cisalpine


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on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps

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Founder of the lay Catholic Committee (later Cisalpine Club), the main champions of Catholic emancipation, Berington was a representative of liberal English Catholics and, as such, passionately opposed to papal intervention in the English Catholic Church, insisting that "He was no Papist, neither is his religion Popery." (56) Interestingly, besides Milner's public arguments with Berington and Sturges, preserved respectively in A Serious Expostulation with the Rev.
He served as a legatus pro praetore with Caesar in Gaul and was appointed governor of Cisalpine Gaul in 51 BC.
Although these changes were regarded by the people of Venice as a long awaited revolution to be accompanied by joyful demonstrations, their victory was short-lived; on October 17,1797, Napoleon signed the Treaty of Campo Formio, whereby Venice was given to Austria, neglecting the pleas by the new democratic Venetian government (of which Lucilio is a member) to allow them to join the Cisalpine Republic.
(23) Around the same principle of democracy were shaped the autonomy of Gaetano Salvemini, the free regionalism of Oliviero Zuccarini, the communitarian federalism of Adriano Olivetti or, later on, the fiscal federalism, while the regionalist approach of an ideological and political trend could be found in the federalism of the North League, in the Independent Sicilian movement, in the Cisalpine movement and in the federalism of the "red regions".
It marked the boundary between Italy, as controlled by Rome, and the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul.
(15.) ASM, Ministero degli Esteri I Divisione (Marescalchi), 10 (5): letter from Marseilles dated December 19, 1800, addressed to Ferdinando Marescalchi, ambassador to Paris of the Cisalpine Republic, and signed by Luigi Marescalchi, compositore di musica del Gran Teatro, e Francesco Marescalchi, Rue des Harpies chez Martin Caffettier, n.
(34) The significance was important in the context of the Napoleonic invasions of Italy for it created a virtual civil war as Italians initially welcomed Napoleon as a liberator who defeated the ruling Hapsburg dynasty and established the Cisalpine republic.
In 58 BC, the Senate appointed him governor of the Cisalpine province.
their home in Cisalpine Gaul when making his gubernatorial circuit),
The transalpine perspective remains that of a series of individual peoples and lands, but the cisalpine, Roman perspective is different: the 'German lands' are presented not as foreign parts beyond the imperial borders, but as an integral, albeit rebellious, province of the Empire.
Second, on page 205 Goldsworthy, quoting Caesar from his De Bellico Gallo, states that in 58 BC when Helvetian tribes were moving to Cisalpine Gaul, Caesar moved his legions from Rome to the bank of the Rhone in eight days.
The expulsion of the Moriscoes from Habsburg Spain, bloodletting in French towns during the Wars of Religion, in the Low Countries and Cisalpine valleys, the plight of Protestants (and others) during the Duke of Alva's government and the remaking of the landowning elite in the Bohemia of the 1620s match in horror, for those caught up in the dramas, what Ireland experienced.