Tesina terza media Mantova

RICERCA DI INGLESE di Fabiola Rossi – Classe III B

Scuola Media Statale G. Fasiani – Garessio

Mantova is an Italian town, capital of the province in Lombardy. His

name derives from the Etruscan god Mantu

Mantova stands on two small islands created by debris deposited

by the river Mincio, which still surrounds the city on three sides,

taking the name of Lake Superior, Middle and Lower. A fourth

branch (called the Leaky Lake) was buried at the end of 700. All

around there is a plain green very fertile: born from the

contemplation of the Georgics of Virgil, the great poet of Mantua.

The first village is built perhaps in 2000 b.C. here in the middle of

ponds that formed the Mincio.

The climate and the environment have here fundamental

importance. From the seventh century b.C. onwards, the presence

of artifacts becomes substantial, reaching its peak in the fifth

century, when the Etruscans set and regulate a system of trade

between the East, the Adriatic coast and the inland regions. We

recognize almost twenty sites with traces of a civilization Etruscan

Valley. Fundamental is the Forcello, near Bagnolo San Vito, from

which a wealth of material: ceramics many, terracotta objects,

bone, stone, amber, bronze vases, pendants, brooches. We quote De

Marinis: With the development of the organism political Etruscans

in the Po valley and the Greek market penetration, especially Attic,

Adriatic, Mantua was to buy a key strategic role as the starting

point of the street and along the Mincio led to Como, the main

center of the culture of Golasecca they passed through the

relationships with the transalpine world.

Around the sixth century b.C. developed the Etruscan city. The

name of Mantova originates from the Etruscan god Mantus hell in

which the founder Ocno would have dedicated the Romans then

confuse with Manto, daughter of Homeric Tiresia. Between the first

and second punicwars underwent roman rule without becoming a

major urban center. 1 di 3

San Giorgio’s Castle Cathedral

Following the fall of the Roman the city was invaded by barbarians

and the different dominations of the Goths, Byzantines, Lombards

and Franks, until, at the tenth century, came finally to be part of

the properties of the Canossa, whose last representative was the

Countess Matilda, who died in 1115. In this period of Mantova

adorned important buildings but the only surviving town era

Matilda is the Rotonda di San Lorenzo, which seems to have been

built on the ruins of a pagan temple in 1082.