"Non Vi Fu Personna Che Non Ne Restasse Comossa" (No one was left unmoved..)
April 21st 2016 Vicenza is the city of Andrea Palladio, an architect who had a whole style of design named after him, and influenced Thomas Jefferson among others. He began life as a stonemason, whose talents were recognized by an intellectual nobleman. He is considered to have perfected existing values of harmony and proportion in his designs. He created over 40 palaces, villas, and public and religious building
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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more 
