Trentino
Trentino names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Trentino THE, the name of that part of Tyrol which adjoined Italy before the World War
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THE, the name of that part of Tyrol which adjoined Italy before the World War. This territory constituted one of the claims for which Italy entered the World War on the side of the Allies, in 1915, and was immediately occupied by the Italian army on beginning operations against the Austrians. The territory in question is in the southern part of the Tyrol, covers the Adige Valley, being watered by the Adige river, and its chief center of population is the city of Trent, whence the name of the Trentino is derived. This southern valley is bounded on the E. by the Trent (or Trentino) Alps, on the W. by the Ortler Alps, which project down into the fields of Lombardy. The main chain is cleft toward the center of the Trentino by a deep depression, in which lies the Brenner Pass. Included with the Adige Valley, in the Italian claims, were founding, the Roveredo Valley and the Valley of , pottery, the Sarca, or district of Riva, on Lake are great Garda. The claims of Italy rested not a Roman only on the nationality of the population century the of the Trentino, but on a historical basis as well. In early times this whole coun- II. granted try had been in possession of the Romans. Later it fell to the Germanic barbarians who invaded Lombardy. During the Napoleonic Wars the southern Tyrol, or the Trentino, was annexed to Italy, in 1814, but was given back to Austria in the year following. During the Austrian administration, however, the Italian inhabitants made continuous efforts to be separated from the German Tyrol, as a separate administrative unit, at least. Economically, too, the interests of the people were Italian, as their entire trade was with the S., their wood and cattle being exchanged for the grains grown in the plains of Lombardy. Italy's lack of national unity, till the middle of last century, and, later her interests in Africa, compelling her to seek an alli-
Trentino THE ance with Germany and Austria
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THE ance with Germany and Austria, prevented her for this long period from supporting the ambitions of the Italians of the Trentino to become a part of the Italian nation. TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, an American author; born in Richmond, Va., Nov. 10, 1862; was graduated at the 1888 became Professor of English and of History in the University of the South. In July, 1900, he was appointed Professor of English Literature at Columbia University, New York city. He made a special study of southern men and times, and published: "Life of William Gilmore Simms"; "English Culture in Virginia": Southern " Statesmen of the Old Régime"; "Balzac's Comédie Humaine"; John Milton " "; "Authority of Criticism"; etc. TRENT AFFAIR. In October, 1861, Capt. Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., intercepted at sea the British mail steamer "Trent," bound from Havana to St. Thomas, and took off two Confederate commissioners, accredited to France, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, who were among her passengers. They were taken to Boston and imprisoned in Fort Warren, but were released on Jan. 1, 1862, on the demand of the British Government, and permitted to proceed to Europe. The affair created intense excitement at the time, but Secretary Seward accepted England's demand as an adoption of the American doctrine which denied the right ght of search, and on that ground replied that the prisoners would be cheerfully given up.
Trentino THE March, 1547
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THE March, 1547, it was transferred to Bologna, but was reopened at Trent, by Pope Julius III., May 1, 1551. It was broken up, Jan. 18, 1562, in consequence of the victorious advance of the Elector Moritz, but was recalled by Pope Pius IV., Dec. 4, 1563, and reached its close, at its 25th session, Dec. 4, 1563. Its decrees and canons, which were confirmed by a bull of Pius IV., Jan. 26, 1564, are drawn up with much clearness and precision, though the doctrines of the Protestants are often exaggerated or falsified. They were immediately acknowledged in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, and Catholic Germany, and, in their doctrinal part, in France.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 while the ink on the settlement was barely dry: the Treaty of Saint-Germain (1919) had just handed Austria's southern Tyrol to Italy, and the border was fixed at the Brenner Pass rather than at the Italian-speaking limit the article describes. That took in not only the Italian Trentino but also German-speaking South Tyrol, which Mussolini's government then tried to Italianize by force, banning German in schools and offering residents a 1939 "option" to emigrate to the Reich. The 1946 De GasperiGruber Agreement with Austria and a 1972 autonomy statute created today's bilingual autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/S u00fcdtirol, and Austria formally declared the dispute closed at the UN in 1992. Trento, the "chief center of population," is now a city of about 120,000 in one of Italy's wealthiest provinces.
Written for this edition, 2026.