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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERTINORO  , a :

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town and episcopal see of
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Emilia, Italy, in the province of Forli, 8 m . S.E.
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direct of Forli and 51 m . N. of the station of Forlimpopoli, and 800 ft. above sea-level . Pop . (19o1) town, 3753; commune, 7786 . The town commands a
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fine view to the north over the plain of Emilia and the
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lower course of the Po, itself lying on the foothills of the Apennines . It appears to have been first fortified by Frederick Barbarossa, and its castle stood frequent sieges in the
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middle ages .
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Polenta, 22 M. to the south of it, was the birthplace of Francesca da
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Rimini . The castle is almost entirely ruined, but the church of S . Donato, of the Lombard period, with
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Byzantine capitals, is interesting; Giosue Carducci has written a fine ode on the subject (La Chiesa di Polenta, Bologna, 1897) . See C . Ricci, " Della Chiesa e castello di Polenta " in Atli e Memorie Vella Deputazione di Storia patria per le prooniae di Romagna,
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ser. iii. vol. ix .

(Bologna, 1891), I seq . (T .

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