Piacenza in a sentence

He had been asked if, growing up amid the hardships of war in Piacenza, he had imagined anything like the trajectory his life would ultimately take and, beyond that, what in hindsight he might tell the boy he was then.

While Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi gained a throne thanks to her brother Napoleon’s clout, Marie Louise attained hers almost in spite of him—she became Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla after her husband abdicated and was exiled in Elba.

Born in 1907, Galvani grew up in a town called Castell'Arquato in the province of Piacenza in northern Italy.

His next job was washing dishes, 10 hours a day, in a restaurant in Piacenza, on the Po River in northern Italy, earning about $200 a month.

Other smaller rallies were held across the country, including in Piacenza, where the demonstrators clashed with police.

Around 570, the Anonymous of Piacenza reports travelling from Sepphoris to Nazareth.

As a result, a General Chapter of the Carmelite Order was convened at Piacenza in Italy in May 1576, out of concern that events in Spain were getting out of hand, which concluded by ordering the total suppression of the Discalced houses.

At the conclusion of peace on 13 November 1738, control of Parma and Piacenza was ceded to Austria, which had occupied the duchies but was now forced to recognise Charles as King of Naples and Sicily.

He also appointed three cardinal-deacons: Giordano Orsini, brother of Pope Nicholas III, of Rome; Giacomo Colonna of Rome; and Gerardo Cupalates, O.Min., of Piacenza.

He also demonstrated a penchant for learning, and, according to Cristoforo di Piacenza, In a letter to his master, Lodovico Gonzaga of Mantua; (Pastor 121, who adds "He was quickly and thoroughly undeceived!").

In 1243, when the Bishop of Piacenza died, Innocent IV offered the position to Archdeacon Teobaldo, who declined, preferring to follow in the company of Cardinal Giacomo.

In November, he left Paris for Italy, visiting Turin, Milan, Lodi, Piacenza, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Florence and Arezzo.

In the summer of 995, Otto sent the Archbishop of Piacenza, John Philagathos, to Constantinople as his representative to arrange a marriage between himself and a Byzantine princess.

It is said that he began his career by attaching himself to the household of the Cistercian Cardinal Giacomo de Pecorari, Bishop of Palestrina (1231-1244), who was also from Piacenza.

It started to recover its role of industrial prominence after the connection with Piacenza and Bologna of 1859, and with Fornovo and Suzzara in 1883.

John was brought before a court of friars, accused of disobeying the ordinances of Piacenza.

Leo at once announced that he would excommunicate the king of France and release his subjects from their allegiance unless Francis I laid down his arms and surrendered Parma and Piacenza to the Church.

She was a Cistercian nun from Piacenza, authoritarian and given to extreme forms of self-mortification.

To his son Giovanni Maria he assigned the title of Duke of Milan, which included Como, Lodi, Cremona, Bergamo, Brescia, Reggio Emilia, Piacenza, Parma, and claims to Perugia and Siena.