 ... general view of Rome; for there are few other towers so tall, and there is not a single spire or steeple in the city. It is the Torre delle Milizie. It was begun by Pope Gregory the Ninth, and finished near the end of the thirteenth century by his...  Notes of Travel and Study in Italy - Page 246by Charles Eliot Norton - 1860 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 782 pages
...near the end of the thirteenth century by his vigorous and warlike successor, Boniface the Eighth. Many such towers were built for the purposes of private...now remains undiminished in height and unaltered in ap)>earance. It was a new building when Dante visited, Rome ; and it is one of the very fe* edifices... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 780 pages
...near the end of the thirteenth century by his vigorous and warlike successor, Boniface the Eighth. Many such towers were built for the purposes of private...of its noble families ; but this is, perhaps, the onlyone that now remains undiminished in height and unaltered in appearance. It was a new building... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 432 pages
...near the end of the thirteenth century by his vigorous and warlike successor, Boniface the Eighth. Many such towers were built for the purposes of private...unaltered in appearance. It was a new building when Danre visited Rome ; and it is one of the very few edifices that still preserve the aspect they then... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pages
...near the end of the thirteenth century by his vigorous and warlike successor, Boniface the Eighth. Many such towers were built for the purposes of private...families; but this is perhaps the only one that now remans undiminished in height and unaltered in appearance. It was a new building when Dante visited... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 602 pages
...near the end of the thirteenth century by his vigorous and warlike successor, Boniface the Eighth. Many such towers were built for the purposes of private warfare, in those times when the streets of lióme were the fighting-place* of its nohle families; but this is perhaps the only one that now remans... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1882 - 608 pages
...end of the thirteenth century by his vigorous and warlike successor, Donlfiicc the Eighth. Many euch towers were built for the purposes of private warfare,...when the streets of Rome were the fighting-places of it* noble families ; but this is perhaps the only one that now remans undimlnlebcd in height and unaltered... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 454 pages
...near the end of the thirteenth century by his vigorous and warlike successor, Boniface the Eighth. Many such towers were built for the purposes of private...now remains undiminished in height and unaltered in appearanee. It was a new building when Dante visited Rome ; and it is one of the very few edifiees... | |
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