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Born in Genoa in 1404, where his family lived in exile from their native Florence, Alberti received the finest education available in northern Italy, studying first at the gymnasium of Padua and then receiving a doctorate in civil and canon law at the University of Bologna.

When old Paolo of Genoa had died they had been left with twenty-nine and Willem had promoted Alain of Arras from page to arbalist rather than take in an outsider.

Nice to Genoa, from Genoa to Turin, from Turin to Chambery, from Chambery to Pont-de-Beauvoisin, and from Pont-de-Beauvoisin to Paris.

I had no hopes of seeing her again, for she lived at Genoa, and I should not have cared to face M.

Marseilles, where they secretly traded casks of wine with the Genoese merchant ships in exchange for imports coming from Kaffa and bound for Genoa.

All these things were in his Ligurian blood, and he breathed them in with the very air of Genoa.

Richard Garrison and Vicki Maler belonged to a gentleman from Genoa named Paulo Palazzi.

The Marseillais, the rabble army who had poured out of the dockyards and prisons of Marseille and Genoa, and marched on Paris, were everywhere.

Toulouse, in Aix, Nimes, Albi, Aries, Carpentras, Montpellier, Genoa, Milan and Burgos, Occitan universities were springing from the ground, while Jeux Floraux, or poetic contests, were everywhere reviving the ancient songs of the Troubadours, dedicated to the quest of the soul and of perfect love.

Barbarossa was by now vastly rich and powerful, his fleets bringing in prizes from Genoa, Naples, Venice, and Spain.

Charlemagne, having quarreled with the Duke of Genoa, proposed that each should send a champion to fight in his name.

Army landed from a naval craft far behind the German lines in Italy to demolish a railroad tunnel between La Spezia and Genoa.

Lotta Stafford, who had gone with her brother for a little tour to Genoa and Spezia, and as far as Pisa.

Air Force established there, it will not be able to do so, and will have to content itself with Spezia and Genoa.

September 8, in accordance with Allied instructions, the main body of the Italian Fleet left Genoa and Spezia on a daring voyage of surrender to Malta, unprotected either by Allied or Italian aircraft.