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History
Hannibal Library
by Nino VinellaChairman of the Comitato Italiano Pro Canne della Battaglia Thanks to the immense work carried out by scholar Yozan Dirk Mosig, the biggest library in the world dedicated to the Carthaginian leader who, in the third century B.C., defeated the Romans at Canne, in Puglia, has been set up at the University of Kearney, in Nebraska. A precious contribution to the recognition of the importance of the extraordinary archaeological site at Canne.
Mosig’s studies create a new image of Hannibal which goes well beyond his genius for military strategy January 2014
Why is America called “America”?
by Bianca Tragni In a late 16th century atlas, conserved in a museum at Sélestat, a small town in Alsace near Strasbourg, the New World is “christened” for the first time as “America”.Columbus discovered those territories but it was Amerigo Vespucci who was the first to maintain that it was a new continent, and not the Indies. March 2012