The first European settler in what is now Portage County was Abraham Honey in 1798 in the area now known as Mantua Township, followed by Asa Hall in what is now Atwater Township in April 1799.

* Mantua Township

* Mantua village ( Mantua Township )

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* Linda Fiorentino, actress ( Mantua Township ).

* Tara Lipinski, Olympic gold medal winner, figure skating ( Mantua Township ).

alt = A six lane freeway with a green overhead sign reading Exit 20 to Route 44 County Route 643 Mantua Thorofare with an arrow pointing to the upper rightRoute 44 begins at an intersection with Barker Avenue in Logan Township, heading to the east on Crown Point Road, a two-lane undivided road.

The route intersects CR 667 in the center of Paulsboro before crossing the Mantua Creek on a lift bridge and entering wetlands within West Deptford Township.

North of Mullica Hill, Route 45 runs through suburban areas, with the portion of the route between the northern border of Mantua Township and the southern border of Woodbury a four-lane divided highway.

The route intersects County Route 664, County Route 603, County Route 667, and County Route 624 before crossing into Mantua Township, where it becomes Bridgeton Pike.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation never followed through on this proposal, instead proposing a widening project to create a four-lane divided highway for the full length of Route 45 from Woodbury to Salem, of which only a small portion was ever completed by the 1980s, running from the border of Woodbury to the border of Mantua Township.

Route 55 south between interchanges with County Route 553 ( New Jersey ) | CR 553 and U. S. Route 322 in New Jersey | US 322 in Gloucester County, New Jersey | Gloucester County Past the US 322 interchange, the freeway continues through agricultural areas and enters Mantua Township, where it turns northeast and crosses under CR 553 Alternate.

Deptford Township borders Mantua Township, Washington Township, Wenonah, West Deptford Township, Westville, Woodbury and Woodbury Heights.

East Greenwich Township was created by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 10, 1881, from the eastern part of Greenwich Township and the western part of Mantua Township.

Glassboro borders Elk Township, Clayton Borough, Monroe Township, Washington Township, Pitman Borough, Mantua Township, and Harrison Township.

On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

The name of the Helvetians is first mentioned in a graffito on a vessel from Mantua ( ca.

Alberti is said to be in Mantegna's great frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi, the older man dressed in dark red clothes, who whispers in the ear of Ludovico Gonzaga, the ruler of Mantua.

Its domain is the management and protection of the water system in Veneto, Mantua, Trento, Bolzano and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

* The Rotonda di San Lorenzo is built in Mantua, Lombardy, Italy, during the late 11th century.

* October 9 – The Treaty of Pavia is signed between Spain and Savoy, under which Savoy returns Monferrato to Mantua.

* Giambattista Andreini's play The Penitent Magdalene is published in Mantua.

* July 18 – War of Mantuan Succession: Mantua is sacked by an imperial army led by Count Johann von Aldringen.

Charles Gonzaga is confirmed as Duke of Mantua.

* The Royal Theatre of Mantua ( Italy ) is built by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena.

His funeral is said to have seen an attendance of between 25 and 55 thousand people, at least half the population of Mantua.

Zan Ganassa, whose troupe is first mentioned in Mantua in the late 1560s, was one of the earliest known actors believed to have performed the part.

Major tourist destinations in the region include the historic, cultural and artistic cities of Milan ( which is Italy's second top tourist destination ), Brescia, Mantua, Pavia, Como, Cremona, Bergamo, Sondrio, Lecco, Lodi, Varese, Monza, and the lakes of Garda, Como, Maggiore, and Iseo.

Mantua ( ; Emilian and Latin: Mantua ) is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.

Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera, and the city is known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and medieval and Renaissance cityscape.

Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century.

Mantua's most famous ancient citizen is the poet Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil ( Mantua me genuit ), who was born near the city in 70 B. C.

Though many of the masterworks have been dispersed, the cultural value of Mantua is nonetheless outstanding, with many of Mantua's patrician and ecclesiastical buildings being uniquely important examples of Italian architecture.

Mantova railway station, opened in 1873, forms part of the Verona – Mantua – Modena railway, and is a terminus of two secondary railways, linking Mantua with Cremona and Monselice, respectively.

In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, the schoolmaster who pretends to be Lucentio's father, Vincentio, is from Mantua.

* Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto ( based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s ' amuse ) is set in Mantua.

Perhaps the best known Duomo is Milan Cathedral, but other well-known cathedrals include San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome and those of Alba, Ancona, Mantua, Parma and Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore.

At this point divisions between the allies became clear, as Spain laid claim to Mantua, and also refused to guarantee Milan to Charles Emmanuel.

Most of the homes in Mantua were built between the 1950s and the 1980s.

In the western world, belts were more common for men, with the exception of the early Middle Ages, late 17th century Mantua, and skirt / blouse combinations between 1900 and 1910.

However, their place in between the psalms indicates that they were intended to be part of the Vespers, but could also be performed on other occasions, such as at the court of the Duke of Mantua, Monteverdi's employer.

Relations between the Gonzaga and Este families were close, and in the early 1550s Wert traveled at least once to Mantua and Ferrara, centers of musical activity in the late sixteenth century, where he met the renowned madrigalist Cipriano de Rore, who was the most influential figure on his early musical style.

Also during this period a division between performers and passive audiences – not the large audiences present at a public ceremonial spectacle, as seen earlier in the century, but relatively small, intimate gatherings, with performers and listeners, a situation recognizably modern – began to be seen, especially in such progressive cultural centers as Ferrara and Mantua.

Gonzaga was born at his family's castle in Castiglione delle Stiviere, between Brescia and Mantova in northern Italy in what was then part of the Duchy of Mantua, a member of the illustrious House of Gonzaga.

In 1589, he was called to Mantua to mediate between his brother Rodolfo and the Duke of Mantua.

Back in Mantua with the Gonzagas between 1424 and 1426, Pisanello painted one of his important surviving works: the fresco Annunciation in San Fermo, Verona.

St. Lucy is also popular among children in some regions of North-Eastern Italy, namely Trentino, East Lombardy ( Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona and Mantua ), parts of Veneto, ( Verona ), parts of Emilia-Romagna, ( Piacenza, Parma and Reggio Emilia ), and all of Friuli, where she is said to bring gifts to good children and coal to bad ones the night between December 12 and 13.

The Greer bridge also carries SR 43 during its short co-sign with SR 59 in between South Mantua Street ( SR 43 South ) and River Street ( SR 43 North ), and South Water Street.

On May 22, 1986, the DAR abandoned its tracks between Truro and Mantua, just east of Windsor where it continued to serve a gypsum quarry.

The Windsor and Hantsport Railway is a railway operating in Nova Scotia between Windsor Junction ( north of Bedford ) and New Minas with a spur at Windsor which runs several miles east, serving two gypsum quarries at Wentworth Creek and Mantua.

It is estimated that between 500 and 1000 college-aged students are living in Mantua.

Hippolito and Dorinda, predictably, fall in love ; their love parallels that between Miranda, Shakespeare's maiden who has never seen a man, and Ferdinand, son to the Duke of Mantua ( or to the King of Naples in Shakespeare's version ).

An alliance between the Rabe and Porto families explains the combination of the two family names in Rapoport ; in 1565, officiating in the above-mentioned synagogue of Mantua, there is found a Rabbi Solomon ben Menahem ha-Kohen Rapa of Venice, while a Rabbi Abraham Porto ha-Kohen ( 1541 – 76 ) was parnas of the community.

* Francesco ( 7 May 1586 – 22 December 1612 ), who ruled as Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat between 9 February and 22 December 1612.