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CITTA DI See also: CASTELLO , a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Umbria, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Perugia, 38 m. E. of See also:Arezzo by See also:rail (r8 m. See also:direct), situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Tiber, 945 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901) of town, 6096; of See also:commune, 26,885. It occupies, as See also:inscriptions show, the site of the See also:ancient Tifernum Tiberinum, near which See also:Pliny had a See also:villa (Epist. v. 6; cf. H. Winnefeld in Jahrbuch See also:des deutschen archaologischen Instituts, vi. See also:Berlin, 1891, 203), but no remains exist above ground. The town was devastated by See also:Totila, but seems to have recovered. We find it under the name of Castrum Felicitatis at the end of the 8th See also:century. The bishopric See also:dates from the 7th century. The town went through various See also: political vicissitudes in the See also:middle ages, being subject now to the See also:emperor, now to the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, until in 1468 it came under the See also:Vitelli: but when they died out it returned to the See also:allegiance of the Church. It is built in the See also:form of a rectangle and surrounded by walls of 1518. It contains See also:fine buildings of the See also:Renaissance, especially the palaces of the Vitelli, and the See also:cathedral, originally Romanesque. The 12th-century See also:altar front of the latter in See also:silver is fine. The Palazzo Comunale is of the r4th century. Some of See also:Raphael's earliest See also:works were painted for churches in this town, but none of them remains there. There is, however, a small collection of pictures.
See Magherini Graziani, L'Arte a Cittd di Castello (1897).
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