#OTD the 22nd of February 1530 Charles of Hapsburg received in #Bologna the Crown of Italy, in a couple of days he will be crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. A little #thread 👇🧵 #history #Spain #Italy #Renaissance #22February2023 #rinascimento #Asburgo #Hapsburg
The ceremony happened inside the Palazzo Comunale, now Palazzo D'Accursio, in the North Italian city of #Bologna. Inside the Chapel of Legato, now Chapel #Farnese, Charles, or Carlos, was crowned by the Pope Clemente VII. Continue 2) #Renaissance #Europe
Let's read the words of Ugo Boncompagni, the future Pope Gregorio XIII: "The Pope crowned his Majesty with the Iron Crown and gave him the Globe, the Sword and the Sceptre". Continue 3) #IronCrown #CoronaFerrea
When Vittorio Amedeo II from #Savoy, the 24th of #December 1713 was crowned King of #Sicily (as seen in the relief from #Palermo's cathedral) he reached the Royal title, a dream his dinasty was seeking for centuries. #Utrecht#Spain#France#Italy Continue #thread 🧵
What he could not know is that in #Sicily he found something maybe more precious, for sure a longer lasting asset than his title as King of Sicily: an #architect from #Messina called Fillippo Juvarra. Continue #thread
Juvarra already worked in #Rome and Naples, pupil of the famous Carlo Fontana (see pic), an #architect from #Ticino, hence of Lombard culture, of paramount importance for Juvarra. In #Messina the sicilian architect was able to offer his services to Vittorio Amedeo II. Continue
Nell'agosto del 1944 il Movimento di Liberazione bolognese era particolarmente attivo e le rappresaglie dei nazisti e dei loro servi repubblichini furono feroci. La sera del 7 agosto Irma fu catturata a tradotta a #Bologna nel tentativo di farla parlare. continua 2) #resistenza
Irma resistette alle torture senza mai parlare. Preservando in tal modo molti suoi compagni. La mattina del 14 agosto il corpo inanimato di Irma fu trovato sul selciato vicino allo stabilimento della ICO, dove era stato lasciato dagli aguzzini come disumano monito continua 3)