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CARPI  , a

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town and episcopal see of
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Emilia,
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Italy, in the
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province of
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Modena, 9 M . N.N.W. by
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rail from the town of Modena . Pop . (1905) 7118 (town), 2,7,135 (
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commune) . It is the junction of a
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branch
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line to Reggio nell' Emilia via
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Correggio, and the centre of a fertile agricultural
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district . Carpi contains several
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Renaissance buildings of
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interest, the
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facade of the old
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cathedral (an
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early Romanesque
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building in origin, with some early 15th-
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century frescoes), the new cathedral (after 1513), perhaps the
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nave of S . Niccolo and a
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palace, all being by Baldassare
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Peruzzi: while the
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prince's palace . (with a
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good
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court and a
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chapel containing frescoes by Bernardino Loschi of
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Parma, 1489—1540) and the colonnades opposite the
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theatre are also good . ' These, and the fortifications, are all due to Alberto Pio of Carpi, a
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pupil of Aldus
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Manutius, expelled in 1525 by
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Charles V., the principality being given to the
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house of
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Este .

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