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Campagna (käm-pän'yä). A town in the prov- ince of Salerno, situated 19 miles east of Sa- lerno. Population, 6,000. Campagna di Roma (käm-pän'yä dē rōmä). A large plain in Italy, surrounding Rome, lying between the Mediterranean and the Sabine and Alban Mountains. It corresponds in great part to the ancient Latium. It is of volcanic formation, and has been for centuries noted for its malarious climate, The Century Cyclopedia of Names Campan Campan (kon-pon's. A town in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées, situated on the river Adour 18 miles southeast of Tarbes. It is noted for its picturesque scenery. Campan, Madame (Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest). Born at Paris, Oct. 6, 1752: died at France, March 16, 1822. A French teacher. She was at the age of fifteen, appointed reader to the three daughters of Louis XV., was for nearly twenty years first lady of the bedchamber to Marie Antoinette, and narrowly escaped during the storming of the Tuileries by the mob, Aug. 10, 1792. After the fall of Robes pierre, she opened a boarding-school for young ladies at Saint-Germain, and in 1806 was appointed by Napoleon superintendent of the school at Ecouen for daughters, sisters, and nieces of officers of the Legion of Honor, a post which she held till the abolition of the school by the Bourbons. She wrote "Mémoires sur la vie privée de Marie Antoinette" (1822), etc. Campanerthal, or Kampanerthal (käm-pä'ner-täl). A work on the immortality of the soul, by Jean Paul Fried rich Richter, published in 1797: named from a picturesque valley of the upper Adour in the Pyrenees. Camp an i a (kam-pa'ni-ä). [Gr. Καμπανία.] In ancient geography, a region in Italy, lying between Latium on the northwest, Samnium on the north and east, Lucania on the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea on the west. Its origi. nal inhabitants were probably of Oscan or A us on i an race; it was settled later by the Greeks, and submitted to Rome 340 В. С. It is noted for its fertility and products. It contained the ancient cities Cumæ, Capua, Baiæ, Puteoli, Herculaneum, Pompeii, etc. The modern compart i men to of Camp an i a comprises the provinces Avellino, Ben even to, Caserta, Napoli, and Salerno. Campanile of Giotto. A famous tower at Florence, Italy, begun by Giotto in 1334, and after his death, in 1337, continued by Andrea Pisano. It square in plan, 37 feet to a side, and 275 feet high, and is divided by string courses into five stories, the two lowest of which are practically solid; the two middle ones have each, on each face, two canopied and traceried windows; and the highest, about twice as high as any of those below, has one large beautifully decorated and traceried window in each face, and a bold cornice. The whole exterior of the tower is incrusted with colored marbles arranged in panels. The basement is surrounded by two ranges of reliefs, the lower in hexagonal, the upper in diamond-shaped panels, by Giotto, Andrea Pisano, and