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PIPERNO (anc. Privernum) , a town of the province of Rome, Italy, 61 m. S.E. of Rome by rail
century (?) on a hill 490 ft. above sea-level, by refugees from the Roman town of Privernum, lower down (118 ft. above sea-level) on the highroad, i m. to the north, at the mouth of a low pass leading through the Volscian mountains to the valley of the Sacco. Here are remains of an arch crossing the road and other ruins (mostly buried) of the Roman period; but the remains above ground are largely medieval. It is improbable, however, that the ancient Volscian town should have occupied so easily accessible a site; it is not unlikely that it stood on the site occupied by the medieval and modern
foundation of a Latin colony at Setia in 382 B.C. It was finally captured in 329 B.C., and eleven years later the635tribus Oufentina was founded, taking its nl'1ne from the river Oufens (mod. Uffente) in the territory of Privernum. Little is known of it subsequently. The medieval town has a picturesque piazza, with a Gothic
cathedral
porch , though the interior was modernized in 178x; a Gothic
terrace walls of the Roman or pre-Roman period exist at various places in the vicinity (G. B. Giovenale and L. Mariani in Notizie degli Scavi, 1899, 88). (T. As.)End of Article: PIPERNO (anc. Privernum) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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