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Strona 18
... Eligio degli Orefici , and three or four others , there was the so - called Church of the Dead , Santa Maria dell ' Orazione ; and this church , which is at the lower end behind the Farnese palace , was often visited 18 ROME.
... Eligio degli Orefici , and three or four others , there was the so - called Church of the Dead , Santa Maria dell ' Orazione ; and this church , which is at the lower end behind the Farnese palace , was often visited 18 ROME.
Strona 34
... a depression between the Capitolium proper and the northern height called the Arx . It is supposed to have been the exact site of Romulus's traditional Asylum . Trans . port themselves on all sides like school - boys in 34 ROME.
... a depression between the Capitolium proper and the northern height called the Arx . It is supposed to have been the exact site of Romulus's traditional Asylum . Trans . port themselves on all sides like school - boys in 34 ROME.
Strona 39
... called , there were endless ques- tions : Had the visitor seen so and so ? Had such a one reappeared ? How had a certain friend's love affair ended ? Was any new adventure setting the city agog ? And so forth ; all the petty frivolities ...
... called , there were endless ques- tions : Had the visitor seen so and so ? Had such a one reappeared ? How had a certain friend's love affair ended ? Was any new adventure setting the city agog ? And so forth ; all the petty frivolities ...
Strona 50
... called upon to pay enormous taxes , amounting to nearly one - third of their incomes , could henceforth only wait and behold their last stagnant millions dwindle away till they were exhausted or distributed according to the succession ...
... called upon to pay enormous taxes , amounting to nearly one - third of their incomes , could henceforth only wait and behold their last stagnant millions dwindle away till they were exhausted or distributed according to the succession ...
Strona 68
... richly dowered by the popes , and disposing of a considerable revenue , appeared to him like a separate force , a papacy within the papacy , and he well understood that the Prefect of the Congregation should be called the 68 ROME.
... richly dowered by the popes , and disposing of a considerable revenue , appeared to him like a separate force , a papacy within the papacy , and he well understood that the Prefect of the Congregation should be called the 68 ROME.
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Abbé amidst ancient arms asked basket beautiful Benedetta Cardinal Boccanera Cardinal Sanguinetti Cardinal Secretary cassock Catholicism Celia Church Congregation Contessina Dario dear death desire divine Don Vigilio Donna Serafina door dream Eminence eternal everything exclaimed eyes face faith felt figs Frascati frightful gesture glance hand happy heart Holy Father idea Jesuits lamps laugh Leo XIII looked marriage Monsieur l'Abbé Monsignor Fornaro Monsignor Nani Narcisse never night once palace Palazzo papacy Paparelli passion Peter's Piazza Piazza Navona Pierre Pierre's poison poor Pope Prada prelate Prince quivering realised reign religion remained replied resumed Reverend Eminence Roman Rome ruins Sacco Santobono seemed side Signor Squadra silence smile soon soul sovereign spoke superb Swiss Guard tell thereupon things thought Tiber tion truth turned Vatican Via Giulia Victorine waiting whilst window young Italy young priest
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