Pope Gregory IX made him a cardinal on 18 September 1227 with the cure of San Marco, and in 1228 – 29 sent him as legate in Lombardy and Tuscany, where the cities and communes had generally remained true to the Hohenstaufen emperor, Frederick II.

** Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge ( aka Marco Polo Bridge Incident ): Japanese forces invade China ( often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia ).

He wore rouge in public. The story of Cardinal Ammanati that he meant to take the name Formosus II (" handsome "), but was persuaded not to, is more often repeated than the story that he was dissuaded from Marcus, being Venetian and the Cardinal of San Marco, because it was also the war-cry of Venice.

" He is the author or co-author of six books: All The President's Men, Final Days and The Secret Man, with Bob Woodward ; His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, with Marco Politi ; Loyalties ; and A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

* His Holiness: John Paul II & the History of Our Time-With Marco Politi ( 1996 )

Communist Project left the party shortly after the 2006 general election because of its opposition to the participation of the party in The Union and the Prodi II Cabinet: a group led by Marco Ferrando formed the Communist Workers ' Party, while others, led by Francesco Ricci formed the Communist Alternative Party.

Paul Pelliot, Notes on Marco Polo, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1963, Vol. II, pp. 768 – 9, note 2.

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* Marco II ( 1262 – 1303 )

The Games were successfully organised for the next nine terms, but in September 1937, Japan invaded China after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and started the Second Sino-Japanese War ( which later became part of the World War II ), thus the originally planned Games of 1938 in Osaka was cancelled and the Far Eastern Games were discontinued thereafter.

Pounds as Marco, Act II

The Maxim Gorkiy was due to enter service with Orient Lines in April 2009 as SS Marco Polo II.

The Maxim Gorkiy never was refitted and renamed Marco Polo II.

In 1225 Marco II Michel finally secured the exemption of the clergy from lay jurisdiction, except in cases involving real property.

After the election of Pope Julius II he became cardinal priest of San Marco.

Launches from the platform were controlled from the Santa Rita platform, a second former oil platform located southeast of the San Marco platform, and a smaller Santa Rita II housed the facility's radar.

He was created Cardinal-Priest of S. Marco by John Paul II in the consistory of 30 June 1979.

Enric Marco ( born 1921 in Barcelona ) is an impostor who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps Mauthausen and Flossenburg in World War II.

The company would be run by Antonino Malaguti II President and Marco Malaguti Vice President.

Past speakers include Antonio Ruberti, the 9th President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, the 49th Prime Minister of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Leah Rabin, Shirin Ebadi, the member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, the 7th European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Philippe Busquin, the 264th Pope John Paul II, Kerry Kennedy, Marco Travaglio, the 6th President of the European Parliament Josep Borrell Fontelles, the 34th President of Chile Michelle Bachelet, the 11th President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano, the 52nd Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi.

Eventually Melozzo returned to Forlì, where, together with his pupil Marco Palmezzano, he decorated the Feo Chapel in the church of San Biagio, which was destroyed during World War II.

* Marco Sanudo, Venetian crusader

In the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, with a Latin Emperor under the influence of the Venetians established at Constantinople, the Venetian Marco Sanudo conquered the island and soon captured the rest of the islands of the Cyclades, establishing himself as Duke of Naxia, or Duke of the Archipelago.

Miller identified said sister with the wife of Marco I Sanudo and mother of Angelo Sanudo.

During the Frankish period the island formed part of the Duchy of Naxos, except for the few years ( 1341 – 1383 ) when it was a separate lordship under Marco Sanudo and his daughter.

She was the daughter and successor of Marco Sanudo, Lord of Milos from 1341 to 1376.

Marco was a younger son of William I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago from 1303 to 1323.

The island was conquered in 1207 by the Venetian Marco Sanudo and remained under the rule of Venice until 1566, when it was taken by the Ottoman Turks.

Marco Sanudo ( 1153 (?

All biographies of Marco Sanudo have been written centuries after the facts they tell.

In the first one, Istoria di Romania, Marino Sanudo Torsello, a member of the Sanudo family only writes about Marco Sanudo:

Sailing separately, Marco Sanudo and those following him conquered the islands of Naxos, Paros, Milos and Santorini, and Marino Dandolo conquered Andros.

A chronicle in Venetian dated of 1360-1362 and attributed to an Enrico Dandolo gives a short biography of Marco Sanudo starting with his struggle in Crete against Enrico Pescatore.

Also, it's the first text stating that Marco Sanudo and Doge Enrico Dandolo are related.

The Sanudo family may have originated in Eraclea where Marco Sanudo's ancestors held charges.

Four generations after Pietro IV, a Marco Sanudo is recorded ( second half of 11th century ) as an " councilor " and " captain ".

Thus, the first certain fact known about Marco Sanudo is that he took part to the Fourth Crusade.

Genovese and venetian trade routeswith the places where Marco Sanudo presence is proven.

In the conquered Constantinople, Marco Sanudo became judge at the consular court ( giudice del commun ) and then took part to the negotiations between the Republic of Venice and Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat that ended with the purchase of Crete, given to Boniface, by Venice.

The head of the ambassadors was Geoffroi de Villehardouin and Marco Sanudo was among them.

Some medieval chronicles-after the one by Enrico Dandolo ( 1360 – 1362 )- say that this Treaty of Adrianople explicitely gave Marco Sanudo lands on Crete.

Marco Sanudo, with his uncle Enrico Dandolo's and the Latin Emperor's blessings, armed with his own money eight galleys that had been entrusted to him in order to fight the Genoans.

Marco Sanudo had to have his conquest certified by the Latin Empire authorities.