King of the Mountains. The Remarkable Story of Giuseppe Musolino, Italys Most Famous Outlaw

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On 14 January De Gasperi resigned and on 27 January, a new government was formed without the support of the liberals. Williams syndrome WS is a genetic disorder that affects many parts of the body. His life takes place during the conspiracy plots which characterised the south of Italy from to Mignogna was arrested with Settembrini on June 23, , but was released a few months later; while Settembrini, recognised as the leader, was condemned to capital punishment, sentence later reduced to life imprisonment.

Arrested in , Mignogna was released months later as his crimes were considered unprove He was nominated six times for an Oscar. Biography Monicelli was born in Viareggio in Tuscany and was the youngest son of journalist Tommaso Monicelli. His older brother, Giorgio, worked as writer and translator. Another older brother, Franco, was a journalist.

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He attended studies in the local lyceum, and entered the film world through his friendship with Giacomo Forzano, son of playwright Giovacchino Forzano, who had been put in charge of the founding of cinema studios in Tirrenia by Benito Mussolini. Monicelli lived a carefree youth, and many of the cinematic jokes he later shot in Amici Miei My Friends were inspired by his own experience. Monicelli made his first short in , in collaboration with his friend Alberto Mondadori. He followed up this work with the silent film I ragazzi della Via Paal an adaptation of the novel T Romolo Valli,[3] Leopoldo Trieste[4] and Alessandro Haber[5] are the most awarded actors in this category, with 3 awards each.

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Thus creating a new method of writing music where the score becomes a visual composition. The relation between the sound and color creates a living feeling that art is not dead. It does not stop at the artist's last attempt at the canvas, but goes beyond to the viewer. It is the relationship between artist and viewer, one is no different from the other. Now the viewer can take the step that the artist may dare not to across. It is the point of translation a fear to most artist that want to create and let their work go. This kind of art allows the viewer to create with the artist and create so much more.

He appeared in more than films between and He abandoned his studies in economics and at age 20 moved to Rome, where he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. The following is a list of films produced in Italy during see in film: This article provides details on candidates who stood for the Australian federal election. The election was held on 9 October Redistributions and seat changes Redistributions occurred in Victoria and Queensland.

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The Romans later extended the name to cover Southern Italy and then the entire peninsula, the region is a long and narrow peninsula which stretches from north to south for km, with a maximum width of km. All three mountain ranges are unique with their own flora and fauna, the Pollino Mountains in the north of the region are rugged and form a natural barrier separating Calabria from the rest of Italy.

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Parts of the area are heavily wooded, while others are vast and these mountains are home to a rare Bosnian Pine variety, and are included in the Pollino National Park. The highest point is Botte Donato, which reaches 1, metres, the area boasts numerous lakes and dense coniferous forests. La Sila also has some of the tallest trees in Italy which are called the Giants of the Sila, the Sila National Park is also known to have the purest air in Europe. The Aspromonte massif forms the southernmost tip of the Italian peninsula bordered by the sea on three sides and this unique mountainous structure reaches its highest point at Montalto, at 1, metres, and is full of wide, man-made terraces that slope down towards the sea.

In general, most of the terrain in Calabria has been agricultural for centuries. The lowest slopes are rich in vineyards and citrus fruit orchards, the Diamante citron is one of the citrus fruits. Moving upwards, olives and chestnut trees appear while in the regions there are often dense forests of oak, pine, beech.

Calabrias climate is influenced by the sea and mountains, mountain areas have a typical mountainous climate with frequent snow during winter. Erratic behavior of the Tyrrhenian Sea can bring heavy rainfall on the slopes of the region, while hot air from Africa makes the east coast of Calabria dry.

The mountains that run along the region also influence the climate, the east coast is much warmer and has wider temperature ranges than the west coast. Gerace is located some 10 kilometres inland from Locri, yet the latter town, the town stands on a hill formed of conglomerates of sea fossils from 60 millions years ago. The name of the city derives from the Greek hierax, according to a legend, the inhabitants of the coast, fleeing from a Saracen attack in CE, were led by a sparrowhawk to the mountains commanding the area of Locri, and here they founded the city.

Archeological findings showed that the area was in fact inhabited since the Neolithic Age, later, even during the highest splendour of Locr, the hill was inhabited and was later the site of a Roman military garrison. After the Byzantine reconquest of Italy in the 6th century, the became an administrative, military.

In the Saracens briefly conquered the city, but it returned to Byzantine control until the Norman conquest in , Gerace was seat of a principality under the Normans, whose symbol was the Castle of the Hautville or Altavilla. It subsequently followed the history of the Kingdom of Naples, during the Sicilian Vespers, Gerace was occupied by the Aragonese Admiral Roger of Lauria who turned it into his own feudal estate, later it became a Royal City.

A new modern town, Gerace Marina, was built on the coast in the 19th century to new public buildings.

The name was changed to Locri in , the main attractions of Gerace are the remains of the old Norman Castle at the top of Gerace, and the perfectly preserved medieval town. It was once home to churches, the most noteworthy amongst the remaining ones include, Church of St. Francis, the Norman Cathedral, the largest religious building in Calabria, including the prison of the Five Martyrs of Gerace. It has a nave and two aisles, each divided by 13 columns coming from the ancient temples of Locri and it has also a museum, founded in Santa Maria del Mastro, of Greek rite until In addition, he claimed the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as Emperor of Ethiopia and King of the Albanians, during his long reign, which began after the assassination of his father Umberto I, the Kingdom of Italy became involved in two World Wars.

His reign also encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of Italian Fascism, Victor Emmanuel abdicated his throne in in favour of his son Umberto II, hoping to strengthen support for the monarchy against an ultimately successful referendum to abolish it. He then went in exile to Alexandria, Egypt, where he died and was buried the following year.

He was also nicknamed Sciaboletta due to his height of 1. He was the child of Umberto I, King of Italy. Margherita was the daughter of the Duke of Genoa, from birth until his accession, Victor Emmanuel was known by the title of the Prince of Naples. On 24 October , Prince Victor Emmanuel married Princess Elena of Montenegro, on 29 July , at the age of 30, Victor Emmanuel acceded to the throne upon his fathers assassination.

The only advice that his father Umberto ever gave his heir was Remember, to be a king, all you need to know is how to sign your name, read a newspaper, and mount a horse. His early years showed evidence that, by the standards of the Savoy monarchy, indeed, even though his father was killed by an anarchist, the new King showed a commitment to constitutional freedoms. Though parliamentary rule had been established in Italy, the Statuto Albertino, or constitution. For instance, he had the right to appoint the Prime Minister even if the individual in question did not command majority support in the Chamber of Deputies, when World War I began, Italy at first remained neutral, despite being part of the Triple Alliance.

However, in , Italy signed several secret treaties committing her to enter the war on the side of the Triple Entente, most of the politicians opposed war, however, and the Italian Chamber of Deputies forced Prime Minister Antonio Salandra to resign. At this juncture, Victor Emmanuel declined Salandras resignation and personally made the decision for Italy to enter the war and he was well within his rights to do so under the Statuto. Popular demonstrations in favor of the war were staged in Rome, with , gathering on 16 May and it was at this time, the period of World War I, that the King enjoyed the genuine affection of the majority of his people.

Still, during the war he received about threatening letters from people of social background. The economic depression which followed World War I gave rise to much extremism among Italys sorely tried working classes and this caused the country as a whole to become politically unstable.

Urbino — The town, nestled on a high sloping hillside, retains much of its picturesque medieval aspect, an illusion only slightly broken by the large car parks below the town. It hosts the University of Urbino, founded in , and is the seat of the Archbishop of Urbino and its best-known architectural piece is the Palazzo Ducale, rebuilt by Luciano Laurana. The city is located in a hilly area, at the foothills of the Northern Apennines. The city is in the area of Montefeltro, an area classified as medium-high seismic risk. In the database of earthquakes developed by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and they include 24 April , when the shocks were stronger than VIII on the Mercalli intensity scale, with an epicenter in Fabriano.

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Though Pepin the Short presented Urbino to the Papacy in —56, independent traditions were expressed in its commune, until, around , eventually, though, the Montefeltro noblemen took control once more, and held it until The most famous member of the Montefeltro family, Federico da Montefeltro, federicos brilliant court, according to the descriptions in Baldassare Castigliones Il Cortegiano, set standards of what would characterize a modern European gentleman for centuries to come. They moved in the court in the city of Pesaro, the state was ruled since then by a papal legate, generally belonging to high ecclesiastical hierarchy.

These works went on to form the core of the future Uffizi Gallery, among the works that went to Florence is the diptych of the Dukes of Urbino by Piero della Francesca. This was a windfall for the city and was its last great era, especially in terms of arts and culture, thanks to funding by Pope Albani and his family. In addition, due to the patronage of the Pope and of his family and this new age of splendor for the city ended with the death of Clement XI in , placing the city in a long decline that has continued to the present day.

After the Popes death, the Albani family remained the patron of the most significant works until the first half of the nineteenth century. In , the collapse of the Cathedral dome following an earthquake led to the total renovation of the church. Between and the city was occupied by French troops, like much of northern and this event was a further cause of the impoverished local artistic heritage, already tried by the loss of the works following the devolution of the duchy in the seventeenth century. Sergius, now occupied by the Hotel Raffaello. This resulted in a new layout with the large spit of land below the Doges Palace incorporated into the city.

Carabinieri — The Carabinieri is the national gendarmerie of Italy, policing both military and civilian populations. It originally was founded as the force of the Kingdom of Sardinia. During the process of Italian unification, it was appointed the First Force of the new military organization.

Since , it has one of the four Italian Armed Forces. Inspired by the French Gendarmerie, the corps was created by King Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy with the aim of providing the Kingdom of Sardinia with a police corps, previously, police duties were managed by the Dragoni di Sardegna corps, created in and composed of volunteers. The new force was divided into divisions on the scale of one division for each province, in , the Corazzieri mounted division was formed — initially as an escort of honour for the sovereign, and since for the President of the Republic.

The Italian unification saw the number of divisions increased, and on 24 January the Carabinieri were appointed the First Force of the new military organization. The role of the Carabinieri was to act as barrier troops, setting up machine gun posts to control the rear of the attacking regiments, during the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, the Carabinieri were one of the police forces entrusted with suppressing opposition in Italy.

During the same period, while part of the Italian Africa Police, during World War II they fought in their function as military police against the Allied forces, and against Yugoslav partisans as part of the Italian occupation force in Yugoslavia. After Mussolinis fall on 25 July , he was arrested by the Carabinieri as he left the private residence in Rome. In northern Italy the fascist regime organized the Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana, to employ it as a military police, GNR was later joined by the Black Brigades which should have represented a new militant incarnation of the Fascist party.

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