Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 230
eventeenthcentury, relates how, in the year 1661, having startedfrom Tivoli to make the ascent of the Vulturella, hefound himself at noon in a wilderness full of horror,where crags seemed to strike the skies and precipices to plunge into hell; and while the awfulness of such sur-roundings held him… … THE STATtTE OF ,ST. GREGORY BY NICflLO CORDIERI. A PUPILOF MICHELANGELO THE LAND OF GREGORY THE GREAT 199 esting remains. There were patches of frescoes on thewalls, with quaint figures of saints, and bits of stonecopings such as the school of the Cosmati used to carveat the beginning of the…
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