ENZIO

ānˈtsēō or Enzoānˈtsō, c.1220–72, king of Sardinia, illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. He married a Sardinian heiress and was made king of Sardinia by his father. In the wars between Frederick and the pope he fought gallantly in Italy. Helping Modena against Bologna, he was defeated and captured (1249) at Fossalta. Until his death he was kept prisoner in Bologna, in the palace that came to bear his name.

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...outlet through the so-called major and medium-size presses. St. Paul (Mn.), October 1996 1 See the translations by Enzio Cetrangolo in La lirica latina , Florence, Sansoni, 1993 , pp. 882-85; the lines are from 4:10, vv. 111-14...
...1872. Great Britain and the United States did not grant these rights until 1894 and 1898, respectively. Giovanni Fanelli and Enzio Godoli, Art Nouveau Postcards (New York, 1987), 15, note 7. Privately printed cards could then be sent through the mails cheaply...
...pointing to the ancestral world, to the ancestors. "African art" was a recent interest of his, discovered through the work of Dr. Enzio Bassani. He could savor the aesthetic design of traditional African art objects, but he saw them through the eyes of an historian...
...text and her prose translation make it clear that the excerpt was chosen for its political import, not its artistic quality. Enzio, the Roman leader, addresses the hero of the opera as a "brave man / Whose supreme power can raise thy country from such dire...


 

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...few years back in Long Grove I met Lucia Cavallino, the Italian dynamo behind the desserts offered at her familys restaurant, Enzio Lucias. One taste and I was hooked on her sensational tiramisu. For the summer dessert menu Lucia offers a fresh berry version...
...agonising decision to cut the winchline holding Bill when it became snagged on the stricken ship. The Green Lilys captain Enzio Abram was blamed by a fatal accident inquiry last year for "unexplained and cumulative delays" in deciding to abandon ship...
...the chance to equalise from Ben Gallant. On the hour a well-worked move between Gallant and Scott Thomas was finished off by Enzio Silvestri who gave the home side the lead. Almost on full-time Bedworth lost the services of Ashley Pringle after he was sent...
...Christmas. Islamic Army in Iraq has achieved its own measure of bloody infamy: the murder last August of Italian journalist Enzio Baldoni. It also claims the shootdown of a civilian helicopter that killed 11 passengers earlier this year, including six Americans...
...Christmas is on December 25, would you celebrate on December 10 or 30?* * *We were pampered by the Principe di Savoy GM Signore Enzio Indiana when Milan was bidding to host Expo 2015. The hotel is one of the sybaritic breakfast-in-bed accommodations in the collection...
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ENZIO an tseo or Enzo an tso, c.1220 72, king of Sardinia, illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II . He married a Sardinian...
...structures include the Palazzo Comunale (13th and 15th 16th cent.); the Renaissance-style Palazzo del Podesta; the palace of King Enzio (13th cent.); the Basilica of San Petronio (begun in 1390), with a 15th-century doorway by Jacopo della Quercia; the Church...
...Manfreds death (1258) and Conradins execution (1268) ended the family power, and with the death of Fredericks illegitimate son Enzio (1272) the family became extinct. Memories of the German empires greatness under the Hohenstaufen played a part in later German...


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