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SULMONA, or SOLMONA (anc. Sulr,'so)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 60 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SULMONA, or SOLMONA (anc. Sulr,'so)  , a See also:city and episcopal see of the Abruzzi, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Aquila, 40 M. by See also:rail S.E. by E. of that See also:town, and 107 m . E. by N. of See also:Rome (75 M. See also:direct) . Pop . (r9o1), 13,372 (town), 18,247 (See also:commune) . See also:Sulmona is situated at a height of 1322 ft. above the See also:sea on the Gizio, a tributary of the See also:Pescara, which supplies See also:water-po'cVer to its See also:paper-See also:mills, fulling-mills and See also:copper-See also:works . Its See also:cathedral of See also:San Panfilio has a 14th-See also:century portal . The interior has been modernized, but in the See also:crypt are some See also:medieval sculptures . Sulmona has also in S . Maria della Tomba a See also:good example of pure See also:Gothic . S . See also:Francesco d'See also:Assisi occupies the site of an older and larger See also:church, the Romanesque portal of which still stands at the end of the Corso Ovidio, and forms the entrance to the See also:meat See also:market . Opposite is a picturesque See also:aqueduct of 1266 with pointed See also:arches .

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Agostino has a good Gothic portal . The Ospedale Civico, next to the church of the Annunziata, begun in the first See also:half of the 15th century, shows an interesting mixture of Gothic and See also:Renaissance styles . The window of the Palazzo Tabassi is similar, and both are due to Lombard masters . In the See also:court of the See also:grammar school is a See also:fine 15th-century statue of See also:Ovid, the most celebrated native of the town, whose memory is preserved among the peasants in songs and folk-See also:lore . The Porta Napoli is an interesting See also:gate of the See also:early 14th century . See also:Innocent VII. was a native of the town . In the vicinity of the town is See also:Monte Morrone where Pietro di See also:Morone lived (c . 1254) as a See also:hermit and founded a monastery for his hermits, who after his See also:elevation to the papacy as See also:Celestine V. took the name of See also:Celestines; the monastery (S . Spirito) remained till 1870, when it was transformed into a See also:prison . There are some ruins of the imperial See also:period, attributed, groundlessly, to the See also:house of Ovid near it . The church contains a Gothic See also:tomb of 1412 by a See also:German See also:master, in which Renaissance See also:influence is, according to See also:Burckhardt, traceable for the first See also:time in See also:south Italy in the realistic characterization of the portrait figures .

Sulmo, a city of the See also:

Paeligni, is first mentioned during the Second Punic See also:War (211 B.C.) . It was the second town of the Paeligni in importance, See also:Corfinium coming first . It became a See also:Roman See also:colony probably in the reign of See also:Augustus, and as a See also:municipium it continued to flourish throughout the See also:empire . It was situated 7 M. south-See also:east of Corfinium on the road to See also:Aesernia, and was famous for its ironsmiths . Hardly any remains of the See also:ancient city exist above ground, owing to frequent See also:earth-quakes . A number of discoveries of tombs (both archaic and of the Roman period), &c., have however been made (cf . A. de Nino, in Notizie degli Scavi, passim) . See also:Charles V. erected it into a principality, which he bestowed on Charles See also:Lannoy, who had captured See also:Francis I. at the See also:battle of See also:Pavia . It ultimately passed to the Corno and See also:Borghese families . The bishopric is known as that of Valva and Sulmona .

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