CASAMARI  , a Cistercian

abbey in the province of Rome, 6 m . E.S.E. of Veroli . It marks the site of Cereatae, the birth-place of Marius, afterwards known, as inscriptions attest, as Cereatae Marianae, having been separated perhaps by the triumvirs, from the territory of Arpinum . We find it under the early empire as an independent community . The abbey is a fine example of Burgundian early-Gothic (1203-1217), paralleled in Italy by Fossanuova alone (which is almost con-temporary with it), and is very well preserved . See C . Enlart, " Origines francaises de 1'architecture gothique en Italie " (Bibliotheque des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome, fast . 66), (Paris, 1894) .