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 81
)le until lately, on account of the extraor-dinary representation of the presepio or creche of our Lord,which the last o^vner of the tower. Signor Giuseppe Forti,used to prepare on the top of it durinii;- the Advent weeks.I mvself remember this trnlv remarkable siuht, the jrrottoof Bethlehem being… … Ttie coat of arms of CountEverso degli Angniillara CHAPTER II LIFE IN THE CITY In the fifth year of his rule Pope Leo X ordered a censusto be taken of the inhabitants of Rome, and entrustedthe task to the rectors of the one hundred and thirty-oneparishes into which the city was ecclesiastically…
