It could be seen that both artists used a very thick final coat of plaster, one half inch, and that both followed the traditional Italian fresco technique as described by Cennino Cennini in the 14th Century, and current in Italy to this day.

* 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

Using a more open and attacking style than usually used by Italian sides, he coached Italy to a second-place finish in Euro 2000, suffering an extra-time defeat at the hands of France in the final, when in the 90th minute of the game, Italy were 1-0 up and less than sixty seconds from winning the tournament before France scored to equalise and go to extra time.

Galenism's final defeat came from a combination of the negativism of Paracelsus and the constructivism of the Italian Renaissance anatomists, such as Vesalius in the 16th century.

It was Boccaccio's final effort in literature and one of his last works in Italian, the only other substantial work was Corbaccio ( dated to either 1355 or 1365 ).

This unusual final table of the Serie A ( with the most successful Italian teams of the time, Juventus and AS Roma, ending up much lower than expected ) has led to many speculations.

Serie A has produced the highest number of European Cup finalists: Italian clubs have reached the final of the competition on a record twenty-six different occasions, winning the title twelve times.

The most popular Italian prime-time drama series Incantesimo ( Enchantment ), that run from 1998 until 2008, has been transformed into daytime soap opera in its final two years, airing 5 days-a-week on Rai 1.

Yet Adorno ’ s work continued with studies of Beethoven and Richard Wagner ( published in 1939 as " Fragments on Wagner "), drafts of which he read to Benjamin during their final meeting, in December on the Italian Riviera.

It developed in 16th century England, and was quickly adopted on the Continent where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite ( the French gigue ; Italian and Spanish giga ).

The final remnants of Italian guerilla movement discontinued all resistance in British Somaliland by the summer of 1942.

The match was Van Basten's final game for the Italian club.

He won the prestigious Italian Open in 1994, defeating Boris Becker in the final, and two singles matches in the 1995 Davis Cup final against Russians Andrei Chesnokov and Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Moscow.

In 1961 Rangers became the first British team to reach a European final when they contested the Cup Winners ' Cup final against Italian side Fiorentina, only to lose 4 – 1 on aggregate.

* in French, in Spanish and in Italian, accent marks and most other diacritical markings are ignored, except the tilde in Spanish: for instance, in French, the final E of answer ÊTRE can double as the final É of CONGÉ when written ETRE and CONGE ; but in Spanish, N and Ñ are distinct letters.

Possibly the most famous example is at the end of the 1969 movie The Italian Job, in which the escape vehicle is literally balancing on the edge of a cliff as the final credits roll.

Unlike England, the Italian playoff final is two-legged, again with the higher finisher earning home advantage in the second leg.

Forty-four years after his death, on 7 June 1871, his remains were brought to Florence, and with all the pride, pomp and circumstance of a great national mourning, found their final resting-place beside the monuments of Machiavelli and Alfieri, of Michelangelo and Galileo, in the church of Santa Croce, the pantheon of Italian glory he had celebrated in Dei sepolcri.

In that occasion, the same title was interpreted by Italian crooner Johnny Dorelli ; however, the pair of singers was eliminated before the final stage of the competition.

As a final touch, he brought in Italian artisans to build several marble fireplaces.

: The first documented European voyage to the Americas by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus ; the end of the Reconquista, with the final expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula ; the Spanish government expels the Jews.

The final Allied reinforcements for the cavalry contest to the south were at last in position ; Marlborough ’ s superiority on the left could no longer be denied, and his fast-moving plan took hold of the battlefield.

The final cavalry charge by British Empire forces occurred on 21 March 1942 when a 60 strong patrol of the Burma Frontier Force encountered Japanese infantry near Toungoo airfield in central Burma.

In Stuart's final year, in addition to achieving the cadet rank of second captain of the corps, he was one of eight cadets designated as honorary " cavalry officers " for his skills in horsemanship.

General Judson Kilpatrick, commanding officer of the Union cavalry advance, forced Confederate forces under the command of Generals Wade Hampton III and Joseph Wheeler to withdraw in haste who were frantically trying to transport their remaining supplies and wounded by rail westward toward the final Confederate encampment in Greensboro, NC.

The final battle occurred at Markuszów on July 26, 1792, and the Polish cavalry under Prince Poniatowski was victorious against the Russian cavalry.

After a final argument over the fate of the governor of Newark, who had let Rupert into the royal court to begin with, Rupert resigned and left the service of King Charles, along with most of his best cavalry officers.

He served in a cavalry company during the final months of the Mexican-American War, but fought in no major battles.

However, a final Allied cavalry charge, stemming from a misinterpreted order from Raglan, led to one of the most famous and ill-fated events in British military history – the Charge of the Light Brigade.

A final desperate cavalry charge of around 500 horsemen was utterly destroyed.

As the French retreated from their final assault, Zaragoza had his cavalry attack them from the right and left while troops concealed along the road pivoted out to flank them badly.

The final action of note in the Low Countries came on 19 September when Luxembourg's cavalry surprised and defeated the rear of the Allied forces in a minor action near Leuze.

Ordering Bonnemains's cavalry division to charge by squadrons to gain time, he brought up his reserve artillery, and sent it forward to case-shot range to cover a final counter-stroke by his last intact battalions.

Heavy cavalry — the final evolution of the fully armored medieval knight — remained major players on the battlefields of the Italian Wars.

The rear of the Portuguese position, which was in fact its front in the final battle, was at the top of a narrow slope, which came up to a small village, and was further constricted by a complex series of interlocking trenches and caltrops designed to surprise and trap the enemy cavalry.

Though the gallantry of Bayard and the French cavalry under de Foix carried the day, the duc was killed in the final hour ; rendering the battle a strategic loss for the French ; and a personal tragedy for Bayard.

As MacKenna's group plans to make a final rest stop at a water hole, the cavalry ambushes them.

Ismay, however, " had a sneaking desire to be a cavalry soldier ", and after doing poorly on his final examinations at Charterhouse, he was not eligible to attend Cambridge.

Soult also moved up his final reserve — two strong Grenadier battalions — to cover the retreat, and although these suffered heavily from Allied artillery fire, they and the cavalry ensured there was little further fighting.

After a lot of tricky undercover work, the cavalry arrives, and there is a final confrontation in the middle of the pirate's lair.

In a desperate final charge, Brunswick was wounded, and his cavalry, demoralised, finally fell back.

Eventually, the final Williamite assault was driven back with heavy losses by cavalry and pursued into the bog, where more of them were killed or drowned.

The final owner of the empty but intact building was the War Office, who commandeered the Hall from 1914-18 for the training of infantry, cavalry and artillery troops to serve in World War I.

Lee's final stand was at Appomattox Court House, where he launched an attack to break through the Union force to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of cavalry.