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Veneti, people of ancient Gaul

Veneti (vĕn`ətī), Celtic people of ancient Gaul, who inhabited an area of NW France, now in Morbihan dept. Forming the most important of the Gallic maritime states, they rebelled in 57 B.C. against Roman rule. They were decisively defeated by Julius Caesar and Decimus Junius Brutus in a naval battle, in which, according to Caesar's account, they lost 220 vessels.

Veneti, people of ancient Italy

Veneti, people of ancient Italy. They occupied the shore of the Adriatic from Trieste to the mouth of the Po River and spoke an Illyrian language. Friendly toward Rome, they came under Roman rule in the 2d cent. B.C.


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L'eremo, la Bibbia e il medioevo in umanisti veneti del prima Gin quecento.
Giorgione's Tempest, studiolo culture, and the Renaissance Lucretius * by Campbell, Stephen J. / Renaissance Quarterly
anni in circa, che i Veneti Padri cacciaca avevano con solenne Decreto gl'Istrioni, tentandosi da alcuni Ciovani di ristabilirgli, Zaccaria Co ntarini, ch'era allora Procurator di S.
The short, lascivious lives of two Venetian theaters, 1580-85 * by Johnson, Eugene J. / Renaissance Quarterly
Nec silentio pretereundus est strenuus in armis vir ille er illustrissimi dominii veneti felicis exercirus olim gloriosus imperator, Gattamelata, qui in hello etiam nostro in tempore tantum florvit, ur etiam victor fortunatus evaserir.
Donatello's Gattamelata and its humanist audience * by Bergstein, Mary / Renaissance Quarterly
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