1925 )-based in Union City, New Jersey, founded by friars from the Tuscan region of Italy to minister to Italian immigrants, with 12 communities on the East Coast, primarily in New Jersey, with parishes also in the Bronx, New York, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina, Tampa, Florida, and Wilmington, Delaware.

On its interior there are Tuscan columns, and since 1985 it hosts the city archives and usually houses exhibitions.

The interior has a terrace with three arches supported by Tuscan columns.

To the west of the Luxembourg, and communicating with it through interior courts, the sixteenth-century original hôtel of the duc de Piney-Luxembourg was rebuilt during the same years, the smaller palace now called the Petit-Luxembourg ; it is composed of two main blocks, or corps de logis separated by a courtyard that is entered through a grand convex portal flanked by Tuscan columns.

Bernini had been working on the interior of St. Peter's for decades ; now he gave order to the space with his renowned colonnades, using the Tuscan form of Doric, the simplest order in the classical vocabulary, not to compete with the palace-like façade by Carlo Maderno, but he employed it on an unprecedented colossal scale to suit the space and evoke emotions awe.

The interior, a nave and two aisles with obvious references to Brunelleschi's San Lorenzo in Florence, houses numerous works of Renaissance art, chiefly sculpture, among which are the tombs of St. Terence and St. Emilian ( Tuscan school of the 15th century ) and that of St. Savino, perhaps done in Florence by Benedetto da Maiano.

The renaissance forms include pilasters, rustica, Tuscan ( interior ) pillars, scrollwork ( above the cellar entrances ) and obelisks.

* 1859 – The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

On Leopold's second flight ( April 27, 1859 ) a Tuscan assembly was summoned, and Capponi elected member of it.

When in 1859 France and Piedmont made war on Austria, Leopold's government failed to prevent numbers of young Tuscan volunteers from joining the Franco-Piedmontese forces.

: ( 1859 ) 1 Tuscan lira = 1 Italian lira

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

The Tuscan dialect ( or Florentine language ) spoken in Tuscany was promoted as the standard due to the socio-economic power associated with Florence as well as its literary heritage ( Dante's Divine Comedy is often credited with the emergence of the Tuscan dialect as a standard ).

Pietro Bembo, a Venetian influenced by Petrarch, also promoted Tuscan as the standard literary language ( volgare illustre ).

The next window of opportunity for the predecessor of a Proto-Corsican was the administration of Corsica by Tuscany, then speaking the Tuscan dialect, an immediate predecessor of Italian.

He commanded the draining of the Tuscan marshlands, built a road network in Southern Tuscany and cultivated trade in Leghorn.

Maria Maddelana's temperament was analogous to Christina's, and together they aligned Tuscany with the Papacy, re-doubled the Tuscan clergy, and allowed the heresy trial of Galileo Galilei to occur.

The researchers conclude that their data, taken from the modern Tuscan population, ' support the scenario of a post-Neolithic genetic input from the Near East to the present-day population of Tuscany ’.

At this fête Gian Gastone named Charles his heir, giving him the title of Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, and Charles paid homage to the Florentine senate, as was the tradition for heirs to the Tuscan throne.

He served under his uncle in the navy of Tuscany, and commanded the Tuscan frigates in the Spanish led Invasion of Algiers ( 1775 ).

Starting at Cisa Pass, the mountain chains turn further to the southeast to cross the peninsula along the border between the Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany regions, for which they are named the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, or just the Tuscan Apennines.

As the Tuscan Apennines divide the peninsula between the Po Valley and the plains and hills of Tuscany and Lazio, transportation over them is essential to political and economic unity.

Piero was born in the town of Borgo Santo Sepolcro, modern-day Tuscany ( where he also died ), to Benedetto de ' Franceschi, a tradesman, and Romana di Perino da Monterchi, part of the Florentine and Tuscan Franceschi noble family.

From Tuscany in central Italy, restaurateur Benedetta Vitali writes that soffritto means " underfried ", describing it as: " a preparation of lightly browned minced vegetables, not a dish by itself ". It is the foundation on which many Tuscan sauces, and other dishes are built.

Toto Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo, Tuscany, to a Sicilian father and a Tuscan mother.

Together, they aligned Tuscany with the Papacy ; re-doubled the Tuscan clergy ; and allowed the trial of Galileo Galilei to occur.

He even went so far as to have the Duke created Grand Prince of Tuscany, the title borne by the Tuscan heir-apparent, against the wishes of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI ; however, the latter soon had the grant revoked.

Fakhr-al-Din had wished to enlist Tuscan assistance in the liberation of Lebanon, but was met with a refusal as Tuscany was unable to afford such an expedition.

He commanded the draining of the Tuscan marshlands, built a road network in Southern Tuscany, and cultivated trade in Livorno.

His Tuscan style is HI & RH The Grand Prince of Tuscany.

The Synod of Pistoia was a diocesan synod held in 1786 under the presidency of Scipione de ' Ricci ( 1741 – 1810 ), bishop of Pistoia, and the patronage of Leopold, grand-duke of Tuscany, with a view to preparing the ground for a national council and a reform of the Tuscan Church.

The region is often called by Germans the Tuscany of Germany, referring to the Tuscan region of Italy, due in part to its climate, milder than the rest of the nation.

In 1855 Ancona went to Turin, nominally to study law, but in reality to act as intermediary between the Tuscan Liberals and Cavour ; he was an intimate friend of Luigi Carlo Farini and represented Tuscany in the Società Nazionale.

*: Under the Tuscan Sun ( 1996 ) a memoir of buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in rural Tuscany in Italy.

On holiday in Tuscany he saw a band of local musicians gather with traditional Tuscan instruments in a small village square.

Fivizzano, a walled city in the province of Massa and Carrara, Tuscany ( Italy ), became part of the Republic of Florence in the 15th century thus gaining the Tuscan republic an important foothold in Lunigiana, a key region which Genoa, Pisa, Milan and Florence had sought to dominate since the early Middle Ages.

In later life, he attempted to have Anna Maria Luisa recognised as the universal heiress of Tuscany, but Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, would not allow it because Florence was nominally an imperial fief, and he felt he alone could alter the Tuscan laws of succession.

The standard changed slightly in Tuscany, because Tuscan scriveners perceived the five-vowel system used by southern Italian as a seven-vowel one.

In some ways, Allori is the last of the line of prominent Florentine painters, of generally undiluted Tuscan artistic heritage: Andrea del Sarto worked with Fra Bartolomeo ( as well as Leonardo da Vinci ), Pontormo briefly worked under Andrea, and trained Bronzino, who trained Allori.

The choice was unfortunate, for Theodahad fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned in the island of Martana in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where on 30 April in the spring of 534 / 535 she was murdered in her bath.

The Tuscan order has a very plain design, with a plain shaft, and a simple capital, base, and frieze.

For example, one might read that Corsican is a " central southern Italian dialect " along with Tuscan, Neapolitan, Sicilian and others or that it is " closely related to the Tuscan dialect of Italian ,", an infelicitous claim in that Italian is derived from Tuscan rather than the reverse.

Endowed with significant natural and environmental resources, the Maremma is today one of the best tourist destinations in Italy, a region where ancient traditions have survived and Tuscan culture is preserved.

The area around Grosseto and the coast, with Marina di Grosseto, Castiglione della Pescaia and the small villages that lie in the plain between the city and the coast, represents the heart of the Tuscan Maremma.

Montalcino is divided, like most medieval Tuscan cities, into quarters called contrade, Borghetto, Travaglio, Pianello and Ruga, each with their own colours, songs and separate drum rhythms to distinguish them.

In the book Vasari was attempting to define what he described as a break with the barbarities of gothic art: the arts had fallen into decay with the collapse of the Roman Empire and only the Tuscan artists, beginning with Cimabue ( 1240 – 1301 ) and Giotto ( 1267 – 1337 ) began to reverse this decline in the arts.

The centre of the old city is a semicircular Neoclassical square with the Tuscan column of cast iron ( 1805 – 11 ), commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Poltava and featuring 18 Swedish cannons captured in that battle.

During this same year, Frederick again moved into Italy and this time he joined forces with the local rural nobility to reduce the power of the Tuscan cities.

Ferdinando sponsored a Tuscan expedition to the New World with the intention of establishing a Tuscan colony.

The mortadella of Prato is a Tuscan speciality flavoured with pounded garlic.

Despite the split, Naples grew in importance, attracting Pisan and Genoese merchants, Tuscan bankers, and with them some of the most championed Renaissance artists of the time, such as Boccaccio, Petrarch and Giotto.

The original Tuscan structure was influenced by the Sardinian logudorese spoken in the area, with a strong influence that can be felt in its phonetics and vocabulary, and by Catalan and Spanish in vocabulary.

The Tiber river forms the approximate border with Lazio, although its source is just over the Tuscan border.

During his Tuscan period, though preoccuppied with figurative subjects, he began to experiment with drawings in landscape, and according to non-contemporary sources his introduction to the latter genre was through the Roman landscape painter and etcher Paolo Anesi ( 1697-1773 ).< ref > Lanzi, Luigi.

Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and fleet commander, wrote about a system of channels in Atria that was, " first made by the Tuscans, thus discharging the flow of the river across the marshes of the Atriani called the Seven Seas, with the famous harbor of the Tuscan town of Atria which formerly gave the name of Atriatic to the sea now called the Adriatic.

This species of temple is " clumsy, heavy roofed, low and wide, pediments ornamented with statues of clay or brass, gilt in the Tuscan fashion ".