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REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 38 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REGENT (from
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Lat. regere, to
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rule)
  , one who rules or governs, especially one who acts temporarily as an
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administrator of the
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realm during the minority or incapacity of the king . This latter
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function, however, is one unknown to the
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English
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common law . " In
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judgment of law the king, as king, cannot be said to be a minor, for when the royal
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body politic of the king doth meet with the natural capacity in one person the whole body shall have the quality of the royal politic, which is the greater and more worthy and wherein is no minority . For omne majus continet in se minus " (Coke upon Littleton, 43a) . But for reasons of necessity a regency, however anomalous it may be in strict law, has frequently been constituted both in England and Scotland . The earliest instance in English
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history is the appointment of the
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earl of Pembroke with the assent of the loyal barons on the accession of Henry III . Whether or not the sanction of parliament is necessary for the appointment is a question which has been much discussed . Lord Coke recommends that the office should depend on the will of parliament (Inst., vol. iv. p . 58), and in
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modern times provision for a REGGIO NELL'
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EMILIA, a city and episcopal see of Emilia, Italy, the capital of the province of Reggio nell' Emilia (till 1859
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part of the duchy of Modena), 38 m. by
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rail N.W. of Bologna . Pop . (1906) 19,681 (
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town); 64,548 (commune) . The
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cathedral, originally erected in the 12th century, was reconstructed in the 15th and 16th; the
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facade shows traces of both periods, the Renaissance
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work being
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complete only in the
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lower portion .

S . Prospero,

close by, has a facade of 1504, in which are incorporated six marble lions belonging to the
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original Romanesque edifice . The Madonna della Ghiara, built in 1597 in the form of a Greek
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cross, and restored in 1900, is beautifully proportioned and finely decorated in stucco and with frescoes of the Bolognese school of the early 17th century . There are several good palaces of the early Renaissance, a
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fine theatre (1857) and a museum containing important palaeo-ethnological collections, ancient and
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medieval sculptures, and the natural history collection of Spallanzani . Lodovico Ariosto, the poet (1474-1533), was born in Reggio, and his
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father's house is still preserved . The
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industries embrace the making of cheese,
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objects in cement, matches, and brushes, the production of silkworms, and printing; and the town is the centre of a rich agricultural
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district . It lies on the main
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line between Bologna and Milan, and is connected by branch lines with
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Guastalla and Sassuolo (hence a line to Modena) . Regium Lepidi or Regium Lepidum was probably founded by M . Aemilius
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Lepidus at the time of the construction of the Via Aemilia (187 B.c.) . It
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lay upon this road,
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half-way between Mutina and
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Parma . It was during the
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Roman period a flourishing municipium, but perhaps never became a colony; and it is associated with no event more interesting than the assassination of M . Brutus, the father of Clesar's friend and foe .

The bishopric

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dates perhaps from the 4th century A.D . Under the Lombards the town was the seat of dukes and
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counts; in the 12th and 13th centuries it formed a flourishing republic, busied in surrounding itself with walls (1229), controlling the Crostolo and constructing navigable canals to the Po, coining
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money of its own, and establishing prosperous
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schools . About 1290 it first passed into the hands of Obizzo d'Este, and the authority of the Este
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family was after many vicissitudes more formally recognized in 1409 . In the contest for liberty which began in 1796 and closed with annexation to Piedmont in 1859, Reggio took vigorous part .

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