MIRANDOLA, a city of the duchy of Modena, in Italy. It stands in a marshy situation on the river Burana, whence a canal is carried to the Secchio. It is surrounded with walls, and has a cathedral and fifteen other churches, with about 7000 inhabitants. It was the capital of an independent duchy of the name till the year 1710, when the last sovereign of the house of Pico ceded it to Modena for about L. 100,000.