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FORL3 (anc. Forum Livii)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 666 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORL3 (anc. See also:Forum Livii)  , a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Emilia, See also:Italy, the See also:capital of the See also:province of Forli, 40 M . S.E. of See also:Bologna by See also:rail, so8 ft. above See also:sea-level . Pop . (1901) 15,461 (town); 43,321 (See also:commune) . Forli is situated on the railway between Bologna and See also:Rimini . It is connected by See also:steam tramways with See also:Ravenna and Meldola, and by a road through the See also:Apennines with Pontassieve . The See also:church of S . Mercuriale stands in the See also:principal square, and contains, besides paintings, some See also:good carved and inlaid See also:choir stalls by Alessandro dei Bigni . The See also:facade has been considerably altered, but the campanile, erected in 1178-r180, still exists; it is 252 ft. in height, square and built of See also:brickwork, and is one of the finest of Lombard campanili . The pictures in this church are the See also:work of Marco Palmezzano (1456–1537) and others; S . Biagio and the municipal picture See also:gallery also contain See also:works by him . The latter has other interesting pictures, including a See also:fresco representing an apprentice with pestle and See also:mortar (Pestapepe), the only See also:authentic work in Forli of Melozzo da Forli (143$–1494), an eminent See also:master whose See also:style was formed under the See also:influence of See also:Piero della Francesca, and who was the master of Palmezzano; the frescoes in the See also:Sforza See also:chapel in SS .

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Girolamo are from the former's designs, though executed by the latter . The church also contains the See also:fine See also:tomb (1466) of See also:Barbara Manfredi . The See also:cathedral (See also:Santa Croce) has been almost entirely rebuilt since 1844 . The Palazzo del See also:Podesta, now a private See also:house, is a See also:brick See also:building of the 15th See also:century . The citadel (Rocca Ravaldina), constructed about 1360–1370, and later rebuilt, is now used as a See also:prison . Flavio Biondo, the first See also:Renaissance writer on the See also:topography of See also:ancient See also:Rome (1388–1463), was a native of Forli . Of the ancient See also:Forum Livii, which See also:lay on the Via Aemilia, hardly anything is known . In the 12th century we find Forli in See also:league with Ravenna, and in the 13th the imperial See also:count of the province of Romagna resided there . In 1275 Forli defeated Bologna with See also:great loss . See also:Martin IV. sent an See also:army to besiege it in 1282, which was driven out after severe fighting in the streets; but the town soon afterwards surrendered . In the 14th and 15th centuries it was under the See also:government of the Ordelaffi; and in 1500 was taken by See also:Caesar See also:Borgia, despite a determined resistance by Caterina Sforza, widow of Girolamo Riario . Forli finally became a See also:part of the papal See also:state in 1504 .

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