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See also:AREZZO (anc. See also:Arretium) , a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Tuscany, See also:Italy, the See also:capital of the See also:province of Arezzo, 54 M. S.E. of See also:Florence by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) town, 16,780; See also:commune, 46,926. It is an attractive town, situated on the slope of 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 84o to 970 ft. above See also:sea-level, in a fertile See also:district. The walls by which it is surrounded were erected in 1320 by Guido Tarlati di Pietramala, its warlike See also:bishop, who died in 1327, and is buried in the See also:cathedral; they were reconstructed by Cosimo I. de' See also:Medici between 1541 and 1568, on which occasion the See also:bronze statues of See also:Pallas and the See also:Chimaera, now at Florence, were discovered. The town itself is See also:fan-shaped, the streets, which contain some See also:fine old houses with projecting See also:eaves and many towers, radiating from the citadel (Fortezza), which was constructed in 1502, and dismantled by the See also:French in 'Soo. The cathedral, See also:close by, is a fine specimen of See also:Italian See also:Gothic begun in 1277, but not completed internally until 1511, while the See also:facade was not begun until 1880. The interior is spacious and contains some fine 14th-See also:century sculptures, those of the high See also:altar, which contains the See also:tomb of St See also:Donatus, the See also:patron See also:saint of Arezzo, being the best; very See also:good stained-See also:glass windows of the beginning of the 16th century by See also:Guillaume de Marcillat, and some terra-See also:cotta reliefs by See also:Andrea della Robbia. Another fine 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 is S. Maria della Pieve, having a campanile and a facade of 1216, the latter with three open colonnades See also:running for its whole length above the doors. The interior was restored to its See also:original See also:style in 1863-1865. The Romanesque See also:choir and See also:apse belong to the 11th century, the See also:rest of the interior is See also:con-temporary with the facade. In the square behind the church is a See also:colonnade designed by See also:Vasari. In the cloisters of S. Bernardo, on the site of the See also:ancient See also:amphitheatre, is a remarkable view of See also:medieval See also:Rome. S. See also:Francesco contains famous frescoes by See also:Piero de' See also:Franceschi, representing scenes from the See also:legend of the See also:Holy See also:Cross, and others by Spinello See also:Aretino, a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Giotto. There are several other frescoes by the latter in S. Domenico. Among the See also:Renaissance buildings the churches of S. Maria delle Grazie and the Santissima Annunziata may be noted. The collection of See also:majolica in the municipal museum is very fine, and so is that of the Funghini See also:family. In the See also:middle ages Arezzo was generally on the Ghibelline See also:side; it succumbed to Florence in 1289 at the See also:battle of Campaldino, but at the end of the century recovered its strength under the Tarlati family. In 1336 it became subject to Florence for six years, and after See also:intestine struggles, finally came under her See also:rule in 1384. Among the natives of Arezzo the most famous are the See also:Benedictine See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk Guido of Arezzo, the inventor
of the See also:modern See also:system of musical notation (died c. 1050), the poet See also:Petrarch, Pietro Aretino, the satirist (1492-1556), and Vasari, famous for his lives of Italian painters. The town never possessed a distinct school of artists.
See C. Signorini, Arezzo, Cittd y Provincea, Guida illustrata (Arezzo, 1904). (T.
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