See also:IMOLA (anc. See also:Forum Cornelii)
, a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Emilia, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Bologna, from which it is 21 m
.
S.E. by See also:rail, 140 ft. above See also:sea-level
.
Pop
.
(Igor) 12,058 (town); 33,144 (See also:commune)
.
The See also:cathedral of S
.
Cassiano has been
modernized; it possesses interesting reliquaries, and contains the See also:tomb of Petrus Chrysologus, See also:archbishop of See also:Ravenna (d
.
451), a native of See also:Imola
.
S
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Domenico has a See also:fine See also:Gothic portal and S
.
Maria in Regola an old campanile
.
The town also contains some fine palaces
.
The communal library has some See also:MSS., including a psalter with miniatures, that once belonged to See also:Sir
.
See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas More
.
The citadel is square with See also:round towers at the angles; it See also:dates from 1304, and is now used as a See also:prison
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Imola has a large lunatic See also:asylum with over 1200 inmates
.
Innocenzo Francucci (Innocenzo da Imola), a painter of the Bolognese school (1494-154Q), was a native of Imola, and two of his See also:works are preserved in the Palazzo del Comune
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The Madonna del Piratello, 2 M. outside the town to the N.W., is in the See also:early See also:Renaissance See also:style (1488); the campanile was probably built from See also:Bramante's plans in 1506
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The See also:ancient See also:Forum Cornelii, a station on the Via Aemilia, is said by See also:Prudentius, See also:writing in the 5th See also:century A.D., to have been founded by See also:Sulla; but the fact that it belonged to the Tribus Pollia shows that it already possessed See also:Roman citizenship before the Social See also:war
.
In later times we hear little of it; See also:Martial published his third See also:book of epigrams while he was there
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In the Lombard See also:period the name Imolas begins to appear
.
In 1480, after a chequered See also:history, the town came into the See also:possession of See also:Girolamo Riario, See also:lord of Forli, as the See also:dowry of his wife Caterina See also:Sforza, and was incorporated with the States of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church by See also:Caesar See also:Borgia in 1500
.
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