Arquà, an Italian village with about 1000 inhabitants, 12 miles SW. of Padua, in the heart of the Euganean Hills. Here Petrarch died July 18, 1374; his house may still be seen, and his monument of red marble in the churchyard.
Arquà
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 446
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