부산대학교 도서관

Former Benedictine abbey in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It was founded in 752 by the Lombard king Astolfo and consecrated in the following year in the name of the Holy Apostles. In 756 it was rededicated to St Sylvester (Pope 314–35), after his body was obtained as a source of prestige and income for the abbey. Its royal status, outside the jurisdiction of the diocese, was retained after the fall of the Lombards, when it became dependent only on the Holy Roman Emperor. The abbey was rebuilt after a fire (?890) and again after the Hungarian invasion of 899. The new church, consecrated in 904, was damaged by an earthquake in 1117, and rebuilding was begun four years later, according to an inscription on the lintel of the west portal of the present church, but the extent of the damage is unclear. The church, built entirely of red brick (refaced, 1914–17), has eight bays with aisles, three eastern apses and a wooden roof. The arcade has quadrilobed piers; the half-columns facing the main vessel once rose to support the roof, but they were truncated in the 15th century when capitals bearing the Este arms were inserted to carry the springing of a vault, taken down in ...