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CASTIGLIONE OLONA

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 475 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTIGLIONE OLONA , a See also:town of See also:Lombardy, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Como, 27 M. N.E. of See also:Milan by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 1806. The See also:choir of the collegiate See also:church, erected about 1428 by See also:Cardinal Branda Castiglione, contains See also:fine frescoes by Masolino of See also:Florence: there are other See also:works by the same See also:master in the See also:baptistery. The See also:tomb of the cardinal (1443) is See also:good. The church of S. Sepolcro, in the See also:lower See also:part of the town, has two large See also:stone figures of See also:saints on its See also:facade (of the end of the 13th See also:century) and, within, painted wooden figures and the tomb of Guido Castiglione (d. 1485) with fine sculptures of the school of Amadeo. The See also:palace erected by Cardinal Castiglione has good terra-See also:cotta decorations.

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