must look deeper into the individual regions. The twenty regions of Italy‚ as shown in Figure 1 are full of their individual gastronomy and it would take days to discuss all of them. For the purpose of this research paper the regions of Piedmont‚ Tuscany‚ and Sicily will represent the regional cuisines from northern‚ central and southern Italy. This paper will describe the cuisines of each region through the geography‚ starches‚ fats‚ fruits‚ vegetables‚ proteins and dairy‚ comparing differences that
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becomes diluted. Because of high acidity and light body when people produce wine‚ they need to blend with other grapes to give sangivoese a bit more structure. Regions of Chianti Tuscany is the most famous country side in Italy‚ producing its most famous wine—Chianti. Thirty years ago‚ the region was a mess‚ but today Tuscany produces some of the best red wines in the world. As a matter of fact‚ Chianti is divided in 8 sub-zones‚ each one producing its own Chianti wine. The area most highly regarded
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Lardello which is in Tuscany‚ which is pretty close to Florence. Human-Environment Interaction Italy is surrounded by the Mediterranean and Red Seas. They rely on many different types of sea food. Apennine Mountains runs along the length of peninsula. Even though Italy is a mountainous country it is also very productive in crops. They cultivate things such as grapes‚ wine‚ cereal‚ macaroni‚ citrus fruits‚ olive oil‚ and rice. Region Florence is the capital region of Tuscany. It has an area
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Italy is a land of rich and decadent foods‚ colorful citizens who live and love with passion and my dream vacation destination. I have dreamt of taking my large Italian family to Italy to walk the same roads as our ancestors since I was a young girl. Now is a time when I am able to splurge and bring my dream to fruition. The cost of taking my family to Italy will be quite exorbitant in monetary terms; the airfare alone is enough to make my piggy bank squeal in protest. My family thinks that a
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from 1559 to 1597 but in three marriages fathered no heir to succeed him. The deceased duchess in the poem was his first wife‚ Lucrezia de’ Medici‚ a daughter of Cosimo de’ Medici (1519-1574)‚ Duke of Florence from 1537 to 1574 and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1569 to 1574. Lucrezia died in 1561 at age 17. In 1598‚ Ferrara became part of the Papal States.
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surface of delicate and varied rustication‚ beneath a corbelled cornice without a frieze. At Arezzo he applied a façade all’antica to the late Gothic structure of the charitable confraternity‚ the Fraternità della Misericordia. Rossellino was active in Tuscany and Rome‚ where he worked a lot for Pope Nicholas V‚ enlarging the transept and apse of the Old St. Peter’s Basilica (1452–55) that was swept away in the following generation. Among lesser projects carried out in Rome for Nicholas was restoration
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in the Pazzi Conspiracy. resulting in a tragic loss of 270 killed‚ banished‚ or imprisoned (Hancock 31). Sixtus excommunicated Lorenzo and the Florentines therefore they declared war and allied with King Ferrante of Naples and troops to invade Tuscany. In the battle‚ Lorenzo offered to give himself up as a scapegoat to allow peace for the citizens of Florence. In Naples‚ he presented himself to King Ferrante. The King was impressed with Lorenzo actions that he surrendered war with Florence which
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The Medici; Heroes of the Renaissance In the year 2004‚ PBS broadcasted the series‚ “Medici; Godfathers of the Renaissance”. This four-part documentary‚ in attempt to gain viewer interest‚ compared the Medici to the mobsters found in Francis Ford’s “The Godfather”. The relation of the Medici to Italian mobsters in the PBS Medici series is in no way accurate‚ for they were not villains of the renaissance‚ but heroes. The Medici were very connected with the church‚ and used their extensive
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Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio The exact details of his birth are uncertain. A number of sources state that he was born in Paris‚ but others denounce this as romanticism by the earliest biographers. In this case his birthplace was possibly in Tuscany‚ perhaps in Certaldo‚ the town of his father. He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman‚ and almost certainly born illegitimate. Boccaccio grew up in Florence. His father was working for the Compagnia dei Bardi and in the 1320s
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(Paccagnini 8). After the Black Death of the mid-14th century‚ which brought about a deepening of religious feeling‚ it was the International Gothic style of Siena and Lombardy that gained ascendancy over the more monumental‚ Giotto-inspired‚ styles of Tuscany like the work of Orcagna (Norman 12). Outstanding as a painter‚ sculptor‚ and architect‚ Giotto was recognized as the first genius of art in the Italian Renaissance. Giotto di Bondone was born about 1266 in the village of Vespignano‚ near Florence
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