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Trieste – northeastern Italy

February 26, 2008 | Posted in Local, Recreation and Sports, Travel

Enjoy the view over Trieste from the Saint Just Hill, overlooking the Adriatic, and the draught-board of the modern city that the Romans founded, Tergeste, where most of the ancient and medieval remains of the city are concentrated today. The Piazza della Cattedrale is a square located on Saint Just Hill, in the center of …

Italian Paper

February 24, 2008 | Posted in Academics, Announcement, Art, Industries, Reference, Resources, Science, Travel

Paper was not invented by the Italians, but by the Orientals, but its manufacture was greatly developed and improved by them and furnished an extremely important adjuvent for the art of printing. Fabriano of Anoona made excellent paper early in the fourteenth century and the extant manuscripts on Italian paper from that period excite admiration …

Some idea of Italian practical genius

We owe to Italy the first books in Greek and Hebrew types. The first complete fonts of Greek types were used in Rome in 1465 and in Venice in 1472, as quotations in Latin text. The first book in Greek was printed in Milan in 1476. Before Aldus first book in Greek (1495), thirty-four Greek …

Stradivarius and electrical instruments

As might well be expected from what they accomplished for music in other ways the inventions of Italians in musical instruments are many and various and most important. The violin in the form in which we have it comes entirely from their hands and it is besides to Italian makers that we owe the perfection …

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, a custom Italian

Italians are good at custom luxuries. At Alfa Romeo, the Italian motor car manufacturer, they play a nostalgic tune to reaffirm a sporting identity lost a long time ago. The alfists whose passion survived so many decades started to despair to see one day the 8C Competizione passing from a motor show dream to luxury …

A visit to Raphael of Urbino in Italy

In the history of Italian art, Raphael stands alone, like Shakespeare in the history of English literature. Everywhere we recognize his forms and lines, borrowed or stolen, reproduced, varied, imitated, never improved. Raphael of Urbino was born in Urbino, in 1483. Urbino is located in the Marche region of Italy, between Ravenna and Perugia. As …

Private tours in Italy are the new trend

A research undertaken by tour operator A La Carte Italy Tours studies travel patterns to Italy. That luxury tour company offers chauffeured excursions across all areas of Italy. Americans travel gladly. How does their travel behavior look? We like traveling on our continent. We are actually a well-traveled people. Americans are always gladly seen guests. …