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40 unusual facts about Pavía


Andreas Moustoxydis

He studied at Pavia, and in 1804 published a treatise on the history of Corfu titled Notizie per servire alla storia Corcirese dai tempi eroici al secolo XII.

Ansprand

Many Austrians (the men of Venetia and the east) joined the returning regent and battle ensued near Pavia, between his forces and those of King Aripert II, who had usurped the throne.

Antonio Maria Bordoni

Antonio Bordoni was born in Mezzana Corti (province of Pavia), on 19 July 1788 and graduated in Mathematics in Pavia 7 June 1807.

In 1854, as the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Pavia (it previously belonged to the one of the Philosophy) was established, he was elected Director of Mathematical Studies and held such office until his death, which occurred 26 March 1860, after just a month from being appointed senator.

Joining the faculty of the University of Pavia in 1817, Bordoni is generally considered to be the founder of the mathematical school of Pavia.

Arturo Riccardi

Born to Adolph Riccardi and Ifigenia Rasini Di Mortigliengo in Pavia, Italy, (although other sources claim Saluzzo), Riccardi entered the Italian military academy to become a successful career soldier.

Authari

In 584, they elected Duke Authari and ceded him not only the capital of Pavia, but half of their ducal domains as a demesne.

When Authari died in Pavia in 590, possibly by poison, he was succeeded as king by Agilulf, duke of Turin, on the advice, sought by the dukes, of Theodelinda, who married the new king.

Baye baye

A specialty of Pavia, Iloilo, it is made from grated young coconut mixed with either ground corn kernels or ground pinipig (young rice).

Billy Hardy

The fight was in Pavia, Italy, and this time the decision was even closer, being declared as a draw.

Bissone

It became fully independent in 1622, but retained a relationship with the monastery of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia.

Cajetan von Textor

He spent the next few years on an extended educational journey throughout Europe, where he studied with Alexis Boyer (1757–1833) in Paris, Antonio Scarpa (1752–1832) in Pavia and Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821) in Vienna.

Carolingian Schools

In Southern Germany and Switzerland the Carolingian revival was felt before the close of the eighth century in Rheinau, Reichenau and St. Gall, and early in the following century in Northern Italy, especially in Pavia and Bobbio.

Chalkokondyles

He taught Greek Literature at the University of Pavia (see Pavia) when he was very young and he translated some works of Cicero.

Clement of Ireland

Ailbe was then given the direction of the "monastery of Saint Augustine" near Pavia, identifiable as the Abbey of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, "sometimes named after Saint Augustine, because it contained many of his relics".

Cresciano

An Imperial charter from 978 mentions a cortis Crissianicum owned by the monastery of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia.

Dana Velďáková

Her personal best jump is 14.51 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Pavia.

DYPV

The pioneer FM radio station in Pavia, Iloilo first hit the airwaves as Radyo Natin 92.7 way back on January 15, 2002.

Elio Veltri

In 1973-1980 he was mayor of Pavia as member of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, or PSI), becoming the first mayor in Europe to forbid the historical center of his city to cars.

Francesco Ciullo

After two years with Arezzo team and Pavia team, Triestina bought him again and he returned to his old team where he collected a presence even in Serie B.

Francis Baily

The phenomenon, which depends upon the irregular shape of the moon's limb, was so vividly described by him as to attract an unprecedented amount of attention to the total eclipse of 8 July 1842, observed by Baily himself at Pavia.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Born οn June 15, 1948 in Würzburg, Germany, Gumbrecht received his education in Paris, Munich, Regensburg, Salamanca, Pavia and Konstanz, receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in 1971 where he was also an assistant professor from 1971 to 1974.

Ignaz Döllinger

He commenced his studies in his native town (where he took a doctorate in 1794), continuing them in Würzburg, Pavia and Vienna before returning to Bamberg.

Liutprand, King of the Lombards

In the spring of 712, Theodo’s son Theodebert, with Ansprand and Liutprand, attacked Lombard strongholds, and with the drowning of their fleeing rival Aripert, Ansprand's faction were back in power at Pavia.

Love's Sacrifice

Phillippo Caraffa, Duke of Pavia, has accidentally caught sight of a beautiful young woman named Bianca, the daughter of a Milanese gentleman, while he was hunting.

Magnus Maximus

Other descendants of Ennodius, and thus possibly of Maximus, included Anicius Olybrius, emperor in 472, but also several consuls and bishops such as St. Magnus Felix Ennodius (Bishop of Pavia c. 514-21).

Mamma Togni

A dramatised personal testimony by a Mamma Togni, legendary woman partisan from the Upper Po valley, near Pavia.

Matthias Storme

Storme is also a member of the Académie des Privatistes Européens in Pavia.

Michelle Ronksley-Pavia

Ronksley-Pavia’s themes generally delve into the human unconscious using scientific subject matter with overtones of religious and particularly ethical questions with regard to DNA cloning, inequalities, particularly disability and racial issues.

Milano Rogoredo railway station

The importance of this station has increased with the extension of the Milan suburban railway service to Pavia and Lodi, and the new residential district called Santa Giulia.

Non-heart-beating donation

Relatively few centres worldwide retrieve such kidneys, and leaders in this field include the transplant units in Maastricht (the Netherlands), Newcastle upon Tyne and Leicester (United Kingdom), Madrid and Barcelona (Spain), Pavia (Italy) and Washington, DC (United States).

Pavia, Iloilo

However, the more credible theory seems to be the overlooked fact that the town's religious well-being was placed under the jurisdiction and supervision of the friars of the Augustinian Order, and they simply named the place in honor of the town of Pavia, Italy, where the founder of their order, Saint Augustine, was buried.

The Catholic church, currently undergoing restoration, is similar to one in Pavia, Italy.

DYHP (DYPV) 104.3 The Beat 104.3 FM - a music FM station owned by MBC and operated by Pavia Broadcasting Service.

Pavise

A pavise (or pavis, pabys, or pavesen, all of them words stemming from the name of the city of Pavia, in Italy) is a large convex shield of European origin used to protect the entire body.

Peter Carew

-- aged 12 ?? yes --> when a family relation, on his way to the siege of Pavia in the service of King Francis I of France, heard Carew's companions call the young man by name.

Petru Giovacchini

He escaped to Italy and in November 1933 founded in Pavia the famous "Gruppi di Cultura Corsa", with Corsican university students in Italy.

The Insatiate Countess

She writes him a love letter; they meet and quickly flee together to Pavia.

Thomas Erskine of Haltoun

It has been suggested that Erskine was a founder of the College of Justice, and he may have been educated at Pavia.

Willibald Pirckheimer

Born in Eichstätt, Bavaria, the son of a lawyer, Dr Johannes Pirckheimer, he was educated in Italy, studying law at Padua and Pavia for seven years.


Adalbert of Italy

When he returned, he tried to take Pavia, the Italian capital, but was defeated by another invading Swabian army, this time under Burchard III.

Arturo Falaschi

He was Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Pavia (1966 to 1979); Director of the Instituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica, CNR, Pavia (1970 to 1987); and Director of the Progetto Finalizzato “Ingegneria Genetica” of the Italian National Research Council (1982 to 1989).

Bartolomeo Tromboncino

Until around 1500 he lived and worked in Mantua, though he made occasional trips to adjacent cities such as Ferrara, Este, Vicenza, Milan, and Pavia, especially when he was in trouble.

Battle of Bicocca

By January, the French had lost Alessandria, Pavia, and Como; and Francesco II Sforza, bringing further German reinforcements, had slipped past a Venetian force at Bergamo to join Colonna in Milan.

Benedetta Carlini

She compared and contrasted two autobiographical accounts from Benedetta Carlini and another seventeenth century Italian Catholic mystic, Maria Domitilla Galluzzi of Pavia.

Bonarda

Croatina or Bonarda dell'Oltrepò Pavese, grown in Lombardy, around Pavia

Carlo Giannini

Carlo Giannini (10 July 1948, Brescia – 11 September 2004, Pavia) was an econometrician and mathematical economist who taught at the Universities of Ancona, Bergamo, Calabria, Milan and Pavia during the period 1976–2004.

Cesare Segre

Cesare Segre (born 4 April 1928 in Verzuolo, Province of Cuneo) is an Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic of Jewish descent, currently the Director of the Texts and Textual Traditions Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS).

Council of Pavia

In the history of the Catholic Church, the Council of Pavia usually refers to the fifteenth century Council of Pavia-Siena of 1423/4, which was convened at Pavia and then moved to Siena because of the plague.

Ghislieri College

The Ghislieri College (Ital. Collegio Ghislieri), founded in 1567 by Pope Pius V, is the second most ancient college in Pavia and co-founder of the IUSS, located in Pavia as well.

H. Eugene Stanley

Honorary Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Pavia (Pavia, Italy), and at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary).

Il Lavoratore

One of its first editors was Cesare Seassaro from Pavia, who died in Fiume on 15 November 1921, where he came to give "organisational support" from the Communist Party of Italy in building the Communist Party of Fiume.

Irnerio Bertuzzi

Paris executive jet (I–SNAP) when it crashed in the countryside surrounding Bascapè in the province of Pavia, on 27 October 1962.

Isabella, Countess of Vertus

Isabella of France (Château de Bois de Vincennes, 1 October 1348 – Pavia, 11 September 1373) was a French princess and member of the House of Valois, as well as the wife of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Lord of Milan, although she died before her husband's accession).

Lomello

The commune of Pavia defeated the Counts in the 1140s and captured Lomello, owning it until 1360, when Lomello underwent the domination of the Visconti, who were followed, from 1450 to 1535, by the Sforza.

Lucedio Abbey

Lucedio contributed in its turn to the expansion of the Cistercian Order by giving birth to three daughter-houses over the next eighty years: S. Maria di Chiaravalle della Castagnola (1147) in the Marche, Rivalta Scrivia (1180) near Tortona and Acqualunga (1204) near Pavia.

Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque

As soon as the federal Cortes had defeated Castelar, Pavia made his coup d'état of the January 3, 1874, and after the pronunciamiento was absolute master of the situation, but having no personal ambition, he sent for General Serrano to form a government with Sagasta, Martos, Ulloa and other Conservatives and Radicals of the revolution.

Piffero

It is used to play music in the tradition of the quattro province, an area of mountains and valleys in the north-west Italian Apennines which includes parts of the four provinces of Alessandria, Genoa, Piacenza and Pavia.

Ruggero Bonghi

At Turin he resumed his philosophic studies and his translation of Plato, but In 1858 refused a professorship of Greek at Pavia, under the Austrian government, only to accept it in 1859 from the Italian government after the liberation of Lombardy.

Sartirana

Sartirana Lomellina, a village and commune in the Italian province of Pavia

Sertoli cell

Sertoli cells are called so because of their eponym Enrico Sertoli, an Italian physiologist who discovered them while studying medicine in the University of Pavia, Italy.

Torrevecchia

Torrevecchia Pia, a municipality in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy

Trams in Milan

The existing line to Saronno was therefore extended (1878), and new lines were constructed to Sedriano (1879), Vimercate, Pavia and Lodi (1880), Giussano (1881), and elsewhere.

University History Museum, University of Pavia

The museum was created in 1932 to accommodate the material that was kept in the Palazzo Botta, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Antonio Scarpa, founder of the Anatomical School of Pavia.

Uva Rara

Around the communes of Novara, Pavia and Vercelli, Uva Rara is known as Bonarda which has led it to be confused with many of the other grape varieties known as Bonarda, particularly Bonarda Piemontese.