Category: Europe

Those of the new Italy after the epic of the glorious triennium are not easy: international public opinion is wary, more or less manifestly hostile among the states (Spain recognized the kingdom only in 1865 and Austria after the war of 1866), and to justify gloomy predictions and non-benevolent judgments, an alarming internal situation. Indeed, diversity […]

According to mysteryaround.com, the quarrelsome and suspicious lords, vassals or rebellious or discontented subjects looked not so much to those distant kings as to the nearest lord of France. The political conditions of the peninsula worsened. Relations between Venice and Milan, between Naples and Venice, and even more between Milan and Naples, that is Sforza and Aragonesi, […]

Often they did not really want to call foreigners to conquer a stable dominion in Italy. The weakest could trust in a bland protectorate of a distant prince that would save their effective freedom from the closest lord. But the strongest believed that they could use foreigners in order to humiliate their adversaries and grow on their […]

Short peace: because in the kingdom the barons, irritated by the increasing taxes, persuaded that the opportunity was good after so much suffering of the king, conspired and rose up. The pope, following an old policy, helped them. And so yesterday’s allies against Venice became enemies again. Roberto Sanseverino, rebel against the king, leader of the Venetians, was […]

According to globalsciencellc.com, the relations between these Italian states are the most uncertain, changeable, restless and turbid one can imagine. Unable to overwhelm themselves and therefore having come to a peace that had certain characteristics of a stable quasi-federal arrangement, supervised by the pontiff, they soon returned to compete and undermine each other, to create particular […]

Nor was this just a southern phenomenon. Powerful and oppressive no less, the Sardinian barony, which can be said to be largely created by the Spanish conquest, from the 1300s onwards. Restless, rapacious, always aimed at internal wars and rebellions against the Genoese government, the Corsican nobility, whether of local or Pisan or Ligurian origin. In Romagna, then, […]

According to itypeauto.com, the Italian states in this time have continued the work of internal organization which is, more or less, of all the states of Europe, in this phase of social and therefore institutional transformation, in the sense of greater state centralization, leveling of classes , suppression of particular “freedoms”, impulse of economic activities, […]

At the fall of the Swabian dynasty (1266-68) the art of rhyming in the manner of the Sicilians had spread widely in Italy and there were, especially in Tuscany, numerous verses who recited the subtleties of courtly love, even with closer adherence to the Provençal models and with more frequent use of insipid verbal artifices, […]

Lay people or belonging to the new Franciscan order born outside the hierarchy, they are the authors of the Northern Italian religious and moral poems; not a fallacious confirmation of the thesis that places the origins of the new literature in the great spiritual renewal that took place after the year 1000. But even clearer confirmation comes […]

According to itypetravel.com, the most ancient literary art experiment of which we have memory, is an allusive riddle to the act of writing, composed, par good, in the Veneto region, at the beginning of the century. IX. Then from that very remote age it is necessary to go down to the century. XII to find texts that in […]

Similar considerations can be made for the other important law, that on the ” fair fee ”. Strongly desired by the left, designed to regulate the cost of rents, to reduce speculation and to relaunch construction, it has produced opposite effects from the very beginning, especially in large cities. Even before the law came into […]

On March 8, a meeting of the parties that made up the previous alliance – DC, PCI, PSI, PSDI, PRI but excluding the PLI – launched the programmatic agreement and the composition of the new government: it was again a Christian Democrat single-party still chaired by Andreotti for which this time all the parties of […]

By mid-1976 terrorism had intensified its actions and its dangerousness. The murder of two magistrates – the Genoa Attorney General F. Coco with the two men of the escort by the Red Brigades (BR) in June on the eve of the elections, and Judge V. Occorsio prosecutor in the trial against the movement neo-fascist New […]

According to usaers.com, the mid-1970s marked the culmination of a long period of social transformation, growth of expectations and mobilization of civil society. These phenomena, triggered by the economic miracle of the late 1950s and prompted by the spread of well-being, had found only partial response in the first center-left reforms. On the contrary, the […]