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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FOSSANUOVA , an See also:

abbey of See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Rome, near the railway• station of See also:Sonnino, 64 m. S.E. of Rome. It is the finest example of a Cistercian abbey, and of the Burgundian See also:Early See also:Gothic See also:style, in Italy, and See also:dates from the end of the 12th to the end of the 13th See also:century. The See also:church (1187–1208) is closely similar to that of See also:Casamari. The other conventual buildings also are noteworthy. See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas died here in 1274. See C. Enlart, Origines francaises de l'See also:architecture gothigue en Italie (See also:Paris, 1894) (Bibliotheque See also:des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome, fast. 66).

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