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Pesaro| Resort town and capital of Pesaro e Urbino province in Le Marche region, east-central Italy, 60 km/37 mi northwest of Ancona. It is situated at the mouth of the River Foglia, on the Adriatic coast; population (1990 est) 90,300. There are fishing, furniture, motorcycle, ceramics, and textile industries, and the town is a commercial centre for agricultural products (cereals, vegetables, cattle) from the interior. Tourism is also important. |
| Pesaro has a 15th-century ducal palace of the ruling Sforza family and a cathedral. There is also a music school founded by the composer Gioacchino Rossini, who was born here in 1792. |
| The town has a notable municipal museum and the Oliveriana Museum, with an interesting archaeological collection. |
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Accardo, Salvatore
Del Monaco, Mario
Fano
February 29
Gatti, Daniele
Gelmetti, Gianluigi
Genga, Girolamo
Gothic Line
Guglielmo, Ebreo da Pesaro
Kuhn, Gustav
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Le Marche
Merritt, Chris
Pace, Pietro
Pellegrini, Vincenzo
Pesaro e Urbino
Phinot, Dominique
Tito Vespasiano, ovvero La clemenza di Tito
Vaccai, Nicola
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| The king, however, having acquired Lombardy, regained at once the authority which Charles had lost: Genoa yielded; the Florentines became his friends; the Marquess of Mantua, the Duke of Ferrara, the Bentivogli, my lady of Forli, the Lords of Faenza, of Pesaro, of Rimini, of Camerino, of Piombino, the Lucchese, the Pisans, the Sienese--everybody made advances to him to become his friend. The monument to the doge Giovanni Pesaro, in this church, is a curiosity in the way of mortuary adornment. |