Days Near Rome, Volume 1G. Allen, 1884 |
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Abbot Alatri Alba Alban Hills Alban Mount Albano altar amid Anagni ancient Anio Antemnae aqueducts arches Aricia beautiful beneath Benedict Bracciano built called Campagna Cardinal carriage Castel Gandolfo castle cathedral century chapel charming church Cicero citadel Civita Lavinia Clodius Collatia Colonna convent crowned d'une desolate Diana distance excursion Ferentino Fidenae flowers forêt fragments Frascati frescoes Gabii gate Genzano grand green Grotta Ferrata Horace houses ilex inhabitants inscription Italian Italy lake Lanuvium Latin Latium look Madonna mediaeval miles monks montagnes Monte Cavo mountain Nemi Nilus Ninfa occupied Ostia Ovid palace Palestrina pass picturesque plain Ponte Pope Porta Praeneste reach remains rises road Rocca rock Roman Rome round ruins saints Savelli Segni side slopes stands steep stone stream streets Subiaco temple terrace Tiber Tibur Tivoli tomb tout tower town trees Tusculum valley Veii Velletri villa Villa Mondragone Villa Rufinella Volscian walls wood
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Page 262 - Poi ch' hai il sangue mio a te sì tratto Che non si cura della propria carne? Perchè men paja il mal futuro e 1 fatto, Veggio in Alagna entrar lo fiordaliso, E nel vicario suo Cristo esser catto '. Veggiolo un' altra volta esser deriso : Veggio rinnovellar l' aceto e 'l fele, E tra vivi ladroni essere anciso 3.
Page 199 - Tendit, Antoni, quotiens in altos Nubium tractus. Ego apis Matinae More modoque Grata carpentis thyma per laborem Plurimum circa nemus uvidique Tiburis ripas operosa parvus Carmina fingo.
Page 55 - Far up into the recesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea, with the arbutus flowers dashed along their flanks for foam, and silver flakes of orange spray tossed into the air around them, breaking over the gray walls of rock into a thousand separate stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall.
Page 199 - Larisae percussit campus opimae quam domus Albuneae resonantis et praeceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda mobilibus pomaria rivis.
Page 187 - Soracte, Frascati, the Campagna, and Rome in the distance ; these form a succession of landscapes superior, in the delight produced, to the richest cabinet of Claude's. Tivoli cannot be described : no true portrait of it exists : all views alter and embellish it : they are poetical translations of the matchless original.
Page 55 - It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap of thunder or two, and breaking gleams of sun along the Claudian aqueduct, lighting up the mfinity of its arches like the bridge of Chaos.
Page 123 - Francesca, are painted in medallions. A glance back at the history of St. Nilus and the origin of the chapel will show how significant, how appropriate, and how harmonious is this scheme of decoration in all its parts. I know not if the credit of the selection belongs to Domenichino ; but, in point of vivacity of conception and brilliant execution, he never exceeded these frescoes in any of his subsequent works, and every visitor to Rome makes this famous chapel a part of his pilgrimage.
Page 200 - O funde noster seu Sabine seu Tiburs, (Nam te esse Tiburtem autumant, quibus non est Cordi Catullum laedere: at quibus cordi est, Quovis Sabinum pignore esse...
Page 259 - Sciarra Colonna, at the head of three hundred horsemen, the Barons of Cercano and Supino, and some others, the sons of Master Massio of Anagni, were marching in furious haste, with the banner of the king of France displayed.
Page 260 - ... Maria, protected the Pope's palace. Sciarra Colonna's lawless band set fire to the gates ; the church was crowded with clergy and laity and traders who had brought their precious wares into the sacred building. They were plundered with such rapacity that not a man escaped with a farthing. "The Marquis found himself compelled to surrender, on the condition that his own life, that of his family and of his servants, should be spared. At these sad tidings the Pope wept bitterly. The Pope was alone...