Padua

Padua, a walled city of Venetia, 23 m. by rail W. of Venice, has some manufactures of leather and musical-instrument strings, but is chiefly interesting for its artistic treasures; these include the municipal buildings, cathedral, and nearly fifty churches, innumerable pictures and frescoes, and Donatello's famous equestrian statue of Gattamelata; there is also a renowned university, library, museum, and the oldest botanical garden in Europe; after very varied fortunes it was held by Venice 1405-1797, then by Austria till its incorporation in Italy 1866. Livy was a native, as also Andrea Mantegna.

Population (circa 1900) given as 79,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Padishah * Pæstum
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Pachomius, St.
Pachydermata
Pacific Ocean
Packhard
Pactolus
Pacuvius
Padang
Paderewski, Ignace Jan
Padilla, Juan Lopez de
Padishah
Padua
Pæstum
Pagan, Isabel
Paganini, Nicolo
Paganism
Pagoda
Pahlevi
Paine, Thomas
Painter, William
Paisiello, Giovanni
Paisley

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Antique pictures of Padua

Padua in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

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A Lasco, John
Abrabanel, Isaac
Abriani, Paul
Acciaioli, John
Acidalius, Valens
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Alamanni, Luigi
Alberti, Solomon
Albicus
Alciati, Andrew
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