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Italian term or phrase:	contado capitolino
English translation:	the Roman countryside
Entered by:	Angela Arnone

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20:51 Mar 20, 2005

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Italian term or phrase: contado capitolino

"....a essi si deve lo stereotipo che connota iconograficamente il contado capitolino."

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the Roman countryside

Explanation:
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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Angela Arnone
Italy
Local time: 18:11

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the Roman countryside

Angela Arnone

the Capitoline rural aerea

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the Roman countryside

Explanation:
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.

Angela Arnone
Italy
Local time: 18:11
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 85

Note from asker to answerer

Thanks!

9 hrs confidence:

the Capitoline rural aerea

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... 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

mammetta49
Italy
Local time: 18:11
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Italian

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Italian: contado capitolino

English translation: the Roman countryside