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unusual facts about San Girolamo, Volterra



Andrea Carandini

His research is focused on the topography of ancient Rome, Etruria in the Roman period and the analysis of monumental complexes in various cities in Italy (Volterra, Grumentum, Pompeii, and Veii).

Benet Salway

In 2010 the Volterra database was used by Corcoran and Salway to identify previously unknown fragments of the Gregorian Code.

Etruscan origins

They found that the genetic sequences of the Tuscan men varied significantly from those of men in surrounding regions in Italy, and that the men from Murlo and Volterra were the most closely related to men from Turkey.

House of Antelminelli

Serving under the Ghibelline chief, Uguccione della Faggiuola, he was elected lord (as lifelong consul) of Lucca on June 12, 1316, displacing the Quartigiani family, and was appointed Duke of Lucca, Pistoia, Volterra and Luni by emperor Frederick of Austria .

John Heron

He was the director of the International Centre for Co-operative Inquiry at Volterra, Tuscany, Italy, from 1990 to 2000, where radical forms of spiritual inquiry were developed.

Paulo Pancatuccio

Paulo Pancatuccio was a 16th-century cryptographer born in Volterra and employed by the Pope to break enciphered documents.

Replicator equation

Bomze, I.M. (1983) Lotka-Volterra equations and replicator dynamics: A two dimensional classification. Biol.

Bomze, I.M. (1995) Lotka-Volterra equations and replicator dynamics: New issues in classification. Biol.

San Girolamo, Volterra

The long portico in front of the church has similarities to another Michelozzo work, the church and convent of Bosco ai Frati in San Piero a Sieve.

Simon Corcoran

In 2010 the Volterra database was used by Corcoran and Salway to identify previously unknown fragments of the Gregorian Code.

Volterra operator

In mathematics, in the area of functional analysis and operator theory, the Volterra operator, named after Vito Volterra, represents the operation of indefinite integration, viewed as a bounded linear operator on the space L2(0,1) of complex-valued square integrable functions on the interval (0,1).


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