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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 334

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s of the library redeemed such defects in theeye of the connoisseur. Moreover, Lucullus was a charm-ing host, endowed with the gift of repartee. Havingonce been asked liy Pomjjey why he had incurred sogreat an exjiense for a villa facing the north and there-fore available only in summer, Do you… … A SHADY WALK IN THE IJTCULLEAN GARDENS(VILLA CONTI-TOIiLONlA) THE LAND OF CICERO 291 of antiquities. A contemporary artist, Flaminio Vacca,relates in his Memoirs how a block of masonrythat stood in the farmers way having been levelled tothe ground in the vineyard of Annibale Caro outside thePorta…

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