Identifier: historyofromepop01gris (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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round to an attacking force.3 The stretch of wall bearing the fewest traces of alterationunder Honorius, and even during subsequent centuries, is thaportion standing between the Salarian and the Pincian Gates 1 Ammons text is given in Jordan, 2, 578 ; cp. p. 155. It had already appeared iURLICHS, Codex urbis Ro?nae topographicus (1871); Hanel, Archiv fiir Philologie uriPadagogik, 5 (1837) ; MABILLON, Analecta, 4 (1685). In the last three authors the t«jcomes at the end of the Einsiedeln Itinerary, in which it had been preserved. For thjdate of the above description of the wall, see Lanciani, I.e., p. 101, note 2 ; for tilnumber of towers, Jordan, 2, 157 fif. ; Lanciani, I.e., p. 89. 2 Lanciani, I.e., p. 101. Nollis plan of Rome (1748) is particularly valuable, athe posternae or postemlae being marked. 3 Lanciani, I.e., p. 103. 4 New photograph by Commendatore Carlo Tenerani. To the left is seen the sidwall of the Pincian Gate. Within this portion of the Wall stood the Villa Ludovisi.
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111. 34.—Inner Side of the Aurelian Wall. A Dismantled Tower flanked byGalleries near the Pincian Gate. no. ii9) ROMAN REGIONS 167 (111. 34, cp. 111. 16). This part (as well as that by the Lateranand the portion behind the Mons testaceus) best serves thepurpose at the present day of impressing us with the giganticscale on which the work of Aurelian and Probus was planned.1 These massive, melancholy ruins, after more than fifteenhundred years, still invite the thoughtful traveller to conjureup visions of all the vicissitudes which Rome has experiencedwithin and around them during the lapse of so many ages.The ramparts of Rome tell tales of a chequered career. Theybear silent witness to all the great events of the world, of whichthey have experienced the reaction, especially to the repeatedonslaughts of the German North. Reverting to the period withwhich we are now dealing, they tell of the difficult and tearfultransition from ancient to mediaeval ecclesiastical Rome, insepar-ably ass

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