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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 440 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASAMARI , a Cistercian See also:

abbey in the See also:province of See also:Rome, 6 m. E.S.E. of See also:Veroli. It marks the site of Cereatae, the See also:birth-See also:place of See also:Marius, afterwards known, as See also:inscriptions attest, as Cereatae Marianae, having been separated perhaps by the triumvirs, from the territory of Arpinum. We find it under the See also:early See also:empire as an See also:independent community. The abbey is a See also:fine example of Burgundian early-See also:Gothic (1203-1217), paralleled in See also:Italy by See also:Fossanuova alone (which is almost See also:con-temporary with it), and is very well preserved. See C. Enlart, " Origines francaises de 1'See also:architecture gothique en Italie " (Bibliotheque See also:des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome, fast. 66), (See also:Paris, 1894).

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