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Rome was plundered by imperial armies in 1527; the Medici were driven out of Florence and returned to power only under tutelage of the Spanish, who won effective control of the whole country.
There is a whole class of Italian surnames that were given to foundlings, including variations of Trovato (trovato past participle of trovare to find; trovatello foundling), Proietto (proietto ejected or rejected), Innocenti , and Nocenti (given to all children taken into Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti orphanage; the name was also given to those who were innocent of evil, or simple-minded), Ignoto ( ignoto unknown), and Esposito or Sposito (esposto exposed), which de Felice has found to be the most common name in Naples.
Florence was the first Italian town to mint its own gold coin (fiorino or florin), a prestigious instrument for trade in European markets, and it organized textile manufacture on an advanced large-scale basis.
Hillary Clinton was the personality who most interested the Italian newspapers at Sunday's "Third Way" summit conference in Florence, where the leaders of the United States, Brazil, and various European countries vainly sought a common political platform for the world's parties of the center-left.
Many cities continue to be renowned for products of their traditional crafts: Naples’ costumed hand-crafted figures for its nativity sets, Sorrento’s intarsia (inlaid wood for furniture, frames or music boxes), Volterra’s alabaster, Gubbio’s ceramics, Florence’s leathergoods, Venice’s glassware.
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