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  ...pared the ground in which the new [[vernacular literature]] would develop. Classical traditions did not disappear, and affection for the memory of Rome, a preoc Two facts characterize the literary life of [[Petrarch]]: classical research and the new human feeling introduced into his lyric poetry. The fa
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• Sicily
  [[Noto]] and [[Ragusa]] contain some of Italy's best examples of [[Baroque]] architecture, carved in the local red [[sandstone]]. [[Caltagirone]] is renowned for its ...[[Messenia]], [[Greece]]). These [[city state]]s were an important part of classical Greek civilization, which included Sicily as part of [[Magna Graecia]] - bo
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