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VENOSA (anc. Venusia, q.v.)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 1008 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VENOSA (anc. Venusia, q.v.) , a town and bishop's see of the Basilicata in the province of
Potenza
 , Italy, on the eastern side of
Mount
  Vulture, 52 M. by rail S.S.E. of Foggia, 1345 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901) 8503. The castle was built in 1470 by Pirro di Balzo, and contains four stables each for fifty horses. Many fragments of Roman workmanship are built into the walls of the cathedral, which is due to him also. The abbey church of SS. Trinity is historically interesting; it was consecrated in 1059 by
Pope
  Nicholas II. and passed into the hands of the Knights of St John in the time of
Boniface
  VIII'. (1295-1303). In the central aisle is the tomb of Alberada, the first wife of Robert Guiscard and mother of Bohemund. An inscription on the
wall
  commemorates the
great
  Norman brothers William Iron Arm (d. 1046), Brogo (murdered at
Venosa
  in 1051), Humfrey (d. 1057) and Robert Guiscard (d. at Corfu in 1o85). The bones of these brothers rest together in a simple stone sarcophagus opposite the tomb of Alberada. The church also contains some 14th-century frescoes. Behind' it is a larger church, which was begun for the Benedictines about 1150, from the designs of a French architect, in imitation of the Cluniac church at Paray-le-Monial, but never carried beyond the
spring
  of the vaulting. The ancient. amphitheatre adjacent furnished the materials for its walls.
See A. Avena, Monumenti dell' Italia Meridionale (Naples, 1902), 323 sgq. ; O. de Lorenzo,
Venosa
  e la Regione del Vulture (Bergamo,


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