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