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Brewer's: Italian Architecture

The Roman architecture revived in the fifteenth century, and in vogue during that and the two succeeding ones. It is divided into three schools—the Florentine, Roman, and Venetian.…

Brewer's: Italian of Asia

(The). Persian is so called. Noted for its harmony, and its adaptation to verse and the lighter class of music. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Italic…

Movies and Film: Italian Film History

Italian Film HistoryMovies and FilmItalian Film HistoryTurnin' to TurinRinging the White TelephoneA Few Good FilmsThe Past 20 Years Italy's first fiction film wasn't released until 1905. Filoteo…

Walt Whitman: Italian Music in Dakota

Italian Music in Dakota["The Seventeenth—the finest Regimental Band I ever heard."]Through the soft evening air enwinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In…

Ghat

(Encyclopedia) Ghat or GatGhatboth: gät [key], walled town, SW Libya, in an oasis in the Sahara, near the Algerian border. It formerly was an important caravan center. Ghat was captured by the…

Vittorio Veneto

(Encyclopedia) Vittorio VenetoVittorio Venetovēt-tôˈryō vānĕˈtō [key], town (1991 pop. 29,231), Venetia, NE Italy, in the Alpine foothills. It is a secondary industrial and commercial center and a…

Gharyan

(Encyclopedia) GharyanGharyangäryänˈ [key] or GarianGharyangärēănˈ [key], town, NW Libya, connected by rail and highway with nearby Tripoli. Many of the inhabitants live in a centuries-old…

blackjack

(Encyclopedia) blackjack, one of the world's most widely played gambling card games; also known as twenty-one or vingt-et-un. Despite contesting claims between the French and Italians, its origins…

Matapan, Cape

(Encyclopedia) Matapan, CapeMatapan, Capemătˈəpănˌ [key], or Cape TaínaronCape Taínarontâˈnärôn [key], S Greece, southern extremity of the Greek mainland, of the Peloponnesus, and of the Taygetus Mts…