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Sack Of Rome (other)
Sack of Rome may refer to: Historical events *Sack of Rome (390 BC) following the Battle of the Allia, by Brennus, king of the Senone Gauls *Sack of Rome (410), by the Visigoths under Alaric I *Sack of Rome (455), by the Vandals under Gaiseric * Siege of Rome (472), by the Western Roman general Ricimer * Sack of Rome (546), by the Ostrogoths under King Totila * Siege of Rome (549–550), also by Totila * Sack of Rome (846), by the Arabs * Sack of Rome (1084), by the adventurer Robert Guiscard's Normans *Sack of Rome (1527), by mercenary troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Other uses * ''The Sack of Rome'', a 1920 Italian film depicting the 1527 event *''The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi'', a book by Alexander Stille *, an essay by Andre Chastel *"Sack of Rome", a chess tournament victory by Sofia Polgar See also * Battle for Rome (other) * Battle of Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sack Of Rome (390 BC)
The First sack of Rome was the consequence of the victory of the Senones, Senone Gauls led by Brennus (4th century BC), Brennus over the Roman troops during the Battle of the Allia, a military success allowing them to invest the city and demand the payment of a heavy ransom from the defeated Romans, but they were soon driven out from the city. The Sack of Rome has multiple accounts, including Polybius (II, 18, 2), Livy (V, 35–55), Diodorus Siculus (XIV, 113–117), Plutarch (''Camillus'', 15–32) and Strabo (V, 2–3). The accounts of the Battle of the Allia and the Sack of Rome were written centuries after the events, and their reliability is disputed by modern historians, who have shown that parts of the narrative are based on mythology, and others on transfers from Greek history. Another uncertain information is the date of the start of the Siege: the historian Tacitus suggests July 18 of 390 BC (according to the Marcus Terentius Varro, Varronian calendar), while modern sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sack Of Rome (film)
''The Sack of Rome'' () is a 1920 Italian silent film, silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and Giulio Aristide Sartorio.Moliterno p.158 The film portrays the 1527 Sack of Rome (1527), Sack of Rome. Cast * Beppo Corradi * Tullio Ferri * Irma Julians * Ida Magrini * Giuseppe Majone Diaz * Silvia Malinverni * Haydee Mercatali * Livio Pavanelli * Carlo Simoneschi * Raimondo Van Riel References Sources * Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1920 films Films set in the 1520s Italian silent feature films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Enrico Guazzoni 1920s historical drama films Films set in Rome Italian black-and-white films 1920 drama films Silent Italian historical drama films 1920s Italian films Sacks of Rome Italian-language historical drama films {{historic-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capture Of Rome
The Capture of Rome () occurred on 20 September 1870, as forces of the Kingdom of Italy took control of the city and of the Papal States. After a plebiscite held on 2 October 1870, Rome was officially made capital of Italy on 3 February 1871, completing the unification of Italy (''Risorgimento''). The capture of Rome by the Royal Italian Army brought an end to the Papal States, which had existed since the Donation of Pepin in 756, along with the temporal power of the Holy See, and led to the establishment of Rome as the capital of unified Italy. It is widely commemorated in Italy, especially in cathedral cities, by naming streets for the date: ''Via XX Settembre'' (spoken form: "Via Venti Settembre"). Background In 1859, during the Second Italian War of Independence, much of the Papal States had been conquered by the Kingdom of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel II. The next year, Giuseppe Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand resulted in the annexation of the Kingdom of the Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Rome (other)
Battle of Rome may refer to: * Battle of Rome, a 537 battle during the Siege of Rome * Arab raid against Rome (846) * Capture of Rome, an 1870 battle with the Kingdom of Sardinia * German occupation of Rome, a battle in September 1943 between German and Italian forces after the Italian Armistice of Cassibile with the Allies. * Liberation of Rome or the Battle of Rome, a 1944 battle during WWII ** Battle of Monte Cassino or Battle of Rome See also * Battle for Rome (other) * Battle of Rome Cross Roads, an 1864 battle of the American Civil War in Gordon County, Georgia * Fall of Rome (other) * List of Roman battles * List of Roman civil wars and revolts This list of Roman civil wars and revolts includes civil wars and organized civil disorder, revolts, and rebellions in ancient Rome (Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, and Roman Empire) until the fall of the Western Roman Empire (753 BC – AD 476). ... * Sack of Rome (other) * Siege of Rome (disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle For Rome (other)
Battle for Rome may refer to: * The title under which the series '' Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire'' was transmitted on the Discovery Channel * One of the alternative names for what is now more commonly referred to as the Battle of Monte Cassino See also * Capture of Rome The Capture of Rome () occurred on 20 September 1870, as forces of the Kingdom of Italy took control of the city and of the Papal States. After a plebiscite held on 2 October 1870, Rome was officially made capital of Italy on 3 February 1871, c ... (1870) by the Kingdom of Sardinia * Battle of Rome (other) * Siege of Rome (other) * Sack of Rome (other) * Fall of Rome (other) * Battle (other) * Rome (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Polgar
Sofia Polgar (, , ; born November 2, 1974) is a Hungarian and Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). A former chess prodigy, she is the middle sister of two Grandmasters, Susan and Judit. She has played for Hungary in four Chess Olympiads, winning two team gold medals, one team silver, three individual golds, and one individual bronze. Biography Polgar was born into a Jewish family in Budapest. She and her two sisters were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in specialist subjects from a very early age—László's thesis being that "geniuses are made, not born". He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject. They also taught their daughters the international language Esperanto. In the 1986 World under-14 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Stille
Alexander Stille (born January 1, 1957, in New York City) is an American author and journalist. Early life and education He is the son of Elizabeth and Michael U. Stille. Michael was a Russian-born journalist who was the longtime American correspondent for and later chief editor of Milan's Corriere della Sera newspaper. Alexander graduated from Yale and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Career Works Stille has written several books and numerous articles about Italy's history, culture, and politics, and the legacy of the Mafia. His writing has appeared in publications including the ''New York Times'', ''La Repubblica'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Review of Books'', '' The New York Times Magazine'', the '' Atlantic Monthly'', ''The New Republic'', '' The Correspondent'', '' U.S. News & World Report'', ''The Boston Globe'', and the '' Toronto Globe and Mail''. Stille's first book, ''Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sack Of Rome (1527)
The Sack of Rome, then part of the Papal States, followed the capture of Rome on 6 May 1527 by the mutiny, mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, during the War of the League of Cognac. Charles V only intended to threaten military action to make Pope Clement VII come to his terms. However, most of the Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire), Imperial army (14,000 Germans, including Lutherans, 6,000 Spaniards and some Italians, Italians) were largely unpaid. Despite being ordered not to storm Rome, they broke into the scarcely defended city and began looting, killing, and holding citizens for ransom without any restraint. Clement VII took refuge in Castel Sant'Angelo after the Swiss Guard were annihilated in a delaying rear guard action; he remained there until a ransom was paid to the pillagers. Benvenuto Cellini, eyewitness to the events, described the sack in his works. It was not until February 1528 that the spread of a plague and the approach of the League forces unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sack Of Rome (410)
The sack of Rome on 24 August 410 AD was undertaken by the Visigoths led by their king, Alaric. At that time, Rome was no longer the administrative capital of the Western Roman Empire, having been replaced in that position first by Mediolanum (now Milan) in 286 and then by Ravenna in 402. Nevertheless, the city of Rome retained a paramount position as "the eternal city" and a spiritual center of the Empire. This was the first time in almost 800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign enemy, and the sack was a major shock to contemporaries, friends and foes of the Empire alike. The sacking of 410 is seen as a major landmark in the fall of the Western Roman Empire. St. Jerome, living in Bethlehem, wrote: "the city which had taken the whole world was itself taken".St Jerome, ''Letter CXXVII. To Principia'', s:Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VI/The Letters of St. Jerome/Letter 127 paragraph 12. Background The Germanic tribes had undergone massive technolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sack Of Rome (1084)
The sack of Rome of May 1084 was a Norman sack, the result of the pope's call for aid from the duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard. Pope Gregory VII was besieged in the Castel Sant'Angelo by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV in June 1083. He held out and called for aid from Guiscard, who was then fighting the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans. He returned, however, to the Italian Peninsula and marched north with 36,000 men. He entered Rome and forced Henry to retreat, but a riot of the citizens led to a three days sack, after which Guiscard escorted the pope to the Lateran. The Normans had mainly pillaged the old city, which was then one of the richest cities in Italy. After days of unending violence, the Romans rose up and caused the Normans to set fire to the city. Many of the buildings of Rome were gutted on the Capitoline and Palatine hills along with the area between the Colosseum and the Lateran. In the end the ravaged Roman populace succumbed to the Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sack Of Rome (846)
The Arab raid against Rome took place in 846. Arab raiders plundered the outskirts of the city of Rome, sacking the basilicas of Old St Peter's and St Paul's-Outside-the-Walls, but were prevented from entering the city itself by the Aurelian Walls. Background In the 820s, the Aghlabids of Ifriqiya (known by medieval Italians as the Saracens) began their conquest of Sicily. In 842, Arab forces under the rule of Muhammad Abul Abbas took Messina, Sicily. Around the same time Radelchis and Siconulf, rivals engaged in civil war over the Principality of Benevento, hired Arab mercenaries. There is disagreement among the chroniclers over the origins of the raiders who attacked Rome, although most sources describe them as Saracens. According to the ''Liber Pontificalis'' and the '' Chronicle of Monte Cassino'', the raiders were Saracens from Africa who raided Corsica before attacking Rome. The ''Annals of Fulda'', on the other hand, describe the raiders as Moors (), which generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
