Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

contado capitolino

English translation:

the Roman countryside

Added to glossary by Angela Arnone
Mar 20, 2005 20:51
19 yrs ago
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Italian term

contado capitolino

Italian to English Other Other
"....a essi si deve lo stereotipo che connota iconograficamente il contado capitolino."

Waxing lyrical in a website and I have no idea! :-)

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the Roman countryside

I suspect!
"capitolino" refers to the Capitoline hill, one of the "sette colli di Roma", and by extension to things Roman.
"contado" is the countryside.
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agree silvia b (X)
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the Capitoline rural aerea

an alternative...
ciao

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Note added at 2005-03-21 06:13:36 (GMT)
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sorry, *AREA*

... object of this city’s early expansion, called “Contado” (rural area around the city) — restrained the advance of more aesthetic and functional ceramics. ...
www.maiolicarinascimentale.it/mostra/eintro1b.htm

... As in Roman times, the medieval Italian town lived in close relation to its surrounding rural area, or <e>contado; </e>Italian city folk seldom ...
www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=58317

... The rural area outside Florence was known as the “contado”, the countryside where thousands of peasants and farmers cultivated the land belonging to the ...
www.collinedifirenze.it/tu/e/sto/colonica.htm
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