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Pinturicchio (1489). The Palazzo Comunale has some interesting pictures by artists of the Marches. Lorenzo and Giacomo Salimbeni da San Severino, who painted an important See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of frescoes in the See also:

ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

oratory of S. Giovanni Battista at See also:

URBINO (anc. Urvinum Mataurense)

Urbino in 1416, were natives of the town. So was also the later See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master Lorenzo di See also:

MAESTRO

Maestro Alessandro, of the end of the 15th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, whose pictures are mainly to be found in the Marches. The old cathedral of S.

Severino is in the upper town (1129 ft. above sea-level); it contains frescoes by the two Salimbeni, while an altar-piece by Niccolo Alunno of See also:

FOLIGNO (anc. Fulginiae, q.v.)

Foligno (1468) has been removed hence to the picture See also:

GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery. The See also:

ancient Septempeda See also:

lay r m. below the See also:

MODERN

modern town, on the See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch road which ran from Nuceria Camellaria, on the Via See also:

FLAMINIA, VIA

Flaminia; and here the road divided--one branch going to See also:

Ancona and the other through Tolentinum to Urbs See also:

SALVIA

Salvia and Firmum. No ruins of the old town exist, but a considerable number of See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions have been found, from which it may be gathered that it was a colonia.

End of Article: SAN SEVERINO (anc. Septempeda)

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