 ... after an absence of ten years, and do not recognise it, so new does all appear to me to be : monuments, streets, piazzas, fountains, aqueducts, obelisks, and other wonders, all the work of Sixtus V. If I were a poet I would say that, to the imperious...  The life and times of Sixtus the fifth, tr. by H.E.H. Jerningham - Page 136by Joseph Alexander graf von Hübner - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Norwood Young - 1901 - 508 pages
...Sixtus V. If I were a poet I would say that, to the imperious sound of the trumpet of that great-hearted Pope, the wakened limbs of that half-buried and gigantic...power of that fervent and exuberant spirit, a new Rome has risen from its ashes.' ARMS Of SIXTHS V (pERETTl) 326 KROM THE VILLA MEDICI CHAPTER X The... | |
 | 1884 - 396 pages
...poet I would say that, at the imperious sound of the trumpet of that magnanimous Pope, the awakened limbs of that half-buried and gigantic body which spreads over the Latin Campagna had been summoned to life, and that, thanks to the power of his fervent and exuberant spirit, a new... | |
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