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Italian and artisans
With the arrival of Italian trading firms, the creation of the military orders, and immigration by European knights, artisans, and farmers, the affairs of the Kingdom improved and a feudal society developed, similar to but distinct from the society the crusaders knew in Europe.
For over 20 years, the festival has hosted musical acts, local artisans, and Italian cooking competitions.
Following the Italian War of 1494 – 1495, Charles brought Italian architects and artisans to France to work on the château, and turn it into " the first Italianate palace in France ".
As a final touch, he brought in Italian artisans to build several marble fireplaces.
During Early modern age sculpted cribs were set in every Catholic church and aristocratic palace, representing an entire traditional Italian hilltop village with its artisans and vendors.
In southern Italy, especially Sicily, living nativity scenes ( called presepe vivente in Italian ), are extremely popular, and are rather elaborate affairs, which feature the classic nativity scene as well as a mock rural 19th-century village, complete with artisans in traditional costumes working at their particular trades.
A large contingent of Italian artisans were employed by the church, to decorate the interior of the Cathedral.
As society became more secular in the early 20th century, and non – Roman Catholic tourists began buying more crafts from Florentine artisans, decoupage images became less religious in orientation and more reflective of famous Italian artworks in general.
He brought in 250 Italian artisans to build it, particularly the granite and stucco masonry.

Italian and brought
Italian administration of Eritrea brought improvements in the medical and agricultural sectors of Eritrean society.
LaGuardia loathed the gangsters who brought a negative stereotype and shame to the Italian community.
He opined that the Italian parties, especially the DC ( his own party ) and Italian Communist Party, had to take into account the deep changes brought about by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.
After being appointed as mine manager at the age of 23, he led a major program of expansion for the Sons of Gwalia gold mine at Gwalia, Western Australia, and brought in many Italian immigrants to cut costs and counter the union militancy of the Australian miners.
Italian immigrants to South America have also brought a presence of the language to the continent.
Italian anti-organizationalist individualist anarchism was brought to the United States by Italian born individualists such as Giuseppe Ciancabilla and others who advocated for violent propaganda by the deed there.
This awoke in him a lifelong love for Italian music, particularly opera: I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music ; but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand.
In December 1942, during a meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who brought a message from Mussolini asking for the Germans to go on the defensive in the Soviet Union in order to focus on North Africa, Ribbentrop joined with Hitler in belittling Italy's war effort.
The collection began with Francis, who acquired works from Italian masters such as Raphael and Michelangelo, and brought Leonardo da Vinci to his court.
The Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo brought together the ideas of other great thinkers of his time and began to analyze motion in terms of distance traveled from some starting position and the time that it took.
The examples of a rich and hectic decorative style at Fontainebleau transferred the Italian style, through the medium of engravings, to Antwerp and thence throughout Northern Europe, from London to Poland, and brought Mannerist design into luxury goods like silver and carved furniture.
Neapolitan ice cream was named in the late 19th century as a reflection of its presumed origins in the cuisine of the Italian city of Naples, and the many Neapolitan immigrants who brought their expertise in frozen desserts with them to the United States.
Opera was brought to Russia in the 1730s by the Italian operatic troupes and soon it became an important part of entertainment for the Russian Imperial Court and aristocracy.
Possibly smallpox brought to the Italian peninsula by soldiers returning from the Near East ; it killed a quarter of those infected, and up to five million in all.
Urban's support had dwindled to the northern Italian states, Portugal, England, and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who brought with him the support of most of the princes and abbots of Germany.
During the latter half of the 20th century, pizza become a globally accessible dish, mainly due to Italian immigrants that had brought their dishes to new people with resounding success, often in racially and culturally resistive environments.
The victory over Carthage in the First Punic War brought the first two provinces outside the Italian peninsula, Sicily and Corsica et Sardinia.
Bargrave was brought before the city's chief inquisitor who suggested they converse in Latin rather than Italian so that the guards might be prevented from understanding them.
Another theory suggests the submarine was brought to the US by Dominic Conti ( 1874 – 1954 ), an Italian immigrant who came to New York in the early 1900s.
His sandwiches were made from a recipe he brought with him from Italy which consisted of a long crust roll, filled with cold cuts, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, oil, vinegar, Italian herbs and spices, salt, and pepper.
By the 1910s, the national struggles between Slovene and Italian speakers in the Austrian Littoral, and Slovene and German speakers, overshadowed other political conflicts and brought about a nationalist radicalization on both sides.
Having failed to interest the Italian government, the 22-year-old inventor brought his telegraphy system to Britain and met William Preece, a Welshman, who was a major figure in the field and Chief Engineer of the General Post Office.

Italian and Washington
Before losing itself in the sands of the 19th Century, the grand stream of Italian Renaissance architectural decoration made a last appearance in the Brumidi frescos of the Capitol Rotunda in Washington.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. He is sometimes said to be a French variant of the 16th-century Italian Pedrolino, but the two types have little but their names (" Little Pete ") and social stations in common.
While the native Italian American population has dropped rapidly since the 1980s, the neighborhood still retains an Italian character with many Italian restaurants, cafes, and bakeries that line Columbus Avenue and Washington Square.
Known as " The Italian Cathedral of the West ," Saints Peter and Paul Church is located on the north side of Filbert Street in front of Washington Square, where Joe DiMaggio married his first wife and came for photos after his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.
Marble supplied for the Washington monument was so like its Italian counterpart, “ Carrara ,” that it was placed aside until a confirmation of its origin could be made.
Washington Township is sometimes referred to as " South Philly South " or " Little South Philly " as a large percentage of its citizens moved to the town from the Italian South Philadelphia region over the past several decades.
Italian artists and sculptors were brought to Washington to work on the new Capitol building and to create some of its major monuments.
Two Italian American master stone carvers, Roger Morigi and Vincent Palumbo, spent decades creating the sculptural works that embellish Washington National Cathedral.
The National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF )-a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D. C .-works to represent Italian Americans, spread knowledge of the Italian language, foster U. S ./ Italy relations and connect the greater Italian American community.
The NATO base housed an Italian Navy barracks and it served as the home port for several US Navy submarine tenders over the years, ending with the departure of the, which set sail for its new home port of Bremerton, Washington.
In 2005, President of the United States of America, George W. Bush and his wife, First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush displayed an 18th century Italian presepio in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D. C., United States.
* 1945: Mark S. Watson, The Baltimore Sun, " for distinguished reporting from Washington, London and the French and Italian fronts in 1944.
* Guy Williams ( 1924 – 1989 ), Italian American actor, born in Washington Heights in 1924
* March 1 – Replica statue of the Discus Thrower dedicated in Washington, D. C., as a gift from the Italian government to commemorate the return of looted art objects after World War II.
On the night of August 14, 1944, the Fort Lawton Riot between black U. S. soldiers and Italian prisoners of war at Fort Lawton near Seattle, Washington resulted in Italian POW Guglielmo Olivotto being lynched, after which forty-three black soldiers were charged and twenty-eight were convicted of participating in the longest U. S. Army court-martial of World War II, prosecuted by Jaworski.
*" Background to the Italian Renaissance ", Washington State University
Rocca was born in Washington, DC ; his mother was of Colombian and his father of Italian descent.
With the aid of real Washington political advisers, Italian conceptual artist, Francesco Vezzoli, created two commercials for competing US presidential campaigns – pitting Sharon Stone against Bernard-Henri Lévy – in a project entitled Democrazy, shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

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