Brescia, a city of Lombardy, on the Mella and Garza, 50 m. E. of Milan; has two cathedrals, an art gallery and library, a Roman temple excavated in 1822, and now a classical museum; its manufactures are woollens, silks, leather, and wine.
Population (circa 1900) given as 43,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brenz, Johann * Breslau