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Canossa

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Ca·nos·sa  (k-ns, kä-nssä)
A village of north-central Italy in the Apennines. In January 1077 the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV did penance in the castle here to obtain a pardon from his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII.
Canossa [kəˈnɒsə (Italian) kaˈnossa]
n
(Placename) a ruined castle in N Italy, in Emilia near Reggio nell'Emilia: scene of the penance done by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV before Pope Gregory VII


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To the Palestinians, this looked like another shameful failure for their president: he went to Canossa [where in 1077 Henry IV stood in penance for three days, bareheaded, in order to reverse his excommunication] and received meaningless promises that were not kept.
Kiss of death by Avnery, Uri / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Henry was forced to travel to Italy to the pope's winter castle at Canossa in the Italian Alps to beg forgiveness.
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Part Three contains supplemental documents including Baldassare Castiglione's Letter to Ludovico di Canossa describing the stage apparatus for the 1513 performance of Calandria in Urbino, and a description of the same event found in a manuscript in the Vatican.
Vasari on Theatre. (Reviews) by Dersofi, Nancy / Renaissance Quarterly
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