VENETI, People of Ancient Italy

people of ancient Italy. They occupied the shore of the Adriatic from Trieste to the mouth of the Po River and spoke an Illyrian language. Friendly toward Rome, they came under Roman rule in the 2d cent. b.c.

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books on: Veneti People of Ancient Italy  - 33 results

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Ancient Italy: Historical and Geographical Investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily, and Sardinia
Book by Ettore Pais, C. Densmore Curtis; University of Chicago Press, 1908
Subjects: Greeks--Italy, Italy--History
...his references to that people are dry and meager in...Corcyra before coming to Italy, and had left a garrison...island. 1 After losing in Italy a considerable portion...as the country of the Veneti -- nulla regione maris...departure of Cleonymus from Italy toward Corcyra, it does...
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The Foundations of Roman Italy
Book by Joshua Whatmough; Methuen, 1937
Subjects: Italy--Antiquities, Italy--History--To 476, Italy--Languages--Pre-Italic, Rome--History--To 510 B.C
...but to an earlier people whom the Lucanians...western peninsula of Italy. They may have...fundamental unity in the ancient local names of Italy which can only mean...than one part of Italy. Some of these...Atina among the Veneti; for a Ligurian...
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Primitive Italy and the Beginnings of Roman Imperialism
Book by Léon Homo; Kegan Paul Trench, Trubner, 1927
Subjects: Italy--History--To 476, Rome--History--To 510 B.C
...south-east of Italy from Mount Gargano...likewise an Illyrian people. The ancient authors thus describe...upon them. 2 The Veneti and Iapyges were...come by sea. The ancient historians further...the whole, the Veneti and Iapyges only...
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Beyond the Rubicon: Romans and Gauls in Republican Italy
Book by J. H. C. Williams; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Celts--Italy--History, Gauls--Italy--History, Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C
...the north and its people away from its previous...were affecting the people and landscape of...once lived, the people who had sacked Rome...fragments on northern Italy also testify to the...complementary strand in ancient historiography to...42 Peter on the Veneti and the Cenomani...
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The Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture
Book by Roy Domenico; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Italy--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
and Rome, Ancient Republic and Empire, 348 , 349 , 350...in, 364 ; rivers, 361 ; and Rome, Ancient Republic and Empire, 363 , 364 , 365...Duke of, 252 Venerio, Saint, 168 Veneti people, 105 , 109 , 369 , 386 , 387 , 392...
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journal articles on: Veneti People of Ancient Italy  - 13 results

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Hydraulic Engineering and the Study of Antiquity: Rome, 1557-70
Journal article by Pamela O. Long; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Bacci, Andrea--Works, Floods--History, Floods--Italy, Hydraulic engineering--History, Physicians--Works, Rome (Ancient state)--History, Tiber River--Environmental aspects, Tiber River--History
...Calabria in Southern Italy. Trevisis treatment...38) Some people asked why the ancients did not leave...devastating floods. Ancient Romans lived...Aqueducts of Ancient Rome. Wauconda...ambasciatori veneti al senato durante...Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy. Chicago, 2007...
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Fabius Maximus in Venice: Doge Andrea Gritti, the War of Cambrai, and the Rise of Habsburg Hegemony, 1509-1530 [*
Journal article by Robert Finlay; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Gritti, Andrea--Military policy, Holy Roman Empire--History, Venice, Italy--History
...rise of Habsburg hegemony in Italy. A major step toward Charles...that Venice was superior to ancient Rome, for the latter had plunged...and most experi enced army in Italy, made up a vital part of the...rise of Habsburg hegemony in Italy. By effectively laying down...
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Late Medieval Crete and Venice: an Appropriation of Byzantine Heritage
Journal article by Maria Georgopoulou; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Anthropology, Art history, Byzantine civilization, Culture, Middle Ages, Venice Italy
...aspects of Titus bridged the history of ancient and Byzantine Crete. By maintaining...investiture of the doge the clergy and the people sang litanies asking Saint Mark to...Venetians, see C. Gerola, I monumenti veneti nellisola di Creta, 5 pts. in 4...
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Donatello's Gattamelata and Its Humanist Audience *
Journal article by Mary Bergstein; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Classical antiquities, Donatello, Donato de'Bardi detto--Criticism and interpretation, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--Criticism and interpretation, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--History, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--Social aspects, Humanism--Criticism and interpretation, Humanism--Social aspects, Renaissance sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Renaissance sculpture--History, Renaissance sculpture--Social aspects, Sculptors--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, Renaissance--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, Renaissance--History, Sculpture, Renaissance--Social aspects
...when he was in the north of Italy before his departure from Genoa...military statues, though no ancient rendition is quite so large...In Trecento and Quattrocento Italy, Phidias, Polykleitos, and...ancient sculpture brought to Italy from the Greek archipelago...
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Homer in the French Renaissance*
Journal article by Philip Ford; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Homer (Greek poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Homer (Greek poet)--Works, Renaissance--Analysis
...the Byzantine ambassador in Italy, Nikolaos Sygeros. As he...editions, translations, and ancient commentaries that I have identified, twelve are from Italy, and only two from France...established to teach the three ancient languages, Latin, Greek...
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magazine articles on: Veneti People of Ancient Italy  - 2 results

 
 
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Out of Their League
Magazine article by Francis X. Rocca; The American Spectator, Vol. 32, March 1999
Subjects: Bossi, Umberto, Italy, Politicians
...from the north of Italy, with Venice as...case of northern Italy is an example of...theretofore unheard of in Italy, where politicians...together Lombards, Veneti (i.e., people of the Veneto...disquisitions on ancient Lombard culture...
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Vercingetorix and the Failure of Gallic Resistance: John Haywood Explains Why the Tactics Adopted by the Gallic Leader Vercingetorix to Resist Julius Caesar's Conquest of Gaul Played into Roman Hands
Magazine article by John Haywood; History Today, Vol. 59, September 2009
Subjects: Gallic Wars, 58-51 BC, Military leaders--Evaluation, Political history--Analysis, Rome (Ancient state)--History, Rome (Ancient state)--Military aspects, Rome (Ancient state)--Political aspects, Vercingetorix--Evaluation
...resistance in the French people. The base of the...Caesar returned to Italy to tend to his political...local tribe, the Veneti, in a sea battle...impressed the Roman people but very nearly ended...countryside and returned to Italy for administrative...Mediterranean with its ancient, sophisticated kingdoms...


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encyclopedia articles on: Veneti People of Ancient Italy  - 1 result

 
 
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Veneti , People of Ancient Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VENETI , people of ancient Italy people of ancient Italy. They occupied the shore of the Adriatic from Trieste to the mouth of the Po River and spoke an Illyrian language. Friendly toward Rome, they came under Roman rule in the 2d cent. b...


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