Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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ITALY , Ital. Italia, officially...Rome, Florence, Pisa , Siena , Perugia , Assisi...civilization ; papacy ; Italian art ; Italian literature...claimed suzerainty over N Italy. The most powerful princes...end of the 15th cent. Italy had fallen into the following...States, the republics of Siena, Florence, and Lucca...