Elba (, ; ; Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλία, Aithalia ) is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino.

The Roman portraiture is representative of that genre ; examples include the portraits of Agrippa and Annius Verus ; among the bronzes is the Greek Apollo of Piombino.

Piombino is an Italian town and comune of circa 35, 000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno ( Tuscany ).

It is also probable that Piombino had already been founded during the Ostrogoth domination.

It is in Pisane-Gothic style, a memoir of the rule of Pisa over Piombino.

The design source for the Hammond-Harwood House is Villa Pisani at Montagnana ( Book II, Chapter XIV ), and for the first Monticello ( 1770 ) the design source is Villa Cornaro at Piombino Dese ( Book II, Chapter XIV ).

* Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro, Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, Gonfalonier and Captain General of the Church, an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal.

* the Principality of Lucca and Piombino ( under Elisa Bonaparte ( Napoleon's sister ) and her husband Felice Baciocchi );

Piombino was another minor independent state, under both Spanish and Tuscan influence.

* Jean d ' Hertault, comte de Beaufort ( under the pseudonym Jean de Beaufort ), Élisa Bonaparte, princesse de Lucques et Piombino, grande-duchesse de Toscane ( 1777 – 1820 ), 1904 ( brochure de 16 pages )

Elisa began rule as the Duchess of Lucca and Princess of Piombino, based at Villa Reale di Marlia.

In 1801 Napoleon abolished the principate, Piombino and its lands being annexed to the Kingdom of Etruria ; in 1809 they were given to Napoleon's sister, Elisa Baciocchi.

In 1805 Napoleon installed his sister, Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, as Princess of Lucca and Piombino.

On 19 March 1805, Napoleon awarded her the Principality of Piombino, which had been French property for some years and was of major strategic interest to Napoleon due to its proximity to Elba and Corsica.

She also carried out legislative reform in Lucca, producing laws inspired by the Code Napoleon ( such as the notable " Codice rurale del Principato di Piombino ", issued on 24 March 1808 ) and producing a new penal code which was promulgated in 1807 and first reformed in 1810.

In 1805, the governance of Lucca was taken over by Napoleon, who merging the State of Lucca with the Principality of Piombino to become the Principality of Lucca and Piombino ( 1805 – 1809 ).

The Duchy was formed in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, out of the former Republic of Lucca and the Principality of Lucca and Piombino, which had been ruled by Elisa Bonaparte.

As a final administrative change, in 1806 the French emperor gave the Duchy of Massa and Carrara to the Principality of Lucca and Piombino, ruled by her elder sister Elisa Bonaparte.

Maria Anna ( Marie Anne ) Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy, Princesse Française, Duchess of Lucca and Princess of Piombino, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Countess of Compignano ( 3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820 ), was the fourth surviving child and eldest surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino.

* Emmanuel de Beaufond, Élisa Bonaparte, princesse de Lucques et de Piombino, Paris: L ' Univers ( brochure hors-série du quotidien catholique ), 1895.

Hired by Florence, Cesare subsequently added the lordship of Piombino to his new lands.

While his condottieri took over the siege of Piombino ( which ended in 1502 ), Cesare commanded the French troops in the sieges of Naples and Capua, defended by Prospero and Fabrizio Colonna.

The northern coast faces the Ligurian Sea ; the eastern coast the Piombino Channel ; the southern coast the Tyrrhenian Sea ; while the Corsica channel divides the western tip of the Island from neighbouring Corsica.

In all Tuscany, only the Republic of Lucca ( later a Duchy ) and the Principality of Piombino were independent from Florence.

He was succeeded by Virginio, whose heir Paolo Giordano II married the princess of Piombino and was created Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.

His brother Giordano became Prince of Salerno and Duke of Venosa, while his sister Paola was Lady of Piombino between 1441 and 1445.

A second nephew, Niccolò, was made reigning Prince of Piombino and Lord of the Isola d ' Elba in 1634, having married the heiress, 30 March 1632.

Territories allied with the French included: the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Westphalia, the Kingdom of Naples, the Principality of Lucca and Piombino, and Napoleon's former enemies, Prussia and Austria.

* December 25 – Niccolò Ludovisi, Prince of Piombino ( b. 1613 )

Nicholas V was excommunicated by John XXII in April 1329, and sought refuge with Count Boniface of Donoratico near Piombino.

The bounding communes of Piombino are Campiglia Marittima, Follonica, San Vincenzo and Suvereto.

The area of modern Piombino was settled since ancient times.

During the Etruscan era the main city in the area was Populonia, now a frazione within the commune of Piombino.

The Castle of Piombino remained a Pisane possession until Gerardo Appiani, ceding Pisa to the Milanese Visconti, carved out the independent state of Piombino, Elba, Pianosa and Montecristo for his family, who held it until 1634.

In 1509 the Appiani became princes of the Holy Roman Empire with the title of Piombino.

Map of Piombino and its fortifications, 18th century.

After Cosimo I de ' Medici had occupied it in the course of the war against Siena, in 1553 and 1555 a French-Ottoman fleet attacked Piombino, but was pushed back.

In 1594 the Principality of Piombino was created by Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, the first prince being Alessandro Appiani d ' Aragona.

After the Napoleon's final defeat and the congress of Vienna, the state of Piombino was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

During World War II, after the fall of the Fascist government, Piombino successfully resisted for some days an attempt of sea invasion by German forces.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

It is a tribute to her talents that she was able to talk the District Attorney into having her removed from the prison to a hotel room, with her meals taken at Vesuvio's, an excellent Italian restaurant.

In front of you is the Palazzo Madama, once belonging to the Medici and now the Italian Senate.

Her fiance, who is with a publishing firm, translates many books from English into Italian.

A farewell supper Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sethness Jr. planned Sunday for Italian Consul General and Mrs. Giacomo Profili has been canceled because Mr. Sethness is in Illinois Masonic hospital for surgery.

The decoration will be presented by A. Trichieri, Italian consul general in Boston, at a ceremony at 30 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the plant, which this year is celebrating its golden anniversary.

The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

Similarly, the Italian verb corresponding to ' spell ( out )', compitare, is unknown to many Italians because the act of spelling itself is rarely needed: Italian spelling is highly phonemic.

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

Mont Blanc spans the French – Italian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

* 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

* 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.

* 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.

There is some documentary proof that the Romans named the hot sulfur springs of Aachen Aquis-Granum, and indeed to this day the city is known in Italian as Aquisgrana, in Spanish as Aquisgrán and in Polish as Akwizgran.