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  • Signoria

    Signoria

    Posted on November 13, 2008 | No Comments
    A Signoria (from Signore or Lord) was an abstract noun meaning (roughly) ‘government; governing authority; de facto sovereignty; lordship in many of the Italian city states during the medieval and renaissance periods. The perennial “power vacuum” of medieval Italy In the sixth century AD the...

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  • Library of Constantinople

    Library of Constantinople

    Posted on October 29, 2008 | No Comments
    The Library of Constantinople, in the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was the last of the great libraries of the ancient world. Long after the destruction of the library of Alexandria and the other ancient libraries, it preserved the knowledge of the ancient Greeks...

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