CANOSA (anc.

See also:

• CANUSIUM (Gr. Kaaboaov, mod. Canosa)

Canusium)  , a town of Apulia, Italy, in the province of Bari, situated on the right bank of the Ofanto (anc . Aufidus), 505 ft. above sea-level, 15 m . S.W. of Barletta by rail . Pop . (1901) 24,230 . It was rebuilt in 963 below the Roman city, which had been abandoned after its devastation by the Saracens in the 9th century . The former cathedral of S . Sabino (the bishopric passed in 1818 to Andria), in the southern Romanesque style, was consecrated in 11o1: it has five domes (resembling St Mark's at Venice, except that it is a Latin cross, instead of a Greek cross, in plan) and many ancient columns . The archiepiscopal throne and pulpit of the end of the r rth century are also fine . On the south side of the building is the detached mausoleum of Bohemund, son of Robert Guiscard, who died in rill, constructed partly in Byzantine, partly in the local style . It has fine bronze doors with long inscriptions; the exterior is entirely faced with cipollino (Carystian) marble . The conception of this mortuary chapel, which is unique at this period, was undoubtedly derived from the turbeh before a mosque; these turbehs are square, domed-roofed tombs in which the sultans and distinguished Mahommedans are buried (E .

Bertaux, L'

Art dens l'Italie meridionale, Paris, 1904, i . 312) . A medieval castle crowns the hill on the side of which the city stands . (See CANUSIUM.) (T .