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ESTE (anc. Ateste, q.v.)

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ESTE (anc. See also:Ateste, q.v.) , a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Venetia, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Padua, 20 M. S.S.W. of it by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 8671 (town); 10,779 (See also:commune). It lies 49 ft. above See also:sea-level below the See also:southern slopes of the Euganean Hills. The See also:external walls of the See also:castle still rise above the town on the N., but the interior is now occupied by the See also:cattle-See also:market. A fragment of the once enormous Palazzo See also:Mocenigo, of the 16th See also:century, is now occupied by the important archaeological museum (see ATESTE). The See also:cathedral was erected in 169o–1720, on the site of an older See also:building destroyed by an See also:earthquake in 1688. S. Martino is a See also:church in the Lombard Romanesque See also:style. The archives in the Palazzo Comunale are important.

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Roman See also:period the See also:history of Este is a See also:blank until the Lombard period, in which it was dependent on Monselice. In the loth century the See also:family of Este (see above) established itself in the castle above the town. At the end of the 13th century Padua, which had already captured Este more than once, became definitely See also:mistress of it. When the See also:Carrara family succumbed in 1405, Este voluntarily surrendered to See also:Venice and was allowed its See also:independence, under a See also:podesta; and thenceforth it followed the fortunes of Venetia. EST$BANEZ See also:CALDERON, SERAFIN (1799-1867), a See also:Spanish author, best known by the See also:pseudonym of " El Solitario," was See also:born at See also:Malaga on the 27th of See also:December 1799. His first See also:literary effort was El See also:Liston verde, a poem signed "Safinio" and written to celebrate the revolution of 182o. He was called to the See also:bar, and settled for some See also:time at See also:Madrid, where i.e published a See also:volume of verses in 1831 under the assumed name of " El Solitario." He obtained an exaggerated reputation as an Arabic See also:scholar, and played a See also:minor See also:part in the See also:political movements of his time. He died at Madrid on the 5th of See also:February 1867. His most interesting See also:work, Escenas 'andaluzas (1847), is in a curiouly affected style, the vocabulary being partly archaic and partly provincial; but, despite its See also:eccentric mannerisms, it is a vivid See also:record of picturesque scenes and See also:local customs. Estebanez Calderon is also the author of an unfinished history, De la conquista y perdida de See also:Portugal (1883), issued posthumously under the editorship of his See also:nephew, See also:Antonio Canovas del See also:Castillo.

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