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Pietro Nosadini
Pietro Antonio Maria Umberto Nosadini (Bassano del Grappa, August 15, 1862 – Padua, March 25, 1921) was an Italian Catholic Church, Catholic priest and journalist. He played a notable role in several parishes in Italy as a militant supporter of ultramontanism, founding many organizations. He spent a season in Brazil, in the early days of Italian Brazilians, Italian immigration in Rio Grande do Sul, and is remembered for his short and tumultuous but remarkable period in Caxias do Sul, where he exercised a strong leadership in the Catholic community in one of the most troubled periods of the city's history, and for his pioneering work in the field of regional press. His role in the process of socio-political emancipation of the Italian Settler, settlers has also been noted, contributing, through the common bond of religion, to the union of dispersed and culturally conflicting groups, and to the creation of a collective identity where the settler was portrayed as a tireless, orderl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padua
Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 207,694 as of 2025. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000. Besides the Bacchiglione, the Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain. To the city's south west lies the Euganean Hills, Euganaean Hills, which feature in poems by Lucan, Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Padua has two UNESCO World Heritage List entries: its Botanical Garden of Padua, Botanical Garden, which is the world's oldest, and its 14th-century frescoes, situated in Padua's fourteenth-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
