What were the cultural surroundings of Lazzaro Spallanzani during his life?
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Lazzaro Spallanzani \nLazzaro Spallanzani (January 10, 1729 - February 12, 1799) was an Italian biologist.\n\nHe was born in Modena and died in Pavia, Italy. Spallanzani was educated at the Jesuit College of Reggio, and started to study law at the University of Bologna, which he gave up soon and turned to science. Here, his famous kinswoman, Laura Bassi, was professor of physics, and it is to her influence that his scientific impulse has been usually attributed. With her he studied natural philosophy and mathematics, and gave also great attention to languages, both ancient and modern, but soon abandoned the study of law, and afterwards took orders.\n\nHis reputation soon widened, and in 1754, at the age of 25 he became professor of logic, metaphysics and Greek in the university of Reggio, and in 1760 was translated to Modena, where he continued to teach with great assiduity and success, but devoted his whole leisure to natural science. He declined many offers from other Italian universities and from St Petersburg until 1768, when he accepted the invitation of Maria Theresa to the chair of natural history in the university of Pavia, which was then being reorganized. He also became director of the museum, which he greatly enriched by the collections of his many journeys along the shores of the Mediterranean.\n\nIn 1785 he was invited to Padua, but to retain his services his sovereign doubled his salary and allowed him leave of absence for a visit to Turkey, where he remained nearly a year, and made many observations, among which may be noted those of a copper mine in Chalki and of an iron mine at Principi. His return home was almost a triumphal progress: at Vienna he was cordially received by Joseph II, and on reaching Pavia he was met with acclamations outside the city gates by the students of the university.\n\nDuring the following year his students exceeded five hundred. His integrity in the management of the museum was called in question, but a judicial investigation speedily cleared his honour, to the satisfaction even of his accusers. In 1788 he visited Vesuvius and the volcanoes of the Lipari Islands and Sicily, and embodied the results of his researches in a large work (Viaggi alle due Sicilie ed 'in alcune parti dell' Apennine), published four years later. He died from an apoplectic seizure on the 12th of February 1799, at Pavia.\n\nHis indefatigable exertions as a traveller, his skill and good fortune as a collector, his brilliance as a teacher and expositor, and his keenness as a controversialist no doubt aid largely in accounting for Spallanzani's exceptional fame among his contemporaries; yet greater qualities were by no means lacking. His life was one of incessant eager questioning of nature on all sides, and his many and varied works all bear the stamp of a fresh and original genius, capable of stating and solving problems in all departments of science--at one time finding the true explanation of "ducks and drakes" (formerly attributed to the elasticity of water) and at another helping to lay the foundations of our modern vulcanology and meteorology.\n\nSpallanzani researched and disproved the theory about the spontaneous generation of cellular life in 1768. His experiment proved that microbes come from the air, and that they could be killed through boiling. This work paved the way for later research by Louis Pasteur.\n\nLazzaro also discovered and described animal (mammal) reproduction, requiering semen and an ovum. He was the first to perform an artificial insemination, using a dog. Spallanzani showed that some animals, especially lizards, can regenerate some parts of their body if injured or surgically removed.\n\nHis great work, however, is the _Dissertationi de fisica animale e vegetale_ (2 vols, 1780). Here he first interpreted the process of digestion, which he proved to be no mere mechanical process of trituration, but one of actual solution, taking place primarily in the stomach, by
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Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Caprese, Italy in 1475. He lived in Rome where and died there in 1564 at the age of 89.
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www.roman-empire.net \nwww.travelplan.it/rome_guide.htm
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I can tell you which place your family most likely comes from:\nA city between "Vicenza" and "Verona" in the "Veneto" region: probably"Arzignano" near "Soave". Look at them in http://www.wikipedia.org\n\nHere the mapping of Zorzanello's in Italy:\nhttp://www.gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/gif.html?cognome=ZORZANELLO&k=FF&t=cognomi&s=Z\n\nEnter your name ("cognome") in the field on the left of: http://www.gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/\n\nHere the mapping of Zorzanello's in the USA\nhttp://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/Z/ZORZANELLO.gif\n\nEnter your name in the query field of http://www.gens-us.net/\n\n\n\nThere are 30 Zorzanello in Italy (Phone Book)\nhttp://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?ts=7&cb=&btt=1&tl=2&qs=zorzanello&x=0&y=0\n\nHere the detail\n\nhttp://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?btt=1&tl=2&tr=101&tc=&cb=&x=0&y=0&tq=2&qs=zorzanello&qsn=&dv=veneto&ind=&nc=
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/personalrelig.html\n\nhttp://www.fjkluth.com/festival.html\n\nhttp://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grlg/hd_grlg.htm
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join wikipedia \nor search google and u will find it\ntype joe anselmo official website\ngood luck!
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I found this on the internet. I hope it helps.\n\nAero Italia, Via Pizzenia, Roma, RM00101
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vaffuncolo...managia....figlio di puttana...mangiare mia cazo\n\nhope it helps:))
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Italian cheeses:\n\nhttp://www.artisanalcheese.com/searchprodfilter.asp?ad1=ITALY&ad2=&ad3=&ad4=&pagenumber=1
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http://www.ilaryblasi.too.it/\n\nHere u can find some "interesting" photo... click FOTO on the left... byebye from Italy! CIAO!
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Rome and Vactican City?
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As one of the most famous 2 men /artists of his time.known to most of the cultered world ,with his male lovers.How could he hide it.The other Was Michaelangelo,also gay,who carved the great David,and painted the Sistine chapel.
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How about the role of Dante Alighieri, in development of the Italian language, through his great work, the "Divina Commedia"?\n\nOr, as part of that, his impact on history? There is also extensive historical material about his life and times, in the "Commedia".
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Art, music, commerce, culture
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I would choose Italian.  I would also avoid buffets.  Good luck.
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I think you are getting a little mixed up with your question and you are not providing enough information to answer your question. Not sure what you mean by Herculonious period as no such period existed in Italy, unless you mean the city of Herculaneum, which was a part of Campania. The town itself was named after Hercules, but was covered in volcanic ash and lava, by Mount Vesuvius at the same time as Pompeii in 79AD. \n\nCampania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. The region covers 13,595 km² and has a population of 5.8 million.\n\nIf you require the history of Campania you will find it here.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campania