Ab urbe condita
Padua · -27
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Livy
Livy
c. 59 BCE–c. 17 CE · Padua
Historian of Rome from its founding; his Ab Urbe Condita monumentalized the Roman past.
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PaduaפאדובהVeneto
What they did here
Historian of Rome, of Patavium (Padua).
About Padua
Padua, the Roman Patavium, is a city in the Veneto region of northern Italy that was ruled by the Republic of Venice from 1405 until 1797; the Roman historian Livy was a native of the area. Its university, conventionally dated to 1222, is one of the oldest in the world: Galileo held its chair of mathematics from 1592 to 1610, and Copernicus was among those educated there. The Basilica of Saint Anthony was begun around 1230. Padua also had a long-established Jewish community, with a ghetto and a synagogue completed in 1548, and Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) was born in its ghetto in 1707.
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