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Vercelli and Book
* The Vercelli Book, a mix of poetry and prose ; it is not known how it came to be in Vercelli.
Considered one of the most beautiful of all Old English poems is Dream of the Rood, contained in the Vercelli Book.
The most important manuscripts are the four great poetical codices of the late 10th and early 11th centuries, known as the Cædmon manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf manuscript.
Preserved in the 10th century Vercelli Book, the poem may be considerably older, even one of the oldest works of Old English literature.
Fortunately during that time of religious unrest, those words that were in the runes were still protected in the Vercelli Book, so called because the book is kept in Vercelli, Italy.
Two of Cynewulf's signed poems were discovered in the Vercelli Book, which includes Cynewulf's holy cross poem " Elene " as well as Dream of the Rood.
the Exeter Book holds Cynewulf ’ s Juliana and Christ II ( The Ascension ) and the Vercelli Book his Elene and Fates of the Apostles.
The cathedral library holds the famous Vercelli Book — an Old English manuscript which includes the celebrated alliterative poem The Dream of the Rood, the 8th-century Laws of the Lombards, and other early manuscripts.
The Capitulary Library contains valuable manuscripts, including an evangelarium of the fourth century, the " Novels " of Justinian, the Leges Langobardorum ( Laws of the Lombards-Germanic ); also hagiographical manuscripts, not all of which have been critically examined ; and a very old copy of the Imitation of Christ, which is relied upon as an argument for attributing the authorship to John Gersen and finally the famous Vercelli Book.
* Vercelli Book
Kemble's revised reading is based on the poem of the Vercelli Book, to the extent that missing words in each are supplied from the other.
" Kemble himself notes how the inscription may be " corrected " with the help of the Vercelli Book.
* Vercelli Book
The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest of the four Old English Poetic Codices.
The Vercelli Book contains 23 prose homilies ( the Vercelli Homilies ) and a prose vita of Saint Guthlac, interspersed with six poems:
The Vercelli Book is one of a group of four major anthologies in Old English.
The Vercelli Book comprises 135 folios which contain a group of twenty-three homilies, six works in Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse: Andreas, Address of the Soul to the Body, Falseness of Men, Dream of the Rood, two poems by Cynewulf, Elene and The Fates of the Apostles, and a prose Life of Guthlac.
In the words of a modern critic, " The Vercelli Book appears ... to have been put together from a number of different exemplars with no apparent overall design in mind.
In his book The Vercelli Homilies, Donald Scragg claims that because of the poetry, the Vercelli Book " is in no sense a homiliary.

Vercelli and dates
A firm terminus ante quem that can be put on the date of Cynewulf are the dates of the Vercelli and Exeter manuscripts, which are approximately in the second half of the tenth century.

Vercelli and back
Further north, from Vercelli to Lake Maggiore, were stationed the divisions of Antoine de Béthencourt and Joseph Chabran and, further to the back, north of Piacenza, Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge's division.
Once back in Vercelli in 363, he continued to be a leader with Hilary of Poitiers in defeating Arianism in the Western Church, and was one of the chief opponents of the Arian bishop Auxentius of Milan.
The Austrians under Gyulai eventually arrived in Vercelli, menacing Turin, but the Franco-Sardinian move to strengthen Alessandria and Po River bridges around Casale Monferrato forced them to fall back.
The Piedmontese were driven back to Borgomanero at the foot of the Alps, and the Austrian forces occupied Novara, Vercelli and Trino, with the road to the Piedmontese capital, Turin, lying open to them.

Vercelli and century
In the 11th century, Berengar of Tours seized upon Scotus ’” book as a source for his view of the Eucharist in his debate with Lanfranc of Bec, and was summarily condemned by the local Council of Vercelli in 1050.
Benvenuto da Imola in his commentaries written less than a century after the facts tells us that Dolcino was born in Romagnano Sesia, went in his childhood to Vercelli and there lived in the church of St. Agnes where he studied grammar.
In 1228 the University of Pavia was transferred to Vercelli, where it remained till the fourteenth century, but without gaining much prominence ; only a university school of law has been maintained.
Unione Sportiva Pro Vercelli that was one of the most successful football clubs in Italy in the early 20th century, winning the national championship seven times between 1908 and 1922, on the summer 2010 has not been admitted to the league for the heavy debt.
In 1859 Biella was besieged by the Austrians but Garibaldi forced an end to the siege, and the town became part of the province of Novara, losing its status as regional capital that it had received in the 17th century from Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy ; it was transferred to the province of Vercelli in 1927.
However, its presence in Vercelli has been ascertained before that, in the eleventh century.

Vercelli and also
Pavia railway station, opened in 1862, forms part of the Milan – Pavia – Genoa railway, and is also a terminus of four secondary railways, linking Pavia with Alessandria, Cremona, Vercelli and Piacenza.
The research of Orioli shows that De Julio Presbitero was actually the name of a wealthy family of Vercelli belonging to the Ghibellines often married with members of the Tornielli family of nearby Novara ( Romagnano Sesia ), also Ghibellines, so he proposes that Dolcino could be the son of a couple that united members of both families.
After his capture the Bishop of Vercelli consulted with the Inquisition and other eminent people to decide an immediate execution ( in fact the acts of the trial were never found, despite some suggestions that they could be hidden somewhere in the secret archives of the Vatican ) so the paper of the Anonymous Synchronous, probably written by a follower or a local symphatizer of the Dulcinian, the one of Bernardo Gui and another anonymous paper ( probably also written by Bernardo Gui ) are the only documents we have that were written in the same period the facts took place.
He also holds the record for most Juventus goals in a single league game ; during the 9-1 victory against Inter Milan on 10 June 1961 he scored six goals, this is also the joint record for any Serie A team shared with Silvio Piola of Pro Vercelli.
* Blessed Albert Avogadro ( 1149 – 1214 ), Italian canon lawyer, Bishop of Bobbio, Bishop of Vercelli and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem ; author of the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert – also known as Saint Albert of Jerusalem
He also painted in Casale, Novara, Vercelli, Alessandria, and Turin, and Genoa
In the same years Pro Vercelli also formed, the backbone of the first Italian national teams, with nine players representing the Piedmont club.

Vercelli and 23
* Two chapters from the Old English prose adaptation as incorporated into Vercelli Homily 23.

Vercelli and homilies
" He argues that most of the homilies in the Vercelli Book are sermons with general themes, while two of the homilies describe lives of the saints ( XVII and XXIII ).

Vercelli and with
The church and monastery of San Pietro in Montorio originally belonged to the Celestines in Rome ; but they were turned out of it by Sixtus IV to make way for Franciscans, receiving from the Pope in exchange the Church of St Eusebius of Vercelli with the adjacent mansion for a monastery.
By the time this letter was received by Lanfranc in Rome, it had been read by several other people ; and as Berengar was not well thought of there, Lanfranc feared his association with him might prejudice his own interests, and laid the matter before the pope, Leo IX, who excommunicated Berengar at a synod after Easter, 1050, and summoned him to appear personally at another to be held at Vercelli in September.
Victor Emmanuel II, by the Grace of God and the Will of the Nation, King of Italy, King of Sardinia, Cyprus, Jerusalem, Armenia, Duke of Savoy, Count of Maurienne, Marquis ( of the Holy Roman Empire ) in Italy ; Prince of Piedmont, Carignano, Oneglia, Poirino, Trino ; Prince and Perpetual vicar of the Holy Roman Empire ; Prince of Carmagnola, Montmellian with Arbin and Francin, Prince bailliff of the Duchy of Aosta, Prince of Chieri, Dronero, Crescentino, Riva di Chieri e Banna, Busca, Bene, Brà, Duke of Genoa, Monferrat, Aosta, Duke of Chablais, Genevois, Duke of Piacenza, Marquis of Saluzzo ( Saluces ), Ivrea, Susa, del Maro, Oristano, Cesana, Savona, Tarantasia, Borgomanero e Cureggio, Caselle, Rivoli, Pianezza, Govone, Salussola, Racconigi con Tegerone, Migliabruna e Motturone, Cavallermaggiore, Marene, Modane e Lanslebourg, Livorno Ferraris, Santhià Agliè, Centallo e Demonte, Desana, Ghemme, Vigone, Count of Barge, Villafranca, Ginevra, Nizza, Tenda, Romont, Asti, Alessandria, del Goceano, Novara, Tortona, Bobbio, Soissons, Sant ' Antioco, Pollenzo, Roccabruna, Tricerro, Bairo, Ozegna, delle Apertole, Baron of Vaud e del Faucigni, Lord of Vercelli, Pinerolo, della Lomellina, della Valle Sesia, del marchesato di Ceva, Overlord of Monaco, Roccabruna and 11 / 12th of Menton, Noble patrician of Venice, patrician of Ferrara.
He took up the task with the greatest zeal, although Berengar had been his personal friend ; he was the protagonist of orthodoxy at the councils of Vercelli ( 1050 ), Tours ( 1054 ) and Rome ( 1059 ).
First, he accused his wife Richardis of having an affair with his chief minister and archchancellor, Liutward, bishop of Vercelli.
Vercelli Cathedral, formerly adorned with precious pillars and mosaics, was erected and enlarged by Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, to whom it was dedicated after his death.
Piola began his career with Italian club side Pro Vercelli, making his Serie A debut against Bologna on 16 February 1930, scoring 13 goals in his first year, at the age of 17.
The following year, she left for Italy for further studies with Zina Fumagalli-Riva in Milan and with Giulia Tess in Vercelli.
Along with Eusebius of Vercelli and Dionysius of Milan, he was exiled.
Not until Antony was 22 was he able to make the break with his family and enter the monastery at Vercelli.
The Società Ginnastica Pro Vercelli ( Pro Vercelli Gymnastics Society ) was established in 1892, with its Football Division founded in 1903.
Pro Vercelli chose to take part only with a youth team, eventually losing the title to Inter.

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