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Rome (1887)

Wey, Francis, 1812-1882 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 331

An illustration from Rome, 1887, leaf 331
out with a firmharmony against the rosy distance and the azure of the Sabine hills.The silvery snows in the sky make a wonderful frame for the lemon-trees, the pine, the laurel of the poets, the cypress, and the palms ofthe desert, bringing to the city of the apostles a reminiscence of Jordan. 312… … •••••HI after the wars of Skanderbeg, quitted the glades of Pindus for Italy.Winckelmann, a skilful renderer of the ideas of the learned CardinalAlexander Albani, purified the idea of the nephew of Clement XL ; The Villa Albani. the illustrious archaeologist realised theories, which with the…

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