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  • distinguished by his efforts to strengthen Rome's defenses and repair ... cities and agricultural colonies of the Duchy of Rome. The work took him four ...
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  • Saint Odo of Cluny (ca. 878 –– November 18, 942), a saint of the ... He was the son of a feudal lord of Deols, near Le Mans, and received ...
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  • ) is a region in west-central Italy on the shores of the Ligurian ... and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital ...
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  • Hugh Capet (c. 940 – October 24, 996) was the first King of France ... Capet is regarded as the founder of the Capetian dynasty. The direct ...
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  • The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... for its success in preventing the loss of western Ukrainian lands to ...
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  • Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron ... Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example ...
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  • He was the son of Theodore, a Roman nobleman. He reigned for longer ... additional territory: additions to the duchy of Rome, and to the Exarchate ...
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  • or early 1498) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance period. He ... his early training in Flanders, as did most of the composers of his generation ...
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  • composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. He is ... Italy, as evidenced by the strong influence of Corelli and Bolognese composers ...
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  • Lucrezia Borgia (April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter ... corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy. She ...
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  • as Pepin the Younger or Pepin III, was mayor of the palace of Austrasia and ... Pepin was born in 714, in Jupille, close to the city of Liège, in ...
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  • official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and is most well known ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...
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  • X, Clement VII, and Leo XI), numerous rulers of Florence (notably Lorenzo il ... From humble beginnings (the origin of the name is uncertain, it allegedly ...
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  • a Renaissance Roman Catholic monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one ... Thomas was born at Kempen in the duchy of Cleves in Germany around ...
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  • known as Ivan the Great, was a grand duke of Muscovy who was the first to ... Ivan's parents were Vasili II of Russia and Maria of Borovsk ...
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  • the 95 Theses and nailed them to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...
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  • Assisi is a small city in the Perugia province of the Umbria region ... Assisi is most well-known as the birthplace of Saint Francis, the ...
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  • Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz SÅ‚owacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – ... part in shaping his literary techniques. In Rome, KrasiÅ„ski received news ...
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  • ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the foremost painter of the ... His main works focused on religious themes, with many paintings of ...
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  • The Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Italian ... The sea's western coast runs the length of Italy, while the eastern ...
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