VERONA

(45° 26’ N., 11° E.), city, Italy Venetia) on Adige, capital of N.. province; la fo Rom. include fine amphitheatre, c. ale theatre, walls, gateways, etc.; 290 A.D., medisval churches, palaces, and many (by Sanmichele and others), with houses by Paul Veronese, Titian, Tinworks toretto, Pisano, Giolfino, etc.; cathedral, XII. giore, Sant? An astasia, 1250-1450, Santa Maria in Organo, (c. IX. cent.), San Fermo Maggiore (XIV. cent.), San Bernadino (XV. cent.), San Giorgia in Braida picture-gallery) Ragione, old court of justice, Consiglio, or La Loggia, town hall, 1476-93, with fine staircase; house of Capulets and Juliet’s reputed tomb; magnificent tombs of Scaligers: Porta del Palio, etc. Chief industries are cotton, woolen, silk, iron goods, furniture, paper. V. became a Rom. colony, 89 B.C.; taken by Lombards, 568; headed Venetian League against Frederick Barb a ro a; fierce struggles between Guelphs (q.v.) and Ghi bel lines; fl. under Scaligers (q.v.), XIII. and XIV. cent’s; taken by Visconti of Milan, 1387; pa ed to Venetians, 1405; taken by French, 1796; awarded to Austria, 1814; recovered by Italy, 1866. Pop.