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Camillo-Guarino Guarini (1624 - 1683), Italian monk, writer and architect, was born at Modena. Events The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan. ...
Events June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the worlds first university museum. ...
The word Italian can have these meanings: From or related to Italy The Italian people, or emigrants such as Italian Americans The Italian language Outside Italy, it is also used as an abbreviation for Italian dressing (a vinaigrette with herbs), and Italian sandwich (more commonly called a submarine sandwich). ...
A Roman Catholic monk A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others following the same path. ...
Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person licensed in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings, or more generally, the designer of a scheme or plan. ...
Modena is a city and a province on the south side of the Po valley, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ...
He was at once a learned mathematician, professor of literature and philosophy at Messina, and, from the age of seventeen, was architect to Duke Philibert of Savoy. A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ...
Messina, Italy Strait of Messina, Italy. ...
He designed a very large number of public and private buildings at Turin, including the palaces of the duke of Savoy and the prince of Cacignan, and many public buildings at Modena, Verona, Vienna, Prague, Lisbon and Paris. He died at Milan. Location Region Piedmont Province Torino Area – Total – Water 130 km² (50 mi²) ##.# km² (#.# mi²) #.##% Population – Total (2002) – Density 857,433 6,596/km² Time zone CET: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 45°04N 7°40E (##.#######, -##.#######)1. ...
The House of Savoy was a dynasty of nobles who traditionally had their domain in Savoy (a small region between Piedmont, Italy, and France). ...
This page is about the city in Italy; for other uses, see Verona (disambiguation). ...
This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ...
Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ...
Lisbon (in Portuguese, Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. ...
The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed of Italian regions. ...
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...
The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...
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