Toscana

From Late Latin (terra) Tuscāna (“the land of the Etruscans”), ultimately from tuscus (“Etruscan”).

der

administrative region
administrative region

Tuscany (an administrative region of Italy, located north of Lazio and south of Emilia-Romagna)


Liguria

From Latin Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).

Liguria (an administrative region of northwest Italy)


Basilicata

Basilicata (an administrative region of southern Italy)


Abruzzo

→ English: Abruzzo

→ Portuguese: Abruzzo

From the Late Latin or Medieval Latin name of the location, Aprutium, possibly from Praetūtium, from the name of the people Praetūtiī.

Abruzzo (an administrative region in central Italy)


Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English:_Q1250

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (an autonomous region in northern Italy)


Trentino-Alto Adige

Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige#English:_Q1237

Trentino-Alto Adige (an autonomous region of northern Italy)


Molise

Adaptation of de Moulins, the name of the noble french family ruling over the area from the XI to the XII century originated in Moulins-la-Marche, ultimately from Latin molinus.

Molise (an administrative region of southern Italy)


Emilia-Romagna

From the former regions Emilia and Romagna, from Latin (via) Aemilia, the Roman road connecting Rome to northern Italy, named after the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Romania, the name of the Eastern Roman Empire applied to Ravenna by the Lombards after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and in the days when Ravenna was a city of the east.

Emilia-Romagna (an administrative region of northern Italy)


Veneto

Veneto (an administrative region of northern Italy, roughly corresponding to the ancient Venetia)


Campania

Campania (an administrative region of southern Italy)


Umbria

After the Umbri, an ancient Italic tribe inhabiting the region.

Umbria (an administrative region in central Italy)


Calabria

Calabria (a peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy)


Marche

Marche (an administrative region in central Italy)


Valle d'Aosta

Aosta Valley
Aosta Valley#English:_Q1222

Aosta Valley (an autonomous region of northwestern Italy, with a significant fraction of the population speaking Franco-Provençal)


italiano

it-noun

italiano m (plural italiani, feminine italiana)

Borrowed from Latin ītaliānus (“Italian”). By surface analysis, Italia (“Italy”) + -ano (“-an”, derivational suffix).

surf

Italian (native or inhabitant of Italy) (male or of unspecified gender)


Napoli

From Latin Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polis), from νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólis, “city”).

Naples (a province and city in Campania, Italy)


Italia

desc

→ Arabic: إِيطَالِيَا (ʔīṭāliyā)

→ Arabic: إِيطَالِيَا (ʔīṭāliyā)

→ Japanese: イタリア (Itaria)

→ Korean: 이탈리아 (Itallia)

→ Maltese: Italja

→ Slavomolisano: Litalija

→ Persian: ایتالیا (itâliyâ)

Borrowed from Latin Italia, from Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú, “land of bulls”), a name for the southwestern tip of the boot of Italy; usually assumed to be a cognate of vitulus (“calf”).


Puglia

Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy)


Sardegna

→ French: Sardaigne

→ Sardinian: Sardigna

Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)


Piemonte

Inherited from Latin Pedemontium (literally “at the foot of mountains”) or Pedemontis, from pēs (“foot”) and mōns (“mountain”).

inh+

Piedmont (an administrative region in the north of Italy)


Lombardia

From Latin Langobardia, named after Langobards ("long beards"), a Germanic tribe that invaded the region along with much of northern Apennine Peninsula in 6th century.

Lombardy (an administrative region in northern Italy, where its capital and the largest city Milan is founded in the Po Valley)


Sicilia

→ Albanian: Sicila

→ Japanese: シチリア

→ Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)

→ Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا

Turkish: Sicilya

Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)


Lazio

Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

(historical) Latium (a historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire)


Milano

From Latin Mediōlānum, possibly of Gaulish origin.

Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)

Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)


Torino

→ Translingual: Torino

→ English: Torino

→ Danish: Torino

→ Estonian: Torino

→ Finnish: Torino

→ Japanese: トリノ

→ Turkish: Torino

From the Roman name, Latin Augusta Iulia Taurinorum, ultimately from the name of the Taurini, a Celtic-Ancient Ligurian tribe.

Turin (the capital city of Piedmont, Italy)

Turin (a metropolitan city of Piedmont, Italy)


romano

it-noun

romano m (plural romani, feminine romana)

From Latin rōmānus. By surface analysis, Roma (“Rome”) + -ano (“of or pertaining to”).


Venezia

Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)

Venice (a metropolitan city of Veneto, Italy)


Tevere

Quanto sei bella Roma / Quanto sei bella Roma a prima sera / Er Tevere te serve / Er Tevere te serve da cintura

1934, C. A. Bixio, E. Bonagura, F. A. De Torres (lyrics and music), “Quanto sei bella Roma”:


Stretto di Messina

lo Stretto di Messina (canonical masculine)


siciliano

it-adj

siciliano (feminine siciliana, masculine plural siciliani, feminine plural siciliane)

siciliana (feminine)
siciliani (masculine plural)
siciliane (feminine plural)


siciliano

it-noun

siciliano m (plural siciliani, feminine siciliana)


Stivale

From stivale (“boot”), after the shape of the peninsula.


veneziano

Venetian (form of Venetan language spoken in Venice)


Giudecca

From giudecca (“Jewish ghetto”), from Medieval Latin iudeca, from Latin iūdaica, feminine form of iūdaicus (“Judaic, Jewish”), ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “Judah, Judas”).

der

Giudecca (long island in the Venetian Lagoon)


Roma

→ Burmese: ရောမ (rau:ma.)

q

perhaps via Portuguese <i class="Latn mention" lang="pt">Roma</i>

→ Japanese: ローマ (Rōma) (perhaps via Portuguese Roma)

→ Korean: 로마 (roma)


Città del Vaticano

Vatican City (a city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy)


italianizzare

it-verb

italianizzàre (first-person singular present italianìzzo, first-person singular past historic italianizzài, past participle italianizzàto, auxiliary avére)

italianizzàre (canonical)
italianìzzo (first-person present singular)
italianizzài (first-person historic past singular)
italianizzàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
italianizzàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
italianizzàndo (gerund)
italianizzànte (participle present)
italianizzàto (participle past)
italianìzzo (first-person indicative present singular)
italianìzzi (indicative present second-person singular)
italianìzza (indicative present singular third-person)
italianizziàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
italianizzàte (indicative plural present second-person)
italianìzzano (indicative plural present third-person)
italianizzàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
italianizzàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
italianizzàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
italianizzavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
italianizzavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
italianizzàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
italianizzài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
italianizzàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
italianizzò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
italianizzàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
italianizzàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
italianizzàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
italianizzerò (first-person future indicative singular)
italianizzerài (future indicative second-person singular)
italianizzerà (future indicative singular third-person)
italianizzerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
italianizzeréte (future indicative plural second-person)
italianizzerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
italianizzerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
italianizzerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
italianizzerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
italianizzerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
italianizzerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
italianizzeréste (conditional plural present second-person)
italianizzerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
italianizzerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
italianìzzi (first-person present singular subjunctive)
italianìzzi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
italianìzzi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
italianizziàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
italianizziàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
italianìzzino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
italianizzàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
italianizzàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
italianizzàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
italianizzàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
italianizzàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
italianizzàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
italianìzza (imperative second-person singular)
italianìzzi (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
italianizziàmo (first-person imperative plural)
italianizzàte (imperative plural second-person)
italianìzzino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
italianizzàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
italianìzzi (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
italianizziàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
italianizzàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
italianìzzino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

From italiano (“Italian”) + -izzare (“-ize”).

(transitive) to Italianize (customs, language, etc.)


Farnesina

From the Palazzo della Farnesina in which it is housed.


Val Gardena

Cognate with Ladin Gherdëina, from an earlier Latin toponym Gredine.

a region in the Dolomites of South Tyrol


italo

it-adj

italo (feminine itala, masculine plural itali, feminine plural itale)

itala (feminine)
itali (masculine plural)
itale (feminine plural)

in un tempio accolte ¶ serbi l'itale glorie

1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri, Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 15:

gathered in a temple you keep the Italian glories

[…] non fien da' lacci sciolte ¶ dell'antico sopor l'itale menti ¶ s'ai patrii esempi della prisca etade ¶ questa terra fatal non si rivolga.

1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “II. Sul monumento di Dante [About Dante's monument]”, in Canti^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Indice:Canti_(Leopardi_-_Donati).djvu), Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 18, lines 3–6:

[…] they may not be freed from the snares of their age-old drowsiness, the Italian minds, if to the country's examples of the ancient age this great land will not return.

Itala gente da le molte vite, ¶ dove che albeggi la tua notte e un’ombra ¶ vagoli spersa de’ vecchi anni, vedi ¶ ivi il poeta.

1898, Giosuè Carducci, Rime e ritmi [Rhymes and rhythms], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 1012:

Italian people with many lives, wherever your night dawns and a shadow of old years wanders around lost, there you see the poet.


Campidoglio

From Latin Capitōlium, perhaps folk-etymologized as campi d'oglio (“fields of oglio”), with the last element taken as some kind of proper name or oglio, the local dialectal word for “oil”.

the Capitoline Hill, one of the Seven hills of Rome


Giro d'Italia

(cycling) Giro d'Italia (annual cycling race in Italy)


Quirinale

From Latin [collem] Quirīnālem (“Quirinal hill”). By surface analysis, Quirino (“Quirinus”) + -ale (“-al”, adjective-forming derivational suffix).

surf

the Quirinal Hill, one of the Seven hills of Rome

Palazzo del Quirinale
Palazzo del Quirinale#Italian

(metonymically) Ellipsis of Palazzo del Quirinale., the Quirinal Palace in Rome, residence of the President of the Italian Republic


Uffizi

Literally, “Offices” (plural of uffizio), as this was the building's original function.


trullo

From Byzantine Greek τροῦλλος (troûllos), from Latin trulla.

I trulli sono costruzioni in pietra dalla base circolare, a volte quadrangolare, sormontate da cupole di forma conica.

2004, Giovanni Francesio, Italia del sud: Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Touring Editore, page 90:

Trulli are stone buildings with a circular base, sometimes quadrangular, topped by conical cupolas.

a type of conical stone-roofed house in Apulia (especially in Alberobello)


Viminale

Palazzo del Viminale
w:it:Palazzo del Viminale

Italian Ministry of the Interior (housed in the Palazzo del Viminale)


Aventino

the Aventine Hill (one of the Seven hills of Rome)


nizioleto

Borrowed from Venetan niçiołeto, nisiołeto, a diminutive of niçioło, nisioło (“cloth; bedsheet”), from Latin linteolum (“linen cloth”). By surface analysis, lenzuolo + -etto.

(Venice) a type of Venetian street sign painted directly on the plaster of walls


bel paese

Ahi Pisa, vituperio de le genti
 del bel paese là dove ’l sì suona[…].

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 79–80; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

Ah! Pisa, thou opprobium of the people
 of the fair land there where the sì doth sound.

[…] il bel paese
 ch’Appennin parte, e ’l mar circonda e l’Alpe

1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CXLVI — O d’ardente vertute ornata et calda”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 13–14; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:

[…] that fair country
 the Apennines divide, and Alps and sea surround.

(chiefly literary, sometimes capitalized) Italy


vedi Napoli e poi muori

Unknown exact origin or authorship. Popularized by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Compare Neapolitan vide Napule e po' muore.

see Naples and die (nothing compares to the beauty of Naples, so you can die after you've seen it)

Italian Journey
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Palazzo Chigi

the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Italian Republic

(metonymically) the Prime Minister of the Italian Republic

Palazzo del Quirinale

residence of the President of the Italian Republic

Palazzo della Consulta

seat of the Constitutional Court of Italy


Casoncello

a place on the Bologna Apennines Loiano province Emilia-Romagna


Giardini del Casoncello

a garden on the Appennino Bolognese Scansoli Loiano Emilia-Romagna


Palazzo della Consulta

(colloquial, metonymically) a building in Rome that is the seat of the Italian Constitutional Court


Palazzo del Quirinale

(colloquial, metonymically) a building in Rome that is the residence of the Italian President of the Republic


Palazzo Montecitorio

(colloquial, metonymically) a building in Rome that is the seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies


Palazzo Barberini

a baroque palace in Rome that houses the National Gallery of Ancient Art and the Italian Institute of Numismatics


Palazzo Madama

(colloquial, metonymically) a building in Rome that is the home of the Senate of the Republic, located in the homonymous Piazza Madama


Palazzo Farnese

(colloquial, metonymically) a building in Rome that is the residence of the French Embassy


Palazzo Senatorio

(colloquial, metonymically) the town hall of the city of Rome


Palazzo Venezia

the residence of what used to be the Republic of Venice Embassy in Rome. During Fascism it was Mussolini's headquarters and nowadays is the seat of the National Museum of Palazzo Venezia


Casa Keats-Shelley

a building in Rome that was home of the poet John Keats and later of Percy Bysshe Shelley


Villa Medici

a group of buildings hosting the Academy of France in Rome Italy


Trinità dei Monti

a church in Rome famous for its stairway to Piazza di Spagna


Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana

a monumental building in Rome EUR housing the headquarters of luxury fashion label Fendi


Palazzo di Giustizia

a building hosting the Italian Supreme Court in Rome


Palazzo del Laterano

a building in Rome for thousand years Papal Seat and Roman Pontiff official residence nowadays hosting the Museo Storico dello Stato Pontificio


Campo Marzio

Campus Martius (the most populous area of ancient Rome)


Piazza del Campidoglio

a square in Rome sited on top of the Capitoline hill in front of Campidoglio having at its centre the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius


Piazza Navona

a Rome square having at its center the Fountain of Four Rivers by Gian Lorenzo Bernini


Piazza di Spagna

a square at the bottom of the Spanish Steps and at its center the famous Fontana della Barcaccia, sculpted by Pietro Bernini and his son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is one of the most famous squares in Rome (Italy)


Palazzo di Spagna

a building in the Piazza di Spagna Rome hosting the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See


Piazza del Popolo

a famous Rome square at the foot of Pincio hill


Piazza Colonna

a square in Rome; It is named for the marble Column of Marcus Aurelius on the square center


Piazza San Pietro

St. Peter's Square in Vatican City in front of St. Peter's Cathedral


Campo de' Fiori

a square in Rome having at its centre the bronze statue of Giordano Bruno burned alive in this square for heresy by the Roman Inquisition


Piazza del Pantheon

Piazza della Rotonda
Piazza della Rotonda#Italian


Palazzo Koch

the headquarter of the Bank of Italy in Rome Italy


Navona

famous square in Rome. Original square name was "in Agone" (from latin "in agonis" or "agones" (games)) and after centuries of language corruption from "agone" became "in agone", "innagone", "navone" and finally nowadays "Navona"


Consulta

a building in Rome, Italy hosting the Constitutional Court


Madama

a building in Rome Italy hosting the Italian Senate


Fontana di Trevi

Trevi Fountain (a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi)


Ponte Milvio

Milvian (or Mulvian) Bridge (a bridge over the Tiber in northern Rome, Italy)


Ponte Sant'Angelo

a bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian, to span the Tiber, from the city center to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the Castel Sant'Angelo


Villa Rosebery

Villa Rosebery in Naples, Italy (one of the three official residences of the President of the Italian Republic, so named because it was owned by the British prime minister, The 5th Earl of Rosebery)


Vinegia

Borrowed from Venetan, from Latin Venetia, from the pre-Roman substrate population of the Venetī, name of an ancient Italic people living in an area corresponding to the present-day North-East of Italy.

Puis s'en parti Antenor et Prians, à grant compaignie de gent, et se n'alerent en la marche de Trevise, non mie loing de Venise, et là firent une autre cité que est apelée Padoe

late 13ᵗʰ century [1260–1267], “Delli re di Francia [On the kings of France]” (chapter 39), in anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro, volume 1, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, pages 106–107:

Then Antenor and Priam, along with many other people, left and went to the march of Treviso, where they built another city, which is called Padua, not far from Venice.

Il fu voir que au tens qe Baudoin estoit enperaor de Gostantinople, ce fu a les .mccl. anç, mesire Nicolao Pol, que pere messire March estoit, et messiere Mafeu Pol, que frere mesere Nicolau estoit, cesti deus freres estoient en la cité de Gostantinople, qui i estoient alés de Venese con leur merchandie

c. 1300 [c. 1298], Marco Polo et al., Milione [Million], translation of Le divisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (in Old French); republished as “Lor partita di Gostantinopoli [Their departure from Constantinople]” (chapter 2), in Antonio Lanza, editor, Il Milione di Marco Polo, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:

It is true that, at the time that Baldwin was emperor of Constantinople—that was in the year of Christ 1250—sir Niccolò Polo (who was sir Marco's father) and his brother, sir Matteo Polo, these two brothers were in the city of Constantinople, having come from Venice with goods for trading

messomi io in cammino, di Vinegia partendomi ed andandomene per lo Borgo de’ greci e di quindi per lo reame del Garbo cavalcando e per Baldacca, pervenni in Parione

1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata sesta – Novella decima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:

Having gotten on my way, leaving Venice and passing through Borgo de' Greci, from which, riding through the kingdom of Algarve and Baldacca, I came to Parione

E le condizione de’ tempi, nostra infelicità, tengono disparsa e disseminata la nostra famiglia Alberta, come vedi, parte in Ponente, a Londra, Bruggia, Cologna, pochi in Italia, a Vinegia, a Genova, a Bologna, in Roma alcuni

1433–1440, Leon Battista Alberti, “Libro secondo [Second book]”, in I libri della famiglia; collected in Cecil Grayson, editor, Leon Battista Alberti - Opere volgari^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Opere_volgari_(Alberti)), volume 1, Bari: Gius. Laterza e figli, 1960, page 85:

And the circumstances of our time—to our chagrin—keep our family of the Alberti dispersed and scattered, as you see, part in the West, in London, Bruges, Cologne; a few in Italy, in Venice, in Genua, in Bologna, some in Rome

Per che vi fece l’apparecchio delle nozze ordinare bello e grande, e, invitatovi delle vicine contrade qualunque più onorato uomo v’era con le lor donne, e da Vinegia similmente, in suoni e canti e balli e solennissimi conviti l’un giorno appresso all’altro ne menava

1530, Pietro Bembo, “Capitolo II [Chapter 2]”, Libro primo [First book], in Gli Asolani [The Asolani]; collected in Carlo Dionisotti, editor, Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, Rime (I classici italiani TEA Tascabili), Milan: Editori Associati, 1989:

So she ordered a beautiful, great wedding to be prepared, and, having invited from the nearby parishes all the most honoured men there were, along with their women—and from Venice as well—she spent day after day in sounds, singing, dances, and most solemn banquets

[…] Tu sai, che invano
l’uccisor d’Alessandro asilo e scampo
sperò trovare in libera contrada.
Tuo brando il giunse entro Vinegia […]

1789, Vittorio Alfieri, “Atto primo”, in Don Garzia^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Don_Garzia_(Alfieri,_1946)), Scena prima; collected in Nicola Bruscoli, editor, Vittorio Alfieri - Tragedie^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedie_(Alfieri,_1946),_Volume_II), volume 2, Bari: Laterza, 1946, page 356:

You know how Alessandro's murderer hoped in vain to find refuge and escape in a free country: your sword reached him in Venice

(archaic, poetic) Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)


Venegia

Quant la cité de Troie fu destruite […] il avint que Prians li juenes, qui fu filz de la seror au roi Prian de Troie, entre lui et Antenor, s'en alerent par mer o tout .xiiijᵐ. homes à armes, tant que il arriverent là où est ore la cité de Venise

late 13ᵗʰ century [1260–1267], “Delli re di Francia [On the kings of France]” (chapter 39), in anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro, volume 1, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, page 106:

When the city of Troy was destroyed, so it occurred that Priam—young son of king of Troy Priam's sister—and another potentate named Antenor, traveled so far through sea and through land, with fourteen-thousand armed people, that they arrived there, where the city of Venice now lies.

messer Masio Visconte de Melano lo chiamò podestà di Melano; et accettato l’officio venne per mare in fine a Venegia; e quando volse andare da Venegia a Padova, quelli che lo perseguitavano l’ucciseno nella valle di Doriaco

1385–1396, Francesco di Bartolo, “Canto Ⅴ [Canto 5]”, in Commento di Francesco da Buti sopra la Divina commedia di Dante Allighieri [Commentary of Francesco da Buti on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Commedia_(Buti)), C. V— v. 64-84.; republished, Pisa: Fratelli Nistri, 1858, page 111:

Sir Masio, viscount of Milan, appointed him [Iacopo del Cassaro] as podesta of Milan. And, [having] accepted the mandate, he finally came by sea to Venice, and, when he decided to go from Venice to Padua, his persecutors murdered him in the valley of Doriaco

Fu il Palma molto più nei colori unito, sfumato e paziente, che gagliardo nel disegno, e quegli maneggiò con grazia, pulitezza grandissima, come si vede in Venegia in molti quadri e ritratti che fece a diversi gentiluomini

1568, Giorgio Vasari, “Iacopo Palma e Lorenzo Lotto”, in Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects], 2ndⁿᵈ expanded and revised edition, Florence: Giunti:

Palma was a lot more solid, shaded, and patient with colors, than energetic with drawing, and he handled the former with the greatest grace and tidiness, as one can see in Venice, in many paintings and portraits he made for several gentlemen

(archaic, poetic) Alternative form of Vinegia; Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)