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Piacenza

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Pia·cen·za  (pyä-chnz, -tsä)
A town of northern Italy on the Po River southeast of Milan. Founded by Romans as Placentia in 218 b.c., it was occupied by Goths, Franks, and Lombards and became a free city and part of the Lombard League in the 12th century. Population: 99,600.

Piacenza (Italian) [pjaˈtʃɛntsa]
n
(Placename) a town in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna on the River Po. Pop.: 101 692 (1994 est.) Latin name Placentia [pləˈsɛntʃɪə]


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The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza is a book in two volumes that includes the transcription, translation, and exegesis of an anonymous seventeenth-century Italian manuscript on the planting of three flower gardens.
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