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Arenula'--'fine sand'--'Renula,' 'Regola'--such is the derivation of the name of the Seventh Region, which was bounded on one side by the sandy bank of the Tiber from Ponte Sisto to the island of Saint Bartholomew, and which Gibbon designates as a 'quarter of the city inhabited only by mechanics and Jews.' The mechanics were chiefly tanners, who have always been unquiet and revolutionary folk, but at least one exception to the general statement must be made, since it was here that the Cenci had built themselves a fortified palace on the foundations of a part of the Theatre of Balbus, between the greater Theatre of. | Roma Immortalis Vol. 2 by Francis Marion Crawford 1 Roma Immortalis Vol. 2 by Francis Marion Crawford Project Gutenberg s Ave Roma Immortalis Vol. 2 by Francis Marion Crawford This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Ave Roma Immortalis Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome Author Francis Marion Crawford Release Date April 25 2009 EBook 28600 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AVE ROMA IMMORTALIS VOL. 2 Produced by Juliet Sutherland Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http . Roma Immortalis Vol. 2 by Francis Marion Crawford 2 Illustration AVE ROMA IMMORTALIS STUDIES FROM THE CHRONICLES OF ROME BY FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II London MACMILLAN AND CO. LIMITED NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1899 All rights reserved Copyright 1898 By The Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped October 1898. Reprinted November December 1898 January 1899. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Smith Norwood Mass. . TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME II PAGE REGION VII REGOLA 1 REGION VIII SANT EUSTACHIO 23 REGION IX PIGNA 44 REGION X CAMPITELLI 64 REGION XI SANT ANGELO 101 REGION XII RIPA 119 REGION XIII TRASTEVERE 132 REGION XIV BORGO 202 LEO THE THIRTEENTH 218 THE VATICAN 268 SAINT PETER S 289 LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES Roma Immortalis Vol. 2 by Francis Marion Crawford VOLUME II 3 Saint Peter s Frontispiece FACING PAGE Palazzo Farnese 18 The Pantheon 46 The Capitol 68 General View of the Roman Forum 94 Theatre of Marcellus 110 Porta San Sebastiano 130 The Roman Forum looking west 154 The Palatine 186 Castle of Sant Angelo 204 Pope Leo the Thirteenth 228 Raphael s Transfiguration 256 Michelangelo s Last Judgment 274 Panorama of Rome from the Orti Farnesiani 298