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Enrico Morselli
MORSELLI, ENRICO (1852-1929) Enrico Morselli, an Italian psychiatrist, academic, and active promoter of the Italian positivist school of neuropsychiatry, was born in Modena on July 17, 1852, and died in Genoa on February 18, 1929. A famous clinician and president of the Italian Society for... Read more |
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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso , 1873-1921, Italian operatic tenor, b. Naples. The natural beauty, range, and power of his voice made him one of the greatest singers in the history of opera. He studied for three years with Guglielmo Vergine and made his operatic debut in Naples in 1894. His first major success came... Read more |
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Ticino
Ticino , Fr. and Ger. Tessin, canton (1993 pop. 294,100), 1,086 sq mi (2,813 sq km), S Switzerland, on the southern slope of the central Alps, bordering on Italy. Bellinzona is the capital. Largely a mountainous region, Ticino embraces the Ticino River valley and part of Lago Maggiore and of the... Read more |
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Giovanni Martinelli
Giovanni Martinelli , 1885-1969, Italian-American operatic tenor. He made his debut in Milan in 1910 and sang (1913-46) at the Metropolitan Opera. His repertoire of about 50 roles included the leading tenor roles in nearly all the principal Italian operas.... Read more |
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Italian Americans
ITALIAN AMERICANS by George Pozzetta Overview Moored by Alpine mountains in the north, the boot-shaped Italian peninsula juts into the central Mediterranean Sea. Along its European frontier, Italy shares borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia. The nation's land mass,... Read more |
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Gian Francesco Malipiero
Gian Francesco Malipiero , 1882-1973, Italian composer. Malipiero studied in Venice and Bologna with Enrico Bossi and taught at the Conservatory of Parma, at the Univ. of Padua, and in Venice. He did important research in early Italian music, edited the works of Monteverdi (16 vol., 1926-42),... Read more |
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Italian Wars
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Imprisonment
Imprisonment PRISON SYSTEMS IN AMERICA AND ABROAD EFFECTS ON ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY BIBLIOGRAPHY Imprisonment is a political act. Until early-nineteenth-century reforms, lockups most often confined people awaiting trial. Earlier political elites, kings and queens for example, locked away... Read more |
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American Italian Pasta Company
American Italian Pasta Company 4100 North Mulberry Drive, Suite 200Kansas City, Missouri 64116U.S.A.Telephone: (816) 584-5000Fax: (816) 584-5100Web site: http://www.aipc.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1986Employees: 589Sales: $417.4 million (2004)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol: PLBNAIC:... Read more |
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School of Avignon
Avignon, School of. Tradition of painting associated with the city of Avignon in southern France, originating during the period when the papal court was transferred there because of anarchic conditions in Rome (1309–77). The presence of this great source of patronage drew many artists to the... Read more |
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Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners,...
Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern kalian Landowners, 1815-1861. By Enrico Dal Lago (Baton Rouge...Robert Toombs cited Italian precedent for ... |
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Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners,...
Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners...1861. By Enrico Dal Lago. (Baton...comes from Enrico Dal ... |