LEGNANO
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V16,
Page 380
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LEGNANO
, a town of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Milan, 17 M
.
N.W. of that city by rail, 682 ft. above sea-level
.
Pop
.
(1881) 7153, (1901) 18,285
.
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)
of S
.
Magno, built in the style of Bramante by G
.
Lampugnano (1504-1529), contains an altar-piece considered one of Luini's best works
.
There are also remains of a castle of the Visconti
.
Legnano is the seat of important cotton and silk industries, with
machine-shops, boiler-works, and dyeing and printing of woven goods, and See also: - THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)
.
Close by, the Lombard League defeated Frederick Barbarossa in 1176; a monument in commemoration of the battle was erected on the See also: - FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
in 1876, while there is another by Butti erected in woo in the Piazza Federico Barbarossa
.
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