A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 248
es, with their brutal men-at-arms, entrenched intheir strongholds either within or without the walls, and a degradedrabble who found a precarious living by the favor of one or anothernoble family. The monuments of ancient Rome were already inruins, and with the exception of the basilicas of the… … Fig. 389. House of Rienzi. journeying to Rome, found himself gazing from the summit of theMonte Mario, over the eternal city, saw it, not as now a sea ofbillowy cupolas, but a mass of low red-roofed houses, varied by tallbrick towers, and at rarer intervals by masses of ancient ruin, thenlarger far…
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