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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 92

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strip of the landoutside the walls, he will be surprised at the great num-ber of these suburban chapels, of which some were leftstanding in the days of my youth. Those that are to beseen in the Campagna have, alas, so little connectionwith trees, shade, and rest that when I touched the samesubject… … A WAYSIDE SHRINE (ICONETTA) NEAR SUBIACO THE LAND OF SATURN 65 the lane to the Sacro Speco, above Subiaco. Churches ofSt. Sylvester yet crown the tops of Soracte, VultureUa,Artemisio, and Monte Compatri; the same saint is in-voked to-day by Sicilian shepherds, to drive away wolves,just as the early…

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