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  • Better known to the rest of the world as Linguini with Garlic and Oil, or Linguini con Aglio e Oglio, they were a favorite of my father's, and he called them Ollies.

    Cheryl Carlesimo: Pasta At Midnight Cheryl Carlesimo 2011

  • Better known to the rest of the world as Linguini with Garlic and Oil, or Linguini con Aglio e Oglio, they were a favorite of my father's, and he called them Ollies.

    Cheryl Carlesimo: Pasta At Midnight Cheryl Carlesimo 2011

  • The dominating natural feature was the great River Po with its series of Alpine tributaries—the Sestia, Ticino, Adda, Oglio and Mincio watercourses, and beyond them the rivers Adige and Brenta, flowing independently into the Adriatic.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The first task he undertook was the formation of a “zone of security” between the rivers Oglio and Trebbia to the east and south of the city in order to ward off the danger of any Austrian intervention from the direction of Mantua.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The dominating natural feature was the great River Po with its series of Alpine tributaries—the Sestia, Ticino, Adda, Oglio and Mincio watercourses, and beyond them the rivers Adige and Brenta, flowing independently into the Adriatic.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The first task he undertook was the formation of a “zone of security” between the rivers Oglio and Trebbia to the east and south of the city in order to ward off the danger of any Austrian intervention from the direction of Mantua.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • By this treaty Austria ceded to the republic Belgium and the countries of Italy as far as the Oglio; for which she was to receive in return the Venetian territory from the Oglio to the Po and the Adriatic Sea, Venetian Istria, and Daimatia; and when general peace should be re-established, Mantua and Peschiera.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • Venetian provinces to the Adige, and not to the Oglio; and Mantua being retained by the French.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • Nano, praising the sublime virtues of the 'Oglio del Scoto,' sings: --

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • But Prince Eugene erelong obliged them to fall back from the banks of the Adige to the line of the Oglio, on which they made a stand.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

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