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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 (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 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 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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