* Three Wise Men Day, or Epiphany, in Latin America, Spain, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, and is, although not celebrated as widely or in the same way as in countries with a Spanish history, an official holiday in many European countries, for example Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as in parts of Germany and Switzerland.

* 1859 – Battle of Solferino ( Battle of the Three Sovereigns ): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.

Between 612 and 615, the Irish missionary Saint Columban, then living at Bobbio in Italy, was persuaded by Agilulf, King of the Lombards, to address a letter on the condemnation of the " Three Chapters " to Boniface IV.

A Sancai (" Three colors ") plate ( left ), and a Ming dynasty | Ming-type blue-white vase ( right ), made in Northern Italy, mid-15th century.

During his pontificate, the bishop of Milan, who had broken communion with Rome in the Schism of the Three Chapters, returned to full communion around 581, while other bishops in Northern Italy remained in schism.

** Three Piece Suit ( collecting Graffiti Kitchen, Little Italy, and The Dance of Lifey Death, 2001 )

On evidence from The Travels of the Three English Brothers, he is assumed to have made another European tour, perhaps reaching Italy, but by 1601 he was borrowing money from Philip Henslowe and had joined Worcester's Men.

Three days after the start of hostilities in Italy, Carlo Alberto abdicated the throne, essentially ending the Piedmontese return to war.

Three full albums followed, and the group ’ s increasing popularity led to heavy touring throughout Ireland, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Northern Europe.

Three videos were made for the album: " Fifth Element "; " The Little Voice ", landing in the top 5 of MTV Nordic's most played list ; and " Fishies ", filmed on location in Sardinia, Italy.

Three divisions and 700 aircraft were immediately sent from Italy to Libya.

During the Treaty of Versailles the " Big Three " — France, Great Britain and the United States — held noticeably more power and influence on the proceedings and outcome of the treaty than Italy or Japan.

The Schism of the Three Chapters was a schism that affected the Roman Catholic Church in North Italy lasting from 553 to 698 AD, although the area out of communion with Rome contracted throughout that time.

When Vigilius arrived at Constantinople in January 547, Italy, Africa, Sardinia, Sicily, and the parts of Illyricum and Greece through which he journeyed were fiercely against the condemnation of the Three Chapters.

Their last film, Three Moods ( Trois thèmes ), was made on the pinscreen, and first shown in Milan, Italy, in March 1980.

As in Italy, the PCF was very strong, taking part in the Three parties alliance ( Tripartisme ) and scoring 28. 6 % at the November 1946 elections.

France, Germany, and Italy also had important Formula Three series, but interest in these was originally subsidiary to national formulae — Formula Renault in France and Formula Super Vee in Germany.

* July 23 – Three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack El Al Flight 426, a Boeing 707 with 48 other people on board, during a flight from London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom to Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, and divert it to Algiers Airport in Dar El Beïda, Algeria, just outside Algiers.

Three came from the top division of Italy ; two each came from Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and England ; and one came from Portugal.

The seven prince-electors were, " Three prelates were archchancellors of Germany ( Mainz ), Gaul and Burgundy ( Trier ), and Italy ( Cologne ) respectively: the Bohemia cupbearer, the Palsgrave seneschal, Saxony marshal, and Brandenburg chamberlain.

Three other cobblers, Leatherworks ( London ), Ltd, Biondini ( Italy ) and Jean Gaborit of Paris have continued the tradition of producing higher quality fetish thigh boots.

On 14 August 2012, manager Roy Hodgson announced that Lampard would captain the Three Lions in their upcoming friendly against Italy the following day, which England won 2 – 1.

Three days later ( on September 12 ), Nazi commandos tracked down and rescued Mussolini from his hidden prison in the Gran Sasso and set him up in the puppet regime of the so-called " Republic of Salò " in Northern Italy.

The council of 553 inaugurated the Schism of the Three Chapters, that for a century and more separated many churches of northern Italy from the Holy See ; in it the Bishops of Venetia, Istria, and Liguria refused to accept the decrees of the Second Council of Constantinople ( the 5th General Council, 553 AD ), on the plea that by the condemnation of the Three Chapters it had undone the work of the Council of Chalcedon of 451.

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.

From his travels in France and Italy ( 1857 ) Meyer derived much inspiration for the settings and characters of his historical novels.

The adventure story writer Emilio Salgari met Buffalo Bill in Italy, saw his show, and later featured him as a hero in some of his novels.

His novels include: Shike, set in medieval Japan ; All Things Are Lights, a story that entwines the fate of Cathars of southern France with the occult traditions of Courtly Love and the troubadours ; The Saracen, describing the intricate politics of medieval Italy through the eyes of an Islamic warrior ; Shaman, tracing the fate of the survivors of the Black Hawk War in 19th century Illinois ; Lady Yang, a tragic story of an idealistic empress of medieval China.

Beside the Spanish picaresque novels and the French burlesque novel, in Italy flourished the poema eroicomico.

Arona has also written a number of fanta-noir novels, all set in Italy, including:

In 1872, his list included seventeen novels, but some of them will never be made ( such as the one on the war in Italy ) and others will be added later on.

Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy.

From the Occitan territories the novel spread into Catalonia, where we find in the 14th century a number of novels in verse very similar to the Provençal ones, and into Italy, where in general the prose form has been adopted.

At that point, literature became his chief occupation instead of art, and he produced two historical novels, Niccolò dei Lapi and Ettore Fieramosca, in imitation of Walter Scott, and with pronounced political tendencies, his object being to point out the evils of foreign domination in Italy and to reawaken national feeling.

Flint is the author of the novels Habitus ( 1998: Fourth Estate, UK ; St. Martin ’ s Press, US ; Marco Tropea, Italy ; Au Diable Vauvert, France ; Gallimard, France ); 52 Ways to Magic America ( 2002: Fourth Estate, UK ; Marco Tropea, Italy ), which won the Amazon. co. uk Bursary Award for the year 2000 ; and The Book of Ash ( 2004: Viking, UK ; 2006: Au Diable Vauvert, France ; Marco Tropea, Italy ), winner of a 2003 Arts Council Writers ’ Award.

Francis Marion Crawford ( August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909 ) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.

Over one half of his novels are set in Italy.

Born in Rome on June 14, 1955, Massimo Introvigne reported in a partially autobiographical paper presented at the 2008 yearly conference of the American Academy of Religion in Chicago how his interest in non-Christian religions dates back to his reading as a young boy of the novels of Emilio Salgari, Rudyard Kipling, and Luigi Ugolini ( 1891 – 1980, the author of the 1950 Italian novel L ' isola non trovata ), which included references to Hinduism, Islam and other religions not generally well-known at that time in Italy.

Having published many short stories, novels and essays, his prose has earned him, among other accolades, the Premio Cavour in Italy, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize in Sweden, the Lettre Ulysses Award in Berlin, and in 1998, the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

The word " giallo " is Italian for " yellow " and stems from the origin of the genre in Italy as a series of cheap paperback mystery novels which all had trademark yellow covers.

The most conspicuous of his earlier works were: A History of Civilization in the First Five Centuries of Christianity, Recollections of Italy, Life of Lord Byron, The History of the Republican Movement in Europe, The Redemption of Slaves, The Religious Revolution, Historical Essays on the Middle Ages, The Eastern Question, Fra Filippo Lippi, History of the Discovery of America, and some historical novels.

He passed much of his life in Frascati, in Italy, and there he was inspired to write many novels and dramas.

In Italian literature, Inspector Montalbano, the main character of Andrea Camilleri's novels, is a well-known lover of arancine and he has contributed to making this dish known outside of Italy.

The three novels, Il presagio (" The Omen "), L ’ inganno (" The Deceit ") and L ' abisso (" The Abyss ") sold 100, 000 copies in Italy.