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I'm searching "La Cronica d'Italia" written by Pietro Boccalini d'Orta (1556-1608), published 1615

Since a long time I'm on the frustrating search for this book:

"La Cronica d'Italia" written by a Pietro Boccalini d'Orta (in old texts also written as Boccalino d'Orta, the book is there refered as "Historia d'Italia" or, what may be wrong, Boccalmo d'Orta).

The only thing I know is that Pietro Boccalini was born in 1556 in Treviso and died in 1608, the book was published posthumus in 1615.

Is there any version online?

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2024/01/30
21:54 UTC

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Caterina Sforza

any tips for finding Caterina Sforza’s manuscripts? or primary sources surrounding her? specifically ones that are translated/ have some sort of explanation?

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2024/01/20
20:26 UTC

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What were leasure activities in 1930s and 1940s in Northern Italy?

I would like to know how children, young adults and elderly would spend their days please.

Thanks!

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2024/01/08
02:28 UTC

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The Sforza's effect

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2023/12/30
00:22 UTC

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I am confused on how Italian dog tags work

From what I have seen, Italian dog tags have only one tag, so how did they not care like others with a sister link or one tag that breaks in two to be able to identify a body later on. Weren’t italian soldiers unidentifiable if there dog tag had been taken from there body after a battle.

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2023/12/29
18:52 UTC

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Question about the 20s or 30s. Did the Italian government or any Italian schools ever offered any scholarships for Chinese students to move to Italy to study during that period?

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2023/12/28
14:41 UTC

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What's the difference between the Law of Gaurantees and the Lateran Treaty?

Simple, straightforward question. As my friend and I have been discussing the Papacy and the Italian State an argument has arisen about the two. She believes that the Catholic Church was strong armed into the Lateran Treaty by the Facists and I contend that the Vatican just refused to have relations with a democratically elected government. To the point I have to ask, what is the same and what's different about the two works. To me they seem almost identical with a little difference in the money and the amount of land.

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2023/12/14
23:27 UTC

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Who are the best authors and books about Italian nationalism?

I have my bachelor's thesis on Italian nationalism and I wanted to know what are the best books on this subject. Books in English and Italian. Thanks.

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2023/11/26
09:06 UTC

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Italian States in 1750

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2023/11/12
14:29 UTC

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Cronologia delle sigle informative/News Intro Evolution: Telegiornale Uno (do/since 1952) [coffemansky , 2023]

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2023/11/10
02:09 UTC

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How high was the quality of the work of the Italian Mitrokhin Commission?

Hi all. While studying Mitrokhin's archive, I came across an event - 20 years ago an investigation took place in Italy, which did not confirm a single case of the recruitment of Italian politicians by the KGB. Tell me, how high-quality was that investigation? Could the investigators have missed anything?

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2023/11/07
14:47 UTC

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Cronologia delle sigle informative/News Intro Evolution: Telegiornale Tre (do/since 1979) [coffemansky, 2023]

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2023/11/06
03:18 UTC

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Map of Italy at the time of Dante (around 1300) vs at the time of the European discovery of America (1492)

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2023/10/24
20:53 UTC

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Lorenzo or Cosimo?

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2023/10/19
09:44 UTC

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Bernardino de' Medici, where is he in the family?

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2023/10/17
22:42 UTC

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Most powerful Italian Renaissance families?

I know of most of the families with power like the Medici, Sforza's, Della Rovere's, the d'Este and other, but I would just like to know what people think are the big ones and even the smaller ones as this is one of the kinds of history I like. Thanks,

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2023/10/17
22:41 UTC

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Help for a potential novel (high and low middle ages)

Hello everybody. I am an Italian that writes for his own enjoyment. I have a quick historical question, with a premise.

Apparently, when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula he just randomly picked a creepy historical figure of Wallachia to turn him into a vampire, without even much knowledge on the historical figure If I was to do something similar with an Italian nobleman, which ones are possible. I would like it not from the Renaissance, if possible actually from the Longobards. I remember Bernabò Visconti from classes in uni.

Thanks in advance for the help!!!

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2023/10/04
17:09 UTC

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The Communist Party and the Partito d'Azione/Party of Action

What was the relation between the two in practice? How did they interact ideologically? Where can I learn more about this? I’ve read Martin‘s biography of Gobetti but I would like to learn more about the ideas of the people who actually led the party.

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2023/09/30
02:06 UTC

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Research on Italian fascism and Sport

I'm writing a paper for University comparing the view on sports between the fascist leaders in Portugal and Italy and I wanted to do it by using what the press published about it (with the censorship and all) from 1933 and 1945, more or less. I wanted to study La Gazzetta dello sport, but I don't understand Italian and haven't found digital archives from that period. If you're reading this and you're Italian, could you help me please?

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2023/09/20
15:01 UTC

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Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid 20 Massalia in 1852, at the Naples Observatory, and the next night by Jean Chacornac at Marseilles. The asteroid was named after the French city, as Charconac's discovery was first announced.

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2023/09/19
05:21 UTC

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Around 560 residents of the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany, Italy are massacred by Waffen SS troops, during the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement, with the assistance of Brigate Nere, the Italian black shirts.

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2023/08/12
06:09 UTC

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Around 560 residents of the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany, Italy are massacred by Waffen SS troops, during the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement, with the assistance of Brigate Nere, the Italian black shirts.

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2023/08/12
06:04 UTC

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2 Italian Mafioso's in 1977

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2023/08/11
01:27 UTC

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Milan's iconic opera house La Scala is inaugurated in 1778, with a premier of Salieri's Europa riconosciuta. Many of Italy's most famous opera artists, and some of the finest singers have performed here.

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2023/08/03
06:43 UTC

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85 killed and over 200 injured in a bomb explosion at Bologna Central Railway station, Italy in 1980, by Armed Revolutionary Nuclei( NAR), a neo-fascist terror organization, against the Govt's crackdown.

The attack at Bologna station was one of the worst during what was called the Years of Lead in Italy, when both Radical Leftwing and Neo-Fascist organizations carried out a series of terror attacks, bombings, kidnappings, assasinations from late 1960's to early 1980s.

https://preview.redd.it/dne07obmpnfb1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=036bed374debbb9925e7753ed3a1fe01fd9450cc

https://preview.redd.it/6xhgwiompnfb1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=58048808f823011b449fb782c7213cbad47d1999

https://preview.redd.it/5b9fru1npnfb1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=34244674b7d2e27e4445aeb0122da8526eaef322

https://preview.redd.it/v26usicnpnfb1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=4669f336436fc60332188d2d5c4e2158c9cefb58

Incidentally the clock at the Bologna Station has it's time fixed at 10:25 permanently as a reminder of the deadly attack, which happened at this time. Also a plaque at the station, lists all those who died.

https://preview.redd.it/8anoksfqpnfb1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=11eb8aa9fb957adbcb6cdf3b1fc16d1fd4b638ef

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2023/08/02
08:22 UTC

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Hannibal routs the much larger Roman Army at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, regarded as one of the greatest tactical victories in military history, and one of the worst defeats ever for the Romans. He had earlier defeated them at Trebia and Lake Trasimene.

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2023/08/02
06:18 UTC

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