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The place of Padua in the history of art is nearly as important as its place in the history of learning. The presence of the university attracted many distinguished artists, such as Giotto , Fra Filippo Lippi and Donatello ; and for native art there was the school of Francesco Squarcione , whence issued Mantegna .
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1318 – Jacopo I da Carrara becomes lord of Padua. [9] 1320 – Padua is ruled by a series of German vicars for Frederick the Fair, Duke of Austria. [10] 1328 – Padua becomes part of the Scaliger domains. [11] 1337 – Paduan independence restored, under Venetian protection, during the Scaliger War. [12] 1360 – Public clock installed ...
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The borders of the province are almost the same of the Medieval commune of Padua, with just some adjustment in the north-east. The territory was administered within these boundaries since the time of the Republic of Venice, but the modern province comes directly from the administrative divisions of Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia.
The commune of Padua became a hereditary one-man lordship with the election of Jacopo I da Carrara as capitano del popolo in 1308. His descendants, the Carraresi , ruled the city and its vicinity, with short interruptions, until they were defeated by the Republic of Venice in the War of Padua , which resulted in the annexation of the city by ...
Marino Becichemo or Marin Beçikemi (c. 1468 – 1526) was an Albanian scholar and orator who was a prominent humanist in the cities of Brescia and later Padua in the Republic of Venice in the early 16th century. He maintained a humanist school and was a professor in the University of Padua. He wrote commentaries about classical Latin ...
The sack of Padua was carried out by Attila and his Huns and Germanic allies. It was part of the wars fought by Attila in Italy in 452 AD, during his invasion of the peninsula. It followed the Sack of Aquileia and preceded the Siege of Milan .