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    The Diocese of Alessandria (Latin: Dioecesis Alexandrina Statiellorum) (Alessandria della Paglia) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Piedmont...
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    by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula. Faà di Bruno was born in Alessandria, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, on 7 March...
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    Regesti dei Marchesi di Monferrato (secoli IX-XVI). Alessandria: San Giorgio Editrice. Haberstumpf 2009, p. 201. "I Paleologi di Monferrato dopo il 1533"...
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    Alessandro Ferrero La Marmora, Carlo Emanuele La Marmora [it], Giovanni Durando, Luigi Fecia di Cossato [it] (who had negotiated the armistice) and minister...
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  • Francesco Guasco di Bisio (1924). "Famiglia Guasco di Alessandria". Tavole genealogiche di famiglie nobili alessandrine e monferrine dal secolo IX al XX (in...
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  • stato di Milano dall'anno 1471 al 1763". Archivio Storico Lombardo. IX. Registro de' giustiziati della società (congregazione) di s. Giovanni Decollato...
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    Giovanni Battista de' Rossi (22 February 1698 – 23 May 1764) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. He served as the canon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin after...
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    "Cavalleggeri di Alessandria" 1st Squadron - 1st Squadron of the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Novara" 2nd Squadron - 1st Squadron of the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Aosta"...
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    cultural splendour, only momentarily hindered by wars against Alba, Alessandria, Savoy, Milan (which besieged the city in 1230) and the Marquesses of...
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    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genoa (category Province of Alessandria)
    281. Giovanni di Corgno had been Archdeacon of the Church of Genoa, and had training as a physician. He was consecrated in Rome by Pope Gregory IX. Semeria...
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    Italia, di Saluzzo, Susa, Ivrea, Ceva, Maro, Oristano, Sezana; Conte di Moriana, Nizza, Tenda, Asti, Alessandria, Goceano; Barone di Vaud e di Faucigny;...
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    February 1878 (just a day before the pope died). It was also Giovanni Bosco who advised Pius IX to appoint Scalabrini as a bishop. Scalabrini received his...
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    Santorre di Santarosa, who wanted to remove the Austrians and unify Italy under the House of Savoy. The Piedmont revolt started in Alessandria, where troops...
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    Turin from 7 May onward. The Franco-Sardinian move to strengthen the Alessandria and Po bridges around Casale Monferrato forced the Austrians to halt...
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    town in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, in the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km (37 mi) east of Turin on the right bank of...
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  • theology at Rome, under Luigi Ungarelli. He taught the sacred sciences at Alessandria, Turin, Perugia and Parma. In 1847, was made president of the college...
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    mid-thirteenth century: Pope Innocent IV, Frederick II, King Louis IX of France, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Hugh of Digne, Gerardo da Borgo San Donnino...
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    Nuovo Patriarca di Alessandria dei Copti" (in Italian). Holy See Press Office.[permanent dead link] Rinuncia del Patriarca di Alessandria dei Copti (Egitto)...
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    was conferred on Antonio Ardizzoni of Alessandria. His name is on the diploma in medicine granted to Giovanni da Montegaldella on 12 April. At that time...
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    d'Arvillars [it] and Vittorio Garretti di Ferrere. The 2nd armed corps was directed by Ettore De Sonnaz [it], with Giovanni Battista Federici and Mario Broglia [it]...
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    136. Aulario was a patrician of Alessandria, and had been Archpriest of the Collegiate Church of S. Giovanni Battista di Monza. On the appointment of Pope...
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    Lucia Felici (2009). Profezie di riforma e idee di concordia religiosa: visioni e speranze dell'esule piemontese Giovanni Leonardo Sartori (in Italian)...
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    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vercelli (category Province of Alessandria)
    di S. Andrea and Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore The suffragan dioceses under the Metropolitan of Vercelli are: Roman Catholic Diocese of Alessandria (della...
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    Roman Catholic Diocese of Acqui (category Province of Alessandria)
    21. T. Gaino (1975), Il Vescovo Maggiorino nell’antica Chiesa di Acqui, Alessandria: Il Piccolo, 1975. Augustine of Hippo (De Haereses, I, 69) speaks...
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    which would spread from Chambéry (then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia), Alessandria, Turin, and Genoa. However, the Savoy government discovered the plot...
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    Mortar Battalion, the XIII Squadrons Group/ Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Alessandria" (14th), with two squadrons of Semovente 47/32 self-propelled guns,...
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    Black Shirts' Action Squads (Italian: Corpo Ausiliario delle Squadre d'azione di Camicie Nere), most widely known as the Black Brigades (Italian: Brigate Nere)...
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    Roman Catholic Diocese of Tortona (category Province of Alessandria)
    Northern Italy, spanning parts of three regions of Piedmont (Province of Alessandria), Lombardy (Province of Pavia) and Liguria (Province of Genoa). It is...
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    (M113 armored personnel carriers) IX Tank Battalion, in Salerno (M47 Patton tanks) Squadron "Cavalleggeri di Alessandria", in Persano 17th Infantry Regiment...
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    Cathedral of Pavia (Duomo di Pavia): construction of the cathedral began in 1488, designed principally by Donato Bramante, Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Gian Giacomo...
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