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COSENZA (anc. Consentia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 213 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COSENZA (anc. Consentia)  , a See also:town and archiepiscopal see of See also:Calabria, See also:Italy, the See also:capital of the See also:province of See also:Cosenza, 755 ft. above See also:sea-level, 43 M. by See also:rail S. by W. of Sibari, which is a station on the E. See also:coast railway between Metaponto and Reggio . Pop . (1901) town, 13,841; See also:commune, 20,857 . It is situated on the slope of a See also:hill between the Crati and Busento, just above the junction, and is commanded by a See also:castle (1250 ft.) . The See also:Gothic See also:cathedral, consecrated in 1222, on the site of another ruined by an See also:earthquake in 1184, goes back to See also:French See also:models in See also:Champagne, and is indeed unique in Italy . It contains the Gothic See also:tomb of See also:Isabella of See also:Aragon, wife of See also:Philip III. of See also:France, and also the tomb of See also:Louis III., See also:duke of See also:Anjou; but it has been spoilt by restoration both inside and out . S . Domenico has a See also:fine See also:rose window . The Palazzo del Tribunale (See also:law courts) is a fine See also:building, and the upper town contains several See also:good houses of See also:rich proprietors of the province; while the See also:lower portion is unhealthy . Earthquakes, and a See also:fire in 1901, have done considerable damage to the town . The See also:ancient Consentia is first named as the See also:burial See also:place of See also:Alexander of See also:Epirus in about 330 B.C . In 204 it became See also:Roman, though it was more under the See also:influence of See also:Greek culture .

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Strabo as the See also:chief town of the Eruttii, and frequently spoken of in classical authors as an important place . It See also:lay on the Via Popillia . See also:Varro speaks of its See also:apple trees which gave See also:fruit twice in the See also:year and See also:Pliny praises its See also:wine also . It is the more surprising that in the whole of its territory no See also:inscriptions, either Greek or Latin, have ever been found, those that are recorded by some writers being fabrications. in A.D . 410 See also:Alaric See also:fell in See also:battle here and was buried, it is said, in the See also:bed of the Busento, which was temporarily diverted and then allowed to resume its natural course . Cosenza became an archbishopric in the 11th See also:century . In 1461 it was taken by Roberto See also:Orsini, and suffered severely . It was the See also:home of a scientific See also:academy founded by the philosopher Bernardino See also:Telesio (1509–1588) . In 1555–1561 it was the centre of the persecution by the See also:Inquisition of the Waldenses who had settled there towards the end of the 14th century . (T .

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