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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 782 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROVIGO , a See also:

town of See also:Venetia, See also:Italy, See also:capital of the See also:province of Rovigo. It stands on the See also:low ground between the See also:lower See also:Adige and the lower Po, 50 M. by See also:rail S.W. of See also:Venice and 27 M. S.S.W. of See also:Padua, and on the Adigetto See also:Canal, 17 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901) 6038 (town); 10,735 (See also:commune). It is a station on the See also:line between See also:Bologna and Padua, with branches to See also:ing See also:December, and again in See also:Edinburgh 1576 and See also:Stirling 1578. See also:Legnago and See also:Chioggia. The See also:architecture of the town bears Meanwhile he helped to compile the " Second See also:Book of Discipline," the See also:stamp both of Venetian and of Ferrarese See also:influence. The and became more than ever opposed to the Episcopal See also:system of See also:cathedral See also:church of Santo Stefano (1696) is of less See also:interest than church See also:government. He was a considerable See also:scholar and is said La Madonna del Soccorso, an octagon with a. See also:fine campanile, to have been the first to See also:teach See also:Hebrew in See also:Scotland. He died begun in 1594 by See also:Francesco Zamberlano of See also:Bassano, a See also:pupil of at See also:Perth on the 16th of See also:October 1580. See also:Palladio.

The town See also:

hall contains a library including some His son See also:JOHN See also:Row (1568—1646), See also:minister of Carnock, wrote rare See also:early See also:editions, belonging to the Accademia de' Concordi, a Historie of the See also:Kirk of Scotland 1558 to 1637, which was See also:con-founded in 158o, and a See also:fair picture See also:gallery enriched with the tinued to 1639 by his son, the third John Row (c. 1598—c. 1672), spoils of the monasteries. The Palazzo Roncali is a fine Re- See also:rector of the Perth See also:grammar school and then (appointed by naissance See also:building by Sanmicheli (1555). Two towers of its See also:Cromwell) See also:principal of See also:King's See also:College, See also:Aberdeen, who, with his See also:medieval See also:castle remain. See also:Wool, See also:silk, See also:linen and See also:leather are See also:father and grandfather was a famour Hebraist, but See also:left the among the See also:local manufactures. Church of Scotland to become an See also:Independent minister. This Rovigo (Neo-Latin Rhodigium) appears to be mentioned as Historic was published by the See also:Wodrow Society and by the Rodigo in 838. It was selected as his See also:residence by the See also:bishop See also:Maitland See also:Club in 1842. of See also:Adria on the destruction of his See also:city by the See also:Huns. From ROWE, See also:NICHOLAS (1674—1718), See also:English dramatist and misthe 11th to the 14th See also:century the See also:Este See also:family was usually in cellaneous writer, son of John Rowe (d. 1692), See also:barrister and authority; but the Venetians took the See also:place by See also:siege in 1482 See also:serjeant-at-See also:law, was baptized at Little Barford in See also:Bedford-and retained See also:possession of it by the See also:peace of 1484, and though See also:shire on the 3oth of See also:June 1674.

Nicholas Rowe was educated the Este more than once recovered it, the Venetians, returning at See also:

Westminster School under Dr See also:Busby. He became in 1688 in 1514, retained possession till the See also:French Revolution. In a King's Scholar, and entered the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1691. On 18o6 the city was made a duchy in favour of See also:General See also:Savary. his father's See also:death he became the See also:master of an independent The Austrians in 1815 created it a royal city. (T. As.) See also:fortune.

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