In 1409 he took part in the Council of Pisa, and was one of the supporters of Antipope Alexander V. Later he confirmed his allegiance to another antipope, John XXIII, by whom his family obtained several privileges, while Oddone obtained for himself the vicariate of Todi, Orvieto, Perugia and Umbria.

Anacletus had control of Rome, so Innocent II took ship for Pisa, and thence sailed by way of Genoa to France, where the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux readily secured his cordial recognition by the clergy and the court.

Pisa and the other took advantage of the crusade to establish trading posts and colonies in the Eastern coastal cities of the Levant.

In June 1135, Bernard of Clairvaux took a leading part in the Council of Pisa, asserting the claims of pope Innocent II against those of pope Anacletus II, who had been elected pope in 1130 with Norman support but was not recognised outside Rome.

In Western Schism, the Bohemian natio took the side of king Wenceslaus and supported the Council of Pisa ( 1409 ).

Proclaiming him King of Sicily, his partisans, among them Prince Henry of Castile, both in the north and south of Italy took up arms ; Rome received his envoy with enthusiasm ; and the young king himself received welcomes at Pavia, Pisa and Siena.

An aspiring competitor to Pisa, the city of Florence took the opposite side in the conflict between Pope and Emperor, siding with the Pope in Rome.

The celebration took place on the day of birth, and in the same church where in 1641 Tommaso Aniello would later marry the sixteen year old Bernardina Pisa.

Florence took Pisa in 1406, Venice captured Padua and Verona, while the Duchy of Milan annexed a number of nearby areas including Pavia and Parma.

He was educated at the University of Pisa, where he took degrees in medicine and philosophy.

Whereas Bunhill Fields was described by the poet Robert Southey as " the Campo Santo of the Dissenters " ( a reference to the monumental cemetery of that name in Pisa, Italy-campo santo translates as " sacred field " or " saints ' abode " ) in respect of its late 17th and 18th centuries burials, Abney Park took on the mantle during the Victorian period in the writings of E. Paxton Hood for the Religious Tract Society.

As head of his family, the Ghibelline party and podestà of Pisa, Ugolino took action to preserve his power in the face of the political hostility of Pisa's neighbours.

When Florence and Lucca took advantage of the naval defeat to attack Pisa, Ugolino was appointed podestà for a year and succeeded in pacifying them by ceding certain castles.

In 1409 he took part in the Council of Pisa as councilor of the Venetian legate.

The amount of time that the message took to arrive at Pisa is not less than thirty-six days.

He took part in the campaign in Scotland in 1400, in naval operations around 1405, and was the senior English diplomat at the Council of Pisa ( 1409 ).

On November 5 of that year, Liceti took a position as lecturer of logic at the University of Pisa and in 1605, he was awarded a chair in philosophy.

There he took his degree in 1884 and worked first at a technical secondary school in Pisa.

Vitellozzo took service with Florence against Pisa, and later with the French in Apulia in 1496 and with the Orsini faction against Pope Alexander VI.

From the ninth to the twelfth century Venice developed into a city state ( an Italian thalassocracy or Repubblica Marinara, the other three being Genoa, Pisa, and Amalfi ).

* Nearly four centuries later Giorgio Vasari wrote: " Guglielmo, according to what is being said, in year 1174 with Bonanno as sculptor, laid the foundations of the belltower of the cathedral in Pisa.

Aside from the Littera Florentina, a 6th-century codex of the Pandects that was preserved at Pisa, apparently without ever being publicly consulted, ( and removed to Florence after Florence conquered Pisa in 1406 ), there may have been other manuscript sources for the text that began to be taught at Bologna, by Pepo and then by Irnerius.

He is often erroneously called Cardinal Pandulph due to being confused with Cardinal Pandolfo Masca of Pisa.

He was educated at Pisa, and in early life was closely associated with Napoleon and Joseph Bonaparte, the two families at that time being close political allies.

Northern Italy and upper Central Italy were divided into a number of warring city-states, the most powerful being Milan, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Ferrara, Mantua, Verona and Venice.

The church is known also as the Primatial, the archbishop of Pisa being a Primate since 1092.

In 1282 Pisa tried to gain control of the commerce and administration of Corsica, after being called for support by the judge Sinucello who revolted against Genoa.

In 1406 he captured Pisa and was subsequently hired by Niccolò III d ' Este of Ferrara, who was being menaced by Ottobono Terzi of Parma.

A mayor of Pisa in April 1923, Buffarini Guidi headed the local Party hierarchy from 1924 ( his notoriety being increased by his career as a lawyer ).

They were more probably from Pisa Italy, the name ' Barisan ' being found in Tuscany and Liguria related to Azzopardi family.

Already it was being exported, as some of the earliest evidence is bowls set as decoration into the facades of churches in Pisa when they were built.

* Bonanno Pisano ( 12th century ), Italian sculptor, sometimes credited with being the architect of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Cross played only 26 games in New York before being traded again, this time to the Edmonton Oilers, along with Radek Dvorak in exchange for Anson Carter and Ales Pisa.

The Falconcity of Wonders, announced in 2005, is a project being built in Dubai that will feature life-size replicas of the seven wonders of the world such as the Egyptian pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and other famous monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Gregory died in Pisa on 17 December 1187 of a fever after holding the papacy for only 57 days.

Last but not least, such a sudden and large increase of power by Pisa could only lead to another war with Genoa.

Bonanno Pisano left Pisa in 1185 for Monreale, Sicily, only to come back and die in his home town.

Topographically only the valley of the River Serchio, which running parallel to the coast turns and exits into the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Pisa, separates the Apuan Alps from the Apennines ; geologically the rock is of a slightly different composition: marble.

The islanders were hoping for status such as enjoyed by Venice, Genoa, Pisa and other cities, free to form their own government, but morally answerable only to the pope who would hold a vague and unstable suzerainty.

After graduating in literature in Florence in 1896, he taught History at the universities of Messina ( during the 1908 Messina earthquake he was the only survivor of his entire family ), Pisa and Florence.

Pisa has an intense athletic rivalry with the University of Pavia traditionally culminating in the Pisa-Pavia Regatta ( Regata Pisa-Pavia ), the oldest competition of this kind in Italy and second in Europe only to the Oxford Cambridge boat race.

Some of his trips resulted in him causing or learning the truth about various historical mysteries, such as why the Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned ( It fell over in an earthquake and Tim only managed to partly pull it back into position ) or what happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste ( Tim visited the ship and fell into a large fish, appearing to the crew as a sea monster, causing them to dive overboard ).

Subsequently he attended courses at Bologna, but after only one year he enrolled at the University-Scuola Normale Superiore-of Pisa.

Although it is said that the mosaic was done by Cimabue, only the head of St. John was done by the artist in 1302 and was his last work, since he died in Pisa in the same year.

Genoa and Pisa became the only states with trading rights in the Black Sea.

At Pisa his mind became stored, not only with the results of patient study in various branches of letters, but with the great historical associations linked with the former glory of the Pisan republic, and with one remarkable institution of which Pisa was the seat.

Established near Pisa in 1377, this congregation established nearly fifty houses, of which only two survive, one in Rome and one in Viterbo, Italy.

In the long series of trials, that spanned about two decades and that alternated acquittals with sentences of guilt, the evidence against Sofri was only the confession of pentito (" collaborator of justice ") Leonardo Marino, who accused Sofri of having ordered him, as chief of Lotta Continua, to assassinate Calabresi, during a meeting held on a piazza after a demonstration in Pisa on 13 May 1972, in the name of Franco Serantini, an anarchist who died from lack of care in the police station following a demonstration in the same city on May 5.