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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
VOLTA, ALESSANDRO GIUSEPPE ANTONIO ANASTASIO(b. Como. duchy of Milan, Italy, 18 February 1745; d. Como, 5 March 1827), Physics.Volta came from a Lombard family ennobled by the municipality of Como and almost extinguished, in his time, through its service to the church. One of his three paternal... Read more |
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca , 1600-1681, Spanish dramatist, last important figure of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid. Educated at a Jesuit school and the Univ. of Salamanca, he turned from theology to poetry and became a court poet in 1622. His more than 100 plays were carefully contrived,... Read more |
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Filippo Turati
Turati, Filippo (b. 25 Nov. 1857, d. 29 Mar. 1932). Italian Socialist Born in Como, he studied at the University of Bologna and in 1883 published Il delitto e la questione sociale, in which he argued for a causal link between crime and social deprivation. In 1889 he co-founded the Milanese Socialist... Read more |
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Lake Como
Lake Como , Ital. Lago di Como or Lario, c.56 sq mi (145 sq km), 30 mi (48 km) long and from 1/2 to 2 1/2 mi (0.8-4 km) wide, in Lombardy, N Italy. Lake Como is a natural widening of the Adda River, which feeds and drains the lake. Situated in the foothills of the Alps, the lake is one of... Read more |
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Como
Como , city (1991 pop. 87,059), capital of Como prov., Lombardy, N Italy, at the southwest end of Lake Como, near the Swiss border. It is an important tourist center and is noted for its silk industry. Originally a Roman colony, Como became an independent commune in the 11th cent. and was... Read more |
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La Damnation de Faust
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Juan de la Cueva
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
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Louis de La Vallee-Poussin
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Jean de La Bruyere
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