Sezzadio is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Alessandria
The Province of Alessandria ( it, Provincia di Alessandria; pms, Provincia ëd Lissandria; in Piedmontese of Alessandria: ''Provinsa ëd Lissändria'') is an Italian province, with a population of some 425,000, which forms the southeastern part o ...
in the
Italian
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region
Piedmont
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, located about southeast of
Turin
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and about south of
Alessandria.
Sezzadio borders the following municipalities:
Carpeneto
Carpeneto is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about south of Alessandria.
Carpeneto borders the following municipalities: Montaldo Bormida, Predosa, ...
,
Cassine,
Castelnuovo Bormida,
Castelspina,
Gamalero,
Montaldo Bormida,
Predosa
Predosa is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about south of Alessandria.
Predosa borders the following municipalities: Basaluzzo, Bosco Marengo, Cap ...
, and
Rivalta Bormida.
It is the location of the
Abbey of Santa Giustina
The Abbey of Santa Giustina is a 10th-century Benedictine abbey complex located in front of the Prato della Valle in central Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. Adjacent to the former monastery is the basilica church of Santa Giustina, initially buil ...
, founded in 722 by the
Lombard king Liutprand. In 1033 the abbey was enlarged by the marquis of Sezzadio, Oberto, remaining under the
Benedictine
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s until 1474. The church has a large
cotto façade divided by pilasters and crowned by
Lombard band
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Lombard bands are believed to ha ...
s. The interior has a nave and two aisles ending with apses. In the apses are frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries, while the crypt has an 11th-century mosaic pavement.
Antonio Barbavara was briefly the Abbot in 1428. Mark Knowles argues that Antonio was the author of the
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** Voynich manuscript
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cipher manuscript.
The large parish church was built from 1900 in neo-Gothic style.
References
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