Showing posts with label Tuscans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tuscans. Show all posts
Monday, August 4, 2014
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
--Michelangelo
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Labels:
art,
artists,
Florence,
Florentine,
Michelangelo,
quotes,
Tuscans,
Tuscany
Monday, July 16, 2012
Cisalpine American History
Taken from the History Channel documentary 'Italians in America' (1998). Narrated by Joseph Campanella. Sorry about the poor quality.
Names mentioned:
Christopher Columbus (Ligurian)
John Cabot (Ligurian)
Amerigo Vespucci (Tuscan)
Philip Mazzei (Tuscan)
Leonardo da Vinci (Tuscan)
Antonio Vivaldi (Venetian)
Galileo Galilei (Tuscan)
Constantino Brumidi (Roman/Greek)
A. P. Giannini (Ligurian)
Names mentioned:
Christopher Columbus (Ligurian)
John Cabot (Ligurian)
Amerigo Vespucci (Tuscan)
Philip Mazzei (Tuscan)
Leonardo da Vinci (Tuscan)
Antonio Vivaldi (Venetian)
Galileo Galilei (Tuscan)
Constantino Brumidi (Roman/Greek)
A. P. Giannini (Ligurian)
Labels:
Cisalpines,
famous people,
Padanian-Americans,
Tuscans
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