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• Inertia
  ...totle]] which provided the standard account of [[motion]] until the [[17th century]]. Aristotle, and his [[peripatetic]] followers, held that a body was only In the [[6th century]], [[Joannes Philoponus]] first criticised Aristotle's notion and proposed
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• History
  ...[[Samnites]], [[Umbrians]] and other) competing with [[Rome]] in the first century B.C. By the time of [[Roman Emperor|emperor]] [[Augustus]] approximately, t [[Image:Iron Age Italy.png|thumb|220px|Languages in Iron Age Italy, 6th century BC.]]
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• Palermo
  Palermo was founded in the 8th century BC by [[Phoenicia]]n tradesmen around a natural harbour on the north-wester In the [[9th century]], Sicily was divided into two prefectures by the Byzantines. The two prefe
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• L'Aquila
  ...signs of the importance L'Aquila had reached by the turn of the 14th-15th century: Jewish families came to live in the city; the generals of the [[Franciscan This period ended in the 16th century, when [[Spain|Spanish]] viceroy [[Philibert van Oranje]] destroyed L'Aquila
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• Bologna
  ...the ancient and renowned [[University of Bologna]], founded in the [[11th century]]. In the [[4th century BC]] the city was conquered by the Boii, a Gallic tribe, whence the ancient
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• Venice
  ...nvasion of northern Italy by the [[Lombards]] in [[568]]. In the mid-[[8th century]], the Venetians resisted the empire-building efforts of [[Peppin III|Pepin In the [[12th century]] the essentials for the power of Venice were laid: the [[Venetian Arsenal
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• Brescia
  ...nomani (Cisalpine Gaul)|Cenomani]], allies of the [[Insubres]], in the 4th century BC, it became their capital. The city became Roman in 225 BC, when the Ceno ...d the latter two times at [[Pontoglio]], and then at the Grumore (mid-12th century) and in the battle of the Malamorte(Bad Death) (1192).
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• Bozen-Bolzano
  ...1184, probably on the foundations of a Roman villa and rebuilt in the 14th Century by architects Martin and Peter Schiche (completed 1382),
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• Verona
  ...quarters. Most of the important Roman remains in Verona date from the 1st century BC, including the [[Amphitheatre]], Theatre, arches, gates and bridges. Ver ...fallen in disuse and had been built upon to provide housing. In the [[18th century]] Andrea Monga, a wealthy Veronese, bought all the houses that in time had
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• Bozen
  ...1184, probably on the foundations of a Roman villa and rebuilt in the 14th Century by architects Martin and Peter Schiche (completed 1382),
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• Southern Italy
  ...ar Italy]] (Sicily and Sardegna). The term first came into use in the 18th century and is an Italian rendition of ''meridies'' (Latin for 'south', because of ...r of the [[6th century]]. [[Amalfi]], an independent republic from the 7th century until 1075, and to a lesser extent [[Gaeta]], [[Molfetta]], and [[Trani]],
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• Prague
  ...(Nové město) - the district adjacent to Old Town, established in the 14th century ...thedrals and countless church spires all in the shadow of her majestic 9th century castle that looks eastward as the sun sets behind her. Prague is also a mo
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• Medieval cuisine
  ...eshing]] ''siligo'', a type of [[wheat]]. ''[[Tacuinum Sanitatis]]'', 15th century.]] ...Ages]], a period roughly dating from the [[5th century|5th]] to the [[16th century]]. During this period, [[diet (nutrition)|diets]] and cooking changed acros
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• Ferrari 488
  ...the 4 races that made up the round, Montermini finished 5th in race 1 and 14th in race 3 while Simonsen finished 2nd in race 2 and 6th in the fourth and f ...r. It was designed by [[Flavio Manzoni]] and was built to celebrate half a century of Ferrari's presence in [[Japan]].
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• Cuisine of Italy
  ...ral parts of the cuisine but were not introduced in scale until the [[18th century]]. ...til the 19th century, the cuisine can claim roots going back as far as 4th century BC. Through various influences throughout the centuries, including neighbor
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• Italian language
  ...om 960-963. Italian was first formalized in the first years of the [[14th century]] through the works of [[Dante Alighieri]], who mixed southern Italian lang ...e Vulgari Eloquentia]]'' and a renewed interest in linguistics in the 16th century sparked a debate which raged throughout Italy concerning which criteria sho
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• Italian literature
  ...|350px|A depiction of Boetius teaching his students (1385). Boetius, a 6th century Christian philosopher, helped keep alive the classic tradition in post-Roma ...rature|Provençal poems]], such as the Marchese [[Alberto Malaspina]] (12th century), Maestro [[Ferrari Ferrara]], [[Cigala of Genoa]], [[Zorzi of Venice]], [[
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• Italian Literature
  ...|350px|A depiction of Boetius teaching his students (1385). Boetius, a 6th century Christian philosopher, helped keep alive the classic tradition in post-Roma ...rature|Provençal poems]], such as the Marchese [[Alberto Malaspina]] (12th century), Maestro [[Ferrari Ferrara]], [[Cigala of Genoa]], [[Zorzi of Venice]], [[
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• Mario Andretti
  ...nonymous with speed, similar to [[Barney Oldfield]] in the early twentieth century and [[Stirling Moss]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. |Awards || named the "Driver of the Century" by the [[Associated Press]] and RACER magazine
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• Le Mans 24 hours races
  ...The car started the race with mechanical problems, which sent it down to a 14th place in the race. But Pescarolo drove the car to the second place under th ===1999 The Race of the Century===
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