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3 unusual facts about Vercelli


Apparente Libertà

It was composed in 2005, by Giancarlo Ferrari (Vercelli, March 23, 1972), an Italian songwriter, and in 2008, it was published on a CD, whose low quality of the vocal track, perhaps due to the bad state of health of the singer (victim of a serious road accident in 1998), makes the understanding of the lyrics often difficult.

Il Castello di Atlante

Il Castello di Atlante ("Atlas' Castle") is an Italian progressive rock band based in Vercelli.

Jean de Schulemberg

He attended a course of studies at the Academy of Sedan, but at the age of sixteen served as cornet (standard-bearer) to the Protestant Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, sovereign prince of Sedan, whom he followed at the siege of Vercelli in Piedmont (1614), and then at the battle of Prague, 8 November 1620.


Atto of Vercelli

Atto of Vercelli or Atto II (885-961) was a Lombard who became bishop of Vercelli in 924.

Battle of Vercellae

At Borgo Vercelli, near the river Sesia, 5 km from Vercelli, items have been found that supposedly strengthen the tradition.

Carlo Naya

Naya was born in Tronzano di Vercelli in 1816 and took law at the University of Pisa.

Chivasso–Alessandria railway

The section from Casale Monferrato to Valenza was opened on 22 March 1857 as part of the railway from Vercelli to Valenza.

Codex Vercellensis

The title Codex Vercellensis (the "Codex of Vercelli") refers to two manuscript codices preserved in the cathedral library of Vercelli, in the Piedmont Region, Italy.

Eusebio Bava

Born at Vercelli, in 1806 he fought as a volunteer under the French flag against Prussia.

Eusebius of Vercelli

There is preserved in the cathedral at Vercelli the Codex Vercellensis, the earliest manuscript of the old Latin Gospels ("Codex a"), which was believed to have been written by Eusebius, thought now scholars tend to doubt it.

Fra Dolcino

Dolcino left Vercelli between 1280 and 1290 and the researches of Orioli show that in the same period the fights between Guelphs and Ghibellines caused many victims on both sides in the city; the fear of being involved in these fights could better explain his decision to leave and join the initially pacifist movement of Segarelli.

The research of Orioli shows that De Julio Presbitero was actually the name of a wealthy family of Vercelli belonging to the Ghibellines often married with members of the Tornielli family of nearby Novara (Romagnano Sesia), also Ghibellines, so he proposes that Dolcino could be the son of a couple that united members of both families.

Grand Sanhedrin

Its presiding officers, appointed by the minister of the interior, were: Joseph David Sinzheim, rabbi of Strasbourg (president); Joshua Benzion Segre, rabbi, and member of the municipal council of Vercelli (first vice-president); Abraham de Cologna, rabbi of Mantua (second vice-president).

Iudiciaria Torrensis

The district appears to have lost its status in the mid to late tenth century and its territory to have been divided between the counties of Turin, Asti and Vercelli and subsequently between the Aleramici, the Bishops of Asti, and the Bishops of Vercelli.

Lanfranc

He took up the task with the greatest zeal, although Berengar had been his personal friend; he was the protagonist of orthodoxy at the Church Councils of Vercelli (1050), Tours (1054) and Rome (1059).

Leo of Vercelli

Born in Hildesheim, he was made an archdeacon by 998 and was appointed to the see of Vercelli as the candidate of the Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II following the assassination of Bishop Peter.

Lombard League

Formed at Pontida on 1 December 1167, the Lombard League included—beside Verona, Padua, Vicenza and Venice—cities like Crema, Cremona, Mantua, Piacenza, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Vercelli, Lodi, Parma and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and Ezzelino da Romano.

March of Ivrea

The initial Eporedian march consisted of Piedmont and most of the Ligurian coast with the counties of Acqui, Alba, Asti, Bredulo, Auriate, Turin, Ivrea, Vercelli, Pombia, Stazzona, Bulgaria, Lomello, Savona, and Ventimiglia.

Mirko Dorner

In the meantime Dorner won the 1949 Concours de Geneve and the 1952 Vercelli's Viotti competition.

Missionaries of Jesus the Eternal Priest

The community moved to Varallo Sesia in the Province of Vercelli, where they were welcomed and supported by Mons.

Pezzata Rossa d'Oropa

The Pezzata Rossa d'Oropa is a cattle breed from the provinces of Vercelli and Biella in the Piedmont region of Italy.

Pope Leo IX

In the same year he presided over provincial synods at Salerno, Siponto and Vercelli, and in September revisited his native Germany, returning to Rome in time for a third Easter synod, at which the question of the reordination of those who had been ordained by simonists was considered.

Porta Magenta

The former name was after Vercelli as the gate controlled the road connecting Milan to this city; the latter name was chosen to celebrate the Battle of Magenta, a decisive victory in the Second Italian War of Independence.

Both names "Porta Magenta" and "Porta Vercellina" refer to cities located west of Milan (respectively Magenta and Vercelli).

Sylloge

The author of the Laureshamensis traversed the peninsula between Rome and Ivrea, passing through Milan, Pavia, Piacenza, Ravenna, Spoleto and Vercelli.

Tronzano

Tronzano Vercellese, Italian municipality in the province of Vercelli

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.

Villanova Monferrato

Located in the plain to the left of the Po, it the most northerly comune in the province, and borders on the comuni of Caresana, Motta de' Conti, Rive, and Stroppiana in the Vercelli, as well as those of Balzola and Casale Monferrato in the Province of Alessandria.

William VII, Marquess of Montferrat

Having become the military leader of various Lombard cities, including Pavia, Vercelli, Alessandria, Tortona, Genoa, Turin, Asti, Alba, Novara, Brescia, Cremona, and Lodi, he was also elected head of the anti-Angevin coalition.


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