Ferrara

Fer·ra·ra  (f-rär, f-rärä)

A city of northern Italy southwest of Venice. In the early 13th century the Este family established a powerful principality here and made it a flourishing center of Renaissance learning and the arts. Population: 133,000.

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Ferrara - a city in northern Italy; "in the 13th century Ferrara was a center of Renaissance learning and the arts" Italia, Italian Republic, Italy - a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD