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MONTE SAN SAVINO

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 774 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTE
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SAN SAVINO  , a
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town of
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Tuscany,
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Italy, in the
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province of
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Arezzo, from which it is 12 m . S.W. by road, 1083 ft. above
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sea-level . Pop . (19ot), 4810 (town); 84g8 (
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commune) . It was the birthplace of the sculptor and architect
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Andrea Contucci, generally known as
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Sansovino (146o-1529), and there are various
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works in the town by him, a loggia opposite the Palazzo Municipale (itself by
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Antonio da
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Sangallo the
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elder and one of his best works), the monastery courts of S .
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Agostino and S . Giovanni Battista, and some sculptures .

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