id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1922 Venosa - Wikipedia .html text/html 1905 275 70 Venosa (Lucano: Venòse) is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area. It is bounded by the comuni of Barile, Ginestra, Lavello, Maschito, Montemilone, Palazzo San Gervasio, Rapolla and Spinazzola. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Venusia was sacked by the Heruls, and in 493 AD it was turned into the administrative centre of the area in the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy, although later this role was moved to Acerenza. Despite the plague that had reduced its population from the 13,000 of 1503 to 6,000, Venosa had a flourishing cultural life under the Gesualdos: apart from the famous Carlo, other relevant figures of the period include the poet Luigi Tansillo (1510–1580) and the jurist Giovanni Battista De Luca (1614–1683). Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1922.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1922.txt