MONTEFIASCONE
, a See also:town and episcopal see of the See also:province of See also:Rome, See also:Italy, built on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill (2077 ft.) on the S.E. See also:side of the See also:Lake of See also:Bolsena, 70 M. by See also:rail N.W. of Rome
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Pop
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(1901), 3041 (town); 9731 (See also:commune)
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The See also:cathedral (1519) is one of the earliest structures by Sammicheli, S
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Maria della Grazie is also by him
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The town has in See also:San Flaviano (built in 1032, repaired and enlarged in the See also:Gothic See also:style See also:late in the 14th See also:century), a curious See also:double 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 of importance in the See also:history of See also:architecture (cf
.
G
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T
.
Rivoira, Origini dell' architettura lombarda, i
.
326 sqq.); in its interior some 14th-century frescoes were discovered in 1896
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In the See also:crypt is the See also:grave of a traveller, who succumbed to excessive drinking of the See also:local See also:wine known as Est, est, est
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The See also:story is that his See also:valet who preceded him wrote " est " on the doors of all the inns where See also:good wine was to be had, and that here the inscription was thrice repeated
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It is possible that Montefiascone occupies the site of the Fanum Voltumnae, at which the representatives of the twelve See also:chief cities of See also:Etruria met in the days Of their See also:independence; while under the See also:Empire the festival was held near See also:Volsinii
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