Today the term quaestor is used as a senior police rank in Italy and Romania, and as the title of an office of financial oversight in some organizations.

Livy records that the quaestor Lucius Cornelius Scipio was sent to meet King Prusias II of Bithynia and conduct him to Rome, when this monarch visited Italy in 167 BC.

His father, whom he calls Lachanius, had held high offices in Italy and at the imperial court, had been governor of Tuscia ( Etruria and Umbria ), vicar of Britain, then imperial treasurer ( comes sacrarum largitionum ), imperial recorder ( quaestor ), and governor of the capital itself ( praefectus urbi ) in 414.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

It could be seen that both artists used a very thick final coat of plaster, one half inch, and that both followed the traditional Italian fresco technique as described by Cennino Cennini in the 14th Century, and current in Italy to this day.

The English never again developed a strong native music that could obliterate the traces of an earlier great age the way, say, the opera in Italy blotted out the Italian madrigal.

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of the engine in French.

* Alnus cordata — Italian alder, Italy

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

* 1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy ( d. 1981 )

* 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Italy ( b. 1873 )

He played in Italy with Paul Jones and the Blues Society of Italian bluesman Guido Toffoletti.

* 1810 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian diplomat and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy ( d. 1861 )

He also would have had access to some Italian works in Germany, but the two visits he made to Italy had an enormous influence on him.

In painting, Dürer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.

Articolo 31 was a popular band from Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms.

Articolo 31 was one of the first hip hop groups in Italy, releasing one of the first Italian hip hop records, Strade di città, in 1993.

* 1991 – Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.

* 1945 – The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement ; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape.

Banca d ' Italia ( Italian for Bank of Italy ) is the central bank of Italy and part of the European System of Central Banks.

Italian men playing Bocce in San Giorgio a Cremano, Naples, Italy

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

The Bonaparte ( originally Buonaparte ) family were from minor Italian nobility who held most of their property in the hill town of San Miniato near Florence, Italy.

The Battle of Adwa ( usually known as Adowa, or sometimes by the Italian name Adua ) was fought on 1 March 1896 between Ethiopia and Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray.

The Italian language version of the disputed article 17 of the treaty stated that the Emperor of Ethiopia consented ( i. e. was required ) to Italy representing Ethiopia in its relations with all foreign sovereigns and states, which made the Ethiopian Empire a protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy.

Fascist leaders who ruled countries were not always heads of state, but were heads of government, such as Benito Mussolini, who held power under the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III.

This plan, defined as the mandate system, was adopted by the " Council of Ten " ( the heads of government and foreign ministers of the main Allied powers: Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Japan ) on 30 January 1919 and transmitted to the League of Nations.

The lodge had among its members prominent journalists, members of parliament, industrialists, and military leaders — including Silvio Berlusconi, who later became Prime Minister of Italy ; the Savoy pretender to the Italian throne Victor Emmanuel ; and the heads of all three Italian intelligence services.

The gain of the Milanese in 1859 by the future king of Italy ( 1861 ) meant that Italy then won the valley of Livigno ( between the Upper Engadine and Bormio ), which is the only important bit it holds on the non-Italian slope of the Alps, besides the county of Tenda ( obtained in 1575, and not lost in 1860 ), with the heads of certain glens in the Maritime Alps, reserved in 1860 for reasons connected with hunting.

In 1975, he invited the heads of government from West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States to a summit in Rambouillet, to form the Group of Six ( now the G8, including Canada and Russia ) major economic powers.

After the heads of Sebastianus and Jovinus arrived at Honorius ' court in Ravenna in late August, to be forwarded for display among other usurpers on the walls of Carthage, relations between Ataulf and Honorius improved sufficiently for Ataulf to cement them by marrying Galla Placidia perhaps at Narbo in early 414, but Jordanes says he married her in Italy, at Forlì ( Forum Livii ).

He frequently gave custom engraved versions of his revolvers, to heads of state, military officers, and personalities such as Giuseppe Garibaldi, King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, and Hungarian freedom fighter Lajos Kossuth.

Picture-fanciers of Italy were certainly familiar with the beauties of Memling's compositions, as shown in the preference given to them by such purchasers as Cardinal Grimani and Cardinal Bembo at Venice, and the heads of the house of Medici at Florence.

"... I entered the city officially at noon, 11 December, with a few of my staff, the commanders of the French and Italian detachments, the heads of the political missions, and the Military Attaches of France, Italy, and America ...

The Group of Seven ( G7 ) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada starting in 1976.

Among the early features were large papier-mâché heads similar to those seen by Hudson's display director, Charles Wendel, on a recent trip to Viareggio, Italy.

In Italy, the President of the Regional Council ( Italian: Presidente del consiglio regionale ) is the Speaker who heads the consiglio regionale of a regione, a state-level territory.

Over 100 axe heads made from jadeitite quarried in northern Italy in the Neolithic era have been found across the British Isles.

The Apalachin meeting was attended by about 100 Mafia heads from the U. S., Canada and Italy.

He concluded a treaty with Rudolph in 933 by which Rudolf abandoned his claims to Italy in return for being handed Provence over the heads of Louis the Blind's heirs and the marriage of Rudolph's daughter Adelaide to Hugh's son Lothair.

The 8C engine, first entered at the 1931 Mille Miglia road race through Italy, had a common crankcase, now with two alloy four-cylinder blocks, which also incorporated the heads.

The Goths that ruled Spain and Italy followed the tradition of the Romans in giving the title of count to the diverse heads of the departments of the royal household.

The nearest autobahn is at Kufstein and heads north to Germany and Munich and southwest to Innsbruck and Italy.

Together with Luigi Berlinguer ( Italy ), Claude Allegre ( France ), and Baroness Tessa Blackstone ( United Kingdom ), Rüttgers is one of the heads of the " Sorbonne declaration ", the joint declaration on harmonisation of the architecture of the European higher education system, in 25 May 1998.

The Group of Seven ( G7 ) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada starting in 1976.

The Group of Seven ( G7 ) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada ( since 1976 ) and the President of the European Commission ( starting officially in 1981 ).

The Group of Seven ( G7 ) was an unofficial forum that brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada starting in 1976.