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TODI (anc. Tuder)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1044 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TODI (anc. Tuder) , a See also:town and episcopal see of the See also:province of See also:Perugia, See also:Italy, 28 m. S. of Perugia by road, on a steep See also:hill above the See also:east See also:bank of the See also:Tiber, 1348 ft. above See also:sea-level, and 866 ft. above the See also:river. Pop. (1901), 3599 (town), 16,528 (See also:commune). Some portions of the See also:ancient town walls—of two enceintes, an inner and an See also:outer, the former attributed to the See also:Original Umbrian inhabitants, the latter to the See also:Romans—arepreserved, and also remains of See also:baths, See also:amphitheatre, See also:theatre, and a substruction See also:wall of massive See also:masonry, with four niches. Here was found the See also:bronze statue of See also:Mars, now in the Vatican, so that the See also:building is sometimes erroneously called the See also:temple of Mars. Beneath the See also:cathedral square, at the highest point of the town, is a large See also:reservoir. The Romanesque cathedral has a See also:simple See also:facade (partly of the 11th, partly of the 14th and 15th centuries), with a See also:fine portal and See also:rose window. In the same square is the massive Romanesque See also:Gothic Palazzo Comunale of 1267, the Palazzo dei Priori and the Palazzo della See also:Podesta. The Gothic See also:church of S. Fortunato, with its See also:nave and aisles of the same height, has a splendid portal; the upper See also:part of the facade is unfinished.

Both this church and the cathedral have See also:

good See also:choir-stalls. Just outside the town on the See also:west is the See also:pilgrimage church of S. Maria della Consolazione, one of the finest buildings of the See also:Renaissance, and often wrongly attributed to See also:Bramante. See also:Con-temporary documents prove that the interior was begun in 1508 by Cola Matteuccio da Caprarola, and the exterior completed in 1516–1524 by Ambrogio da Milano and See also:Francesco di Vito See also:Lombardo; the slender See also:dome was not added till 1606; its See also:plan is a See also:Greek See also:cross. S. Fillippo in the town, a church of the See also:early 16th See also:century, betrays the See also:influence of the Consolazione in details. During the See also:period of its See also:independence, the town struck coins with the See also:legend Tutere. It is hardly mentioned in See also:history until it received See also:Roman citizenship in the Social See also:War. See also:Crassus took it in 83 Inc.; and a See also:colony was founded there by Octavian, including some soldiers of the 41st See also:legion, which only existed in his See also:time, after which it See also:bore the name Colonia Julia fida Tuder. It was a station on the road between See also:America and Perusia, but otherwise is hardly mentioned. See also:Narses won a victory over the Goths near Todi in 552, and See also:Totila lost his See also:life. In the See also:middle ages it had frequent struggles with Perugia, and its obedience to the church until the 16th century was somewhat fitful.

The See also:

village of Vicus Martis Tudertium See also:lay 9 m. to the east on the Via See also:Flaminia. Several See also:inscriptions mention it (Corpus inscript. See also:lat. xi. 694).

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