Alfonso Marrazzo, Lecco (italy)
I was born here and in the second half of 1800 Lecco was known as "The city of iron" throughout Europe and traded its iron with all the main European cities.
Como (Lake), (Lombardy)
As soon as you set foot in the splendid city of Como, you immediately get lost in observing the fine monuments, the charming historic center and the suggestive views of the Lario and the delicate slopes that surround it. Discovered and conquered by the Romans almost two centuries before Christ, Como is the city of light, of the silk streets, of cafes under the arcades and its fame is today undisputed in Italy as well as abroad.
1986-1989, Toronto hosts the Centre for Computing in the Humanities
The Centre for Computing in the Humanities is estabilished at the University of Toronto, holds the first joint conference of the ACH and ALLC, and publishes the Humanities Computing Yearbooks, the first work of its scale to track software and corpus development, academic publication, and other activity in the field. Text Analysis Computing Tools is a leading example of what the humanities computing community could achieve and is later published by the MLA.