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ROSSANO

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 743 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROSSANO , a See also:

city of See also:Calabria, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Cosenza, 24 M. N.N.E. from that See also:town See also:direct, with a station 4 M. distant on the See also:line from Metaponto to Reggio. Pop. (1901) 13,354. It is picturesquely situated on a precipitous See also:spur of the See also:mountain See also:mass of See also:Sila overlooking the Gulf of See also:Taranto, the highest See also:part of the town being 975 ft. above See also:sea-level. Rossano is the seat of an See also:archbishop, and in the See also:cathedral is preserved the Codex Rossanensis, an uncial MS. of the Gospels of See also:Matthew and See also:Mark in See also:silver characters on See also:purple vellum, with twelve miniatures, of See also:great See also:interest in the See also:history of See also:Byzantine See also:art, belonging to the 6th See also:century A.D. It was brought to See also:Grottaferrata (q.v.) for the See also:exhibition of Byzantine art held there in 1905. See also:Marble and See also:alabaster quarries are worked in the neighbourhood. Mentioned in the Itineraries, Rossano (Roscianum) appears under the Latin See also:empire as one of the important fortresses of Calabria. See also:Totila took it in 548. The See also:people showed great See also:attachment to the Byzantine empire. In the 14th century Rossano was made a principality for the great See also:family of De Baux.

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Sforza, and thus to See also:Sigismund of See also:Poland, it was See also:united in 1558 to the See also:crown of See also:Naples by See also:Philip II. of See also:Spain in virtue of a doubtful will by See also:Bona of Poland in favour of Giovanni Lorenzo Pappacoda. Under See also:Isabella of See also:Aragon and Bona of Poland the town had been a centre of See also:literary culture; but under the Spaniards it declined. The crown sold the lordship in 1612 to the Aldobrandini, and from them it passed to the See also:Borghesi and the Caraffa. Rossano is best known as the birthplace of St Nilus the younger, whose See also:life is the most valuable source of See also:information extant in regard to the See also:state of matters in See also:southern Italy in the loth century. See also:Pope See also:John VII. (705–7) was also a native of the town. See F. See also:Lenormant, La Grande-Grece (1881), vol. i. 339 sqq.

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