a town of Northern Italy, duchy of Parma, on the Emilian way, 18 miles W.N.W. of Parma. The town contains many remains of antiquity, and the sacristy of the collegiate church has some curious relics of ancient art. It is supposed to be the ancient Fidentia; and about eight miles to the south were discovered in 1761 the ruins of Veleia, buried in the fourth century by the fall of the mountain at the foot of which it was situated. Cardinal Alberoni was born at Fiorenzuola in 1664. Pop. 3000.