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PALLADIUS, RUTILIUS TAURUS AEMILIANUS

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PALLADIUS, RUTILIUS See also:TAURUS AEMILIANUS , a See also:Roman author of the 4th See also:century A.D. He wrote a poem on See also:agriculture (De re rustica) in fourteen books, the material being derived from See also:Columella and other earlier writers. The See also:work is See also:con- veniently arranged, but far inferior in every other respect to that of Columella. There is a See also:modern See also:German edition by Schmitt (See also:Leipzig, 1898). PALLANZA, a small See also:industrial See also:town and summer and See also:winter resort of the See also:province of See also:Novara, See also:Piedmont, See also:Italy, 659 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (Igor), 4619 (town); 5247 (See also:commune). It occupies a position of See also:great natural beauty, on a promontory on the W. of Lago See also:Maggiore, with a semicircle of mountains behind and the See also:lake and See also:Borromean Islands in front, 62 m. N. of Novara See also:direct. The See also:annual mean temperature is 550 Fahr.; See also:January, 37.10, See also:July, 74°. There is a See also:fine botanical See also:garden.

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