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good facade and Romanesque portal of the end of the 13th (?) century (D. Scano, in L'Arte, 1905, 134). In the municipal collection are a few pictures of See also:

INTEREST

interest. The museum in the university has an interesting collection of antiquities, largely formed by G.

Spano, from all parts of the island, and belonging to the prehistoric, Phoenician and See also:

ROMAN

Roman periods. To the See also:

east of the town is the See also:

Fontana del Rosello, which supplied the town with See also:

WATER

water before the construction of the See also:

AQUEDUCT (Lat. aqua, water, and ducere, to lead; Gr. apaymryeiov, apayeeywov, vlrovopos)

aqueduct, the water being brought up in small barrels by donkeys. Sassari is connected by rail by a See also:

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

branch (282 m. E.S.E. to Chilivani) with the See also:

main See also:

LINE

line from Cagliari to Golfo degli Aranci, and with Porto Torres and Alghero. To the See also:

DISTRICT

district near Sassari belong some of the most picturesque costumes of the island. The date of the origin of the town is uncertain; but it was no doubt founded as the result of migrations from Porto Torres. This can hardly have occurred during the 11th century, when we find the See also:

GIUDICI, PAOLO EMILIANO (1812-1872)

giudici of Torres or Logudoro residing either at Porto Torres or at Ardara; but it must have occurred before 1217, when a See also:

BODY

body of Corsicans, driven out of their island by the cruelties of a See also:

VISCONTI

Visconti of See also:

Pisa, took See also:

REFUGE

refuge at Sassari, and gave their name to a See also:

PART

part of the town. About this See also:

time we find one of the giudici residing at Sassari for a whole summer, no doubt to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape the See also:

MALARIA

malaria. The giudici continued to exist at least until 1275, and perhaps till 1284, but about 126o Sassari seems to have shaken itself See also:

FREE

free, and in 1275 and 1286 we find Pisa treating Sassari as a free commune. In 1288, four years after the defeat of See also:

MELORIA

Meloria, Pisa ceded Sassari to See also:

GENOA (anc. Genua, Ital. Genova, Fr. GPnes)

Genoa; but Sassari enjoyed See also:

INTERNAL

internal See also:

AUTONOMY (Gr. abr6s, self, and v6pos, law)

autonomy, and in 1316 published its statutes (still extant), which are perhaps in part the See also:

REPRODUCTION

reproduction of earlier ones. These, however, did not last See also:

long, for in 1323 Sassari submitted to the Aragonese See also:

king, and lost its See also:

independence. Sassari was sacked by the See also:

French in 1527, and disastrous pestilences are recorded in 1528, 1580 and 1652.

In 1795 Sassari was the centre of the reaction of the barons against the popular ideas sown by the French Revolution; an insurrection of the See also:

PEOPLE

people led by one Angioi lasted only a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short while, and led to reactionary See also:

MEASURES

measures. See P. Satta-Branca, Il Comune di Sassari See also:

nei secoli XIII e XIV (See also:

Rome, 1885). (T.

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