The Collaborative International Dictionary
Campagna \Cam*pa"gna\ (c[.a]m*p[aum]"ny[.a]), n. [It. See Campaign.] An open level tract of country; especially ``Campagna di Roma.'' The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.
Note: Its length is commonly stated to be about ninety miles, and its breadth from twenty-seven to forty miles. The ground is almost entirely volcanic, and vapors which arise from the district produce malaria. [1913 Webster] ||
Wikipedia
Campagna ( Italian: ) is a small town and comune of the province of Salerno, in the Campania region of Southern Italy. In 2010 its population was 16,183.
Campagna is a town in the Campania region of southern Italy.
Campagna also may refer to:
People- Girolamo Campagna (1552-1623 or 1625), sculptor
- Louis Campagna (1900–1955), criminal
- Matt Campagna (born 1980), media producer
- Richard Campagna, politician
- Sam Campagna (born 1980), football player
- Campagna Lupia
- Campagna-de-Sault
- Roman Campagna
Usage examples of "campagna".
Marzio come non fosse in presenza del suo Capitano ma nella Campagna Romana si lisciava con la destra i nerissimi mustacchi.
All the other chapels are either in a ruined state or have been renewed with modern figures during the last thirty years, and more especially during the last ten, at the instance, and, as we understood, at the expense, of the present Archbishop of Milan, who does his campagna here every summer.
Erano i compagni di Orazio e parte dei trecento che riuniti nella selva Ciminia dopo i fatti accaduti nella campagna di Roma stavano in attesa dei loro Capi, allontanatisi per alcuni giorni con missioni importanti.
Beyond the amphitheatre of mountains, that stretched below, whose tops appeared as numerous almost, as the waves of the sea, and whose feet were concealed by the forests--extended the campagna of Italy, where cities and rivers, and woods and all the glow of cultivation were mingled in gay confusion.
Paganel, it is the north wind--a wind which causes many a crime in the Pampas, as the TRAMONTANE does in the Campagna of Rome.
Some leagues more Would bring him to the vast Campagna land, When by a roadside well he paused to rest.
By church nor palace paused he, till he passed All squares and streets, and crossed the bridge of stone, And stood alone amidst the broad expanse Of the Campagna, twinkling in the heat.
Don Michele received orders to scour the Campagna and cut every French throat he could find.
Yes, Paganel, it is the north wind--a wind which causes many a crime in the Pampas, as the TRAMONTANE does in the Campagna of Rome.
Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon.
All the Campagna spreads before my sight, The mouldering wall, the Caesars' tombs unwreathed, Rome and the Tiber, and the yellow light, Wherein the honey-colored blossom breathed.
Peter's so that the far-off peasant on the Campagna could see it, and the maiden kneeling by the shrine in the Alban hills.
La campagna era coperta di morbida torba e cespugli di erica in cui i loro piedi affondavano.
John Lateran, the Campagna, the Appian Way, the Seven Hills, the Baths of Caracalla, the Claudian Aqueduct, the Cloaca Maxima--the eternal bore designed the Eternal City, and unless all men and books do lie, he painted every thing in it!
Si pensi che una persona dell’ingegno di Ronald Reagan, nel corso della campagna elettorale del 1980, rivolgendosi a un gruppo di fondamentalisti liquidò il concetto di evoluzione affermando appunto che era «solo una teoria».