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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 247

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id to it in the spring of 1723by the last pope of the Conti family, Innocent XIII. Apapal progress through the Campagna in those days wasa widely different affair from the matter-of-fact occur- •iU WANDEIUNCS IN THE ROMAN (AMPAGNA rences of our age. Hundreds of thousands were spentto make the… … Avenue of cypresses. Villa Catena XII to Porto d Anzio in 1G97 have become quite his-torical. The first is descril)ed in a work ]:)ublished byChracas in Rome in ITiS; the second is illustrated in acopper-plate engraved by Alessandro S])ecchi from thedesigns of the architect Tommaso Mattel, Avho had…

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