The civil government at Grado Redenta (1917) (14759635126)

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Title: The civil government at Grado Redenta
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Emilio Ferrando
Subjects: Grado (Italy) - History
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Basrelief in the church at Barbana. safety. At the largest and most important centre the representativesof the different villages collected together. The place selected was Grado itself and everyweek there was a mee-ting of this primitivecouncil, so very impor-tant for the life amongthe lagoons, and hereresided the tribune whoacted as chief of theassemblies. This honour fellto Grado owing to thedignity of its origin,for, as a daughter ofAquileia the renowned,she united in herself themost striking remem-brances of the motherwith the ceremonialgreatness of the ancientand wealthy Basilica. It was there con-sequently in preferenceto other sites that theancient shrines conse-crated by the piety ofa few were replaced bythose churches so mag-nificent with marble, with metalwork and with sculpture, where thetownsmen lavished veritable treasures to make them worthy of their de-dication and on a par with their own acquired wealth and splendour.
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