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Encyclopedia Britannica



ARPINO (anc. Arpinum)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 641 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ARPINO (anc. Arpinum) , a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 1475 ft. above sea-level; 12 M. by rail N.W. of Roccasecca, a station on the railway from Naples to Rome. Pop. (1901) ro,6o7.
Arpino
  occupies the lower
part
  of the site of the ancient Volscian town of Arpinum, which was finally taken from the Samnites by the Romans in 305 B.C. It became a civitas sine suffragio, but received full privileges (civitas cum suffragio) in 188 B.C. with Formiae and Fundi; it was governed as a praefectura until the Social War, and then became a municipium. The ancient polygonal walls, which are still finely preserved, are among the best in Italy. They are built of blocks of pudding-stone, originally well jointed, but now much weathered. They stand free in places to a height of 11 ft., and are about 7 ft. wide at the top. A single line of
wall
 , with medieval round towers at intervals, runs on the north side from the present town to Civitavecchia (2055 ft.), on the site of the ancient citadel. Here is the Porta dell' Arco, a gate of the old
wall
 , with an aperture 15 ft. high, formed by the
gradual
  inclination of the two sides towards one another. Below
Arpino
 , in the valley of the Liris, between the two arms of its tributary the Fibrenus, and j m. north of Isola del Liri, lies the
church
  of S. Domenico, which marks the site of the villa in which Cicero was born and frequently resided. Near it is an ancient
bridge
 , of a road which crossed the Liris to Cereatae (modern
Casamari
 ). The painter Giuseppe
Cesari
  (1560-1640), more often known as the Cavaliere d' Arpino, was also born here.
See 0. E. Schmidt, Arpinum, eine topographisch-historische Skizze (Meissen, 1900). (T. As.)


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