Italy in the Middle Ages
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The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Late antiquity in Italy lingered on into the 7t
Expansion of the Frankish Empire: Blue = realm of Pippin III in 758, Orange = expansion under Charlemagne until 814, Yellow = marches and dependencies
Castle of Itri, probably dating from Docibilis I's reign
Louis II at the capture of Bari, 871, from Houze's Atlas Universel Historique et Geographique (1850)
Medieval Kingdom of Italy, outlined in red, in the 12th and 13th centuries
Italy
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Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as w
Italy in the Middle Ages
…in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Late antiquity in Italy lingered on into the 7th century under the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty, the Byzantine Papacy until the mid…
Etruscan fresco in the Monterozzi necropolis, 5th century BC
The Colosseum, widely considered one of the greatest works of architecture and engineering of ancient history
Marco Polo, 13th-century explorer
Leonardo da Vinci, quintessential Renaissance man, in a self-portrait (c. 1512)