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BRONTE, a town of the province of Catania, Sicily, on the western slopes of Mt. Etna, 24 M. N.N.W. of Catania direct, and 34 M. by rail. Pop. (1901) 20,366. It was founded by the emperor Charles V. The town, with an extensive estate which originally belonged to the monastery of Maniacium (Maniace), was granted, as a dukedom, to Nelson by Ferdinand IV. of Naples in 1799.