The golden days of the renaissance in Rome, from the pontificate of Julius II to that of Paul III (1906)
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 102
TY 11 in aggregate length, and discharging a daily supply ofone million seven hundred and forty-seven thousand cuhicmetres of the purest water, at the rate of eighteen hundredlitres per head, were gone forever. Save for the Aqua Virgo, which continued to flow inter-mittently in the fountain of… … The spring- of Juturna, near the temple of Castor and Pollux but what could be obtained from the Tiber and from wells.From this point of view the mediaeval city had gone backto the days of its infancy, of which Julius Frontinus, thechief commissioner of aqueducts at the time of Trajan,says : During…
