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Piacenza
[ pyah-chen-tsah ]
noun
- a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
Piacenza
/ pjaˈtʃɛntsa /
noun
- a town in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna on the River Po. Pop: 95 594 (2001) Latin namePlacentiapləˈsɛntʃɪə
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Piacenza is on the direct road to the Italian Lakes via Milan, from which it is distant seventy kilometres.
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They were executed to the order of the abbess, Giovanna da Piacenza, and are more fitted for a "Trianon" than a convent.
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Panini, who obtained celebrity as a painter of architectural subjects, was born at Piacenza, and studied in Rome.
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During the night of the 8th of June a courier arrived from Murat, who, as we have said, was occupying Piacenza.
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About the same period another subject of the same state painted, in his native place of Piacenza.
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