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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 73

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places he woidd l)e car-ried in a lectica in the cool of the evening, and so gentlythat sometimes he would spend two nights in coveringthose few miles. Horace manifests his partiality in thefollowing; order: the Sal)ine mountain-farm, the frig-idPraeneste, the easy-lying Tibur, the sea-watered… … A glimpse of Uie Lake of Bracciano out of fashion. Others still, like Albano and Genzano,have risen above their rather humble condition in okltimes; a change for which I cannot give any explanationexcept that the sloi)es of Alba were set apart exclusivelyfor the wine-growing industry, and those of…

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