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ROVERETO

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 781 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROVERETO , the most important See also:

industrial See also:town in the See also:southern or See also:Italian-speaking portion of the See also:Austrian See also:province of See also:Tirol, though its See also:population (which in 1900 was 10,180, Italian-speaking and Romanist) is less than that of See also:Trent. It is also the See also:principal town of the administrative See also:district of Rovereto. Built on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Adige, in the widest portion of the Val Lagarina (the name given to the Adige valley from Acquaviva, above Rovereto, to the Italian frontier), it is divided into two parts by the See also:Leno torrent. It is on the See also:Brenner railway, by which it is 15m. S.W. of Trent and 412 M. N. of See also:Verona. See also:Save in the newer See also:quarter of the town, the streets are narrow and crooked, several being named after the most distinguished native of the See also:place, See also:Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (q.v.). The finest See also:church is that of See also:Santa Maria del See also:Carmine, the old 14th-See also:century church now serving as a See also:sacristy to that built from 1678 to 1750. The church of See also:San Marco See also:dates from the 15th century. The town is dominated by the See also:castle (now used as See also:barracks), which was reconstructed in 1492 by the Venetians, after it had been burnt in 1487 by the See also:count of Tirol. The See also:staple See also:silk See also:industry (which dates from the 16th century) has declined, the number both of filande (establishments wherein the cocoons are unwound) and of filatoje (those wherein the silk is spun) having diminished. In 1132 the See also:emperor See also:Lothair found the passage of the See also:gorge above the site of the town barred by a castle, which he took and gave to one of his See also:Teutonic followers, the ancestor of the Castelbarco See also:family.

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middle of the 13th century that family obtained by See also:marriage the lands of the Lizzana family (whose castle rises S. of the town), and in 1300 practically founded the town and surrounded it with walls. In 1416 it was taken by the Venetians, who in 1487 successfully resisted, at Calliano, an See also:attempt to take it made by the count of Tirol and the See also:bishop of Trent. In 1509, at the outset of the See also:war of the See also:League of Cambray, the town gave itself voluntarily to the emperor See also:Maximilian, to whom it was ceded formally by See also:Venice in 1517, and next See also:year incorporated with Tirol. See also:South of Rovereto is the See also:village of Marco, near which are certain natural remains (either those of a landslip that occurred in 883, or of a See also:glacier See also:moraine) believed to have been described by See also:Dante (Inf. xii. 4—9), who is said to have spent See also:part of the year 1304, during his See also:exile from See also:Florence, in the castle of Lizzana, between Marco and Rovereto. (W. A. B.

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