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 337
ated jurisconsult, Paolo de Castro, who had spent OS*) Anosnxo ruKu -ii. macxifko manv years in Constantinople as an a«;ent and ])roker foreastern dve-works, \vas named hy Poi)e Pius II governor oftin so-calUd Patrimony of St. Peter in the year 1458;.ind when \\v visited lor the lirst time the… … The old channel connecting- tlic Ostia salt-works with the sea. The pme forest ofCastel Fiisano in the background Rocca. The coincidence he considered not altogether fortui-tons. He caused a shaft to be bored through the rock, sub-mitted the mineral to a chemical test, and was able toannounce to…