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TOLENTINO (anc. Tolentinum Picenum)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1052 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOLENTINO (anc. Tolentinum See also:Picenum) , a See also:town of the See also:Marches, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Macerata, 11 m. by See also:rail W. by S. of that town. Pop. (1901), 5111 (town), 13,197 (See also:commune). It is situated on the Chienti, 735 ft. above See also:sea-level, and was once a fortified town of See also:great strength. The See also:cathedral has a See also:fine portal by the Florentine Giovanni Rosso (1435), and contains the remains of S See also:Nicholas of Tolentino (d. 1309), whose See also:Renaissance See also:tomb and frescoes illustrating the See also:life of the See also:saint by Lorenzo and Jacopo da See also:San Severino are preserved in a See also:room adjoining the See also:chapel See also:north of the high See also:altar. The See also:church of San Catervo contains the See also:early See also:Christian See also:sarcophagus of that saint, which is embellished with curious reliefs. The Museo Civico contains antiquities discovered during excavations near the town (in 1880-1884) in the See also:Picene See also:necropolis, dating from the 8th-4th centuries B.C. The town is the birthplace of the See also:condottiere Niccolo Mauruzzi, and of the learned See also:Francis Philelphus, one of the first disseminators of classical literature, who was See also:born in 1398. At Tolentino the treaty was made between See also:Bonaparte and the See also:pope in 1797, by which the pope ceded See also:Avignon; and here in 1815 a See also:battle was fought in which the See also:French under See also:Murat were defeated by the Austrians.

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