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At Acquapendente I found a unique glazed terracotta altar signed by Jacopo Benevento, at Bolsena took the first photograph of several monuments, and at Viterbo had photographs made of the important lunettes by Andrea Delia
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It is very interesting to watch a fine observer such as Fabricius ab Acquapendente
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Founder of the Congregation of Jesuati; b. at Siena, Upper Italy, about 1300; d. on the way to Acquapendente, 31 July, 1367.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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In the volcanic zones of the Roman Anti-Apennines the centres of population are on the hill-tops, the principal ones being Acquapendente, an
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Acquapendente was under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Orvieto until 1649.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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I even so far fell in with the spirit of the thing as to sleep a certain number of hours (for after all, my sleep that day in the cart had been very broken, and instead of resting throughout the whole of the heat I had taken a meal at Acquapendente).
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Acquapendente, or Hanging-water, which I knew to lie somewhere on the hills beyond.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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We neither of us really woke until, at the bottom of the hill which rises into Acquapendente, the oxen stopped.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Unfortunately the loss of the great mass of his papers by the fire which destroyed his convent in 1769 forbids any full estimate of his work; but it is certain that among those who sought his opinion and advice were such great discoverers as Acquapendente, Galileo, Torricelli, and Gilbert of Colchester, and that every one of these referred to him as an equal, and indeed as a master.
Fra Paolo Sarpi 1904
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Acquapendente, the teacher of Harvey, confessed that he owed most to three great medical writers, Celsus (first century), Paul of Ægina
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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