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Volpeglino
Volpeglino is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. Volpeglino borders the following municipalities: Berzano di Tortona, Casalnoceto, Castellar Guidobono, Monleale, Viguzzolo, and Volpedo. History Was an ancient monastic cell owned by the Bobbio Abbey, already in the list of courts of the Bobbio monastery at the time of Charlemagne and Abbot Wala, with the toponyms of ''Vulpiclinum'', ''Vulpiclinus'', ''Vulpiclini'' or ''Vulpidino'' between 834 and 836, derived from the Latin ''vulpicula'', place of foxes. The cell is included in the monastic court of Casasco. A fief of the Guidobono family in the 12th century, it entered the Tortonese orbit. A free commune in 1245, it came under the Visconti Visconti is a surname which may refer to: Italian noble families * Visconti of Milan, ruled Milan from 1277 to 1447 ** Visconti di Modrone, collateral branch of the Viscon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volpedo
Volpedo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. Volpedo borders the following municipalities: Casalnoceto, Godiasco, Monleale, Montemarzino, Pozzol Groppo, and Volpeglino. Painter Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo was born in this village. History A burial slab, now enclosed in the parish church's walls, shows the Roman presence in the area in the 1st century BC, although the area was perhaps already inhabited by the Ligures. In the 10th century it is documented as ''Vicus Piculus'' (from latin ''vicus'': "Small village") and received a Romanesque pieve and a '' castrum'', a fortified village whose walls, rebuilt in the 16th century, are still visible today. In the 12th century it was known as ''Vicus pecudis'', and was connected to the comune of Tortona, sending relief troops to that city during the siege laid by Frederick Barbarossa in 1155. In 1347 Tortona was ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viguzzolo
Viguzzolo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,964 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. Viguzzolo borders the following municipalities: Berzano di Tortona, Casalnoceto, Castellar Guidobono, Pontecurone, Sarezzano, Tortona, and Volpeglino. History Already mentioned in ninth-century documents, it was a free commune and in 1278 obtained Tortona citizenship. Together with Tortona, it became part of the Visconti possessions. With the arrival of the Sforza family, it was forced into public submission, under threat of destruction. It was granted as a fief to the Fogliani family of Piacenza in 1468, and remained in the hands of this family even after it passed to the Savoys. Main sights * The parish church of Assunta is an extension (1598-1603) of the oratory of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berzano Di Tortona
Berzano di Tortona is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria, on the watershed between the Grue and Curone valleys. Berzano di Tortona borders the following municipalities: Monleale, Sarezzano, Viguzzolo, and Volpeglino. History Territory of the municipality of Tortona, it followed its destiny until 1818, when it became a commune. From 1928 to 1947 it was part of the municipality of Volpedo Volpedo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. Volpedo borders the following municipalities: Casalnoceto, Godiasco, Monleale, Mon .... References Cities and towns in Piedmont {{Alessandria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casalnoceto
Casalnoceto is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. Casalnoceto borders the following municipalities: Castellar Guidobono, Godiasco, Pontecurone, Rivanazzano Terme, Viguzzolo, Volpedo, and Volpeglino. History The ancient Nocetum was located along an ancient road, in the current location of Casale vecchio, and its origins date back to Roman times. Documents between 8th and 13th century mention both Casale and Nocetum as two different locations. Nocetum in 972 is confirmed to the Abbey of Saint Colombanus di Bobbio by Emperor Otto I, who in the same year in a donation to the monastery of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia mentioned Casale. In the 14th century the country is involved in the struggles between the Guelphs, on whose side is sided by the nearby Tortona, and Ghibellines, for which it partisan. In 1373 it was completely destroyed by the troops of Giov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castellar Guidobono
Castellar Guidobono is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. Castellar Guidobono borders the following municipalities: Casalnoceto, Viguzzolo, and Volpeglino Volpeglino is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. Volpeglino borders the following municipalities: Berzano di Tortona, Casalnoceto .... History Linked to the municipality of Tortona, whose destiny it followed, it was a fief of the Guidobono Cavalchini family of Monleale, from which it derives its name. References Cities and towns in Piedmont {{Alessandria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monleale
Monleale is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. Monleale borders the following municipalities: Berzano di Tortona, Montegioco, Montemarzino, Sarezzano, Volpedo, and Volpeglino. History Mentioned in documents of 1172, when some nobles of Volpedo obtained it as a feud from the bishop of Tortona Oberto and from the Tortona consuls. From 1412 it was enfeoffed to Perino Cameri and maintained by his descendants until 1727, who were succeeded by the Calcamuggi family of Alessandria. Always a rival of the nearby Volpedo, in 1513 the Ghibelline Monleale attacked and destroyed the Guelph village on the other side of the river. Main sights * At the top of the hill stands the ancient oratory of the Beata Vergine del Gonfalone. It was built at the beginning of the 18th century and finished in 1742 by order of Count Pietro Guidobone. In this oratory the confraternity of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobbio Abbey
Bobbio Abbey (Italian: ''Abbazia di San Colombano'') is a monastery founded by Irish Saint Columbanus in 614, around which later grew up the town of Bobbio, in the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is dedicated to Saint Columbanus. It was famous as a centre of resistance to Arianism and as one of the greatest libraries in the Middle Ages. The abbey was dissolved under the French administration in 1803, although many of the buildings remain in other uses. History Foundation The background to the foundation of the abbey was the Lombard invasion of Italy in 568. The Lombard king Agilulf married the devout Roman Catholic Theodelinda in 590 and under her influence and that of the Irish missionary Columbanus, he was persuaded to accept conversion to Christianity. As a base for the conversion of the Lombard people Agilulf gave Columbanus a ruined church and wasted lands known as Ebovium, which, before the Lombards seized them, had formed part of the lands of the papacy. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tortona
Tortona (; pms, Torton-a , ; lat, Dhertona) is a ''comune'' of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy. Tortona is sited on the right bank of the Scrivia between the plain of Marengo and the foothills of the Ligurian Apennines. History Known in ancient times as Dertona, the city was probably the oldest colony under Roman rule in the westernmost section of the Valley of the Po, on the road leading from Genua (Genoa) to Placentia (Piacenza). The city was founded c. 123–118 BC at the junction of the great roads; the Via Postumia and the Via Aemilia Scauri which merged to become the Via Julia Augusta. The site made Dertona an important military station under the Romans. Strabo speaks of it as one of the most considerable towns in this part of Italy, and from Pliny wrote that it was a Roman colony. Velleius mentions it among those founded under the Republic, it appears to have been recolonised under Augustus, from whence we find it bearing in inscripti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casasco
Casasco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about southeast of Alessandria. Casasco borders the following municipalities: Avolasca, Brignano-Frascata, Garbagna, Momperone, and Montemarzino Montemarzino is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about east of Alessandria. Montemarzino borders the following municipalities: Avolasca, Casasco, Momp .... References Cities and towns in Piedmont {{Alessandria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wala Of Corbie
Wala (c. 755 – 31 August 836) was a son of Bernard, son of Charles Martel, and one of the principal advisers of his cousin Charlemagne, of Charlemagne's son Louis the Pious, and of Louis's son Lothair I. He succeeded his brother Adalard as abbot of Corbie and its new daughter foundation, Corvey, in 826 or 827. Originally a count (''comes'') attached to the palace under Charlemagne (811), Wala was forced to enter the monastery of Corbie in 814 as part of a purging of palace rivals and hangers-on by Louis the Pious. In 816 he and Adalard were given the responsibility of organising the government of the convent of Herford, recently passed into Louis's hands at the Council of Aachen. In the 820s Wala became a strong opponent of royal/imperial control of church benefices. He was back at court in 822 as a ''concillor'' (councillor). According to Paschasius Radbertus, Wala alleged on one occasion that the "army of clerics" (i.e. chaplains) resident at the Palace of Aachen (and perhaps i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlemagne
Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Emperor of the Romans from 800. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of western and central Europe and was the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire around three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded was the Carolingian Empire. He was canonized by Antipope Paschal III—an act later treated as invalid—and he is now regarded by some as beatified (which is a step on the path to sainthood) in the Catholic Church. Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. He was born before their canonical marriage. He became king of the Franks in 768 following his father's death, and was initially co-ruler with his brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
