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The castle was built as a defensive fortification and as a noble residence for de Rossi's mistress, Bianca Pellegrini d'Arluno. [1] Bianca died in Torrechiara around the year 1480. Pier Maria retired to Torrechiara in 1482, where he died later that year. They were both buried in the castle, in the Oratory of San Nicomede in the north-east tower ...
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Details of Bembo's life are scarce. He was likely born in Brescia, the son of one Giovanni from Cremona and the brother of painter Bonifacio Bembo.. His first known work is the Torrechiara Polyptich, of 1462, once housed in the San Nicodemo Chapel of the Castle of Torrechiara and later moved in the Art Gallery of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.
The Abbey of St Mary of the Snows (Badia di Santa Maria della Neve) is a Benedictine Monastery and church, located in a rural spot on Via Badia #28 in the frazione of Torrechiara and its castle, in the town limits of Langhirano, Province of Parma, Italy. The monastery is affiliated with the monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma.
The term merlon comes from French [1704], adapted from the Italian merlone, possibly a shortened form of mergola, perhaps connected to Latin mergae ("two-pronged pitchfork"), [4] or from a diminutive moerulus, from murus or moerus (a wall).
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Its most striking feature are the castle of Torrechiara and the Abbey of Santa Maria della Neve. The town is also known as a major production centre for the Prosciutto di Parma. Langhirano was the childhood home of soprano Renata Tebaldi, who is buried there.