Word: pavia
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...pauses by a studded door like the Sire de Maletroit's door in Stevenson and is vastly relieved to find it unlocked. Within is a tawny-headed damsel who, after she has concealed the handsome fugitive, quite alters his plan to study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady of Renaissance Italy so fair and mettlesome as this Valeria but was meshed in intrigue from her dainty toes to her pearl-sewn caul. And no stalwart like lucky Bellarion but would have rejoiced as he to exchange a philosophical career for swordplay in her service. This swordplay, these...
...Plaza Del Almeria, the courtyard of the Royal Palace, a regiment of the Madras Hussars of Pavia was drawn up in honor of the Ambassador. Count Velle conducted him within. There Alphonso received him with the majesty of a sovereign, with the handclasp of a good fellow...
This epitomizes the work of Professor Gaetano Fichera, upon which he has lavished a great part of his life and most of his private fortune, at Pavia, Italy. His discovery of the artificial serum he will announce at the meeting of the Medical Section of the League of Nations, at Rome, next month...
...churches of San Ambrosio in Milan and of San Michale in Pavia are probably the oldest existing types of Lombard Romanesque. The early builders were rude and feared to attempt much, hence most of their buildings have not lasted. Gradually the Italian influence made itself felt and the buildings became more beautiful. The sculpture was especially rude; but imaginative. The Lombards had no liking for saints and crosses, for church decoration, but preferred animals and dragons, usually in attitudes of fighting. But they did not always have this way. Lombard workmen could not always be obtained, and when Greeks...
Thirteen Universities have been suppressed by the Italian Government. There still remain, however, the old foundations of Padua, Bologna, Pavia, Pisa and Rome; Naples, Genoa and Paiermo are spared...