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| Founded | 1859 in Modena |
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| Founder | Nicola Zanichelli |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Headquarters location | Bologna |
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| Revenue | €139,600,000 in 2016 |
| Official website | www |
Zanichelli editore S.p.A. [1] is an Italian publishing company founded in Modena, Italy, in 1859.
It publishes mainly textbooks for school, university and professional books (legal texts and medicine), dictionaries, and reference books. [1]
The company was founded in Modena in 1859 by Nicola Zanichelli . [1] [2] It has been based in Bologna since 1866. [3] It was the first to translate into Italian Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1864) and Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein (1921). [4]
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Tullio Levi-Civita, was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made significant contributions in other areas. He was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, the inventor of tensor calculus. His work included foundational papers in both pure and applied mathematics, celestial mechanics, analytic mechanics and hydrodynamics.
Stefano W. Pasquini is an Italian contemporary artist, writer and curator living in Italy.
He works with paintings, performance, photography and installation. He also publishes a magazine called Obsolete Shit.
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The Sala del Tricolore, formerly the Patriotic Hall, is an historical hall that currently serves as the council chamber of the comune of Reggio Emilia, northern Italy. It was designed by the architect Lodovico Bolognini as the archive of the ducal family of Este. In the Sala del Tricolore, on 7 January 1797, the flag of Italy was born, hence the name of the hall. Adjacent to the room is the Tricolour Flag Museum, whose collection is made up of relics related to the Italian flag.
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Hera S.p.A is a multiutility company based in Bologna, Italy. Hera operates in the distribution of gas, water, energy, and waste disposal in the provinces of Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Ravenna, Rimini, Pesaro and Urbino, and in some municipalities of Florence and Ancona.
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