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Cesena

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Cesena (chāzā`nä), city (1991 pop. 88,487), in Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy, on the Sávio River. It is an agricultural market, food-processing center, and base for sulfur mines and metal production. Cesena flourished (1379–1465) under the Malatesta Malatesta (mälätĕ`stä), Italian family, ruling Rimini and nearby cities for almost 300 years from the 13th to 16th cent.
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 family, who built (15th cent.) a castle on a hill overlooking the city. The castle includes the splendid Renaissance-style Malatestiana Library, which contains numerous valuable manuscripts.

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Under this pretence he took Ramiro, and one morning caused him to be executed and left on the piazza at Cesena with the block and a bloody knife at his side.
 
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