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Title: Wanderings in the Roman campagna
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929
Subjects: Art
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f this altarthe mosaic image of Pope Innocent III, in the act oflistening to the dove which alighted on his shoulder©n the day of his coronation, once set up in the tribuneof St. Peters. The other, on the right, is the portrait ofPope Gregory IX, once set up in the facade of the samechurch. They were given to Lotario Conti as familyrelics, the first by Clement VIII in the year 1596, theother by Paul V in 1605. The last event to be chronicled in connection with theVilla Catena is the visit paid to it in the spring of 1723by the last pope of the Conti family, Innocent XIII. Apapal progress through the Campagna in those days wasa widely different affair from the matter-of-fact occur- •iU WANDEIUNCS IN THE ROMAN (AMPAGNA rences of our age. Hundreds of thousands were spentto make the disphiv of h^yaltv fit the occasion; books\\ere written and prints issued which help us to recon-struct the wonderful scenes. From this point of view thejourney of Innocent XIII to Poli and that of Innocent
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Avenue of cypresses. Villa Catena XII to Porto d Anzio in 1G97 have become quite his-torical. The first is descril)ed in a work ):)ublished byChracas in Rome in ITiS; the second is illustrated in acopper-plate engraved by Alessandro S))ecchi from thedesigns of the architect Tommaso Mattel, Avho had beeninstructed by the Borghese family to ))repare suitable THE LAND OF GREGORY THE GREAT 215 lodgings for the Pope and his escort and retinue, whilebreaking their journey for the night, in the Borghesefarmhouse of Carroceto. A small river was divertedfrom its course for the watering of horses and beasts ofburden; caves were dug in the rock for the storage ofwine, ice, and meat; stables were built to accommodate430 horses, also slaughter-houses for oxen, calves, andpigs, barracks for the German Guards, a church for thecelebration of the mass, coach-houses for fifty travellingcarriages, while all the heirlooms and art treasures ofBorghese had been ransacked to l^eautify the apartmentsof the p

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