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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es on the opposite side near where the top of a tree is seen. 2 LANCIANI, Bullett. archeol. com., 1892, p. 87 ff.: Le mura di Aureliano e di Pro/)—especially p. 106. Lancianis studies have materially rectified many previous statements about the walls, and, above all, have greatly enlarged our knowledge of the subjectCp. Jordan, Topographie, 1, p. 340 ff. Nibby, Le mura di Roma (Roma, 1820), wit)drawings by W. Gell. The letterpress is partly repeated in NlBBY, Roma antica, J114 ff. Pi ALE, Delle mura aureliane (1833). Bunsen, Beschreibung der Stadt R01(1829), 644 ff. 3 Le abbiamo ritrovate (le statue) una ad una nel luogo loro, e non si tratta di opeidi volgare scalpello. Lanciani also speaks of other statues found in the walls. Petersediscusses the statues in the Bullett. archeol. com., 1889, p. 17 ff. Part of the remarkabljNymphasum just mentioned can still be seen to the left of the large cutting made in tflcity wall for the purpose of opening a way to the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
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No. ni THE WALLS OF ROME 165 harmony and great technical skill. At intervals of one hundredRoman feet strong towers are placed, which, the better to defendthe wall, project above and beyond it. They are mostly square,but occasionally round (111. 32).1 There are altogether no less than381 of them. The wall itself averages fifty-three feet in height.Both the towers and the wall are brick built. In its lower andmore massive parts the wall reaches an average thickness of

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