Priverno

Priverno is a metropolis, comune and former Latin Catholic bishopric inside the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy. It become referred to as Piperno till 1927. It has a station of the Rome-Naples railway mainline. Nearby is the Monti Lepini chain. It turned into the birthplace of the canonist Reginald of Piperno. Privernum is defined by using Livy as a flourishing Volscian site, which turned into conquered and destroyed by way of the Romans in the late 4th century BC.

The Appian Way handed close by. The metropolis recovered below the Roman rule, however disappeared after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, probable destroyed via Saracen attacks. It changed into later a minor middle of the Papal States, to which it belonged till the capture of Rome in 1870. From 1217, it was held in non-public union with the Terracina till 1986, when it changed into suppressed and both had their title and territory merged into the Diocese of Latina–Terracina–Sezze–Priverno.