Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-1952 · New York, Longmans, Green · leaf 539
i Pope who was elected in 1655 and died in1667. It is to this Pope that we owe the magnificentcolonnade that is built in the Piazza of St. Peter atRome. The House of Savelli sold Ariccia in 1661 to theChigi family. This family originally came from Sienain the time of Sixtus IV, and grew rich in… … AND COUNTRY SEATS degree that his income was estimated at seventythousand ducats, an enormous sum for that age. Heis said to have owned a hundred vessels and hadbusiness houses in Lyons, London, Constantinople,Amsterdam, and even Babylon, and so great was hisfame that throughout the East he was…
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