Spoleto in a sentence

His predecessor's alliance with the Lombard Duke of Spoleto put papal cities at risk when the Dukes of Spoleto and Benevento rebelled.

Mann, pp. 216-217 Gregory then actively encouraged the rebellion of Thrasimund II of Spoleto, forcing Liutprand to temporarily abandon his attacks on the Exarchate, turning his attention towards Spoleto, which Liutprand annexed.

In the spring of 1991, Hammons traveled to Charleston, S.C., to make a work for the Spoleto Festival USA, an annual performing and visuals arts program.

Mena Mark Hanna, general director and CEO of Spoleto, said the partnership is a first for the festival.

The program will solidify Spoleto's work and mission to engage with communities and extend the reach of their arts programming to young students, a long-time goal, she said.

So how do we cope with a year without Spoleto?

Spoleto Festival's monetary and cultural impact on Charleston is hard to quantify: Artists and tourists flood the city from around the world, engaging with the arts community, creating memories that will bring them back year after year.

For almost two weeks, festival-goers were treated to recitals in some of the historic city’s most colonial venues, as well as a gala performance of Mozart’s opera Cosi Fan Tutte brought to the stage by Italy’s Spoleto Festival Dei 2Mondi.

Those remain important questions for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, which returns to the Spoleto stage "to do something grand, just this once" for the sixth time this year.

After he refused, Stephen V had to rely upon Guy III of Spoleto instead.

Following his campaign in Italy to subjugate the dukes of Friuli and Spoleto, Charlemagne returned very rapidly to Saxony in 776, where a rebellion had destroyed his fortress at Eresburg.

From his earliest years, Ludovico was very interested in poetry, but he was obliged by his father to study law. citation After five years of law, Ariosto was allowed to read classics under Gregorio da Spoleto.

However it is far from certain that the Lombard takeover occurred during those years, as very little is known of Faroald and Zotto's respective rise to power in Spoletium ( Spoleto ) and Beneventum ( Benevento ).

In response, the kings tried to centralize power over time, but they definitively lost control over Spoleto and Benevento in the attempt.

On their way northwards, they attacked Spoleto and encountered the ambassadors of Manuel I Comnenus, who showered Frederick with costly gifts.

Pius VI also attempted the daring job of draining the Pontine Marshes, which he did with little success, but did successfully drain the marshes near Citta della Pieve, Perugia, and Spoleto.

Schmidlin 10 According to historians, Cardinal Mastai-Ferretti was considered a liberal during his episcopate in Spoleto and Imola because he supported administrative changes in the Papal States and sympathized with the nationalist movement in Italy.

Since Easter was approaching, the bishop of Spoleto, an outside party, was asked to celebrate the rites of this important holy day in Rome.

The hearing deferred a decision to a synod which was scheduled to meet at Spoleto on 13 June, but commanded both Boniface and Eulalius to stay out of Rome.

The new emperor moved against Spoleto but was struck with paralysis on the way and was unable to continue the campaign.