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The Nuova Cronica, a 14th century history of Florence by the Florentine banker and official Giovanni Villani, includes much statistical information on population, ordinances, commerce and trade, education, and religious facilities and has been described as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history.
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Nuova and Cronica
* Nuova Cronica — Florence
This story first entered the Italian literary tradition via Giovanni Villani ( c. 1280 – 1348 ) and his Nuova Cronica.
Portrait of Totila in the 14th century Nuova Cronica
Execution of Conradin, Giovanni Villani: Nuova Cronica, 14th century
Al-Kamil ( right ) and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | Frederick II signed a treaty restoring Jerusalem to the Crusades | Crusader s for ten years ; from Nuova Cronica, mid-14th century
The ancient building, founded in the early 5th century and having undergone many repairs, was crumbling with age, as attested in the 14th century Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, and was no longer large enough to serve the growing population of the city.
The Leggenda was once thought to be a source for the Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, itself a source for the Vespers.
Giovanni Villani ( c. 1276 or 1280 – 1348, ) was an Italian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica ( New Chronicles ) on the history of Florence.
Historian J. K. Hyde states that the Nuova Cronica of Villani is representative of the strong vernacular tradition in Florence, appealing to the people of the time as a narrative that was " easy to read, full of human interest and occasionally spiced with novella-type anecdotes.
* Giovanni Villani: La Nuova Cronica – Un ' opera emblematica della storiografia trecentesca
Giovanni Villani ( 1276 – 1348 ) wrote in his Nuova Cronica that the Uberti were " rebels of Florence and Ghibellines ", stating that the plaza was built so that the Uberti family homes would never be rebuilt on the same location.
Giovanni Villani in his Nuova Cronica had this to say about Raymond:
Nuova and century
In the early 21st century, Milan underwent a series of massive redevelopments, with the moving of its exhibition center to a much larger site in the satellite town of Rho, and the construction of a new financial district in Porta Nuova.
* Historical centre of the town, built in grey granite blocks ( mainly 18th century ); particularly Corso Matteotti, via Roma ( Carrera Longa, Lu Runzatu, Lu Pultali ), Piazza d ' Italia ( Piazza di l ' Ara ), Parco delle Rimembranze, Fonte Nuova ( Funtana Noa ) and Parco di San Lorenzo, via Mannu ( ex via dei Nobili or dei Cavalieri );
* Santa Maria Nuova ( 11th century ).
* The Romanesque churches of Santa Maria Nuova ( twelfth century ), San Sisto ( second half of the ninth century ), and San Giovanni in Zoccoli ( eleventh century ).
In the 19th century, civil engineers built a street named Strada Nuova through Cannaregio, and a railway bridge and road bridge were constructed to connect Venice directly to Mestre.
* The Church of Santa Maria Nuova, a typical Cistercian edifice of the 13th century.
* Porta Nuova arch ( 18th century )
By the first half of the 17th century, the extensive interior decoration had been completed for the two generally contemporaneous " mother " churches, ( Sant ' Andrea and the Chiesa Nuova ), of two major counter-reformation orders, the Theatines and Oratorians.
Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial 15th century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy.
Nuova and history
" Commodius vicus " refers to Giambattista Vico ( 1668 – 1744 ), who proposed a theory of cyclical history in his work " La Scienza Nuova " ( The New Science ).
The New Science ( 1725, original title Scienza Nuova ) is his major work and has been highly influential in the philosophy of history, and for historicists like Isaiah Berlin and Hayden White.
For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself .” This criterion for truth would later shape the history of civilization in Vico ’ s opus, the Scienza Nuova ( The New Science, 1725 ), because he would argue that civil lifelike mathematicsis wholly constructed.
In 1893-1894 he collected a number of essays on Florentine history, originally published in the Nuova Antologia, under the title of I primi due secoli della storia di Firenze, and in 1901 he produced Le Invasioni barbariche in Italia, a popular account in one volume of the events following the dissolution of the Roman empire.
Nuova and Florence
As a successful artist, he was given permission to dissect human corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and later at hospitals in Milan and Rome.
In 1502, Isaac returned to Italy, going to Florence to make arrangements with the hospital Santa Maria Nuova ; payments were made to the hospital in return for health and food provisions.
He worked at the decorations of the Portinari chapel in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence from 1439 – 1445, and had as his assistants Piero della Francesca and Bicci di Lorenzo.
* The colour of colours, La Nuova Italia, Florence 1990
Born in Florence and a friar of the Servite Order, he was employed from 1521 to 1534 as one of Michelangelo Buonarroti's assistants at the Medici Chapel ( Sacrestia Nuova ) in San Lorenzo in Florence.
* Leonardo da Vinci carried out studies on anatomy at the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in the center of town which is today a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Florence.
His most famous surviving work is the Portinari Triptych ( Uffizi, Florence ), an altarpiece commissioned for the church of San Egidio in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence by Tommaso Portinari, the manager of the Bruges branch of the Medici Bank.
He continued his work until the sack of Rome ( 1527 ) when he departed to work in Florence, where he worked on the stuccoes in Sagrestia Nuova in San Lorenzo, and Venice, where he worked on the stucco decoration in the Palazzo Grimani, around 1540.
In 1866 at 42, she left London for Florence, where she entered the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital as a medical student.
* D. Pastine, Juan Caramuel: Probabilismo ed Enciclopedia, Florence, La Nuova Italia, 1975.
In 1622, he painted the Ectasy of Saint Margaret of Cortona ( Galleria Platina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ) as an altarpiece for Santa Maria Nuova in Cortona, where Margaret live and died.
Francis and Zenobius and two kneeling patrons, which is ( 1500, and is in the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, in Florence.
Nuova and by
* New Alliance ( Nuova Alleanza ), formerly called Right and Freedom ( Destra e Libertà ), headed by Altero Matteoli and Adolfo Urso, was formed by the staunchest supporters of Gianfranco Fini within the party and supported a liberal political agenda.
The following year he was commissioned a fresco of the Universal Judgement for the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, completed by Albertinelli and Giuliano Bugiardini when Baccio became a Dominican friar on July 26, 1500.
The idea was reprised in 1720 by Giambattista Vico, in his highly influential Scienza Nuova.
Other filming locations used were in central and southern Italy, such as the parks of Valle del Treja ( between Rome and Viterbo ), the area of Camposecco ( next to Camerata Nuova, characterized by a karst topography ), the hills around Castelluccio, the area around the Gran Sasso mountain, and the Tivoli's quarries and Sardinia.
The SCU was originally founded in the late 1970s as the Nuova Grande Camorra Pugliese ( current Società foggiana ) by Camorra boss Raffaele Cutolo, who wanted to expand his operations into Puglia.
* Nuova Famiglia Salentina: formed in 1986 by De Matteis Pantaleo, from Lecce and stemming from the Famiglia Salentina Libera born in the early 1980s as an autonomous criminal movement in the Salento area with no links with extra-regional Mafia expressions ;
* Vita Nuova: A Novel, translated by Tony Liman, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010
He first became involved with the Mafia in 1945 and by the following year he was a full-fledged member of the Porta Nuova Family and his first boss was Giuseppe " Pippo " Calò.
In Italy, Petrarch developed the sonnet form pioneered by Giacomo da Lentini, which Dante used in his Vita Nuova.
On April 15, 1931, Masseria was gunned down at Nuova Villa Tammaro restaurant in Coney Island by Luciano associates Anastasia, Adonis, Genovese, and Siegel.
The folk side was founded by the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare at the end of 1960s.
The name of the company continues the association with Dante Alighieri, begun with the choice of Inferno, at Bell Labs, as a name for the operating system: La Vita Nuova, meaning " The New Life " in Italian, is the title of an early work by Dante.
Henry Holiday's Dante meets Beatrice at Ponte Santa Trinita is inspired by La Vita Nuova ( Beatrice Portinari | Beatrice is in white ).
La Vita Nuova or Vita Nova () is a text written by Dante Alighieri in 1295.
La Vita Nuova contains 42 brief chapters ( 31 for Guglielmo Gorni ) with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one ballata, and four canzoni ; one canzone is left unfinished, interrupted by the death of Beatrice Portinari, Dante's lifelong love.
Facsimile of lines from Dante Alighieri | Dante's " La Vita Nuova " first published with Bodoni types by the Officina Bodoni in 1925.
The Cappella Nuova already contained two groups of images in the vaulting over the altar, the Judging Christ and the Prophets, by Fra Angelico, who had begun the murals fifty years earlier.
Another important monument is an old red-brick fortress " Fortezza Nuova " which, in Medici times, defended the city from attack by pirates.
* Nuova Camorra Organizzata, a defunct Italian Camorra criminal organization in Naples founded by Raffaele Cutolo
Created by the sicilian sculptor Tommaso Geraci, it bears the inscription Giovanni Falcone – Paolo Borsellino – Gli Altri – L ' orgoglio della Nuova Sicilia ( Giovanni Falcone – Paolo Borsellino – The Others – The Pride of the New Sicily ).
Santa Maria Nuova, built by Giorgio Vasari in 1554, is a church of square ground-plan.
* La Fiat Nuova 500, by Enzo Altorio, pub.
Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs, but is now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software.
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