1804. The palace on the northwest of the site was designed circa 1749 by P. Raffaello Ulivi and completed by Salvadore Piccioli by 1795. It was situated on the family's ancient quarters and tower, located adjacent to the gate of Sant'Andrea and fortress of San Jacopo in Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Bracciolini, Pistoia
The Palazzo Bracciolini is a Neoclassic-style palace located facing the Piazza del Duomo in central Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... The palace, which once served as private home for the aristocratic family, has offices, retail cafe, and government offices. Description The palace was commissioned by Baron Bracciolini in 1786 from the architect Calliani. Nearby is the Palazzo Bracciolini delle Api. by Giuseppe Tigri, Tipografia Cino, Pistoia (1853): page 151. ...
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Synod Of Pistoia
The Synod of Pistoia was a 1786 diocesan synod in the Catholic diocese of Pistoia, then part of the territory of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. It was summoned by its bishop Scipione de' Ricci under the patronage and active support of the Habsburg-Lorraine Grand Duke Leopold. The synod adopted a series of decrees of Febronian or Gallican tendency, against the background of Enlightenment thinking. Leopold hoped the synod's resolutions would be taken up by a "national" council and increase state autocratic control over the Church in Tuscany. However, in 1787 the ensuing synod of bishops rejected the Pistoia decrees, and in 1794 Pope Pius VI condemned 85 of them, leading Ricci to recant. Circular letter On January 26, 1786 the Grand Duke issued a circular letter to the bishops of Tuscany, suggesting certain "reforms", especially in the matter of the revival of the holding of diocesan synods, the purging of the missals and breviaries of legends, the assertion of episcopal as against pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biblioteca Fabroniana, Pistoia
The Biblioteca Fabroniana is a public library, founded in 1726, and located on Piazzetta San Filippo #1 in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy. Reading Room History The library was founded in 1726 in a site adjacent to the church of Santi Filippo e Prospero. The basis of the collection was the library of the Cardinal Carlo Agostino Fabroni. Refurbishment of the building to hold the library began in 1722; the endowment conditioned that the library ''"always and forever serve with ease the public needs of the city''. The cardinal's collection was transported from Rome to Livorno by two galleys commissioned by Pope Benedict XIII, and then overland to Pistoia. The library was first housed and administered by the Pistoiese Oratorian congregation. It was open to the public in 1730 and competed with the other large library of Pistoia, the Biblioteca Forteguerriana. In 1810, following the suppression of the Oratorians, the administration moved to the City, and after the fall of the Napo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biblioteca Forteguerriana
The Biblioteca Forteguerriana is a public library in Pistoia, Italy, founded in 1473 by Niccolò Fortiguerra :''This article is not about Niccolò Fortiguerra (1674-1735), bishop and poet, author of Ricciardetto'' Niccolò Fortiguerra (also spelled Forteguerri) (1419 – 21 December 1473) was an Italian papal legate, military commander, and Cardinal. .... In 1967 it became the Biblioteca comunale Forteguerriana. It currently occupies the Palazzo della Sapienza (built in 1533). See also * Books in Italy References ''This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.'' Further reading * * External links Official site Libraries in Pistoia 1473 establishments {{Library-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Marchetti, Pistoia
The Palazzo Marchetti is a Baroque-style palace located at Via Curtatone e Montanara in central Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy. The palace, which once served as a civic art gallery, is used in 2019 as a civic archive for various family collections of documents. Description The design of the palace is attributed to Giovanni Battista Baldi, under the patronage of the cavaliere Orazio Marchetti, who purchased the property in the 1650s from the Cellesi family, and joined it to adjacent properties. The interiors were frescoed by Giovanni Domenico Ferretti. At one time, the palace held a prized art collection. This was the home where the astronomer Angelo Marchetti was born. A 17th-century bishop of Arezzo, Giovanni Matteo Marchetti Giovanni Matteo Marchetti (1647–1704) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Arezzo (1691–1704). ''(in Latin)''< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
