Recanati, a town of Italy, 15 miles S. of Ancona, has a Gothic cathedral with a monument to Pope Gregory XII. Here Leopardi was born. Pop. 5824. Porto Recanati, 6 miles NE. on the Adriatic coast, has a pop. of 3040.
Recanati
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 597
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