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CARPI , a See also:

TOWN

town and episcopal see of See also:

EMILIA

Emilia, See also:

Italy, in the See also:

province of See also:

MODENA (ancient Mutina)

Modena, 9 M. N.N.W. by See also:

RAIL

rail from the town of Modena. Pop. (1905) 7118 (town), 2,7,135 (See also:

commune). It is the junction of a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch See also:

LINE

line to Reggio nell' Emilia via See also:

Correggio, and the centre of a fertile agricultural See also:

DISTRICT

district. Carpi contains several See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance buildings of See also:

INTEREST

interest, the See also:

FACADE

facade of the old See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral (an See also:

early Romanesque See also:

BUILDING

building in origin, with some early 15th-See also:

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

century frescoes), the new cathedral (after 1513), perhaps the See also:

NAVE

nave of S. Niccolo and a See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, all being by Baldassare See also:

PERUZZI, BALDASSARE (1481-1536)

Peruzzi: while the See also:

prince's palace. (with a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

court and a See also:

CHAPEL

chapel containing frescoes by Bernardino Loschi of See also:

PARMA

Parma, 1489—1540) and the colonnades opposite the See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre are also good. ' These, and the fortifications, are all due to Alberto Pio of Carpi, 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 Aldus See also:

MANUTIUS

Manutius, expelled in 1525 by See also:

Charles V., the principality being given to the See also:

house of See also:

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