GUALDO TADINO (anc. Tadinum, z m. to the W.)  , a

town and episcopal see of Umbria, Italy, 1755 ft. above sea-level, in the province of Perugia, 22 m . N. of Foligno by rail . Pop . (19o1), town, 4440; commune, 10,756 . The suffix Tadino distinguishes it from Gualdo in the province of Macerata, and Gualdo Cattaneo, S.W. of Foligno . The cathedral has a good rose-window and possesses, like several of the other churches, 15th-century paintings by Umbrian artists, especially works by Niccolo Alunno . The town is still surrounded by walls . The ancient Tadinum lay z m. to the W. of the modern town . It is mentioned in the Eugubine tablets (see IGUvIUM) as a hostile city against which imprecations are directed . In its neighbourhood Narses defeated and slew Totila in 552 . No ruins are now visible, though they seem to have been extant in the 17th century . The new town seems to have been founded in 1237 .

It was at first

independent, but passed under Perugia in 1292, and later became dependent on the duchy of Spoleto .