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MONTEFIASCONE , a See also:town and episcopal see of the See also:province of See also:Rome, See also:Italy, built on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill (2077 ft.) on the S.E. See also:side of the See also:Lake of See also:Bolsena, 70 M. by See also:rail N.W. of Rome. Pop. (1901), 3041 (town); 9731 (See also:commune). The See also:cathedral (1519) is one of the earliest structures by Sammicheli, S. Maria della Grazie is also by him. The town has in See also:San Flaviano (built in 1032, repaired and enlarged in the See also:Gothic See also:style See also:late in the 14th See also:century), a curious See also:double 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 of importance in the See also:history of See also:architecture (cf. G. T. Rivoira, Origini dell' architettura lombarda, i. 326 sqq.); in its interior some 14th-century frescoes were discovered in 1896. In the See also:crypt is the See also:grave of a traveller, who succumbed to excessive drinking of the See also:local See also:wine known as Est, est, est. The See also:story is that his See also:valet who preceded him wrote " est " on the doors of all the inns where See also:good wine was to be had, and that here the inscription was thrice repeated. It is possible that Montefiascone occupies the site of the Fanum Voltumnae, at which the representatives of the twelve See also:chief cities of See also:Etruria met in the days Of their See also:independence; while under the See also:Empire the festival was held near See also:Volsinii.
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