The Guelph terms and gibellines come from the Italian terms guelfi and ghibellini , with which the two factions were called that since the 12th century supported the House of Bavaria (the Welfen, and hence the word Guelph in the Holy Roman Empire, respectively. listen)) and to the house of the Hoh
The well-known Italian poet of the Middle Ages, Dante, imagined hell as a dark place of torture. But he could never have imagined that hell, as he envisioned it and described it in his Divine Comedy, would once exist on earth. The air is stuffy. A few men with their gas masks stuck to their faces
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566), favorite of King Henry II of France, imposed herself on the royal court at the expense of Queen Catherine de Medici, and surrounded herself with a brilliant court. An independent woman, she knew how to preserve the youth of her body and her mind. She never forgot her p
The harangues of the champions before going into battle to inflame the spirits of the combatants are typical and, above all, very cinematographic. In this case, the confrontation occurred in the year 61 between Boudica , the queen of the Iceni, and Caius Suetonius Paulo , Roman governor of Britain.