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    The Passetto di Borgo, or simply Passetto, is an elevated passage that links the Vatican City with the Castel Sant'Angelo. It is an approximately 800-metre-long...
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    His house was in Borgo Nuovo. Curiosità romane Ceccarelli, 28 Further north along the Vio del Campanile, an arch of the Passetto di Borgo is visible; on...
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    Caspar Röist, died fighting to allow Clement VII to escape through the Passetto di Borgo, escorted by the other 42 guards. The last-stand battlefield is located...
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    troops pursuing the Pope's entourage as it made its way across the Passetto di Borgo, a secure elevated passage that connects the Vatican City to Castel...
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    Allucingoli, elected Pope Lucius III in 1181 Ugolino di Conti was elected Pope Gregory IX in 1227 Rinaldo di Jenne was elected Pope Alexander IV in 1254 Pedro...
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    popolare d'Italia dall'origine fino all'acquisto di Roma nell'anno 1870 compilata da Oscar Pio sulle tracce di Guicciardini, Botta, Balbo, Sismondi, Coletta...
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  • potential papabili BBC News: Bets open on Benedict's successor "Il successore di Francesco? I papabili e le loro posizioni su donne nella Chiesa e coppie gay"...
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    did not, the building was used to provide services to the sick of Rome's Borgo and Trastevere neighborhoods, and as a hospice for pilgrims. Electricity...
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    2023. "La presa di possesso della Basilica Lateranense" (in Italian). L'attuale legislazione ha confermato la scelta di Giovanni Paolo I di rifiutare la...
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    built, along with other buildings. The area was part of the Roman rione of Borgo until 1929. Being separated from Rome, on the west bank of the river Tiber...
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    from the original on 2 August 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023. "Motu Proprio Di nostro moto proprio che contiene la Legge Fondamentale della Città del Vaticano...
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    Santo Stefano degli Ungheresi Teutonic Cemetery Cortile del Belvedere Passetto di Borgo Porta San Pellegrino Vatican Museums Vatican Museums Vatican Gallery...
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    Brienne in 1791— and five resigned: Tommaso Antici in 1798, Marino Carafa di Belvedere in 1807, Carlo Odescalchi in 1838, Louis Billot in 1927, and Theodore...
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    Santo Stefano degli Ungheresi Teutonic Cemetery Cortile del Belvedere Passetto di Borgo Porta San Pellegrino Vatican Museums Vatican Museums Vatican Gallery...
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    Encyclopedia, Vol. 10, p. 266 "Patti lateranensi, 11 febbraio 1929 - Segreteria di Stato, card. Pietro Gasparri". www.vatican.va. "Agreement between the Italian...
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  • Associated Press. 29 September 1977. Retrieved 5 April 2024. "La Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Piscibus". www.vatican.va. The Holy See. Retrieved 5 April...
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    Retrieved 1 April 2018. "Dichiarazione Di S.E. Mons. Pietro Parolin in Occasione della sua Nomina a Segretario di Stato". Archived from the original on...
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    The Capture of Rome (Italian: Presa di Roma) occurred on 20 September 1870, as forces of the Kingdom of Italy took control of the city and of the Papal...
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    Society. p. 286. ISBN 0-7922-7317-6. Gaeta, Franco; Villani, Pasquale. Corso di Storia, per le scuole medie superiori. Milão. Editora Principato. 1986. Le...
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    Street view of the Ponte Vecchio as seen from the Vasari Corridor Passetto di Borgo, Rome Passages for Maria Maddalena de' Medici (incl. the corridoio...
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    the battle of Sedan. King Victor Emmanuel II then sent Count Gustavo Ponza di San Martino to Pius IX with a personal letter offering a proposal that would...
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    Cossa, Conny (2010). Modernismo all'ombra la sala delle udienze pontificie di Pier Luigi Nervi (in Italian). Rome: Libreria editrice vaticana. ISBN 978-88-209-8446-5...
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    provided the setting for the fantastic dreams of universal democracy of Cola di Rienzo, who was acclaimed Tribune of the People in 1347, and met a violent...
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    to St Peter's Basilica by a covered fortified corridor called the Passetto di Borgo. The fortress was the refuge of Pope Clement VII from the siege of...
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    Santo Stefano degli Ungheresi Teutonic Cemetery Cortile del Belvedere Passetto di Borgo Porta San Pellegrino Vatican Museums Vatican Museums Vatican Gallery...
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    German troops long enough for Pope Clement VII to escape over the Passetto di Borgo to Castel Sant'Angelo. There are now two institutes of study and two...
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    among the remaining first floor rooms. This corridor was reminiscent of the Vasariano. Passetto di Borgo, Rome Vasari Corridor, also in Florence v t e...
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    Borgo, a rione of Rome which until 1929 comprised also Vatican City, at the southern end of Via di Porta Castello. It abutted the Passetto di Borgo,...
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  • Giovanni Tacci Porcelli (1918–1921) Federico Callori di Vignale (1958–1965) Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano (1968–1969) Jacques-Paul Martin (1969–1986)...
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    and Porta San Pellegrino thereafter marked the junction between the Passetto di Borgo and the new fortifications. Pope Alexander VI undertook a full reconstruction...
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