VICOVENTIA
or Vicohabentia (Voghenza) Ferrara,
Italy.
A section of the district of Voghiera
mentioned in the ecclesiastical documents of the late
Roman period and of the Middle Ages. It is a
Roman archaeological area for which inscriptions (
CIL
V, 2385, 2386, 2411; cf. 2383, 2410) lend credence to
the idea that the administrative seat of imperial properties in the ancient Po delta was there. In the Early Christian era, it was the seat of a diocese, which was transferred to Ferrara in the 8th c.
Inscriptions and Roman sarcophagi from Vogheaza
are found in situ near the sanctuary of San Leo or at
Ferrara in the Museo Lapidario of the Palazzo dei Diamanti. In the Cathedral Museum there are two parapets of a pulpit in the Ravennate style of the 8th c.
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N. ALFIERI
