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Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.
Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona in Cisalpine Gaul, and according to St. Jerome, he was born in the town.
The " flying donkeys " nickname was originally a derogatory term from a match chant sung by fans from crosstown rivals Hellas Verona, which said that " donkeys would fly before Chievo made it to Serie A ".
When it was added in 1597, it was put on the day of her death, April 29, as now, but because of a conflict with the feast of Saint Peter of Verona, which was also on April 29, it was moved in 1628 to the new date of April 30.
In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, it was decided to leave the celebration of the feast of St Peter of Verona to local calendars, because he was not as well known worldwide, and Saint Catherine's feast was restored to its traditional date of April 29.
After this he returned to Bologna, but an invitation from Prince Metternich to come to Verona and " assist in the general re-establishment of harmony " was too tempting to refuse, and he arrived at the Congress in time for its opening on October 20, 1822.
It is also suggested that the invasion was finally checked by Gallienus near Verona and he directed the restoration of the province, probably in person.
The liberal government, which reminded European statesmen entirely too much of the governments of the French Revolution, was viewed with hostility by the Congress of Verona in 1822, and France was authorized to intervene.
At a time in which football was played seriously only in the larger cities of the Northwest of Italy, most of Verona was indifferent to the growing sport.
In 1991 the team folded and was reborn as Verona FC, regularly moving to and fro between Serie A and Serie B for several seasons.
In 1995 the name was officially changed back to Hellas Verona FC.
However, Verona was immediately involved in the relegation battle, and Massimo Ficcadenti was replaced in December 2006 by Giampiero Ventura.
A 2 – 1 away loss in the first leg at La Spezia was followed by a 0 – 0 home tie, and Verona were relegated to Serie C1 after 64 years of play in the two highest divisions.
Alboin was murdered in 572 in Verona by a plot led by his wife, Rosamund, who later fled to Ravenna.
But when Pope Hadrian I called for help from the powerful king Charlemagne, Desiderius was defeated at Susa and besieged in Pavia, while his son Adelchis had also to open the gates of Verona to Frankish troops.
When the early humanist Benzo d ' Alessandria visited Verona before 1310, he noted the " Laberinthum which is now called the Arena "; perhaps he was seeing the cubiculi beneath the arena's missing floor.
Henry III was enraged by Beatrice's unauthorised marriage to his enemy and he descended into Italy in the early spring of 1055, arriving at Verona in April and then Mantua by Easter.

Verona and then
In 1732, to avoid an unwanted marriage, he left the town for Milan and then for Verona where the theatre manager Giuseppe Imer helped him on his way to becoming a comical poet as well as introducing him to his future wife, Nicoletta Conio.
While Henry in the south cooperated with the rebel Senate of Rome, Frederick I in the north blocked the passes of the Alps and cut off all communication between the Pope, then living in Verona, and his German adherents.
On December 17, 1981, four members of the Red Brigades, posing as plumbers, invaded the Verona apartment of US Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier, then NATO Deputy Chief of Staff at Southern European land forces.
He then held an Reichstag at Verona on Pentecost, 983.
Pawned to the Rossi of Parma, by them it was ceded to Martino della Scala of Verona, sold to the Florentines, surrendered to the Pisans, and then nominally liberated by the emperor Charles IV and governed by his vicar.
Charles lived in Edinburgh and London with his mistress Louise de Polastron His older brother, dubbed Louis XVIII after the death of his nephew in June 1795, relocated to Verona and then to Jelgava Palace, Mitau, where Charles's son, Louis Antoine, married Louis XVI's only surviving child, Marie Thérèse on 10 June 1799.
The duchy then comprised a vast territory including the marches of Styria ( marchia Carantana ), Carniola and Istria as well as the March of Verona in the former Kingdom of Italy.
What was then known as Horseneck contained most of the present day northern Essex County towns: Verona, along with Caldwell, West Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell, and Roseland are all located entirely in Horseneck, and parts of what are today Livingston, Montclair, and West Orange also were contained in the Horseneck Tract.
What was then known as Horseneck contained most of the present day northern Essex County towns: West Caldwell, along with Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell, Roseland, and Verona are all located entirely in Horseneck, and parts of what are today Livingston, Montclair, and West Orange also were contained in the Horseneck tract.
He and Mr Wolfe then over the following months studied the architecture of Florence where the Palazzo Strozzi greatly impressed him, Vicenza, Venice and Verona together.
He decided to take holy orders, in the expectation that he would become cardinal, and then pope, when he would wrest from the Venetians his duchy of Verona, of which the republic had despoiled his ancestors.
With the conquest of the Vaecame Roman ( about 300 BC ) Verona became a Roman colonia in 89 BC, and then a municipium in 49 BC ; Verona had the franchise in 59.
Guglielmo ( 1404 ), natural son of Cangrande II, was more fortunate ; with the support of the people, he drove out the Milanese, but he died ten days after, and Verona then submitted to Venice ( 1405 ).
In 2008, ABC News decided to do another experiment, with same-sex couples sitting on park benches in Verona, New Jersey, and then in Birmingham, Alabama.
The mission visited Italy ( Arnold of Torroja died at Verona ), then France and England.
Guglielmo ( 1404 ), natural son of Cangrande II, was more fortunate ; with the support of the people, he drove out the Milanese, but he died ten days after, and Verona then submitted to Venice ( 1405 ).
In the 1st century BC the area around Lake Garda, including what is now Desenzano del Garda, became a favourite resort for rich families from Verona, then the main Roman city in north-eastern Italy.
In 1245 the terms were arranged, but the willful young girl, then in her late teens, refused to appear in the consummation ceremony at the diet of Verona.
She then receives a letter informing her about Myrtano ’ s engagement to another woman, so she leaves for Verona, hoping to enter a convent.
He was born in Verona, lived in Rome in 1582 in the service of Cardinal Filippo Boncompagni, and then in the next year traveled throughout Calabria, probably looking for a job as an organist.
Starting from the 1st century BCE, the area of the Garda, including what is now Sirmione, became a favourite resort for rich families coming from Verona, then the main Roman city in north-eastern Italy.
Evidence for the creation of the other four 4th century provinces primarily comes from the Verona List which dates to the early part of that century and a fifth province could have been created since then.

Verona and kings
He and his son Adalbert remained Italian kings as Otto's vassals, though they had to cede the territory of the former March of Friuli to him, which the German king enfeoffed to his younger brother Duke Henry I of Bavaria as the Imperial March of Verona.

Verona and Italy
After another defeat before Verona, Alaric left Italy, probably in 403.
* 1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.
A German ethnic minority have settled in the mountains between Vicenza, Verona and Trento in Italy ( also known as Seven Communities ) is also called the Cimbri (: it: Cimbri ( minoranza linguistica )).
Leading his horde across the Alps and into Northern Italy, he sacked and razed the cities of Aquileia, Vicetia, Verona, Brixia, Bergamum, and Milan.
The most popular honeymoon destinations at the time were the French Riviera and Italy, particularly its seaside resorts and romantic cities such as Rome, Verona or Venice.
In 1919, following a return to activity after a four year suspension of all football competition in Italy during World War I the team merged with city rival Verona and changed its name to Hellas Verona.
Tom Veal has noted that the early play The Two Gentlemen of Verona reveals no familiarity on the playwright's part with Italy other than " a few place names and the scarcely recondite fact that the inhabitants were Roman Catholics.
A red panda in the Parco Natura Viva, Bussolengo near Verona, Italy
* 489 – Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theodoric the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona ( Northern Italy ).
Theodoric came with his army to Italy in 488, where he won the battles of Isonzo and Verona in 489 and at the Adda in 490.
* Mestre, the mainland and Venice Mestre railways station ( convenient for connections to Milan, Padova, Trieste, Verona and the rest of Italy ) by ACTV lines ( route 15 and 45 ) and by ATVO lines ;
* June – Battle of Verona: The Visigoths under command of king Alaric I invade Italy again and advance through the Brenner Pass.
By depriving the Bavaria of the March of Verona, Otto II considerably reduced the influence of the Bavarian Dukes in northern Italy and in general Imperial policy regarding Italy.
* Emperor Carinus marched from Roman Britain to northern Italy and defeats the army under Sabinus Julianus at Verona.
A distinctive characteristic of the Pre-alps are the cave formations, including chasms and sink holes ; the Spluga della Preta, situated in the Monte Lessini chain in the province of Verona, has an explored depth of, being the deepest cave in Italy.
In 1167 an alliance ( called the Lombard League ) was formed among the Venetian cities such as Venice, Padua, Treviso, Vicenza, and Verona with other cities of Northern Italy to assert their rights against the Holy Roman Emperor.
* Ca ' di Cozzi in Verona, Italy, his last project
Trento railway station, opened in 1859, forms part of the Brenner railway ( Verona – Innsbruck ), which is the main rail connection between Italy and Germany.
He easily overran northern Italy, winning two major battles: the first near Turin, the second at Verona, where the praetorian prefect Ruricius Pompeianus, Maxentius ' most senior general, was killed.
The agreement provided for the complete dismemberment of Venice's territory in Italy and for its partition among the signatories: Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I of the Habsburg, was to receive Padua in addition to Verona and other territories.

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