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ARQUA PETRARCA

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARQUA PETRARCA , a See also:

village of See also:Venetia, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Padua, 3 M. to the S.W. of See also:Battaglia. Pop. (1901) 1573. It is chiefly famous as the See also:place where See also:Petrarch lived his last few years and died in 1374. His See also:house still exists, and his See also:tomb, a See also:sarcophagus supported by four See also:short columns of red See also:marble, stands in front of the See also:church. Near Arqua., on the See also:banks of the small Lago della See also:Costa, is the site of a prehistoric See also:lake village, excavations in which have produced interesting results. See A. Moschetti and F. Cordenone in Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova, iv. (1901), 102 seq.

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