1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TOLENTINO (anc. Tolentinum Picenum), a town of the Marches, Italy, in the province of Macerata, n m. by rail W. by S. of that town. Pop. (1901), 5111 (town), 13,197 (commune). It is situated on the Chienti, 735 ft. above sea-level, and was once a fortified town of great strength. The cathedral has a fine portal by the Florentine Giovanni Rosso (1435), and contains the remains of S Nicholas of Tolentino (d. 1309), whose Renaissance tomb and frescoes illustrating the life of the saint by Lorenzo and Jacopo da San Sev…
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- Vol. 26, pp. 1052-1052