Word: pavia
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...autocrat. Did he want a château? He built it. A woman? He took her. The Mona Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor Charles V, imprisoned in Madrid and held for a nearly ruinous ransom...
...Francisco, Calif., Nazzareno Tinti was sentenced to life imprisonment after confessing to the murder of John Pavia. At trial's end Widow Pavia rose from counsel's table to find herself face-to-face with Wife Tinti. ''An eye for an eye," screamed the widow, "a tooth for a tooth." Then abruptly she slumped, sobbing, into the other's arms. 'I am sorry. I am sorry." moaned the wife. Closely embraced, widow and wife wept together...
Group Bologna, Italia, Turino, 52 men, Lowell House; Group Roma, Padova, 43 men, Dunster; Group Napoli, Perugia, 41 men, Adams House; Group Firenze, Pavia, 41 men, Leverett House; Group Pisa, Catania, 40 men, Kirkland Houses; Group Siena, Cagliari, 38 men, John Winthrop House; and Group Barl, Milano, 41 men, Eliot House...
...King, in love, in intrigue, in battle, at court, the spender and speculator and crook and adventurer. I have tried to squeeze the juice of French characteristics into these pages and to make him as human as Henry, though his own kind of man. The final section is after Pavia with his imprisonment, his second love affair, and the life he builds up on which Benvenuto Cellini throws a big light. It tries to make out the meaning of the whole thing...
...Last week was the death centenary of the man who first understood that electricity flows in currents measurable in pressure units. "Volts" and "voltage" were the work of Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. His compatriot and contemporary, Luigi Galvani of Bologna, observing the spasms caused in dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc...