Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 270
liundred feet lon^ The lower terrace had a frontage of twelve hundredfeet, and the whole establishment covered an area ofabout eighty acres. Such figures of length, breadth,and surface do not mean much liy themselves; but if wecover that space with structures of stone and marbleexquisitely cut and… … THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNE, DETAIL. INTERIOR THE LAND OF GREGORY THE GREAT 235 at Palestrina is the finest in the world, we may graspthe idea of the milHons which must have been lavishedupon and absorbed by the building and ornamentingof the great sanctuary. To be sure, comparisons withmodern…
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