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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 722 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ASCIANO , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Tuscany, in the See also:

province of See also:

SIENA

Siena, 19 m. S.E. of the town of Siena by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1901) 7618. It is surrounded by walls built by the Sienese in 1351, and has some 14th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century churches with paintings of the same See also:

period. Six See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles to the See also:

south is the large See also:

BENEDICTINE

Benedictine monastery of See also:

MONTE

Monte Oliveto See also:

MAGGIORE, LAGO (Lacus Verbanus of the Romans; Fr. Lac Majeur; Ger. Langensee)

Maggiore, founded in 1320, famous for the frescoes by Luca See also:

SIGNORELLI, LUCA (c. 1442-c. 1524)

Signorelli (1497–1498) and See also:

Antonio Bazzi, called See also:

SODOMA, IL (1477-1549)

Sodoma (1505), in the See also:

CLOISTER (Lat. claustrum; Fr. cloitre; Ital. chiostro; Span. claustro; Ger. Kloster)

cloister, illustrating scenes from the See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend of St See also:

Benedict; the latter See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master's See also:

WORK

work is perhaps nowhere better represented than here. The See also:

church contains See also:

FINE

fine inlaid See also:

CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

choir stalls by Era Giovanni da See also:

Verona. The buildings, which are mostly of red See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, are conspicuous against the See also:

gray clayey and sandy See also:

SOIL

soil. The monastery is described by See also:

AENEAS

Aeneas Sylvius See also:

Piccolomini (See also:

Pope See also:

PIUS

Pius II.) in his Commentaria. Remains of See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

BATHS

baths, with a fine See also:

MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

mosaic See also:

PAVEMENT (Lat. pavimentu;n, a floor beaten or rammed hard, from pavire, to beat)

pavement, were found within the town in 1898 (G. Pellegrini in Notizie degli scavi, 1899, 6).

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