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92-495: Lusignano (or Lüxignan in Ligurian ) is a hamlet in the municipality of Albenga , in the province of Savona , Italy. It is located about 4 km from the town of Albenga in a narrow strip of plain between the river Centa and the foothills bordering the plain to the south. The mountains are called the rock of pistulè . The name derives from the fundi rustic as Antognano, Aregliano, Velirano, Verano, all large-scale and exploiting
184-649: A morganatic marriage to Anna Canalis di Cumiana . Victor Amadeus II subsequently abdicated his throne causing great unrest in Savoy . In ecclesiastic affairs he issued In eminenti apostolatus , the first papal decree against the Freemasons on 28 April 1738. He canonized Saint Vincent de Paul and proceeded with vigour against the French Jansenists . He campaigned for the reunion of the Roman and Orthodox churches , received
276-466: A Gallo-Italic language, Ligurian is most closely related to the Lombard , Piedmontese and Emilian-Romagnol languages, all of which are spoken in neighboring provinces. Unlike the aforementioned languages, however, it exhibits distinct Italian features. No link has, thus far, been demonstrated by linguistic evidence between Romance Ligurian and the Ligurian language of the ancient Ligurian populations , in
368-410: A German soldier, Felix, who was in retreat, confided in the weight that oppressed him, telling what had happened, also calling his mother by the young man, Luigia Sardo Bruno. She herself was tortured and slapped by the black Brigadier Felice Bisterzo; but Felix recounted Brocco's faults, whom she also said was one of Lieutenant Angel's mistresses. The German soldier was killed the next day in a clash with
460-610: A Latin plan with 3 naves with a high altar of which the choir is behind. The facade was restored in the 1990s. In the hamlet there is the Oratory of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle , seat of the homonymous brotherhood. The present oratory derives from a reconstruction which took place around 1780, following the collapse of the previous structure. In the village there is a villa of the bishop of Albenga Pier Francesco Costa, who since 1647 spent much of his time on site, deciding to leave this villa to
552-643: A courtier and named him Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna on 17 May 1706, retaining his services as papal treasurer. He advanced still further under Pope Benedict XIII (1724–1730), who made him Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura , a judicial branch of the Roman Curia . He was successively appointed as the Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli and Cardinal- Bishop of Frascati . Under Benedict XIII,
644-507: A dowry to all the spinsters of Lusignano. In 1680 we have the news that this Bonifacio Bamonte , canon of the cathedral and rector of the church of Lusignano who was accused of committing acts of filth and crimes, for which he had to intervene with an absolute, Pope Clement XII . When Napoleon stayed in Albenga in 1796, he plundered all the communities, including that of Lusignano which saw many of its treasures disappear: some sacred objects and
736-521: A gh'à tutti i driti e e libertæ proclamæ inte questa Diciaraçion, sensa nisciunn-a distinçion de razza, cô, sesso, lengoa, religion, òpinion politica ò d'atro tipo, òrigine naçionale ò sociale, poxiçion econòmica, nascimento, ò quæ se segge atra condiçion. Pe de ciù, no se faiâ nisciunn-a diferensa fondâ in sciâ condiçion politica, giuridica ò internaçionale do Paize ò do teritöio a-o quæ e personn-e apartegnan, segge pe-i Paixi indipendenti che pe-i teritöi sott'aministraçion fiduciaia, sens'outonomia, ò sotomissi
828-467: A half million scudi , enabling him to undertake the extensive building programs for which he is chiefly remembered, but which he was never able to see. A competition for the majestic façade of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran was won by architect Alessandro Galilei . The façade he designed is perhaps more palatial than ecclesiastic, and was finished by 1735. Clement XII erected in that ancient basilica
920-707: A lime factory in Finalmarina. On the death of Gaspare Perseghini in 1925, he left the company in the hands of his sons Eugenio and Giuseppe. Since then began the climb to the top of the local economy. The furnace of Lusignano was officially opened in 1810 making the furnace, with the operation of the Hoffmann furnace method, one of the first examples in Italy. After the Second World War the new furnace arrived in Villanova d'Albenga and
1012-621: A magnificent chapel dedicated to his 14th-century kinsman, St. Andrew Corsini . He restored the Arch of Constantine and built the Palazzo della Consulta on the Quirinal Hill . He purchased from Cardinal Alessandro Albani for 60,000 scudi a famous collection of statues, inscriptions, etc., and opened it to the public as the Capitoline Museums . He paved the streets of Rome and the roads leading from
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#17329018830031104-523: A priest. He did not proceed to the imperial court, because Leopold I , the Holy Roman Emperor , maintained that he had the right to select the nuncio from a list of three names furnished by the pope. In 1696, Corsini was appointed treasurer-general and governor of the Castel Sant'Angelo . His good fortune increased during the pontificate of Pope Clement XI (1700–1721), who employed his talents as
1196-460: A very delightful villa, where there are many houses and beautiful gardens of citizens, among which the pride of the former Prospero Cepolla , which now belongs to Gio Francesco de lords Counts Della Lengueglia . In these years there was the division of the hamlets under the aegis of the lords of the city, where Lusignano was under the Cepolla. In 1615 the notary Enrico Riva left his inheritance to make
1288-509: A ògni atra limitaçion de sovranitæ. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on
1380-560: Is a Gallo-Italic language spoken primarily in the territories of the former Republic of Genoa , now comprising the area of Liguria in Northern Italy , parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France , Monaco (where it is called Monégasque ), the village of Bonifacio in Corsica , and in the villages of Carloforte on San Pietro Island and Calasetta on Sant'Antioco Island off
1472-703: Is based on the Latin alphabet , and consists of 25 letters: ⟨a⟩ , ⟨æ⟩ , ⟨b⟩ , ⟨c⟩ , ⟨ç⟩ , ⟨d⟩ , ⟨e⟩ , ⟨f⟩ , ⟨g⟩ , ⟨h⟩ , ⟨i⟩ , ⟨l⟩ , ⟨m⟩ , ⟨n⟩ , ⟨ñ⟩ or ⟨nn-⟩ , ⟨o⟩ , ⟨p⟩ , ⟨q⟩ , ⟨r⟩ , ⟨s⟩ , ⟨t⟩ , ⟨u⟩ , ⟨v⟩ , ⟨x⟩ , ⟨z⟩ . The ligature ⟨æ⟩ indicates
1564-536: Is now lost, or if it was a spelling mistake and referring to the church of Santa Margherita. Towards the middle of the fourteenth century there is certain information that Lusignano, together with San Fedele, Villanova, Ligo, Marta and Bossoleto were administratively under the control of the San Siro district of the city of Albenga, its laws and its magistrates. In 1418, among others, a certain Emmanuele Riva di Lusignano
1656-481: Is realized as a semivowel [ w ] after a consonant, or before a vowel (i.e poeivan [pwejvaŋ] ), as well as after /k/ , when the sequence is spelled ⟨qu⟩ . Diphthong sounds include ⟨ei⟩ [ej] and ⟨òu⟩ [ɔw] . No universally accepted orthography exists for Ligurian. Genoese, the prestige dialect, has two main orthographic standards. One, known as grafia unitäia (unitary orthography), has been adopted by
1748-475: Is still kept, it is possible to see a drinking trough. The archaeological stratigraphy allows to distinguish a continuity of life of the site, from its building, about at the beginning of the 1st century AD until the 5th century. The whole archaeological area is now under protection according to the Ministerial Decree November 6, 1995, and July 7, 1997. Along the road to the city, the most unique of
1840-719: Is ubiquitous and increasing. It is also spoken in the department of the Alpes-Maritimes of France (mostly the Côte d'Azur from the Italian border to and including Monaco ), in the town of Bonifacio at the southern tip of the French island of Corsica , and by a large community in Gibraltar ( UK ). It has been adopted formally in Monaco under the name Monégasque – locally, Munegascu – but without
1932-674: The Jesuit Roman College in Rome and also at the University of Pisa where he earned a doctorate in both civil law and canon law . Corsini practised law under the able direction of his uncle, Cardinal Neri Corsini . After the death of his uncle and his father, in 1685, Corsini, now thirty-three, would have become head of the Corsini. Instead, he renounced his right of primogeniture and from Pope Innocent XI (1676–1689) he purchased, according to
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#17329018830032024-760: The Patriarch of the Coptic Church and persuaded the Armenian Patriarch to remove the anathema against the Council of Chalcedon and Pope Leo I (440–461). He dispatched Joseph Simeon Assemani to the East for the twofold purpose of continuing his search for manuscripts and presiding as legate over a national council of Maronites . He created the youngest Cardinal ever when on 19 December 1735, he named Luis Antonio Jaime de Borbón y Farnesio , Royal Infante of Spain, age 8, to
2116-626: The Republic of Genoa , its traditional importance in trade and commerce, and its vast literature. Like other regional languages in Italy, the use of Ligurian and its dialects is in rapid decline. ISTAT (the Italian Central Service of Statistics) claims that in 2012, only 9% of the population used a language other than standard Italian with friends and family, which decreases to 1.8% with strangers. Furthermore, according to ISTAT, regional languages are more commonly spoken by uneducated people and
2208-443: The Roman Curia . Since Clement XII, no pope has been elected at an older age than Clement XII when he was elected. As a Corsini , with his mother a Strozzi , the new pope represented a family at the highest level of Florentine society, with a cardinal in every generation for the previous hundred years. On 1 May 1730, several of the cardinals initially settled upon electing Cardinal Gianantonio Davia but had been unable to secure
2300-747: The Sacred College . Though he was blind and compelled to keep to his bed, from which he gave audiences and transacted affairs of state, he surrounded himself with capable officials, many of them his Corsini relatives, but he did little for his family except to purchase and enlarge the palace built in Trastevere for the Riarii , and now known as the Palazzo Corsini (the seat of the Accademia dei Lincei ). In 1754, his nephew, Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini , founded there
2392-501: The province of Alessandria , around the area of Novi Ligure , and the Province of Cuneo , in the municipalities of Ormea , Garessio , Alto and Caprauna ), western extremes of Emilia-Romagna (some areas in the province of Piacenza ), and in Carloforte on San Pietro Island and Calasetta on Sant'Antioco Island off of southwestern Sardinia (known as Tabarchino ), where its use
2484-559: The 13th century to the present, such as Luchetto (the Genoese Anonym), Martin Piaggio [ it ; lij ] , and Gian Giacomo Cavalli [ it ; lij ] . The Italian Government does not consider Ligurian a language, but rather a dialect of Italian . Hence, it is not protected by law. Historically, Genoese (the dialect spoken in the city of Genoa) is the written koiné , owing to its semi-official role as language of
2576-572: The 1960s, the Perseghini furnace was closed and abandoned, becoming a refuge for the homeless for a period. Only in the 1990s did the country begin to expand. On the night of July 28, 1991, the carabiniere Germano Giovanni Bonello, free from duty, saved the occupants of a car that he had crashed before the tank exploded. For this reason, the President of the Republic, by decree dated April 30, 1992, recognizes
2668-617: The Albenganian administrative body only with the annexation to the First French Empire in 1804. The small town has the good fortune to host during the 19th century the comtesse de Genlis , writer and pedagogist, gifted with a liberal education, expounded her theory pedagogical in the treatise Adéle and Theodore , a novel written in Lusignano. It takes the aspect of the days she lives between here and nearby Albenga , she describes that
2760-1025: The Borgo owned by Pietro della Pietra was chosen for 30 Lire and an area of 130 square meters; Count Cepollini opposes and wins the dispute because the land did not reflect when desired by the Royal Patents. The Commission finds what the Count said untrue, but to avoid quarrels it prefers to find another place, and in 1833 there is a plot of land in the Molino Region, owned by Dorotea Rolando, wife of Filippo Enrico, of 225 square meters, used for viticulture and paid 52 cents per square meter. [REDACTED] Media related to Lusignano at Wikimedia Commons Ligurian (Romance language) Ligurian ( / l ɪ ˈ ɡ j ʊər i ə n / lig- YOOR -ee-ən ; endonym: lìgure ) or Genoese ( / ˌ dʒ ɛ n oʊ ˈ iː z / JEN -oh- EEZ ; endonym: zeneise or zeneize )
2852-452: The Garzeo located in the place of Lusignano. Popular legend has it that a bandit was running away from the carabinieri , and while he was on the wall, he was killed. The wall marked the border between the territories belonging to the bishop and those belonging to the marquis. The anthropomorphic monument was erected to remind future generations of this event. The symbol was taken as an image by
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2944-643: The Ligurian-language press – including the Genoese column of the largest Ligurian press newspaper, Il Secolo XIX – as well as a number of other publishing houses and academic projects. The other, proposed by the cultural association A Compagna and the Academia Ligustica do Brenno is the self-styled grafia ofiçiâ (official orthography). The two orthographies mainly differ in their usage of diacritics and doubled consonants. The Ligurian alphabet
3036-623: The anniversary of the earthquake, the town had a big party with a procession to thank San Bartolomeo for having saved the town. On February 2, 1880, Luisa Cepollini d'Alto and Caprauna was born in Lusignano, in the Villa Prospera owned by the Cepollini family; on Holy Thursday 1897 she received the call to the religious service then on April 9, 1900, she entered the Institute of Turin and on June 11 in Lyon for
3128-442: The area. Lusignano is in the first hinterland of Albenga , in the west Riviera . Its historical part is on the hills, including the parts of the expansion, to broaden the town boasts the surrounding plan. At the end of the 20th century there was an expansion of cottages in the surrounding area. However, the significant part coincides with the historical part, that is developed with a main street, Via Enrico D'Aste . It starting from
3220-669: The basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. Some basic vocabulary, in the spelling of the Genoese Academia Ligustica do Brenno : [REDACTED] Wikisource has original text related to this article: Ligurian language wikisource Pope Clement XII Pope Clement XII ( Latin : Clemens XII ; Italian : Clemente XII ; 7 April 1652 – 6 February 1740), born Lorenzo Corsini ,
3312-427: The bishop Dania, who had been a schoolmate of the young general, he was able to obtain protection. During the war of succession, the Albenga seminary was occupied by 1200 soldiers under the guidance of the city commissioner Emanuele Ricci; the seminary was transferred for a short period to the villa of Lusignano. In 1820 the new bishop of Albenga – Carmelo Cordiviola – with the excuse of the unhealthy air (perhaps due to
3404-514: The bottom tapering through the village, on its way this is different squares , also of limited size. The upper part of the route has been subject to redevelopment in 2011 with a project and funds from the Region of Liguria . The character is a village built on sloping ground, in the valley of the Rio Carpaneto. The landmark of the country is definitely the bell, even if it is dominated by the presence of
3496-469: The business flourished thanks to the reconstruction. In 1958 Eugenio died. In the mid-seventies, the rapid decline began: continuous cycle productions, plastic materials and iron replaced brick. In 1997, the Fornace begins a new life thanks to a building renovation that transforms it into a residential complex, with shapes very similar to those of the past. Some associations criticize the project, arguing that it
3588-415: The care of souls, it was the last act of the two vicars of the provisional government of the diocese , the day after he took office to Albenga the new bishop Matteo Del Carretto . The baptistery arrived under the bishop's care of Napoleone Fieschi on 14 October 1460, with the obligation of 10 soldi to be paid to the archpriest; this permit will later be withdrawn without explanation. He was appointed to
3680-644: The city and widened the Via del Corso . He began the triumphant Baroque Trevi Fountain , one of the noted ornaments of Rome. Under his reign, a port was built at Ancona , with a highway that gave easy access to the interior. He drained the malarial marshes of the Chiana near Lake Trasimeno .The pope founded in 1732 the Italo-Albanian College Library of San Demetrio Corone in Calabria . Politically, however, this
3772-621: The coast of southwestern Sardinia . It is part of the Gallo-Italic and Western Romance dialect continuum . Although part of Gallo-Italic, it exhibits several features of the Italo-Romance group of central and southern Italy . Zeneize (literally " Genoese "), spoken in Genoa , the capital of Liguria, is the language's prestige dialect on which the standard is based. There is a long literary tradition of Ligurian poets and writers that goes from
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3864-498: The custom of the time, for 30,000 scudi , a position of prelatial rank and devoted his wealth and leisure to the enlargement of the library bequeathed to him by his uncle. Corsini's home on the Piazza Navona was the centre of Rome's scholarly and artistic life. In 1690 he was made titular Archbishop of Nicomedia and chosen nuncio to Vienna , receiving a dispensation from Pope Alexander VIII since he had not yet been ordained
3956-541: The deaths of Andreino Bruno and Pasquale Faroppa, the Military Information Service had evidence of their collaborationism and of the fact that they often wore Nazi uniforms as pride. The structure and urban planning of the town remained unchanged, or at most with few changes, for many centuries, preserving in its inhabitants a spirit that dates back to the Middle Ages, linked to the land and moral values. From
4048-423: The early decline it underwent in the past. The language itself is actively preserved by various groups. Because of the importance of Genoese trade, Ligurian was once spoken well beyond the borders of the modern province. It has since given way to standard varieties, such as Standard Italian and French . In particular, the language is traditionally spoken in coastal, northern Tuscany , southern Piedmont (part of
4140-403: The elderly, mostly in rural areas. Liguria is no exception. One can reasonably suppose the age pyramid to be strongly biased toward the elderly who were born before World War II , with proficiency rapidly approaching zero for newer generations. Compared to other regional languages of Italy, Ligurian has experienced a significantly smaller decline which could have been a consequence of its status or
4232-411: The end of the Roman era, even if without evidence, it is quite probable that the Lusignano area also developed. It is certain that the church dates back to before the 13th century, since the parish church, dedicated to Santa Margherita d'Antiochia, has a baptismal font and the presbytery from that historical period inside. In the book of the confreres of the local Confraternity of San Bartolomeo Apostolo ,
4324-450: The entire population under the gunfire for a period of time, shouting at those who moved too much. Luciano Luberti, who commanded the troops together with the German lieutenant commander, was present and interrogated. Given the rain that had come out, the priest, Don Remoino, opened the doors of the parish church and the military allowed the women and children to take shelter. Towards the end of
4416-476: The episcopal administration of Pietro Anacleto Siboni, risked a change of ownership which was averted in 1867 thanks to the help of the lawyer Giuseppe Leone Mantica. In 1921 it was sold by Bishop Angelo Cambiaso who bought the Verzi-Loano paper mill with the proceeds; however, during the Second World War it functioned for some time as a seminary even in winter. The archaeological site was discovered in 1995, during
4508-456: The famous Corsini Library. Clement XII created 35 cardinals in fifteen consistories held throughout his pontificate. The first individual he raised into the cardinalate was his nephew Neri Maria Corsini while he also raised his future successor Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico ( Pope Clement XIII ) to the cardinalate. He also raised his nephew Giovanni Antonio Guadagni to the cardinalate in 1731. The pope named five new saints during his reign,
4600-467: The fertile plain. The country is crossed by a river named Rio Carpaneto. The town developed along the ridge with a rather complex system, likely evidence of a more ancient origin than the other city of the plain. During the excavations for the construction of a new residential complex in the region of in Rusineo, there were the ruins of a Roman villa of considerable size, which indicates a Roman presence in
4692-515: The finances of the Papal States had been delivered into the hands of Cardinal Niccolò Coscia and other members of the curia, who had drained the financial resources of the see. Benedict died in 1730, and in the conclave that followed his death, after deliberating for four months, the College of Cardinals selected Corsini, 78 years old and with failing eyesight, who had held all the important offices of
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#17329018830034784-466: The first members date back to the 15th century, even if it is written that not all the confreres are present. In the Statutes of Albenga of 1288 there are various references to the town, which is called Luxignanum . It is said that with a decree of 13 January 1313, the archdeacon of the cathedral had the prebend of S. Maria di Lusignano; it is not clear whether it was referring to some church or convent that
4876-500: The form of a substrate or otherwise. Very little is known about ancient Ligurian itself due to the lack of inscriptions and the unknown origin of the Ligurian people. Only onomastics and toponyms are known to have survived from ancient Ligurian, the name Liguria itself being the most obvious example. Most important variants of the Ligurian language are: Semivowels occur as allophones of /i/ and /u/ , as well as in diphthongs. /u/
4968-455: The former partisan Luciano Ghio and the German lieutenant Willy Angel, sacked the house and the stable of Andreino Bruno who was then killed by the hand of Luberti with Angel's gun. Lusignano and San Fedele were the link between the city of Albenga and the mountain fighters. For this reason, between November '44 and February '45 the localities were subjected to German interference. The German troops occupied Lusignano and Lieutenant Willy Angel led
5060-422: The group. The Germans occupied several places, such as the Oratory of San Bartolomeo or private homes. When the sun had not yet risen, on the morning of December 13, 1944, a search of all the houses in the town was carried out by German soldiers, who finding nothing forced the entire population to gather in the central square, including women and children. Here they separated the men from women and children, leaving
5152-464: The guilt of the eighteen year old who was arrested; the spouses themselves wore the German uniform. The Cammillettis wanted to take revenge for a complaint received some time before for a theft of grapes. The young man was beaten and tortured all night. The next day at 9 in the morning the young Andreino Bruno was taken to the Inferno Region, in nearby San Fedele and killed with a gunshot to the back of
5244-624: The head. Luciano Luberti kicked his body by breaking some limbs to make him enter the pit in the ground which was too small. As usual, the Bruno house was sacked by the Germans, gold, silver, linen, animals and clothes. The linen was found at Brocco's house in Laigueglia after the war. The story was told on the evening of April 24, 1945, in the home of Candido Stien and his wife Maddalena Amoi in San Fedele, where
5336-408: The illegal construction in the adjacent Rio Carpaneto. The registers of economic activities are still preserved, reflecting the strong activity of the factory. In 1832 the Senatorial Manifesto was issued by the King, according to which the dead would no longer be able to bury themselves in churches or villages for health reasons; a land is chosen for the burial outside the built-up area. A land above
5428-494: The local Lusignanese mutual aid sports union. With the death of the last heir Prospero Cepollini (lawyer, mayor of Albenga and President of the Province of Savona), which took place in 1972, the property passed to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Turin , where two aunts, including the Servant of God Maria Giuseppina of Jesus , they did service. Then the property was sold to private individuals. The Perseghini family built two brick kilns in Lusignano and Albenga, buying
5520-423: The manor house. The inscription recalls the name of the customer of the work, the collector of antiquities Prospero Cepolla , born in Palermo in 1543, who wanted to give monumental forms to his father's land starting in 1550 and continued until 1594 described with the words: The result was a residential complex consisting of “a villa surrounded by a wall with a house inside and an adjoining lawn and vineyard named
5612-421: The morning the children and women were allowed to return home, while the men were forced to remain in the square until the roundups were over. However, shortly afterwards, two men tried to escape, one was chased through the streets of the town, captured and shot on the spot after a few meters, the other tried to escape through the Perseghini furnace, but found himself facing a wall too high to be bypassed, and he too
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#17329018830035704-408: The most notable being Vincent de Paul . He also beatified eight others including, his predecessor Pope Benedict XI . Clement XII died on 6 February 1740 at 9:30 am due to complications from gout . His remains were transferred to his tomb in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran on 20 July 1742. Pope Clement XII's tomb is in the Capella Corsini of the Basilica of St. John Lateran and was completed by
5796-426: The nearby Mount Pisciavino . The first settlements found date back to Roman times, but it is possible that Lusignano was one of the areas where the first inhabitants of the plain had settled: the slightly raised ground allows a safe shelter from the floods of the Centa river that crosses the Albenga plain; all this suggests that even in pre-Roman times the area was already inhabited or at least frequented. With
5888-506: The necessary support. To that end, they refocused their efforts on getting Corsini elected, securing him 31 votes. Corsini, however, was not seriously considered as a candidate until about early July when the candidacy of Pietro Marcellino Corradini started to waver. Meanwhile, the French, Spanish, and Germans were perfectly amenable to Corsini's election. Corsini took his papal name in memorial to Pope Clement XI , who created him cardinal. His first moves as Pope Clement XII were to restore
5980-407: The novitiate. In September 1905 she made her perpetual vows with the name of Sister Giuseppina di Gesù she was a Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She died in Turin on June 21, 1917, and is buried in the chapel of the Institute. She has been subject to the process of beatification since 1966, with her appointment as a Servant of God . During the World War I she made her great contribution to
6072-453: The papal finances. He demanded restitution from the ministers who had abused the confidence of his predecessor. The chief culprit, Cardinal Niccolò Coscia, was heavily fined, excommunicated and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Papal finances were also improved through reviving the public lottery, which had been suppressed by the severe morality of Benedict XIII. Soon money poured into Clement XII's treasury, an annual sum amounting to nearly
6164-449: The papal gallery. In his 1738 bull In eminenti apostolatus , he provides the first public papal condemnation of Freemasonry . Lorenzo Corsini was born in Florence in 1652 as the son of Bartolomeo Corsini , Marquis of Casigliano and his wife Elisabetta Strozzi , the sister of the Duke of Bagnuolo . Both of his parents belonged to the old Florentine nobility. He was a distant relative of Saint Andrew Corsini . Corsini studied at
6256-408: The parish title thanks to Monsignor Giacomo Gambarana , who grants the baptismal font to the rector on June 1, 1523, always with the obligation to pay 10 soldi a year to the archpriest of cathedral ingauna , with the obligation to serve in the cathedral on Holy Saturday , on the eve of Pentecost , and on the feast of the patron saint Archangel Michael . From 1598 the patronal church was submitted to
6348-414: The part near the altar, a symbol that for a war or for a famine could not finish the work. Inside there are the processional statues of Bartholomew the Apostle and Margaret the Virgin made by Antonio Brilla in the mid 19th century. There is a statue of Saint Bartholomew from the 16th century. Inside the church there are 4 paintings and a cycle of paintings of the Stations of the Cross . The church has
6440-504: The partisans during the retreat from Albenga. Candido Stien and Maddalena Amori will testify in Savona on May 28, 1945, in the trial against Amelia Brocco, who had fled to Montagnana in her hometown. While Camilletti was perhaps seized by remorse or perhaps for fear of what could happen to him, he tried suicide, while he was hospitalized he was taken and executed by the partisans after a quick trial on May 7, 1945. They were found guilty of collaborationism, having denounced and directly procured
6532-426: The patronage of the Albenganese Cepolla family. In 1629 – 1630 the inhabitants decided to enlarge the parish church with a "majestic choro at noon". The low façade was divided vertically into three parts and the bell tower from the 16th century was preserved. Expanded in the following centuries, with a major modification in Baroque age , the ceiling is decorated with a bas-relief that should have ended with gold beads in
6624-512: The presence of the Nazis in the town, and to postpone the operation; some periods later Manfro was arrested and tortured by the "executioner" Luciano Luberti. For the roundups of Lusignano and San Fedele Mauro Sansoni was arrested and taken to Savona, who was then shot on April 28 in the Priamar fortress. On the night of December 29, the German army collaborator Bruno Camilletti, while his wife Amelia Brocco
6716-512: The recent construction of the Perseghini furnace, very close to the villa) which had settled in Lusignano, asked and obtained from the government to have access to a large and abandoned convent in Alassio where another seminary opened, capable of hosting all the clerics even in the autumn months. With the unification of Italy, the Church saw many of its assets removed and even the villa of Lusignano, during
6808-415: The sea and it is safe from the violent floods of Arroscia river, but near a small river: it is a perfect location, fully in accordance with the prescriptions suggested by the antique sources for a villa perfecta. The north, south and west sides of a large rectangular yard are partially kept; the yard is 24 meters wide, formed by brickworks in concrete, covered with stones with irregular shapes. The east side of
6900-418: The seminary and to spend his last days there. It was rebuilt by Monsignor Carlo Maria Giuseppe de Fornari in the years 1726–1727, at an expense of 400 lire, enlarged by the bishop Stefano Giustiniani in the years 1786–1789, the bishop Angelo Vincenzo Andrea Maria Dania died on September 9, 1818. During the campaign of Italy Napoleon Bonaparte took possession of the villa, but thanks to a personal acquaintance with
6992-481: The shepherdesses used to adorn their hair with flowers picked from the field and even if humble they are very elegant in their bearing. In the nineteenth century the Rolandi family lived in Lusignano, from which Vittorio Rolandi Ricci descended, probably born in their villa in the country in 1860. The town was spared from the great earthquake of 1887 which destroyed some of the ingaune towers and for this reason February 23,
7084-410: The silver medal for civil valor for the carabiniere, as a shining example of uncommon daring and a high sense of duty. The parish church of the village is dedicated to Saint Margaret , know ad Santa Margherita in italian. In 1402, Pope Boniface IV delegated the benefit of Santa Margherita of Lusignano to Antonio Sismondi , known as "de Ponte". On 9 February 1430 the church received a new priest for
7176-430: The sound /ɛː/ , as in çit(t)æ 'city' /siˈtɛː/ . The c-cedilla ⟨ç⟩ , used for the sound /s/ , generally only occurs before ⟨e⟩ or ⟨i⟩ , as in riçetta 'recipe' /riˈsɛtta/ . The letter ⟨ñ⟩ , also written as ⟨nn-⟩ (or more rarely ⟨n-n⟩ , ⟨n-⟩ , ⟨nh⟩ , or simply ⟨nn⟩ ), represents
7268-508: The statue of San Bartolomeo were saved. The chests and related processional statues are from the mid-nineteenth century, moreover the statue of Christ above the altar of the parish has been attributed to Anton Maria Maragliano or to his school. When the whole community of Albenga passed in 1797 under the new government of the Ligurian Republic it formed a separate municipality from Albenga together with San Fedele, which will return under
7360-547: The status of official language (that is French). Monaco is the only place where a variety of Ligurian is taught in school. The Mentonasc dialect , spoken in the East of the County of Nice , is considered to be a transitional Occitan dialect to Ligurian; conversely, Roiasc and Pignasc spoken further North in the Eastern margin of the County are Ligurian dialects with Occitan influences. As
7452-421: The tools. The southern part of the yard, today covered, is, on the contrary, fully occupied by one area only, rather narrow and elongated, interpretable as a stable. Some tiles, cemented along the wall limiting the inner side of the yard, slightly sloping towards the external, seem actually canalizations for the discharge of sewage, while in the near small basin, whose bottom covered with mortar and pottery fragments
7544-443: The velar nasal /ŋ/ before or after vowels, such as in canpaña 'bell' /kɑŋˈpɑŋŋɑ/ , or the feminine indefinite pronoun uña /ˈyŋŋɑ/ . There are five diacritics, whose precise usage varies between orthographies. They are: The multigraphs are: Tutte e personn-e nascian libere e pæge in dignitæ e driti. Son dotæ de raxon e coscensa e gh'an da agî l'unn-a verso l'atra inte 'n spirito de fradelansa. Ògni personn-a
7636-464: The victory of Italy, and during the second it was a country whose hills gave refuge to the partisans, who according to legends and findings deposited many of their armament in the abundant caves. During the war in the main square the Nazis carried out the death sentences of some partisans and civilians: on December 6, 1944, Giovanni Gitotta and Francesco De Paoli were shot in front of the Perseghini furnace. On January 31, 1945, Luciano Luberti, together with
7728-412: The villas on the plain is Villa Prospera , formerly Villa Cepolla , with an interesting grotesque portal in ashlar rode by Omu Grossu (in english big men ), a great anthropomorphic figure who still manages to arouse all the amazement of baroque art. Well documented since 1604, the artifact has at its entrance a bizarre and grotesque female figure seated astride the walls, with her head turned to
7820-414: The works for the group of buildings of Rusineo, along the piedmont strip, which limits towards south the flat ground of Albenga, between the outlying wards of Lusignano and Barbano. The archaeological area goes towards east-west on a hillock, raised by about ten meters as to the flat ground; here it is possible to recognize the remains of a farm or of the pars rustica of a villa. The area overlooks Albenga and
7912-402: The yard, as well as the brickworks which were in the west side of the yard itself, have been fully removed over the time, probably when, in recent times, the area has been terraced with agricultural aims and wide earth movings have been carried out. On the north side of the yard, there are four adjoining spaces, with floor made of ground, used perhaps in the past as service areas, or as shelter for
8004-516: Was chosen to represent the City of Albenga to the Doge of Genoa. In the period that goes from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century, some villas were built, such as the one "del Vescovo"; in particular we have news from the text by Gio Ambrogio Paneri, Description of the city and countryside of Albenga, published in 1625 where he indicates Lusignano as a place of otium (transl. of idleness), describing it as
8096-569: Was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1730 to his death in February 1740. Clement presided over the growth of a surplus in the papal finances. He thus became known for building the new façade of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran , beginning construction of the Trevi Fountain , and the purchase of Cardinal Alessandro Albani 's collection of antiquities for
8188-420: Was not a real recovery, but the destruction of the shapes that the furnace once had. However, the ovens and a part of the chimney have been preserved which constitute a real "industrial monument" of a bygone era. The furnace construction site is still open, a series of abuses and discrepancies made by the site managers have been reported, including an increase in the cubic capacity of a few thousand cubic meters and
8280-561: Was not a successful papacy among the secular powers of Europe. When the attempt of Papal forces to take over the ancient independent Republic of San Marino failed, Clement XII disavowed the arbitrary action of his legate, Cardinal Giulio Alberoni , in seizing San Marino, and restored its independence. He was also rebuffed in Papal claims over the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza . In August 1730 he gave permission for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy to carry out
8372-480: Was on guard, placed a musket and several ammunition in the Bruno family's henhouse, some of which scattered on the ground. The following morning he reported the young Andreino Giulio Bruno, born in 1926, to the Germans. At 19.30 on the 30th about thirty soldiers surrounded the house commanded by lieutenant Hangel, the Camillettis went to the chicken coop without fail, taking what was hidden the day before, giving proof of
8464-427: Was shot on the spot. These two people helped the partisans, but they were not part of it. Much worse could have gone: in that morning some guns were to be transferred which were hidden among the wood of the countryside to be taken to the mountains, this operation would have had to be carried out by two partisans, Tullio called "Volpe" and Manfro called "Cornacchia ". However, Tullio's delay allowed Manfro to be warned of
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