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  1. Town in Tuscany, Italy, 60 km/37 mi NW of
  2. Livorno; population (1981) 66,000. It is
  3. celebrated for its quarries of fine white
  4. marble, which were worked by the Romans,
  5. abandoned in the 5th century, and came into
  6. use again with the revival of sculpture and
  7. architecture in the 12th century.
  8.