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 374
cal sinecure in Sicily worthseveral thousands a year. Although it was already late atnight, and although a storm was raging in the lower valley ofthe Tiber, Celso Mellini, eager to carry the good tidings tohis parents, started homewards with two or three followers.The rain was so blinding and the… … it A LEQ^XaEAPA i^PLORENT IKY^^a t^^Jli>^- CREATO DEL I:frV^:Ar B.Di;MARZ,0 r iiH7. fH THE PORTRAIT OF LEO X ENGRAVED BY ANTONIO LAFRERI AGOSTINO CHIGI IL MAGNIFICO 317 the ford of a small stream, which had temporarily over-flowed its banks, rider and horse were carried away by theflood before…
