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IMOLA (anc. Forum Cornelii)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 340 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 .

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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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 by See also:Caesar See also:Borgia in 1500 .

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