See also:PADUA (See also:Lat. See also:Patavium ; Ital. Padova)
, a See also:city of See also:northern See also:Italy, on the See also:river Bacchiglione, 25 M
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W. of See also:Venice and 18 m
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S.E. of See also:Vicenza, with a See also:population of 82,283
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The city is picturesque, with arcaded streets, and many See also:bridges See also:crossing the various branches of the Bacchiglione, which once surrounded the See also:ancient walls
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The Palazzo della Ragione, with its See also:great See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall on the upper See also:floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in See also:Europe; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length 2672 ft., its breadth 8g ft., and its height 78 ft.; the walls are covered with symbolical paintings in See also:fresco; the See also:building stands upon See also:arches, and the upper See also:storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the See also:basilica of
Vicenza; the Palazzo was begun in 1172 and finished in 1219; in and bloody See also:siege was stormed and burned by him
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The city did 1306 Fra Giovanni, an Augustinian See also:friar, covered the whole with not easily recover from this See also:blow, and See also:Padua was still weak when one roof; originally there were three See also:roofs, spanning the three the See also:Franks succeeded the See also:Lombards as masters of See also:north Italy. See also:chambers into which the hall was at first divided; the See also:internal I (2) At the See also:Diet of See also:Aix-la-Chapelle (828) the duchy and See also:march of See also:partition walls remained till the See also:fire of 1420, when the Venetian See also:Friuli, in which Padua See also:lay, was divided into four counties, one architects who undertook the restoration removed them, throw- of which took its See also:title from that city
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(3) During the See also:period See also:ing all three compartments into one and forming the See also:present of episcopal supremacy Padua does not appear to have been great hall
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In the Piazza dei Signori is the beautiful loggia either very important or very active
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The See also:general tendency of called the Gran Guardia, begun in 1493 and finished in 1526, ~ its policy throughout the See also:war of investitures was Imperial and and See also:close by is the Palazzo del Capitanio, the See also:residence of the not See also:Roman; and its bishops were, for the most See also:part, Germans
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Venetian See also:governors, with its great See also:door, the See also:work of Falconetto (4) But under the See also:surface two important movements were taking of See also:Verona, 1532
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The most famous of the Paduan churches See also:place
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At the beginning of the 11th See also:century the citizens estab-
is the basilica dedicated to See also:Saint See also:Anthony, commonly called I1 Santo; the bones of the saint See also:rest in a See also:chapel richly ornamented with carved See also:marbles, the work of various artists, among them of See also:Sansovino and Falconetto; the basilica was begun about the See also:year 1230 and completed in the following century; tradition says that the buildink was designed by Niccola See also:Pisano; it is covered by seven cupolas, two of them pyramidal
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On the piazza in front of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church is See also:Donatello's magnificent equestrian statue of Erasmo da See also:Narni, the Venetian general (1438-1441)
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The Eremitani is an Augustinian church of the 13th century, distinguished as containing the tombs of Jacopo (1324) and Ubertino (1345) da See also:Carrara, lords of Padua, and for the chapel of SS See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James and See also:Christopher, illustrated by See also:Mantegna's frescoes
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Close by the Eremitani is the small church of the Annunziata, known as the Madonna dell' See also:Arena, whose inner walls are entirely covered with paintings by See also:Giotto
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Padua has See also:long been famous for its university, founded by See also:Frederick II. in 1238
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Under the See also:rule of Venice the university was governed by a See also:board of three See also:patricians, called the Riformatori dello Studio di Padova
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The See also:list of professors and alumni is long and illustrious, containing, among others, the names of See also:Bembo, Sperone Speroni, Veselius, Acquapendente, Galileo, Pomponazzi, See also:Pole, See also:Scaliger, See also:Tasso and Sobieski
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The place of Padua in the See also:history of See also:art is nearly as important as its place in the history of learning
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The presence of the university attracted many distinguished artists, as Giotto, Lippo See also:Lippi and Donatello; and for native art there was the school of Squarcione (1394-1474), whence issued the great Mantegna (1431-1506)
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The See also:industry of Padua has greatly See also:developed in See also:modern times
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See also:Corn and saw See also:mills, distilleries, chemical factories, breweries, See also:candle-See also:works, See also:ink-works, foundries, agricultural See also:machine and automobile work§, have been established and are flourishing
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The See also:trade of the See also:district has grown to such an extent that Padua has become the central See also:market for the whole of See also:Venetia
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Padua claims to be the See also:oldest city in north Italy; the inhabitants pretend to a fabulous descent from the Trojan See also:Antenor, whose See also:relics they recognized in a large See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:sarcophagus exhumed in the year 1274
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Their real origin is involved in that obscurity which conceals the ethnography of the earliest settlers in the Venetian See also:plain
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Padua See also:early became a populous and thriving city, thanks to its excellent breed of horses and the See also:wool of its See also:sheep
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Its men fought for the See also:Romans at See also:Cannae, and the city became so powerful that it was reported able to raise two See also:hundred thousand fighting men
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See also:Abano in the neighbourhood was made illustrious by the See also:birth of See also:Livy, and Padua was the native place of See also:Valerius See also:Flaccus, Asconius Pedianus and Thrasea Paetus
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Padua, in See also:common with north-eastern Italy, suffered severely from the invasion of the See also:Huns under See also:Attila (452)
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It then passed under the See also:Gothic See also:kings See also:Odoacer and See also:Theodoric, but made submission to the Greeks in 540
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The city was seized again by the Goths under See also:Totila, and again restored to the Eastern See also:Empire by See also:Narses in 568
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Following the course of events common to most cities of north-eastern Italy, the history of Padua falls under eight heads: (I) the Lombard rule, (2) the Frankish rule, (3) the period of the bishops, (4) the emergence of the See also:commune, (5) the period of the despots, (6) the period of Venetian supremacy, (7) the period of See also:Austrian supremacy, and finally (8) the period of See also:united Italy
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(I) Under the Lombards the city of Padua See also:rose in revolt (6ot) against Agilulph, the Lombard See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and after suffering a longlished a constitution, composed of a general See also:council or legislative See also:assembly and a credenza or executive; and during the next century they were engaged in See also:wars with Venice and Vicenza for the right of See also:water-way on the Bacchiglione and the Brenta-so that, on the one See also:hand, the city See also:grew in See also:power and self-reliance, while, on the other, the great families of Camposampiero, D'See also:Este and Da Romano began to emerge and to See also:divide the Paduan district between them
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The citizens, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to protect their liberties, were obliged to elect a See also:podesta, and their choice See also:fell first on one of the D'Este See also:family (c
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1175)
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The temporary success of the Lombard See also:league helped to strengthen the towns; but their ineradicable See also:jealousy of one another soon reduced them to weakness again, so that in 1236 Frederick II. found little difficulty in establishing his See also:vicar Ezzelino da Romano in Padua and the neighbouring cities, where he practised frightful cruelties on the inhabitants
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When Ezzelino met his See also:death, in 1259, Padua enjoyed a brief period of rest and prosperity: the university flourished; the basilica of the saint was begun; the Paduans became masters of Vicenza
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But this advance brought them into dangerous proximity to Can Grande della Scala, See also:lord of Verona, to whom they had to yield in 1311
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(5) As a See also:reward for freeing the city from the Scalas, Jacopo da Carrara was elected lord of Padua in 1318
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From that date till 1405, with the exception of two years (1388-1390) when Gian Galeazzo See also:Visconti held the See also:town, nine members of the Carrara family succeeded one another as lords of the city
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It was a long period of restlessness, for the Carraresi were constantly at war; they were finally extinguished between the growing power of the Visconti and of Venice
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(6) Padua passed under Venetian rule in 1405, and so remained, with a brief See also:interval during the wars of the League of Cambray, till the fall of the See also:republic in 1797
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The city was governed by two Venetian nobles, a podesta for See also:civil and a See also:captain for military affairs; each of these was elected for sixteen months
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Under these governors the great and small See also:councils continued to See also:discharge municipal business and to administer the Paduan See also:law, contained in the statutes of 1276 and 1362
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The See also:treasury was ,managed by two chamberlains; and every five years the Paduans sent one of their nobles to reside as See also:nuncio in Venice, and to See also:watch the interests of his native town
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(7 and 8) After the fall of the Venetian republic the history of Padua follows the history of Venice during the periods of See also:French and Austrian supremacy
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In 1866 the See also:battle of See also:Koniggratz gave Italy the opportunity to shake off the last of the Austrian yoke, when Venetia, and with Venetia Padua, became part of the united See also:Italian See also:kingdom
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See " Chronicon patavinum," in L
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See also:Muratori'sAntiquitates italicae medii aevi, vol. iv
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(See also:Milan, 1938) ; " Rolandinc "and " See also:Monaco padovano " (Muratori's Annali d' Italia, vol. viii., Venice, 1790; Cortusiorum historia," ibid. vol
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)(ii
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; Gattari, " Istoria padovana," ibid. vol. xvii.; Vergerius, " Vitae carrariensium principum," ibid. vol. xvi.) ; G
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Verci, Storia della See also:Marca Trevigiana (Venice, 1786) ; Abate G
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Gennari, Annali di Padova (Padua) ; G
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See also:Cittadella, Storia della dominazione carrarese (Padua, 1842) ; P
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Litta, Famiglie celebri, s.v
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" Carraresi " (1825–1833) ; C.See also:Cantu, Illustrazione grande l See also:Lombardo-Veneto (Milan, 1857) ; B
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Gonzati, La Basilica di Sant' See also:Antonio di Padova (Padua, 1853)
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