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WHEN HE RETRIEVED Piedmont from the French in 1560 as the result of the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (April 1559), Emanuele Filiberto, duke of Savoy, the victorious general of the Spanish forces in the battle of Saint-Quentin, decided to move his capital from Chambery to Turin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contrada nuova, amor bandito, ducal buildings, fortification girdle, della città nuova, monarchia piemontese, del barocco piemontese, castrum plan, décorations funèbres, fortification enclosure, delle fabriche, piazza castello, fortification belt, fortification trace, città vecchia, polygonal bastion, ideal fortress, porta nova, architettura militare, ducal treasury, foundation medal, military architect, dynastic ideology, dynastic war, radial streets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carlo Emanuele, Vittorio Amedeo, Emanuele Filiberto, House of Savoy, Giovanna Battista, Holy Shroud, San Carlo, San Lorenzo, Guarino Guarini, Madama Reale, Palazzo Carignano, Ascanio Vitozzi, San Francesco, San Giovanni, Barberini Latini, Carlo Morello, Prince Tommaso, Santa Cristina, Villa Valentino, Anne of Austria, Giovanni Botero, Schede Vesme, Art Bulletin, Bastion Verde, Carlo Enianuele New!
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WHEN HE RETRIEVED Piedmont from the French in 1560 as the result of the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (April 1559), Emanuele Filiberto, duke of Savoy, the victorious general of the Spanish forces in the battle of Saint-Quentin, decided to move his capital from Chambery to Turin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contrada nuova, amor bandito, ducal buildings, fortification girdle, della città nuova, monarchia piemontese, del barocco piemontese, castrum plan, décorations funèbres, fortification enclosure, delle fabriche, piazza castello, fortification belt, fortification trace, città vecchia, polygonal bastion, ideal fortress, porta nova, architettura militare, ducal treasury, foundation medal, military architect, dynastic ideology, dynastic war, radial streets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carlo Emanuele, Vittorio Amedeo, Emanuele Filiberto, House of Savoy, Giovanna Battista, Holy Shroud, San Carlo, San Lorenzo, Guarino Guarini, Madama Reale, Palazzo Carignano, Ascanio Vitozzi, San Francesco, San Giovanni, Barberini Latini, Carlo Morello, Prince Tommaso, Santa Cristina, Villa Valentino, Anne of Austria, Giovanni Botero, Schede Vesme, Art Bulletin, Bastion Verde, Carlo Enianuele New!
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- Visible Words (The Sandars lectures for 1964) by J. Sparrow on 4 pages
- The Thirty Years' War by Geoffrey Parker on page 112
- Guarino Guarini and His Architecture by H. A. Meek on page 222
- Lineages of the Absolutist State by PERRY ANDERSON on page 91
- The Four Books of Architecture (Dover Architecture) by Andrea Palladio in Front Matter
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- Early Modern Italy, 1550-1800: Three Seasons in European History (European Studies Series) by Gregory Hanlon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by Mirka Benes in Back Matter
- City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History) by James D. Tracy on page 277
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