Word: vittoria
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Italian--Carissimi, 1604-1674, "Vittoria"; A. Scarlatti, 1659-1725. "O cessate di piagarmi"; Caccini, 1546-1614, "Amarrilli...
...Guarino of Verona. Both founded schools in Italy and both, by advocating a liberal education--bodily as well as mental exercise, Greek as well as the Latin culture--together taught the many scholars who for centuries kept alive their fame. From these two men and their successors, Ferrara and Vittoria Colona, proceed the greater number of those scholars who afterwards carried the new learning out into the world, not only throughout Italy but into the countries of the west, far beyond her borders...