See also:ANAGNIA [mod. Anagni; pop. (1901) 10,059]
, an See also:ancient See also:town of the See also:Hernici, situated on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill (1558 ft.) above the valley of the Trerus and the Via See also:Labicana (the See also:post-station 3 M. below the town, from which a See also:branch road ascended to it, was Compitum Anagninum, which was 40 M
.
E.S.E. of See also:Rome: see T
.
See also:Ashby, in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, i
.
215)
.
In 1880 a pre-See also:Aryan See also:grave was found between the town and the See also:river, with a See also:skeleton painted red, See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone implements and a See also:bronze See also:dagger
.
After the See also:Italian See also:immigration, its position in a fertile See also:district soon gave it importance, and it became the seat of the See also:assembly of the Hernican towns
.
In the See also:war of 306 B.C. it was conquered by Q
.
Marcius Tremulus and lost its See also:independence
.
Its inhabitants had certainly acquired See also:Roman citizenship before the Social War and it continued to be a See also:municipium throughout the Roman See also:period
.
It was besieged by the See also:Saracens in 877, but in the 11th See also:century was a See also:place of considerable importance, the See also:Conti and See also:Gaetani being the See also:chief families; See also:Pope See also:Boniface VIII., a member of the latter, was there made prisoner in 1303
.
The ancient See also:city walls are in some points still existing, in others they have been much restored; they are built of rectangular blocks of porous See also:limestone about 'tit. high
.
On the See also:north of the town they are especially well-preserved, and at one point the See also:area within them is slightly extended by a See also:terrace supported by three lofty pillars
.
Within the city there are no ancient remains, except some massive substruction walls which supported buildings on the hillside
.
The See also:present town still preserves in parts its See also:medieval aspect
.
The See also:cathedral, constructed in 1074 at the See also:summit of the hill, is externally See also:plain; it has a See also:fine See also:Gothic interior, somewhat spoilt by restoration, with a See also:good See also:Cosmati See also:pavement, and a See also:canopy and See also:paschal See also:candlestick in the same See also:style
.
The See also:crypt contains frescoes of the 13th century, and in the See also:treasury are valuable See also:vestments
.
See also:Lower down is the Palazzo Civico, belonging to the 11th or See also:early 12th century, which is supported on See also:arches of a single span, under which the road passes. its posterior See also:facade is fine
.
Pope See also:Adrian IV
.
(See also:Nicholas Break-
See also:ANAGRAM
speare) died here, and there is a See also:chapel of St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Becket in the crypt of the cathedral
.
See L
.
Pigorini, in Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana (188o, 8 seq.) •, J
.
Kulakowski, in Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Scienze Storiche (Rome, 1904), v
.
673 seq
.
(T
.
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