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- 10162
- author: Cassius Dio Cocceianus
- title: Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
- date: None
- words: 94154
- flesch: 64
- summary: To Antony Caesar sent a letter, bidding him either withdraw from the sea a day's journey on horseback, and grant him the free privilege of coming to him by boat on condition that they should meet within five days, or else to cross over to Italy himself on the same terms. But to Antony Caesar did not even then answer a word.
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- 10701
- author: Mommsen, Theodor
- title: The History of Rome, Book I The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
- date: None
- words: 109542
- flesch: 45
- summary: Spina and Caere had their special treasuries in the temple of the Delphic Apollo, like other communities that had regular dealings with the shrine; and the sanctuary at Delphi, as well as the Cumaean oracle, is interwoven with the earliest traditions of Caere and of Rome. Geographically the Sicilian mountains are a continuation of the Apennines, hardly interrupted by the narrow rent --Pegion--of the straits; and in its historical relations Sicily was in earlier times quite as decidedly a part of Italy as the Peloponnesus was of Greece, a field for the struggles of the same races, and the seat of a similar superior civilization.
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- 10702
- author: Mommsen, Theodor
- title: The History of Rome, Book II From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy
- date: None
- words: 106967
- flesch: 44
- summary: The townships colonized by Italians, lying beyond these limits, such as Sena Gallica and Ariminum beyond the Apennines, and Messana in Sicily, were reckoned geographically as situated out of Italy--even when, like Ariminum, they were members of the confederacy or even, like Sena, were Roman burgess communities. Hitherto the latter according to Roman state law, so long as he was a magistrate, was amenable to no jurisdiction at all, and, although after demitting his office he might have been legally made responsible for each of his acts, the exercise of this right lay withal in the hands of the members of his own order and ultimately of the collective community, to which these likewise belonged.
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probable; procedure; process; prolonged; proper; property; proposal; protection; public; publius; punishment; purpose; pyrrhus; question; ranks; real; reality; reason; recent; recognized; reference; reform; region; relations; religious; remarkable; republic; resistance; resources; respect; restricted; result; revolt; revolution; rhegium; rich; right; rise; roads; roll; roman; roman annals; roman army; roman burgesses; roman commonwealth; roman community; roman consul; roman embassy; roman farmers; roman fleet; roman forum; roman franchise; roman garrison; roman general; roman history; roman law; roman military; roman nobility; roman people; roman policy; roman power; roman rule; roman senate; rome; rule; ruling; sabellian; sabines; sacred; samnites; samnium; scale; sea; second; secured; self; senate; senators; senones; sense; sentence; separate; service; set; settlement; severe; share; sicilian; sicily; sides; siege; silver; similar; single; slaves; small; smaller; social; soldiers; sort; 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- 10703
- author: Mommsen, Theodor
- title: The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States
- date: None
- words: 203677
- flesch: 48
- summary: In this war four large fleets had perished, three of them with Roman armies on board; a fourth select land army had been destroyed by the enemy in Libya; to say nothing of the numerous losses which had been occasioned by the minor naval engagements, and by the battles, and still more by the outpost warfare and the diseases, of Sicily. Only the most urgent exigencies were barely met by the division of the judicial functions hitherto discharged by a single praetor between two judges --one of whom tried the lawsuits between Roman burgesses, and the other those that arose between non-burgesses or between burgess and non-burgess--in 511, and by the nomination of four auxiliary consuls for the four transmarine provinces of Sicily (527), Sardinia including Corsica (527), and Hither and Further Spain (557).
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xii; years; young; younger; zama; zeal
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- 10704
- author: Mommsen, Theodor
- title: The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution
- date: None
- words: 56034
- flesch: 58
- summary: His eighteen books on the -Ius Civile-, which embraced the positive materials of jurisprudence--legislative enactments, judicial precedents, and authorities--partly from the older collections, partly from oral tradition in as great completeness as possible, formed the starting- point and the model of the detailed systems of Roman law; in like manner his compendious treatise of Definitions (--oroi--) became the basis of juristic summaries and particularly of the books of Rules. The consequence was, that these Latins were destitute of the privileges attaching to an urban constitution, and, strictly speaking, could not even make a testament, since no one could execute a testament otherwise than according to the law of his town; they could doubtless, however, acquire under Roman testaments, and among the living could hold dealings with each other and with Romans or Latins in the forms of Roman law.
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- 10705
- author: Mommsen, Theodor
- title: The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy
- date: None
- words: 265651
- flesch: 46
- summary: Caesar Pursues Pompeius to Egypt While the remnant of the defeated party thus allowed themselves to be helplessly driven about by fate, and even those who had determined to continue the struggle knew not how or where to do so, Caesar, quickly as ever resolving and quickly acting, laid everything aside to pursue Pompeius--the only one of his opponents whom he respected as an officer, and the one whose personal capture would have probably paralyzed a half, and that perhaps the more dangerous half, of his opponents. Caesar Takes the Offensive Under these circumstances the war opened at the beginning of January 705.
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- 10706
- author: Mommsen, Theodor
- title: The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
- date: None
- words: 321449
- flesch: 49
- summary: Caesar Takes the Offensive Under these circumstances the war opened at the beginning of January 705. Caesar Pursues Pompeius to Egypt While the remnant of the defeated party thus allowed themselves to be helplessly driven about by fate, and even those who had determined to continue the struggle knew not how or where to do so, Caesar, quickly as ever resolving and quickly acting, laid everything aside to pursue Pompeius--the only one of his opponents whom he respected as an officer, and the one whose personal capture would have probably paralyzed a half, and that perhaps the more dangerous half, of his opponents.
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supply; support; supreme; surprise; surrender; sword; syria; system; tactics; talent; task; taxation; taxes; temperament; temple; tendency; tenth; terence; term; territories; territory; testament; thapsus; theatre; theatrical; thenceforth; thessaly; things; thither; thorough; thought; thracian; throne; tiber; tigranes; tigranocerta; tigris; time; time caesar; time pompeius; title; titus; tolerable; tone; tongue; total; towns; townships; trade; tradition; traffic; tragedy; training; transactions; transalpine; transmarine; transpadanes; treasures; treasury; treatise; treatment; treaty; treveri; trial; tribes; tribunate; tribune; tribunician; tried; triumph; troops; true; trustworthy; truth; turn; turning; ultimate; unable; understanding; union; united; universal; unknown; unlimited; upper; urban; useless; usual; utica; utmost; utter; v. iv; vain; valley; valour; value; vanquished; variance; varied; varro; varus; venture; vercingetorix; vessels; veterans; victories; victory; view; vigorous; 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- 10769
- author: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
- title: A Wanderer in Florence
- date: None
- words: 115248
- flesch: 66
- summary: By Michelangelo, in the New Sacristy of S. Lorenzo Christ and S. Thomas. No dome to the cathedral, first of all; no S. Lorenzo church or cloisters; no S. Croce cloisters or Pazzi chapel; no Badia of Fiesole.
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poem; poet; point; political; poliziano; pollaiuolo; ponte; poor; pope; popular; portrait; position; possible; power; powerful; predella; presence; present; pretty; pride; primavera; princes; principal; private; procession; progress; proportions; proud; pulpit; pupil; purpose; quarter; question; quiet; radiant; raphael; rate; reach; ready; real; reason; relief; religion; religious; remains; remarkable; renaissance; republic; return; riccardi; rich; richness; ridolfo; right; rival; river; road; robbia; rome; roof; room; rossellino; round; rubens; rucellai; runs; ruskin; s. croce; s. francis; s. george; s. john; s. lorenzo; s. marco; s. maria; s. miniato; s. trinità; sacred; sacristy; saint; sala; san; sarto; satisfying; save; savonarola; scene; school; sculptor; sculpture; seat; second; sense; series; set; settignano; sforza; short; shows; siege; siena; signorelli; signoria; similar; simonetta; simple; size; sky; small; smaller; society; soft; son; south; special; spedale; spirit; spirited; 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- 10828
- author: Livy
- title: Roman History, Books I-III
- date: None
- words: 110246
- flesch: 56
- summary: At the close of the year to some extent there was peace, but, as frequently at other times, a peace disturbed by contests between the patricians and commons. The consuls obtained great glory this year both at home and in war, because they established peace abroad, while at home, though the state was not in a condition of absolute harmony, yet it was less harassed by dissensions than at other times.
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- 10860
- author: Beesly, A. H. (Augustus Henry)
- title: The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History
- date: None
- words: 68228
- flesch: 71
- summary: Other men, including the newly-enfranchised Italians, need be under no apprehension. Besides these there was as vast a crowd of other men as was ever seen at any funeral.
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- 10877
- author: Staley, Edgcumbe
- title: The Tragedies of the Medici
- date: None
- words: 72306
- flesch: 67
- summary: My attention was first directed to the omission during the preparation of my _Guilds of Florence_, published in 1906; and I determined to address myself to the forging of that lurid link in the catena of Florentine romance. The Guilds of Florence_.
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- 10883
- author: Cassius Dio Cocceianus
- title: Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
- date: None
- words: 118015
- flesch: 66
- summary: On the other hand Lucius Annæus Seneca, who was superior in wisdom to all the Romans of his day and to many other great men, came very near being ruined, though he had done no wrong and there was no suspicion of such a thing, but just because he pled a case well in the senate while his sovereign was present. Excellence raises many men to the level of the gods, but nobody ever yet was made a god by show of hands.
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- 10890
- author: Cassius Dio Cocceianus
- title: Dio's Rome, Volume 5 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
- date: None
- words: 97187
- flesch: 70
- summary: Many men met their death in these encounters, and of the women some were strangled and some were seized and carried off. And the captives and deserters from the enemy so far as they could do so unobserved spoiled the Roman water supply and slew many men that they could cut off from the main force, so that Titus refused to receive any of them.
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- 10907
- author: Livy
- title: The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26
- date: None
- words: 218916
- flesch: 56
- summary: He then addressed a few words to them; spoke in high terms of the wars of the Samnites, and disparagingly of the Etrurians, who were not, he said, as an enemy to be compared with other enemies, nor as a numerous force, with others in point of numbers. These words at length kindled their courage so effectually, and renewing the shout, as if suddenly changed into other men, they bore down upon the enemy with such impetuosity that they could not longer be withstood.
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- 11256
- author: Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde)
- title: Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
- date: None
- words: 100725
- flesch: 66
- summary: In his _de Officiis_,[479] writing of the virtue of _liberalitas_, Cicero gives a list of men who had been munificent as aediles, including the elder and younger Crassus, Mucius Scaevola (a man, he says, of great self-restraint), the two Lueulli, Hortensius, and Silanus; and adds that in his own consulship P. Lentulus outdid all his predecessors, and was imitated by Scaurus in 58 B.C.[480] Cicero himself had to undertake the Ludi Romani, Megalenses, and Florales in his aedileship; how he managed it financially he does not tell us.[481] [Footnote 198: _ad Fam._ viii.
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- 11363
- author: Hare, Christopher
- title: Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach
- date: None
- words: 37998
- flesch: 72
- summary: But they were good fighting men and made a bold stand, although many were borne to the ground by the terrible long spears of their enemies. As he set forth on that Saturday morning, riding his spirited chestnut towards Chambéry, with the sun shining and the birds singing, and all his future like a fair vision before him, young Bayard thought that he was in paradise.
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- 11448
- author: Collins, W. Lucas (William Lucas)
- title: Cicero
- date: None
- words: 53938
- flesch: 66
- summary: Other great men have been either too really great to entertain the feeling, or have been wise enough to keep it to themselves. Yet, in spite of this, such men were as the salt of the earth in a corrupt age; and as we find, throughout the more modern pages of history, great preachers denouncing wickedness in high places,--Bourdaloue and Massillon pouring their eloquence into the heedless ears of Louis XIV, and his courtiers--Sherlock and Tillotson declaiming from the pulpit in such stirring accents that even the indolent Charles roused himself to listen, and the fastidious Buckingham forgot to sneer[1]--so, too, do we find these monks of heathendom, as the Stoics have been not unfairly called, protesting in their day against that selfish profligacy which was fast sapping all morality in the Roman empire.
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- 11559
- author: Symonds, John Addington
- title: Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts
- date: None
- words: 133751
- flesch: 62
- summary: We have so far outgrown it, have so completely exchanged mythology for curiosity, and metaphor for science, that the necessary conditions for great art are wanting. [2] It may fairly be questioned whether that necessary connection between art and religion, which is commonly taken for granted, does in truth exist; in other words, whether great art might not flourish without any religious content.
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- 11607
- author: Cassius Dio Cocceianus
- title: Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
- date: None
- words: 125646
- flesch: 62
- summary: To be sure, there were many other cities in and outside of Italy, some of which he had built afresh, and some which he had newly founded. There they encountered a storm, and were driven ashore, losing many men.
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- 11688
- author: Abbott, Jacob
- title: History of Julius Caesar
- date: None
- words: 53691
- flesch: 67
- summary: [Sidenote: Caesar at Rhodes.] During his absence from Rome Caesar went to Rhodes, where his former preceptor resided, and he continued to pursue there for some time his former studies. [Sidenote: Some willing to make Caesar king.]
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- 12061
- author: Cassius Dio Cocceianus
- title: Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
- date: None
- words: 70126
- flesch: 70
- summary: He chose to make himself like to his inferiors, not better than his equals, weaker than greater men, and so passed beyond the power of jealousy, which harasses only the noblest men. Of course he had many men murdered openly, but others he would send to provinces not suited to them, fatal to their physical condition, having an unwholesome climate; thus, while pretending to honor them excessively, he quietly got rid of them, exposing such as he did not like to excessive heat or cold.
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- 12162
- author: Williams, William Klapp
- title: The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes.
- date: None
- words: 28224
- flesch: 62
- summary: The word _civitas_ has the same signification as _comitatus_, when that word was used with the meaning of a territorial division; and included all the territory, with its lands, its villages, its fortified places and its city, which came under the jurisdiction of a _dux_ or _judex_, or in Frankish times of a count, when we are strictly justified in giving it the more familiar name of _county_. The most important of the functions of the _dux_ as _judex_ was holding the _Curtis Regia_ or _
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- 12542
- author: Hutton, Edward
- title: Ravenna, a Study
- date: None
- words: 90182
- flesch: 66
- summary: Pliny[1] indeed would seem to tell us that from time immemorial Ravenna had possessed a small port; but such a place, well enough for the small traders of those days, could not serve usefully the requirements of a great fleet. To the S. Agnellus and to the Church of Ravenna Justinian _rectae fidei Augustus_ gave all the substance of the Goths, according to the _Liber Pontificalis_,[1] not only in Ravenna itself, but in the suburban towns and in the villages, both sanctuaries and altars, slaves and maidens, whatever was theirs.
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- 12561
- author: Pfeiffer, Ida
- title: A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
- date: None
- words: 110314
- flesch: 72
- summary: With this exterior view the traveller is fain to be content; for the Turks are here much more fanatical than those in Constantinople and many other towns, so that an attempt to penetrate even into the courtyard would be unsuccessful; the intruder would run the risk of being assailed with a shower of stones. In the lanes near the church are booths like those at Maria Zell in Steiermark, and many other places of pilgrimage, where they sell wreaths of roses, shells of mother-of-pearl, crucifixes, etc.
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- 12582
- author: Livy
- title: The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36
- date: None
- words: 234406
- flesch: 56
- summary: Valerius Antias adds, that the island of Aegina, and the elephants, were given as a present to Attalus, who was absent; to the Rhodians, Stratonice, and other cities of Caria which had been in the possession of Philip; and to the Athenians, the islands of Paros, Imbros, Delos, and Scyros. He had his camp joined to that of the consuls, and before their arrival, by leading his army along the heights, sometimes occupying narrow defiles that he might intercept his passage, at other times harassing his troops while marching by attacking their flank or rear, he had baffled the enemy by all the arts of war.
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- 12588
- author: Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa
- title: Cavour
- date: None
- words: 62862
- flesch: 65
- summary: Cavour did not let D'Azeglio know of the refusal; it was a case of the tortuous ways of Count Cavour, of which the Prince Consort complained some years later. He failed, Cavour succeeded.
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- 12770
- author: Magoffin, Ralph Van Deman
- title: A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste
- date: None
- words: 36974
- flesch: 72
- summary: The PRA ... in C.I.L., XIV, 2897, is praeco, not praefectus, as I shall show soon in the publication of corrections of Praeneste inscriptions, along with some new ones. Excavations[136] at the ruins which were once thought to be the curia of ancient Praeneste showed instead of a hemicycle, a straight wall built on remains of a more ancient construction of rectangular blocks of tufa with three layers of pavement 4-1/2 feet below the level of the ground, under which was a tomb of brick construction, and lower still a wall of opus quadratum of tufa, certainly none of the remains belonging to a curia.
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- 12875
- author: Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
- title: Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
- date: None
- words: 102762
- flesch: 66
- summary: Probably she scents herself far too heavily, but there are many Roman men who are just as bad. It is a strange contradiction with other Roman attitudes when we find that they objected to the Greek wrestling or running on grounds of decorum, because it was innocently nude.
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considerable; consisted; conspicuous; contemporary; contempt; conversation; corn; corresponding; couches; country; course; court; covered; culture; custom; dangerous; date; day; days; dead; dealing; death; decoration; deities; deity; description; determined; dict; different; difficult; dining; dinner; direction; distance; distinguished; domestic; door; doubtless; dress; duties; duty; early; earth; east; eastern; easy; education; effect; egypt; egyptian; elements; emperor; empire; end; endeavour; english; enjoyment; entrance; established; example; excellent; exercise; existence; extent; eyes; face; fact; familiar; families; family; famous; far; father; fear; feeling; feet; fig; figure; financial; fine; fire; fish; flat; floor; following; food; foot; force; form; free; freedmen; freedom; frequent; friend; fruits; funeral; furniture; gardens; gaul; general; generation; gentleman; girls; gladiators; glass; gods; gold; golden; good; government; governor; great; greater; greatest; greece; greek; 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money; moral; morning; mother; music; names; naples; narrow; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; nero; new; noble; non; north; note; notion; number; numerous; objects; obvious; occasion; occupation; office; officers; official; oil; old; open; opening; opposite; order; ordinary; ordinary roman; oriental; original; ornament; outside; owner; painting; pair; palatine; parents; particular; parts; passage; passes; passing; patron; paul; pay; people; perfect; period; peristyle; personal; persons; philosophy; picture; piece; pillars; pipes; place; plan; platform; play; playing; pleasure; pliny; poet; point; policy; political; pompeii; poorer; populace; popular; population; portion; position; possible; power; practical; practice; preferred; prepared; present; principles; private; privileges; probable; proceeding; procession; produce; professional; proper; property; provinces; provincial; public; publius; purchase; pure; purple; purpose; quarter; question; races; rank; reach; reader; reading; ready; real; reason; reasonable; reception; record; regard; regiment; regular; religion; religious; remains; representative; respect; rest; rhine; rich; right; rites; river; roads; roll; roman; roman citizens; roman empire; roman house; roman life; roman religion; roman society; roman world; rome; roof; room; round; rule; running; sacred; scene; school; science; sea; seats; second; self; senate; senatorial; senators; seneca; sense; separate; series; servants; service; set; shape; shops; shrine; sides; silius; silver; similar; simple; single; situation; size; skill; slave; small; smaller; social; society; soldiers; sort; south; space; spain; speaking; special; spectators; spirit; splendid; sports; spot; standard; standing; stands; state; statues; steps; stoics; stone; straight; strange; streets; strength; strong; structure; study; style; subject; sufficient; superior; supply; sword; syria; system; table; tablets; taste; tax; taxation; temple; terms; theatres; thing; thought; tiber; time; title; toga; tomb; town; trade; training; traveller; travelling; treasury; treatment; tribes; troops; true; tunic; turn; type; typical; upper; useful; valley; variety; vast; vesta; vestibule; vettii; view; walk; wall; war; water; way; wealthy; wear; west; white; wide; wife; wild; windows; wine; winter; women; wood; words; work; world; worn; worship; writer; writing; year; young
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- 13208
- author: Ferrero, Guglielmo
- title: Characters and events of Roman History
- date: None
- words: 55035
- flesch: 47
- summary: ; conquest of, 72; the annexation of, 77; the wealth of, 83 Gauls, the irritation of the, 79; the genius of the, 81 Genoa, the situation of, 23 German historians, the work of, 152 Germanicus, the historical importance of, 103 Germany, conditions in, 79, 165; policy toward Rome, 166 Glass-making in Gaul, 90 Government, the, at Rome, 213 Governors, the position of the, 312 Gracchi, the struggle of the, 17 Græco-Latin civilisation, the, 72,235 Grape-culture, the spread of, 186 Grape harvest, the abundance of the, 185 _Greatness and Decline of Rome_, the, 10 Greece, the contact of Rome with, 185 Greek wines in Rome, 8 Gymnasium, the, at Alexandria, 55 H Hannibal, the army of, 189 Harbours, the building of, 213 Hebrew people, the position of the, 166 Hellenist, an ardent, 58 Helvetia, customs in, 191 Helvetians, the, 74; the attack on the, 75 Herculaneum, the city of, 218 Heritage of Rome, the, 261 Herod the Great, the death of, 166 History, as considered by Ferrero, 65 Horace, the invectives of, 23 Houssaye, Henri, mentioned, 41 I Ides, the days of the, 9 Ierapolis, the prosperity of, 219 Ilium, the district of Troy, 50 India, the precious metals of, 30; wine exported to, 200 Indo-Chinese, the commerce of the, 55 Inscriptions, the story left by the, 221 Istrian wine, the favourite of Livia, 199 J Jerome, Saint, the story of, 78 _ We have pictured to ourselves the imperial banquets of ancient Rome as functions of unheard of splendour; if Nero or Elagabalus could come to life and see the dining-room of a great hotel in Paris or New York--resplendent with light, with crystal, with silver,--he would admire it as far more beautiful than the halls in which he gave his imperial feasts.
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- 13481
- author: Church, Alfred John
- title: Roman life in the days of Cicero
- date: None
- words: 57170
- flesch: 76
- summary: One day in summer a party of young men from Rome made an excursion to Ostia, and coming down to the seashore found there some fishermen who were about to draw in a net. He was already out of health when he came to the breakfast, and he had made himself worse by eating and drinking too freely, as, says the orator, young men will do.
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- 13870
- author: Anonymous
- title: A Summary History of the Palazzo Dandolo Now Royal Hotel Danieli
- date: None
- words: 3501
- flesch: 60
- summary: On the left hand is a _Post Office_ with, for the greater security of all correspondence, a Government letter-box; and close by, the _Bureau of the Hotel_, with offices for the _cashier_, for _money changing_, and for _Bank business_. The _wines_ and _the table_ are a great speciality of the Hotel Royal Danieli, all being of the very highest order, and its _dining rooms_ and _restaurant_ arranged with small and separate tables, have an unusual character all their own.
- keywords: ambassadors; ancient; apartments; artistic; atrium; calle; century; comfort; dandolo; danieli; daughter; delle; doges; drawing; floor; great; halls; historic; history; hotel; hotel royal; illustration; interesting; magnificent; modern; new; office; original; palace; palazzo; present; proprietors; razze; room; royal; royal danieli; second; style; time; traveler; venetian; venice; water; world
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- 14078
- author: Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa
- title: The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870
- date: None
- words: 128233
- flesch: 64
- summary: That the corps contained some of the bluest blood of France, that there were good young men in it, who thought heaven the sure reward for death in defence of dominions painfully added in the course of centuries by devices not heavenly to the original patrimony of Peter, did not and could not reconcile the Italians to the defiance thrown down to them by a band of strangers in their own country. These undisciplined bands were not useless, as they gave the Bourbon generals the idea that Garibaldi had more men than he could ever really count upon, and also the peasants knew the country well.
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- 14276
- author: Howells, William Dean
- title: Italian Journeys
- date: None
- words: 101099
- flesch: 65
- summary: These stands looks much like the shrines of the Madonna in other Italian cities, and a friend of ours was led, before looking carefully into their office, to argue immense Neapolitan piety from the frequency of their ecclesiastical architecture. Nature, where history was so august, was perfectly simple and motherly, and did so much to make me at home, that, as the night thickened and we plunged here and there into ditches and climbed fences, and struggled, heavy-footed, back through the suburbs to the city gate, I felt as if half my boyhood had been passed upon the Campagna. X. Pasquino, like most other great people, is not very interesting upon close approach.
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- 14381
- author: About, Edmond
- title: The Roman Question
- date: None
- words: 66327
- flesch: 72
- summary: I am quite aware of the points in which they are inferior to the upstarts of the Church, but their affected superiority to other men is less evident to me. The poor Pagans of great Rome left all their property to the Pope who damns them.
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- 14634
- author: Symonds, John Addington
- title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
- date: None
- words: 111726
- flesch: 70
- summary: It is usual to find mere assonances like _bene_ and _piacere, oro_ and _volo, ala_ and _alata_, in the place of rhymes; while such remote resemblances of sound as _colli_ and _poggi_, _lascia_ and _piazza_, are far from uncommon. Tourneur, Ford, and Webster were so dazzled by the tragic lustre of the wickedness of Italy that their finest dramas, without exception, are minute and carefully studied psychological analyses of great Italian tales of crime.
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- 14972
- author: Symonds, John Addington
- title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
- date: None
- words: 114630
- flesch: 72
- summary: In Mentone, not very long ago, old men might be seen who in their youth were said to have been taken captive by the Moors; and many Arabic words have found their way into the patois of the people. In the 'Disputa' the gravity and dignity of old men are above all things striking.
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- 15400
- author: Symonds, John Addington
- title: Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
- date: None
- words: 177600
- flesch: 64
- summary: [2] See the preface to the _History of Florence_, by Machiavelli. [2] Varchi, it is true, had Nardi's _History of Florence_ and Guicciardini's _History of Italy_ before him while he was compiling his _History of Florence_.
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spaniards; spanish; special; spectacle; sphere; spirit; spiritual; spite; splendid; splendor; stability; stadt; stamp; standard; state; statecraft; step; strange; streets; strength; strife; striking; strong; strove; strozzi; struggle; students; studies; study; style; subject; subsequent; substance; successful; succession; sufficient; sum; superseded; superstitious; support; supremacy; supreme; suspicion; sway; swiss; sword; sympathies; sympathy; system; taste; temper; temperament; temporal; terms; terrible; territory; terror; testimony; theory; things; thirst; thirteenth; thought; throne; time; title; tone; towns; trade; traditions; treatise; troops; true; truth; turk; turning; tuscany; type; tyrannicide; tyrannies; tyranny; tyrant; unable; uncle; understood; union; united; unity; universal; uno; uomini; urbino; utmost; vain; value; vanity; varchi; vast; vatican; vehement; venetian; vengeance; venice; verona; vespasiano; vettori; vicenza; vices; vicissitudes; victims; view; vigor; viii; 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- 16180
- author: Macmillan, Hugh
- title: Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
- date: None
- words: 142399
- flesch: 57
- summary: It seems strange to think of these ancient columns, that looked down upon the legal transactions of Roman Veii, now standing in one of the busiest squares of modern Rome, associated with one of the most characteristic and important of our modern institutions, of which ancient Rome had not even the germ. It was a forlorn waste, with a few ruins scattered over it, and two formal rows of poplar-trees running down the middle of it, and wild-eyed buffaloes and mouse-coloured oxen from the Campagna wandering over the solitude, and cropping the grass and green weeds that grew in the very heart of old Rome.
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- 16324
- author: Ferrero, Guglielmo
- title: The Women of the Caesars
- date: None
- words: 45541
- flesch: 54
- summary: For this reason, although the Roman conceded many privileges and recognized many rights among women, he never went so far as to think that a woman of great family could aspire to the right of choosing her own husband. Livia's physical condition was precisely that concerning which the pontiffs had been asked to decide, and in order to enter into this marriage she had obtained a divorce from Tiberius Claudius Nero.
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- 16387
- author: Goldsmith, Oliver
- title: Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor.
- date: None
- words: 155216
- flesch: 71
- summary: Thus, recommending all to the care of Heaven, he left the city, without followers or fortune, to take refuge with Tullus At'tius,[2] a man of great power among the _Volsci_, who took him under his protection, and espoused his quarrel. 9. The friends of the late dictator now began to find that this was the time for coming into greater power than before, and for satisfying their ambition under the pretence of promoting justice: of this number was Antony.
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- 16477
- author: Hutton, Edward
- title: Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
- date: None
- words: 159951
- flesch: 68
- summary: Well, he has altogether carried out his intention in half a hundred churches up and down Italy: consider here in Florence S. Croce, S. Maria Novella, S. Spirito, and above all the Duomo. But it is not of S. Frediano we think in this dark and splendid place, though the stone of his miracle lies before us, but of little S. Zita, patron of housemaids, little S. Zita of Lucca, born in 1211.
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- 16504
- author: Symonds, John Addington
- title: Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) The Catholic Reaction
- date: None
- words: 237216
- flesch: 63
- summary: The relations of trust which _bravi_ occasionally maintained with foreign Courts, supply some curious illustrations of their position in Italian society. _; relations of trust between _bravi_ and foreign Courts, 409. BRIGANDAGE in Italy, i. 416. BROWN, Mr. H.F., his researches in the Venetian archives, i. 189 _n._ BRUCCIOLI, Antonio, translator of the Bible into Italian, i. 76.
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- 16667
- author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
- title: Young Folks' History of Rome
- date: None
- words: 63920
- flesch: 70
- summary: It was a time of great men in the Church. [Illustration: PLOUGHING] These are the grand old stories that came down from old time, but how much is true no one can tell, and there is reason to think that, though the leaders like Cincinnatus and Coriolanus might be brave, the Romans were really pressed hard by the Volscians and Æqui, and lost a good deal of ground, though they were too proud to own it.
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- 16705
- author: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
- title: A Wanderer in Venice
- date: None
- words: 101025
- flesch: 73
- summary: Here you may see the famous struggles between the two factions of gondoliers, the Castellani and the Nicolotti, actually in progress on one of the bridges; the departure of the Bucintoro with the Doge on board to wed the Adriatic; the wedding ceremony off S. Niccolò; the marriage of a noble lady at the Salute; a bull-fight on the steps of the Rialto bridge; another in the courtyard of the Ducal Palace; a third in the Piazza of S. Mark in 1741; the game of pallone (now played in Venice no more) in the open space before the Gesuiti; fairs in the Piazzetta; church festivals and regattas. In the Atrium of S. Mark's _
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- 16927
- author: Tacitus, Cornelius
- title: Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II
- date: None
- words: 119973
- flesch: 74
- summary: But for the sake of my adoptive father, of the senate, and of the whole empire, I deplore the thought that we may have to-day either to die or--what for good men is as wretched--to kill. 'The world was turned upside down,' they mused, 'even when good men fought for the throne: yet the Roman Empire survived the victories of Julius Caesar and of Augustus, as the Republic would have survived had Pompey and Brutus been victorious.
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- 17284
- author: Dicey, Edward
- title: Rome in 1860
- date: None
- words: 53565
- flesch: 65
- summary: Yet surely, if anything of dead Rome be still left in the living city, it should be found in the Roman people. The real questions are, What class at Rome gain by it, and what is it that they gain?
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- 18047
- author: Cassius Dio Cocceianus
- title: Dio's Rome, Volume 1 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
- date: None
- words: 93462
- flesch: 69
- summary: Nicomachus learning this went back to Tarentum, and encountering Rufinus on the way lost many men. Finally the Romans won the day, killing many men and capturing eight elephants, and occupied the enemy's entrenchments.
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- 18049
- author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
- title: The Diary of an Ennuyée
- date: None
- words: 79257
- flesch: 66
- summary: The whole population seems poured into the streets and squares; all business and amusement is carried on in the open air: all those minute details of domestic life, which, in England, are confined within the sacred precincts of _home_, are here displayed to public view. His Virgins are rather _des jeunes épouses de la veille_--far too like his Venuses and his mistresses: they are all luxuriant _human_ beauty; with that peculiar air of blandishment which he has thrown into all his female heads, even into his portraits, and his old women.
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- 18100
- author: Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)
- title: Roads from Rome
- date: None
- words: 41792
- flesch: 76
- summary: He loved Roman life because it was free from all that was rustic, because it gave the prizes to wit and imagination and refinement. Calpurnia, never strong, but always supplementing at every turn her husband's work, had felt especially this year the strain of Roman life.
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- 18590
- author: Cassiodorus, Senator
- title: The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
- date: None
- words: 188185
- flesch: 66
- summary: [Footnote 9: p. 375: ed. [Footnote 18: Cod.
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- 18845
- author: None
- title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
- date: None
- words: 53178
- flesch: 63
- summary: Who Arnolfo was seems to be scarcely known, tho few architects after him have left greater works or more evidence of power. It is all so silent and so close, and tomb-like; and the dungeons below are so black and stealthy, and stagnant, and naked; that this little dark spot becomes a dream within a dream; and in the vision of great churches which come rolling past me like a sea, it is a small wave by itself, that melts into no other wave, and does not flow on with the rest.
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- 19061
- author: None
- title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy, Sicily, and Greece, Part Two
- date: None
- words: 51497
- flesch: 69
- summary: Was it not the first expression of the feeling which still possesses the visitor who wanders through its ruins, and which still dominates the educated world--the feeling that while other cities owe to the triumph of Christianity all their beauty and their interest, Athens has to this day resisted this influence; and that while the Christian monuments of Athens would elsewhere excite no small attention, here they are passed by as of no import compared with its heathen splendor? So, I went off, with a guide, to an old, old garden, once belonging to an old, old convent, I suppose; and being admitted, at a shattered gate, by a bright-eyed woman who was washing clothes, went down some walks where fresh plants and young flowers were prettily growing among fragments of old wall, and ivy-covered mounds; and was shown a little tank, or water-trough, which the bright-eyed woman--drying her arms upon her 'kerchief--called La tomba di Giulietta la sfortunáta.
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- 19694
- author: Lawrence, Eugene
- title: A Smaller History of Rome
- date: None
- words: 155459
- flesch: 66
- summary: He led an army into Spain, and subdued the Cantabri and Astures, returning to Rome B.C. 24. He returned to Rome B.C. 6, and triumphed; was saluted Imperator, and received the tribunitian power for five years.
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- 20086
- author: Richards, Fred
- title: Rome: A Sketch-Book
- date: None
- words: 492
- flesch: 71
- summary: Where differences between the list of illustrations and the caption text existed in the original the most comprehensive description was used for both. [Illustration: 'S. MARIA DI LORETO' FROM THE PIAZZA VENEZIA.]
- keywords: aventine; forum; illustration; maria; palatine; remains; temple; tiber
- versions: original; plain text
- 20804
- author: Gregorovius, Ferdinand
- title: Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
- date: None
- words: 114467
- flesch: 66
- summary: August 15th Lucretia Borgia received the priors of the city, to whom she presented her papal appointment, whereupon they swore allegiance to her. We have entrusted to our beloved daughter in Christ, the noble lady, Lucretia de Borgia, Duchess of Biseglia, the office of keeper of the castle, as well as the government of our cities of Spoleto and Foligno, and of the county and district about them.
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sancia; sanuto; saraceni; savonarola; saying; says; sciences; second; secretary; secure; sense; september; sermoneta; servant; service; sforza; short; sick; siena; sigismondo; silk; similar; single; sister; sixtus; small; society; son; son cæsar; sons; soul; spain; spanish; special; spite; spoleto; spouse; squillace; standing; state; statement; stefano; strange; streets; strength; strong; stronghold; strozzi; subject; successor; support; taking; tasso; terms; terrible; territory; thanks; theater; things; thought; throne; time; time lucretia; title; towers; troops; true; truth; unable; uncle; unfortunate; university; urbino; valencia; valentino; vannozza; varano; vatican; vecchio; velvet; venetian; venice; verses; view; viii; villa; virtue; viterbo; waiting; walls; war; way; wedding; widow; wife; wish; wishes; witness; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worthy; write; xii; years; yesterday; young; younger; youthful
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- 2311
- author: Smollett, T. (Tobias)
- title: Travels through France and Italy
- date: None
- words: 143624
- flesch: 65
- summary: On the third day, the wind being abated, though still unfavourable, we reimbarked and rowed along shore, passing by Porto-mauricio, and Oneglia; then turning the promontory called Capo di Melle, we proceeded by Albenga, Finale, and many other places of inferior note. There is plenty of gravel on the road between Paris and Versailles, as well as in many other parts of this kingdom; but the French, who are all for glare and glitter, think the other is more gay and agreeable: one would imagine they did not feel the burning reflexion from the white sand, which in summer is almost intolerable.
- keywords: absurd; accident; accommodation; account; acquaintance; acquainted; acton; admirable; admiration; admired; advantage; adventure; advice; affected; affectionate; afraid; afternoon; agreeable; agrippa; air; aix; alps; amiss; amphitheatre; anchovies; angelo; animals; answer; antibes; antient; antique; antiquities; antiquity; apartments; appearance; appetite; approach; aqueduct; arches; architecture; arms; army; arrival; article; artist; arts; assistance; asthma; attendance; attention; auberge; augustus; author; authority; avignon; bad; baggage; banks; barbarous; barren; basin; bath; bathing; bay; beach; bear; beasts; beauties; beautiful; beauty; bed; beds; beginning; benefit; berline; best; birds; black; blood; blow; board; boat; bodies; body; books; bottle; bouillon; boulogne; bourgeois; box; boy; branches; brass; bread; breadth; breast; brick; bridge; britain; british; brother; building; burgundy; burthen; business; busts; butcher; caesar; calais; canal; cane; capable; capital; captain; care; carriage; case; castle; cathedral; catholic; celebrated; cemenelion; century; ceremony; certain; cette; chaise; chambers; change; chapel; character; charles; cheap; children; church; churches; circuit; circumstance; city; civil; cleanliness; clear; climate; cloaths; close; coach; coast; cocons; coffee; cold; collection; colour; columns; commandant; commerce; commodious; common; community; company; complaint; complete; condition; conduct; connoisseur; consequence; considerable; consideration; consist; constitution; consul; consumption; continued; contrary; contribution; convenience; convents; conversation; cool; corn; corner; cough; countries; country; couple; course; court; covered; credit; cross; crouded; crown; cruel; curiosities; curiosity; curious; custom; cut; damp; dangerous; dans; dark; daughter; dauphine; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; degree; delicacy; delicate; delightful; descent; description; design; desire; detached; detail; determined; different; dinner; dirty; disagreeable; disappointed; disorders; dispute; distance; distinction; distinguished; doctor; domestic; door; double; doubt; dover; dozen; drank; dress; drinking; dry; duke; duties; duty; early; earth; eastward; easy; edifice; edinburgh; edition; education; effect; efforts; eighteenth; elegant; emperor; engaged; england; english; englishman; entertainment; entrance; equal; esteem; europe; evening; example; excellent; exclusive; execrable; exercise; expedition; expence; experience; expression; extensive; extent; external; extortion; extraordinary; extremity; eye; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; false; families; family; famous; fashion; father; favour; favourable; favoured; fear; feet; fellow; feluca; female; fever; fielding; fields; figure; fine; finest; fire; fish; fishermen; fixed; floor; florence; following; foot; force; foreign; foreigners; form; fort; fountain; fourth; france; free; french; frenchman; fresh; friend; friendship; fruit; furnished; furniture; gallantry; gallery; gallies; game; garden; garrison; gate; gay; general; generous; genius; genoa; genoese; gentleman; george; glad; glass; gloomy; glory; gold; good; gothic; government; governor; grand; grapes; gratification; great; great number; greater; greatest; green; ground; groves; guard; guides; guineas; habitation; hair; half; hand; handsome; hanging; happy; harbour; hard; hat; hazard; head; health; heart; heavy; help; henry; high; hill; hire; historical; history; hither; hold; holy; home; honest; honour; hope; horace; horror; horseback; horses; hot; hours; house; human; humanity; humble; humour; husband; idea; iii; ill; immediate; impertinent; importance; imposition; improved; incredible; independent; individuals; inferior; information; informed; inhabitants; inn; inns; instances; intention; interest; interesting; intire; iron; island; italian; italy; january; john; johnson; joseph; journey; judge; julius; june; justice; keeping; kind; king; kingdom; kitchen; knowledge; labour; ladies; lady; landlord; language; languedoc; large; latin; law; leagues; learned; leave; left; leghorn; legs; length; lerici; letter; liberty; life; like; linen; literary; literature; little; lived; living; livres; loaded; lodging; london; long; longer; look; loss; loui'dores; louis; lungs; lyons; magistrate; magnificent; maitre; majesty; making; man; mandrin; mankind; manner; manufacture; marble; march; maritime; market; marquis; marseilles; mary; master; matters; meagre; meal; means; measure; meat; medals; mediterranean; memoire; memory; men; mention; merchandize; merchants; mere; merit; method; michael; middle; mild; miles; milk; mind; miserable; modern; mole; moment; monaco; money; mons; monsieur; month; montpellier; monument; morning; mother; mountains; mrs; naked; naples; narrow; nation; native; natural; nature; naval; nay; near; necessary; neighbourhood; new; nice; night; nismes; noble; noblesse; non; notes; notice; november; number; o'clock; object; obliging; observations; observed; occasion; oeconomy; officer; oil; old; olives; open; opinion; opportunity; opposite; oranges; order; original; ornaments; pains; painting; palaces; palazzo; paltry; paoli; paper; paris; particular; party; pass; passage; passengers; passing; passion; patois; patron; paved; pay; peasants; people; perfection; period; pernicious; person; personal; peter; petit; physician; piazza; pictures; piece; piedmont; piedmontese; pierre; pillars; pisa; pity; place; plain; plantations; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plenty; pliny; plus; point; politeness; political; poor; pope; populous; portus; possession; possible; post; postilions; pounds; power; practice; precipice; present; pretty; prince; private; privileges; probability; produce; productions; professor; progress; proof; proper; proportion; prospect; protection; protestant; provence; provision; public; publicans; purchase; pure; purpose; quality; quantity; quarrel; quarter; question; rain; raphael; rapid; raw; ready; real; reason; reasonable; recourse; regard; regular; reign; religion; religious; relish; remains; remarkable; remarks; remedy; remo; repeated; republic; reputation; resort; respect; rest; return; revenue; rhone; rich; ridicule; ridiculous; risque; river; riviera; road; rock; roman; romantic; rome; room; rose; route; ruins; run; safe; said; saint; salt; sand; sardinia; satisfaction; savoy; scarce; scene; sculpture; sea; seat; second; secure; senate; sense; sensible; separate; september; servant; service; set; severe; shape; sharp; shew; shillings; ship; shore; shoulders; sick; sides; signs; silk; silver; simple; single; sir; situated; situation; size; skin; slaves; small; smollett; smooth; snow; society; soil; sols; sort; sound; source; south; space; spain; spanish; species; spirit; spot; spring; square; stairs; standing; stands; state; statues; stay; steep; steps; sterling; sterne; stone; stories; strangers; stream; streets; strength; strong; subject; subterranean; success; succession; sudden; sufficient; summer; sun; superior; superstition; supper; supply; support; surface; surprised; surprising; sweet; table; taste; tea; tedious; temple; terms; territory; thermae; thick; thing; thomas; thought; time; title; tolerable; tomb; tongue; tour; town; trade; travellers; travelling; travels; trees; trouble; troublesome; true; truth; tunny; turin; turkish; tuscany; tyber; undergone; understanding; une; vain; valuable; value; vanity; var; variety; vast; venus; vermin; versailles; vessels; view; viii; villa; village; vines; vineyards; violent; virgin; virtue; visit; vols; voyage; walk; walls; want; war; warm; washed; water; way; weak; weather; week; weight; west; wet; wheel; white; wife; wild; william; wind; wine; winter; women; wonderful; wood; wooden; word; work; worms; worse; worth; wretched; years; young
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- 2464
- author: Machiavelli, Niccolò
- title: History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent
- date: None
- words: 159869
- flesch: 49
- summary: Those which became extended were Florence, Genoa, Pisa, Milan, Naples, and Bologna; to all of which may be added, the ruin and restoration of Rome, and of many other cities not previously mentioned. From these causes proceeded the ruin as well as the origin and extension of many cities.
- keywords: acciajuoli; account; acquisition; admonished; advantage; adversaries; advice; affairs; afterward; agnolo; agreement; aid; alarmed; alberti; albizzi; alfonso; alliance; ambassadors; ambition; ancient; animosity; anjou; antonio; anxious; apprehension; approach; archbishop; armed; armies; arms; army; arrangement; arrival; arts; assistance; assured; attack; attempt; authority; aware; balia; banished; bardi; battle; beginning; benedetto; bernardo; besieged; best; better; bianchi; blood; body; bologna; book; borgo; brescia; bridge; brother; calabria; camp; capitano; captain; cardinal; care; carlo; castle; castruccio; cause; cerchi; certain; change; chapter; character; charles; children; church; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; civil; close; colleagues; coming; command; commissaries; commissary; common; companies; conclusion; condition; conduct; confidence; conquest; consent; consequence; consideration; conspiracy; conspirators; contrary; corso; cosmo; council; count; country; courage; course; cremona; custom; danger; dangerous; daughter; days; dead; death; defeat; defend; defense; degli; degree; delay; della; departure; deprived; design; desire; desirous; destruction; determined; differences; different; difficulties; difficulty; direction; discourse; disgrace; disposed; disposition; dissensions; distinguished; disturbance; divided; dominion; donati; duke; effect; emperor; empire; encamped; endeavored; enemies; enemy; engaged; engagement; enmity; enterprise; entire; escape; events; evil; excited; exile; expedition; expense; external; faction; faenza; faith; families; family; father; favor; favorable; fear; federigo; fell; ferrando; ferrara; field; filippo; florence; florentines; followers; following; foot; forces; form; fortified; fortress; fortune; francesco; frederick; free; french; fresh; friends; friendship; furli; future; gain; galeazzo; general; genoa; genoese; germany; ghibellines; giorgio; giovanni; girolamo; giuliano; glory; god; gonfalonier; good; government; governor; great; greater; greatest; greatness; guelphs; hands; hatred; having; head; henry; highest; hold; home; honor; hope; hostilities; house; iii; immediate; importance; increase; indignation; individuals; influence; inhabitants; injuries; injurious; injury; insolence; intention; italy; jacopo; john; justice; kind; king; kingdom; known; large; law; laws; leaders; league; leave; left; legate; length; liberty; life; little; lodovico; lombardy; long; longer; lord; lorenzo; loss; lost; louis; lowest; lucca; lucchese; machiavelli; magistracy; magistrates; man; manner; mantua; marca; marquis; marriage; matter; means; meantime; measures; medici; michael; milan; milanese; miles; military; minds; minor; mode; moment; money; months; multitude; names; naples; nature; near; necessary; necessity; neri; new; niccolo; nobility; number; numerous; obedience; observed; occasion; offensive; office; old; open; opinion; opportunity; opposed; oppressed; order; origin; orsini; palace; parties; party; pass; past; pay; pazzi; peace; people; period; persons; perugia; piazza; piccinino; piero; pisa; places; plebeians; pontiff; pope; popular; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; prato; prepared; presence; present; pride; princes; principal; prisoners; private; proceedings; progress; property; province; prudence; purpose; queen; ravenna; ready; reason; recourse; reform; refuge; regard; relief; relieved; remedy; rené; reply; repose; republic; reputation; request; resolution; respect; rest; result; return; ricci; rinaldo; river; robert; romagna; roman; rome; routed; ruin; safety; salvestro; san; santa; satisfied; secure; security; seeing; serezana; service; set; sforza; short; sicily; sides; sienna; siennese; signory; similar; situation; slain; slew; small; soderini; son; sovereignty; state; strength; strong; strozzi; subject; success; sufficient; suitable; support; suspicion; taking; taxes; terms; territories; territory; things; thinking; thought; time; title; tommaso; trades; treaty; troops; troubles; true; tumult; tuscany; tyranny; uguccione; unable; undertaking; united; universal; unwilling; usual; utmost; valor; vanquished; venetians; venice; verona; victorious; victory; views; violence; virtue; visconti; volterra; want; war; wars; way; wealth; wife; winter; wish; words; years; young
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- 27312
- author: Abbott, Jacob
- title: Nero Makers of History Series
- date: None
- words: 60239
- flesch: 60
- summary: One instance is specially noticed by the historians of those days, in which young Nero was honored with an extraordinary degree of public attention and regard. As the parties grew larger, the brawls which occurred in the streets became more and more serious, until at last Nero was accustomed to take with him a gang of soldiers and gladiators in disguise, who were instructed to follow him within call, so as to be ready to come up instantly to his aid whenever he should require their assistance.
- keywords: a.d; accomplished; account; accustomed; action; actual; adopted; advanced; age; agitation; agrippina; alarmed; ambition; ancient; anicetus; antium; anxiety; apartment; appearance; army; arrangements; assumed; attempt; attendants; attention; authority; baiæ; battle; body; boy; britannicus; broken; burrus; caligula; calpurnia; camp; canal; case; celebrated; celebration; certain; chapter; character; charge; chief; child; chærea; circumstances; city; civil; claudius; coming; command; commander; communication; companions; company; condition; conduct; confusion; connected; connection; consequence; conspiracy; conspirators; continued; control; country; course; court; crime; cruel; danger; dangerous; daughter; day; days; death; deed; degree; design; desperate; destruction; determined; devoted; discovery; distinguished; distress; dreadful; duty; early; effect; efforts; emperor; empire; end; epicharis; escape; excited; excitement; execution; extended; extraordinary; fact; family; far; fate; father; favor; favorite; fear; festival; flavius; following; force; form; friends; galba; games; gardens; general; government; great; greatest; greece; ground; guards; guilty; hand; hatred; head; heart; high; highest; history; honor; hope; hour; house; household; husband; illustration; immense; imperial; indignation; influence; interest; joy; kind; known; lake; large; length; life; like; little; locusta; long; manner; marriage; married; master; mean time; means; measures; men; messalina; messenger; midst; military; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; narcissus; naval; near; necessary; nero; new; night; number; object; occasion; octavia; officers; open; opportunity; order; ostia; party; people; performance; period; personal; persons; phaon; piso; place; plan; pleased; pleasure; plot; poison; poppæa; position; possession; possible; power; preparations; prepared; presence; present; prince; principal; private; prominent; public; purpose; question; rank; ready; regard; reign; remorse; resentment; respect; result; return; rival; roman; rome; room; safety; scene; scevinus; sea; secret; secure; senate; seneca; service; set; shore; silanus; silius; situation; small; society; soldiers; son; song; sort; spectacles; spectators; spirit; state; station; streets; subject; success; sudden; supreme; taking; terrible; terror; theater; thing; thought; tidings; time; time nero; torture; troops; true; tyrant; usual; vast; victim; view; villa; vindex; violence; violent; voice; water; way; wife; wild; word; work; wretched; years; young
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- 27551
- author: Abbott, Jacob
- title: Hannibal Makers of History
- date: None
- words: 57709
- flesch: 66
- summary: Minucius was continually urging him to give Hannibal battle, and, not being able to induce him to do so, he was continually expressing his discontent and displeasure. Fabius went to Rome, leaving the army under the orders of Minucius, but commanding him positively not to give Hannibal battle, nor expose his troops to any danger, but to pursue steadily the same policy which he himself had followed.
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- 27766
- author: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
- title: Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
- date: None
- words: 84378
- flesch: 70
- summary: He replied that he had already received that news from Ippolito de' Medici, who on the previous evening had come and gone; but that it was not easy to pacify such men as the Orsini when their blood was up. If she have wit enough to rule them it is enough for me; and as for beauty, the less the better in the eyes of other men for her whom my descendants shall claim with pride as mother of the Aldobrandini.
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- 27873
- author: Lee, Vernon
- title: The Spirit of Rome
- date: None
- words: 21080
- flesch: 74
- summary: This _is_ Rome! _ Little garden, with box hedges and lemon-trees.
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- 28294
- author: Wylie, James Aitken
- title: Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
- date: None
- words: 145294
- flesch: 71
- summary: While great Rome has gone down, and Venice sits in widowed glory on the Adriatic, the poor Waldenses are still a people. The vineyards of Lombardy are good, and monks, like other men, occasionally get thirsty; and it might spoil the good fathers' digestion were the brazen serpent of Sant' Ambrogio to hiss after dinner.
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officials; old; ones; open; opening; opinion; opportunity; order; ordinary; outside; padua; pagan; paganism; paintings; palaces; palatine; papacy; papal; paper; paradise; party; pass; passengers; passing; passport; past; pastors; path; paul; paved; pavement; peaks; peasant; peculiar; people; period; persecution; persons; peter; piazza; picture; piece; piedmont; piedmontese; pile; pio; pius; place; plain; play; pleasure; poet; point; police; political; pontifical; poor; pope; population; position; possible; postilion; power; powerful; prayer; preaching; prepared; presence; present; press; priesthood; priests; primitive; principle; prison; prisoner; private; process; procession; produce; progress; protestant; protestantism; proud; providence; public; pulpit; punch; pure; purgatory; purple; purpose; quarter; queen; question; quiet; race; railway; rain; reach; reader; ready; real; reason; red; reference; reformation; region; religion; religious; remains; renowned; reply; republic; rest; result; return; revolution; rich; ride; rights; rise; river; road; robe; rock; rolling; roman; romanism; rome; roof; room; rose; round; rows; ruins; run; sabbath; sacred; sad; saints; salute; sardinia; save; scaffold; scarce; scene; scenery; schools; scotland; sea; seat; second; secret; seeing; service; set; setting; shade; shadow; shed; short; shower; shut; sides; silence; silent; silver; simple; single; site; sixteenth; size; sky; slavery; sleep; small; snow; social; society; soil; soldiers; solemn; solitary; soul; source; south; spacious; speak; special; spectacle; spirit; spiritual; spot; spread; spring; square; stairs; standing; stands; state; stately; station; statues; stature; stay; steps; stewart; stone; storm; straight; strange; stream; streets; strength; strong; stupendous; style; subjects; sublime; sudden; sufferings; summer; summit; sun; superstition; supper; suppose; surface; surprise; sweet; swiss; sword; system; tall; tempest; temple; temporal; terrible; territory; testament; testimony; thee; thick; things; thither; thought; thousands; threshold; throne; thunder; tiber; time; titus; tomb; torrents; tour; towers; town; trade; traveller; trees; trial; tribunal; trodden; true; truth; turin; tuscany; twilight; tyranny; unable; unhappy; universal; unknown; usual; valleys; variety; vast; vatican; vaudois; vecchia; vehicle; venice; verona; vicar; victims; view; village; villas; vine; vineyards; virgin; virtue; visible; vision; visit; voice; waldenses; waldensian; walls; want; war; water; way; wealth; weather; week; west; white; wide; windows; wine; winter; witness; witnesses; women; wood; wooden; words; work; working; workmen; world; worse; worship; wretched; xvi; years; young
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- 28600
- author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
- title: Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
- date: None
- words: 85524
- flesch: 59
- summary: See under _Vatican_ Charlemagne, i. 32, 49, 51, 53, 76, 109; ii. 297 Charles of Anjou, i. ii. For he himself is grown grey and war-worn in the strife of a few poor years, while through five and twenty centuries Rome has faced war and the world; and he, a gladiator of life, bows his head before her, wondering how his own fight shall end at last, while his lips pronounce the submission of his own mortality to her abiding endurance-- AVE ROMA IMMORTALIS, MORITURUS TE SALUTAT Index A Abruzzi, i. 159; ii. 230 Accoramboni, Flaminio, i. 296 Vittoria, i. 135, 148, 289-296, 297 Agrarian Law, i. 23 Agrippa, i. 90, 271; ii.
- keywords: 102; 103; 110; 112; 114; 119; 126; 127; 129; 132; 138; 146; 147; 152; 157; 159; 166; 169; 175; 181; 186; 188; 189; 190; 192; 193; 194; 195; 202; 206; 209; 219; 250; 251; 252; 258; 259; 264; 268; 270; 273; 275; 276; 277; 282; 283; 286; 287; 294; 298; 304; 305; 307; 308; 313; able; account; action; age; ages; air; alessandro; alexander; altar; ambassadors; ancient; andrea; angelico; angelo; antipope; apartments; apostolic; arms; arnold; art; artists; attempt; audience; augustus; authority; aventine; away; bad; barons; basilica; beautiful; beauty; beginning; belief; bernard; best; better; big; bishops; black; blood; body; books; borgia; borgo; boy; brave; brescia; bridge; broad; broken; bronze; brother; building; capitol; carafa; cardinal; castle; catholic; cause; centuries; century; certain; change; chapel; character; charles; chief; children; choir; christian; christianity; chronicler; church; churches; cimabue; circus; cities; city; civilization; clear; clement; closed; coffin; colonna; colosseum; colours; common; confusion; constantine; consul; contrary; corner; council; country; courage; course; court; crescenzio; cross; curzio; cæsar; daily; dante; dark; day; days; dead; death; deeds; deep; della; development; device; different; direct; direction; distance; dominicans; door; drawing; dream; dress; duke; early; east; effect; eighth; eloquence; emmanuel; emperor; empire; end; enemies; england; enormous; equal; europe; eustace; evil; execution; existence; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; family; famous; far; fashioned; father; fear; feet; fifth; fighting; figures; fine; fire; florence; foot; force; forgotten; fortress; forum; fourth; france; free; freedom; french; fresco; fresh; galleries; garden; gate; general; genius; gentle; german; ghetto; giotto; gold; good; government; great; great men; greater; greatest; greek; gregory; ground; guards; half; hand; hard; hated; having; head; heart; high; highest; hill; history; hold; holy; home; hope; hour; house; human; humanity; i. 107; i. 144; i. 158; i. 181; i. 193; i. 22; i. 264; i. 3; i. 51; i. ii; idea; illustration; individuality; influence; innocent; instance; iron; italian; italy; jesuits; jewish; jews; john; judge; judgment; justice; kind; king; knowledge; known; large; late; latin; law; lay; leader; learned; leave; left; leo; liberty; library; lies; life; like; lionardo; little; live; living; long; look; lord; lorenzo; love; low; man; mankind; manner; mantegna; marble; marcellus; maria; mark; mass; master; mattei; matters; means; meeting; memory; men; mere; michelangelo; middle; mind; minerva; modern; moment; monastery; money; months; monument; morning; mother; music; names; narrow; nations; nature; near; necessary; nero; new; nicholas; night; ninth; nobles; number; objects; office; officers; oil; old; open; opposite; order; origin; orsini; outside; painter; painting; palaces; palatine; palazzo; pantheon; papal; parts; past; paul; people; period; persons; peter; piazza; picture; pierleoni; pigna; pius; place; point; political; pontificate; poor; pope; porcari; portico; position; possession; possible; power; prefect; presence; present; principal; prison; private; produce; progress; protection; protonotary; public; pure; queen; question; quiet; rabble; race; rags; raphael; ready; real; region; reign; religion; religious; remains; renascence; republic; respect; rest; result; return; revolution; rich; rienzi; rights; river; roman; rome; room; rough; sacred; safety; saint; saint peter; sake; san; santa; savelli; science; scientific; second; secret; senate; senator; sense; set; seventh; silver; simple; single; sixth; sixtine; sixtus; skill; small; social; society; solemn; son; sort; soul; spirit; spiritual; spring; square; standing; state; statues; stephen; steps; stone; straight; strange; streets; strength; strong; stronghold; struggle; success; summer; sun; surface; taking; taste; temple; temporal; terrible; theatre; theodora; things; think; thirteenth; thought; throne; tiber; time; title; titus; tivoli; today; tomb; tradition; trastevere; tribune; true; truth; turn; vanity; vast; vatican; venice; victor; view; vinci; vision; voice; waiting; walls; war; water; way; ways; wealth; white; wife; wild; window; wine; wise; women; wonder; words; work; world; worth; years; yellow; young; youth
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- 28614
- author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
- title: Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
- date: None
- words: 82708
- flesch: 58
- summary: See under _Vatican_ Charlemagne, i. 32, 49, 51, 53, 76, 109; ii. 297 Charles of Anjou, i. ii. Churches of,-- the Apostles, i. 157, 170-172, 205, 241, 242; ii. 213 Aracoeli, i. 52, 112, 167; ii. 57, 70, 75 Cardinal Mazarin, i. 186 the Gallows, i. 284 Holy Guardian Angel, i. 122 the Minerva, ii. 55 the Penitentiaries, ii. 216 the Portuguese, i. 250 Saint Adrian, i. 71 Agnes, i. 301, 304 Augustine, ii. 207 Bernard, i. 291 Callixtus, ii. 125 Charles, i. 251 Eustace, ii. 23, 24, 26, 39 George in Velabro, i. 195; ii. 10 Gregory on the Aventine, ii. 129 Ives, i. 251; ii. 23, 24 John of the Florentines, i. 273 Pine Cone, ii. 56 Peter's on the Janiculum, ii. 129 Sylvester, i. 176 Saints Nereus and Achillæus, ii. 125 Vincent and Anastasius, i. 186 San Clemente, i. 143 Giovanni in Laterano, i. 113 Lorenzo in Lucina, i. 192 Miranda, i. 71 Marcello, i. 165, 192 Pietro in Montorio, ii. 151 Vincoli, i. 118, 283; ii. 322 Salvatore in Cacaberis, i. 112 Stefano Rotondo, i. 106 Sant' Angelo in Pescheria, i. 102; ii. 3, 10, 110 Santa Francesca Romana, i. 111 Maria de Crociferi, i. 267 degli Angeli, i. 146, 258, 259 dei Monti, i. 118 del Pianto, i. 113 di Grotto Pinta, i. 294 in Campo Marzo, ii. 23 in Via Lata, i. 142 Nuova, i. 111, 273 Transpontina, ii. 212 della Vittoria, i. 302 Prisca, ii. 124 Sabina, i. 278; ii. 40 Trinità dei Pellegrini, ii. 110 Cicero, i. 45, 73; ii. 96, 294 Cimabue, ii. 156, 157, 162, 163, 169, 188, 189 Cinna, i. 25, 27 Circolo, ii. 245 Circus, the, i. 64, 253 Maximus, i. 64, 66; ii. 84, 119 City of Augustus, i. 57-77 Making of the, i. 1-21 of Rienzi, i. 93; ii. 6-8 of the Empire, i. 22-56 of the Middle Age, i. 47, 78-99, 92 of the Republic, i. 47 today, i. 55, 92 Civilization, ii. 177 and bloodshed, ii. 218 morality, ii. 178 progress, ii. 177-180 Claudius, i. 46, 255, 256; ii. 102 Cloelia, i. 13 Coelian hill, i. 106 Collegio Romano, i. 102; ii. 45, 61 Colonna, the, i. 51, 94, 104, 135, 153, 157-170, 172, 176, 187, 206, 217, 251, 252, 271, 272, 275-283, 306-315; ii. 2, 6, 8, 10, 16, 20, 37, 51, 54, 60, 106, 107, 126, 204 Giovanni, i. 104 Jacopo, i. 159, 165, 192 Lorenzo, ii. 126, 204-213 Marcantonio, i. 182; ii. 54 Pietro, i. 159 Pompeo, i. 305, 310-317; ii. 205 Prospero, ii. 205 Sciarra, i. 162-166, 192, 206, 213, 229, 279, 275, 281, 307 Stephen, i. 161, 165; ii. 13, 16 the Younger, i. 168 Vittoria, i. 157, 173-177; ii. 174 the Region, i. 101, 190-192; ii. 209 War between Orsini and, i. 51, 104, 159, 168, 182, 275-283, 306-315; ii. 12, 18, 126, 204-211 Colosseum, i. 56, 86, 90, 96, 106, 107, 111, 125, 152, 153, 187, 191, 209, 278; ii. 25, 64, 66, 84, 97, 202, 203, 301 Column of Piazza Colonna i. 190, 192 Comitium, i. 112, 257, 268 Commodus, i. 46, 55; ii. 97, 285 Confraternities, i. 108, 204 Conscript Fathers, i. 78, 112 Constable of Bourbon, i. 52, 259, 273, 304, 309-311; ii. 308 Constans, i. 135, 136 Constantine, i. 90, 113, 163 Constantinople, i. 95, 119 Contests in the Forum, i. 27, 130 Convent of Saint Catharine, i. 176 Convent of Saint Sylvester, i. 176 Corneto, Cardinal of, ii. 282, 283 Cornomania, i. 141 Cornutis, i. 87 Coromania, i. 141, 144 Corsini, the, ii. 150 Corso, i. 96, 106, 108, 192, 196, 205, 206, 229, 251 Vittorio Emanuele, i. 275 Corte Savella, i. 284; ii. 52 Cosmas, the, ii. 156, 157 Costa, Giovanni da, i. 205 Court House, i. 71 Crassus, i. 27, 31; ii. 128 Crawford, Thomas, i. 147 Crescentius, ii. 40, 41 Crescenzi, i. 114; ii. 27, 40, 209 Crescenzio, ii. 28-40 Stefana, ii. 39 Crispi, i. 116, 187 Crusade, the Second, ii. 86, 105 Crusades, the, i. 76 Curatii, i. 3, 131 Customs of early Rome, i. 9, 48 in dress, i. 48 religion, i. 48 D Dante, i. 110; ii. 164, 175, 244 Decameron, i. 239 Decemvirs, i. 14; ii. 120 Decrees, Semiamiran, i. 178 Democracy, i. 108 Development of Rome, i. 7, 18 some results of, i. 154 under Barons, i. 51 Decemvirs, i. 14 the Empire, i. 29, 30 Gallic invasion, i. 15-18 Kings, i. 2-7, 14-45 Middle Age, i. 47, 92, 210-247 Papal rule, i. 46-50 Republic, i. 7-14 Tribunes, i. 14 Dictator of Rome, i. 29, 79 Dietrich of Bern, ii. 297 Dionysus, ii. 121 Dolabella, i. 34 Domenichino, ii. 147 Domestic life in Rome, i. 9 Dominicans, i. 158; ii. 45, 46, 49, 50, 60, 61 Domitian, i. 45, 152, 205; ii. 104, 114, 124, 295 Doria, the, i. 206; ii. 45 Albert, i. 207 Andrea, i. 207 Conrad, i. 207 Gian Andrea, i. 207 Lamba, i. 207 Paganino, i. 207 Doria-Pamfili, i. 206-209 Dress in early Rome, i. 48 Drusus, ii. 102 Duca, Antonio del, i. 146, 147 Giacomo del, i. 146 Dürer, Albert, ii. 198 E Education, ii. 179 Egnatia, i. 75 Elagabalus, i. 77, 177, 179; ii. 296, 297 Election of the Pope, ii. 41, 42, 277 Electoral Wards, i. 107 Elizabeth, Queen of England, ii. 47 Emperors, Roman, i. 46 of the East, i. 95, 126 Empire of Constantinople, i. 46 of Rome, i. 15, 17, 22-28, 31, 45, 47, 53, 60, 72, 99 Encyclicals, ii. 244 Erasmus, ii. 151 Esquiline, the, i. 26, 106, 139, 186; ii. 95, 131, 193 Este, Ippolito d', i. 185 Etruria, i. 12, 15 Euodus, i. 255, 256 Eustace, Saint, ii. 24, 25 square of, ii. 25, 42 Eustachio.
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- 28676
- author: Trollope, Anthony
- title: The Life of Cicero, Volume II.
- date: None
- words: 127673
- flesch: 77
- summary: As Appius was elected Censor immediately after his acquittal, together with that Piso whom Cicero had so hated, it may be understood that his influence was very great.[117] It was great enough to produce from Cicero letters which were flattering and false. So young Cicero is furnished, and sent forth to learn philosophy and Greek.
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- 29658
- author: Whiting, Lilian
- title: Italy, the Magic Land
- date: None
- words: 92241
- flesch: 65
- summary: In the early years of the nineteenth century this Academy was a vital centre of art life, and it is still a school that draws students, although the visitor who does not loiter and linger in his Rome may fail to know of this most alluring place. This American sculptor who, in his early youth, sought the artistic atmosphere of Rome as the environment most stimulating to his dawning power, who accepted with unfailing courage the incidental privations of art life in a foreign land more renowned for beauty than for comfort, who ... never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, has expressed his message in many purely ideal works,--the message that the true artist must always give to the world and that leads humanity to the crowning truth of life, that of the ceaseless progress of the soul in its immortality.
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contemporary; contrast; convent; conversation; country; course; court; crawford; creation; cross; crown; culture; curious; d'avalos; daily; dante; dark; darkness; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; death; deep; degli; degree; del; delightful; della; design; destiny; detail; devotion; different; dignity; distance; distinguished; divine; doge; dome; door; doria; dream; drive; duchessa; duomo; early; earth; earthly; easy; effect; electric; elizabeth; embassy; emperor; enchanted; enchanting; enchantment; energy; english; enthusiasm; entire; entrance; environment; equestrian; established; eternal; europe; evening; events; evidence; existence; experience; expression; exquisite; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fame; family; famous; far; father; feature; feeling; feet; figure; fine; finest; fire; florence; flowers; following; fontane; foot; force; form; fountain; francesco; francis; franklin; frascati; french; fresco; frescoes; friend; friendship; future; galleries; gallery; gardens; general; genius; 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- 32356
- author: Brittain, Alfred
- title: Roman Women
- date: None
- words: 116227
- flesch: 62
- summary: In the manner of its discovery, we have an interesting drama which throws light, not only upon the matter itself, but also reveals somewhat of the position of a certain class of Roman women, of which history takes little personal account. From the time of Hannibal, Roman women have willingly given to the treasury their jewels and ornaments; let the Gauls or the Parthians come, and there will be found in us no less patriotism.
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reign; relations; relatives; religion; religious; remains; remarkable; republic; reputation; request; respect; result; return; rich; riches; right; rites; rival; roman; roman history; roman ladies; roman life; roman matrons; roman people; roman society; roman woman; rome; romulus; room; rule; sabine; sacred; sacrifice; safety; said; sake; scene; scipio; second; secure; seeking; self; senate; senators; seneca; sense; servants; service; servius; set; severe; severus; sex; share; short; signs; silius; silver; simple; simplicity; sister; slain; slavery; slaves; small; social; society; soldiers; sole; son; sons; spirit; state; statues; stories; strange; street; strength; strong; study; style; subject; success; succession; suetonius; sufficient; superior; support; supposed; suspicion; sword; sylla; sympathy; tacitus; taking; tanaquil; tarquin; temple; tender; terrible; theatre; thee; things; thought; throne; tiberius; tibullus; time; title; traditional; training; trajan; true; truth; tullia; type; tyranny; tyrant; union; unknown; unrestrained; unworthy; upper; value; venus; verses; vespasian; vestal; vices; view; virgins; virtue; virtuous; visit; vitellius; voice; walls; war; warrant; way; wealth; wedding; weight; white; widow; wife; wine; wish; witness; wives; women; wonder; wool; words; work; world; worship; worst; worthy; writers; years; young; younger; youth
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- 33022
- author: Villani, Giovanni
- title: Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani
- date: None
- words: 151181
- flesch: 68
- summary: § 12.--_How the Emperor Frederick I. took their territory from the city of Florence, and many other cities of Tuscany._ [Sidenote: Inf. x. 83, 84.] After the same fashion that the Guelfs of Florence departed, so did those of Prato and of Pistoia, and of Volterra, and of Samminiato, and of San Gimignano, and of many other cities and villages of Tuscany, which all returned to the party of the Ghibellines save the city of Lucca, the which held to the party of the Guelfs for a time, and was a refuge for the Guelfs of Florence, and for the other exiles of Tuscany, the which Guelfs of Florence took their stand in Lucca in the quarter around San Friano; and the loggia in front of San Friano was made by the Florentines.
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- 34036
- author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
- title: The Story of Malta
- date: None
- words: 82445
- flesch: 62
- summary: Few islands, or, indeed, we may say few reaches of seacoast on the mainland, of similar dimensions, can show so many good and available harbors as are found on the north shore of Malta. In Rome (as well as in many other capitals), the ancient city was illumined, and salutes were fired from the fortress of St. Angelo, on the banks of the Tiber, while a thanksgiving mass was celebrated in all the churches.
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- 35363
- author: Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
- title: A Short History of Italy (476-1900)
- date: None
- words: 114140
- flesch: 65
- summary: The famous Florentine historian Guicciardini (1483-1540) thus records the time of his boyhood: Since the fall of the Roman Empire Italy had never known such great prosperity, nor had experienced so desirable a condition as in the year 1490 and the years just before and after. A Ghibelline is a Christian, a citizen, a neighbour; then, shall these great names, all joined, yield to that one word, Ghibelline? And shall that single word--an idle term for none know what it means--have greater power for hate than all those three, which are so clear and strong, for love and charity?
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- 36817
- author: Tuker, M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie)
- title: Rome
- date: None
- words: 75283
- flesch: 60
- summary: And so the Roman possesses in its highest terms the gift of _criterion_. Perhaps the gift of _criterion_ nourished among the grandeurs of classical and Christian Rome is a sorry preparation for enthusiasm over the sights to be seen in other men's cities.
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roman religion; rome; romulus; room; round; ruins; rule; s. peter; sabine; sacred; sacrifice; safety; saint; san; santa; saturn; saxon; scarlet; scene; seat; second; secular; self; senate; sense; sentiment; septimius; servant; service; set; severus; shops; shrines; sign; similar; simple; site; sitting; sixth; sixtus; small; social; society; soil; soldiers; sons; sort; soul; source; south; sovereign; spanish; special; spirit; spiritual; stairs; standard; standing; state; statues; steps; stone; streets; strong; stronghold; subiaco; subject; sum; sun; support; system; table; taste; temperament; temple; temporal; terrible; theatre; things; thirteenth; thought; throne; tiber; time; titles; titus; tivoli; tombs; towers; town; trade; tradition; trajan; trastevere; true; twelfth; type; union; united; universal; unlike; upper; usual; vatican; vespasian; viii; villa; village; visitors; vittoria; voices; walk; walls; war; way; ways; white; wife; windows; wine; women; words; work; world; worship; 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- 37206
- author: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
- title: Sea and Sardinia
- date: None
- words: 78430
- flesch: 91
- summary: Then we saw, looking closer, that most of the women were young men, dressed up. All the maskers were young men, and most of these young men, _of course_, were masquerading as women.
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- 37793
- author: Gardner, Edmund G.
- title: The Story of Florence
- date: None
- words: 122014
- flesch: 65
- summary: Podestà, Palazzo del_. Borgo Allegri, Via_, 66, 243, 244. Boccaccio, 31, 32, 55, 60, 61, 69, 70, 198, 204, 213, 248, 259, 346, 347, 360, 410.
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- 37953
- author: Waddington, Mary King
- title: Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904
- date: None
- words: 105790
- flesch: 77
- summary: We climbed straight up a high hill (2,000 feet) soon after leaving Cività Vecchia, and had for some time a divine view of sea and coast; then plunged at once into the mountains, great barren, stony peaks with little old grey villages on top; hills rolling away on each side, a wild, desolate country. Priests and nuns of course, and old people, both men and women, but it seemed extraordinary to me to see young men, tall, good-looking fellows, bend down quite as reverently as the others and kiss the toe.
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- 38559
- author: Gordon, Lina Duff
- title: The Story of Assisi
- date: None
- words: 109215
- flesch: 64
- summary: So every year two of his brethren brought to the gate of the benedictine monastery a basket full of roach caught in the Chiaggio which flows at no great distance from the Portiuncula, and the abbot, smiling at the simplicity of Francis, who had imagined yet another device for humility, gave back a vessel full of oil in exchange for the gift of fish.[56] With great rejoicing St. Francis set to work building cells of a most simple pattern, with walls of wattle and dab, and thatched with straw, each brother inscribing his name upon a portion of the mud floor set apart for him to rest in. On one side of the beautiful Madonna who bends to receive her crown from the hands of the Saviour, is represented with great dignity and simplicity St. Francis receiving the Stigmata, on the other St. Jerome and his lion.
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- 39100
- author: Norway, Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton)
- title: Naples, Past and Present
- date: None
- words: 113075
- flesch: 72
- summary: There is now but little navigation on these seas compared with the relative importance of the shipping that came hither in old days. Small wonder if wild tales exist yet in a district which in old days, and even modern ones, has been encompassed with fear.
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rises; rising; river; road; robert; rock; roman; rome; roof; room; rose; rough; round; route; royal; rufolo; ruins; sacred; safe; safety; sailors; saint; salerno; san; santa; save; scarce; scene; scholar; schulz; science; sea; second; secret; seething; sense; seq; set; setting; shade; shadow; sharp; shattered; sheer; ships; shore; shrine; sicilian; signor; silence; silent; silver; similar; simple; single; sirens; size; sky; slopes; slow; small; smoke; soft; soil; solitary; somma; son; sorrento; sort; southern; space; spanish; spirit; splendid; splendour; spot; spring; square; stair; staircase; stand; standing; statue; steamer; steep; steps; stone; stories; storm; strada; straight; strange; strangers; stream; streets; strength; striking; strong; style; subject; succession; summer; summit; sun; sunlight; sunny; sunshine; surface; sweet; sword; tale; taste; temple; terrace; terrible; terror; theatre; thick; things; thought; throne; thrust; tiberius; time; title; toledo; tomb; torre; touch; towers; town; trade; tradition; tragedy; traveller; treasure; trees; tribunali; true; truth; tufa; turks; turn; vain; valley; value; vast; vesuvius; viceroy; vico; view; villa; village; vineyards; virgil; visitors; voice; volcanic; volcano; volume; walk; walls; warm; warning; water; waves; way; wealth; western; white; wide; wild; wind; windows; wise; wish; witches; women; wonder; wonderful; woods; work; world; worth; writer; years; yellow; young
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- 40135
- author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
- title: The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books
- date: None
- words: 197360
- flesch: 61
- summary: Great Rome lay wrecked and ended in the sight of the patrician monk who had schooled himself out of all the bitterness of the vanquished in that new hope and new life of the cloister. Roman artists at length began to appear amid the host of Florentines and the whole world seems to have turned into one great _bottega_ full of everything rich and rare.
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- 41202
- author: Lewis, James
- title: The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States
- date: None
- words: 60862
- flesch: 57
- summary: Similarly situated, Tiberius Gracchus was now obliged to go beyond the letter of the existing law, and to vindicate the underlying principle of Roman law that the duty of the tribune was the protection of the rights of the people, by introducing a new political expedient into the scheme of Roman government. If a law declaring a tribune to be ineligible for reëlection was ever enacted in Rome (and with the absence of a full list of Roman laws this is a point on which absolute certainty is impossible)
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- versions: original; plain text
- 41207
- author: King, Bolton
- title: The Life of Mazzini
- date: None
- words: 112447
- flesch: 68
- summary: Capecelatro, _Vita della serva di Dio, Paola Frassinetti_; Mrs Fletcher's _Autobiography_; Froude, _Carlyle's Life in London_; Ireland, _Jane Welsh Carlyle_; Duncombe's _Life and Correspondence_; De Amicis, _Cuore_ (pages 222 of Ed. 8); Quinet, _Oeuvres completes_, xi. 32, 423; Luzio, _G. Mazzini_ (Milan, 1905); Gianelli, _Brevi ricordi Mazziniani_ Great men can only spring from a great people, just as an oak, however high it may tower above every other tree in the forest, depends on the soil whence it derives its nourishment.
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quiet; race; raid; rare; reach; reading; ready; real; reason; recent; reform; relations; religion; religious; republic; republicans; respect; responsibility; rest; results; review; revolt; revolution; revolutionary; ricasoli; rich; right; rise; rising; road; roman; rome; room; round; royalists; ruffini; rule; sacred; sacrifice; sad; sake; salvation; save; savoy; saw; scheme; school; scritti; search; second; secret; self; selfishness; sense; series; service; set; shaen; shakespeare; short; sidoli; signor; silence; silent; simple; single; slow; small; smile; social; socialism; societies; society; solitude; soul; south; sovereignty; special; spiritual; spite; spread; spring; stand; stansfeld; state; statesmen; step; street; strength; strong; struggle; studies; study; subject; success; suffering; suicide; support; supreme; swiss; switzerland; sympathy; system; talk; task; taught; taylor; teacher; teaching; temporal; tendency; territory; theories; theory; things; thinker; thinking; thought; time; touch; town; tradition; triumph; true; trust; truth; turn; tuscany; tyranny; understood; unhappy; union; united; unity; universal; universe; university; unknown; usual; vain; value; venetia; venice; victory; views; virtue; vision; visit; voice; volume; volunteers; want; war; way; ways; weak; weakness; weary; weeks; wife; william; willing; winning; wish; women; words; work; working; world; worn; worship; write; writers; writings; written; wrong; years; young; young italy
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- 41924
- author: Symonds, John Addington
- title: Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) The Revival of Learning
- date: None
- words: 134682
- flesch: 61
- summary: The 'Priapus,' translated and amplified in Italian _ottava rima_, gained a popular celebrity beyond the learned circles for whom it was originally written. The Revival of Learning_, originally published by Smith, Elder, & Co., London, as Volume II of John Addington Symonds's _Renaissance in Italy_ series.
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sleep; small; sobriety; social; society; solid; song; sons; sophists; sorrow; soul; sound; sources; southern; sovereign; space; spain; spaniards; spanish; special; specific; specimen; speech; speeches; sphere; spirit; spiritual; spite; splendid; splendour; spread; spring; stamp; standard; stars; state; station; statues; stipend; stores; strength; striking; strong; strozzi; students; studies; studio; study; style; stylist; subject; sublime; substantial; subtle; successive; successors; sufficient; suited; sunt; superior; superseded; superstition; support; supreme; suspicion; sustained; sway; sylvæ; sympathy; system; table; taking; talents; tam; tamen; task; taste; taught; teacher; teaching; temper; temperament; text; thee; themes; theologians; theological; theology; theories; things; thinkers; thirst; thought; throne; tiber; tibi; time; tiraboschi; title; toil; tomb; tommaso; tone; tongue; topics; town; trade; tradition; training; tranquil; translation; trapezuntios; traversari; treasures; treatise; treatment; triumph; true; trust; truth; tutor; type; tyranny; tyrants; understanding; understood; unique; universal; universities; university; unknown; unum; urbino; useful; vain; valeriano; valla; valuable; value; vanity; varied; variety; vast; vatican; venetian; venice; venus; verbal; verona; verses; versification; version; vespasiano; vices; vida; view; vigorous; vigour; vii; viii; villani; virgil; virtues; visconti; visit; visitors; vita; vittorino; vivid; voice; voigt; vol; volume; vulgar; walls; wandering; want; warfare; wars; waters; way; wealth; weight; whereof; wide; wife; wisdom; wits; women; wonder; words; work; world; worldly; worship; worst; worthy; writer; writings; wrought; xenophon; years; young; youth; zeal; zeus; æsthetic
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- 4250
- author: Saltus, Edgar
- title: Imperial Purple
- date: None
- words: 27172
- flesch: 74
- summary: It was on a peak such as that the young emperors of old Rome balanced themselves, a precipice on either side. Slender, graceful, handsome, as were all the young emperors of old Rome, his blue, troubled eyes took pleasure, if at all, only in the sight of blood.
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- 42560
- author: Dennistoun, James
- title: Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 1 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630.
- date: None
- words: 177699
- flesch: 62
- summary: Cf. _infra_, p. 282.] Cf. _supra_, 214.]
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seigneury; self; selfish; sense; separate; september; serene; series; servants; service; set; severe; sforza; share; short; sicily; sides; siege; siena; sigismondo; signal; signory; silk; silver; similar; single; singular; sinigaglia; sir; sismondi; sister; sixtus; sketch; small; social; soil; soldier; solemn; son; soul; sovereignty; spain; spanish; special; spirit; spiritual; splendid; splendour; spread; spring; standard; state; stone; streets; strength; strife; striking; striped; strong; strongholds; struggle; studies; study; style; subjects; subsequent; success; successes; successful; succession; sudden; sufficient; suited; summer; sun; superior; supplies; supply; support; surprise; surrender; sway; swiss; sword; system; table; tactics; talents; taro; tastes; temper; temporal; terms; territories; territory; testimony; thanks; things; thither; thought; throne; tiara; time; title; titular; tomb; total; town; townships; trade; tranquillity; transcriber; treachery; treasures; treaty; tried; 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- 42998
- author: Menpes, Dorothy
- title: Venice
- date: None
- words: 42335
- flesch: 76
- summary: This homely aspect of Venice interests. Most of the carpenters of Venice seem to be old men.
- keywords: adriatic; age; air; ancient; arches; architecture; aristocracy; art; artists; atmosphere; austrians; background; balconies; banks; base; beautiful; beauty; bellini; best; better; black; blue; boats; boys; bridge; bright; brilliant; broad; building; byzantine; cafés; canal; care; century; certain; changes; channels; character; characteristic; charles; charm; children; chimneys; chioggia; christian; church; churches; city; close; clouds; coffee; cold; colour; coloured; colouring; columns; condition; country; course; craft; cries; crowd; custom; cut; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; death; decay; deep; delicate; delightful; della; demand; design; different; direction; distance; doge; doors; doubt; dream; drink; ducal; early; east; effect; emperor; end; endless; europe; evening; example; extraordinary; eyes; faces; fact; family; famous; fascinating; feeling; ferro; figures; fine; finest; fish; fishermen; florence; florian; flowers; force; foreign; form; free; fresh; fruit; garden; gay; general; genius; giorgione; girl; giudecca; glass; gloom; gold; golden; gondola; gondolier; good; gothic; graceful; grand; great; greater; greatest; green; grey; groups; hair; half; hands; handsome; heads; heart; heavy; high; history; home; honour; hotel; hour; houses; human; illustration; impressions; influence; interesting; iron; islands; italian; italy; jewels; jews; joy; kind; knowledge; lagoon; lamps; landing; large; left; lido; life; light; like; line; little; lives; london; long; longer; look; love; magnificent; mainland; making; man; manner; marble; maria; mark; market; marvellous; mass; masters; materials; matter; means; men; middle; modern; moment; money; months; morning; mosaic; mother; mud; murano; music; narrow; natural; nature; necessary; needs; new; number; old; open; orange; order; oriental; original; painters; painting; palace; palazzo; pale; panada; particular; pay; people; perfect; period; person; piazza; pictures; picturesque; piece; pink; pippin; places; pleasure; pointed; poor; poorer; popular; portrait; position; possible; power; precious; present; pride; proud; prow; public; pure; quiet; real; religion; renaissance; republic; return; rialto; rich; romanesque; roof; rose; round; run; saint; salute; santa; school; sculpture; sea; set; shops; silence; silver; simple; sirocco; sky; small; smoke; social; society; soul; splendid; splendour; square; squero; state; steps; stone; stories; strange; streets; strong; style; subjects; summer; sun; sweet; sympathy; taste; terrible; things; think; thought; time; tintoretto; titian; toned; torcello; touch; trade; traghetto; true; turn; value; venetian; venice; vessels; walls; war; warm; watch; water; way; wealth; white; windows; wine; women; words; work; world; yard; years; yellow; young
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- 43252
- author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
- title: Tessa, Our Little Italian Cousin
- date: None
- words: 22255
- flesch: 91
- summary: They are ugly little things, aren't they? The fun was all the greater for such little things as this.
- keywords: 12mo; adventures; ago; america; arthur; artist; babbo; baby; beautiful; bed; believe; beppo; best; big; book; boy; boys; bright; brother; building; busy; care; carnival; carriage; chapter; children; christmas; church; city; cloth; colonel; colors; country; cousin=; cross; crowd; day; days; dear; decorative; delightful; dog; donkey; door; early; evening; eyes; face; family; famous; far; father; feet; fine; floor; flowers; francesca; friends; garden; girl; glad; good; grand; gray; great; hands; happy; hard; head; help; high; home; house; illustrated; interesting; italian; italy; jack; johnston; kind; land; large; life; little; little colonel; long; lovely; lucy; man; marble; mark; mary; men; merry; miss; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; new; night; old; page; party; people; peter; picture; pietro; place; poor; pope; pretty; puritan; ready; red; rest; rome; room; saint; set; sights; sister; small; soft; square; stone; stories; story; strange; streets; sure; tessa; things; thought; time; tired; trade; village; visit; voice; volume; walk; walls; water; way; white; wife; wonderful; words; work; world; years; young; æneas
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- 4354
- author: Gissing, George
- title: By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
- date: None
- words: 40519
- flesch: 71
- summary: I tried to persuade myself that I was merely suffering from a violent attack of dyspepsia, the natural result of _Concordia_ diet. The Taranto of old days, when it was called Taras, or later Tarentum, stood on a long peninsula, which divides a little inland sea from the great sea without.
- keywords: afternoon; age; ages; air; alaric; albergo; ancient; appearance; appetite; ascent; aspect; attention; aware; bare; beautiful; beauty; bed; best; better; bill; black; blue; books; bore; boy; building; business; cactus; calabria; calm; carriage; case; cassiodorus; catanzaro; century; certain; change; chapter; children; church; city; civilization; climate; close; coast; coloured; common; companion; concordia; conversation; cosenza; costume; cotrone; countenance; country; course; crati; croton; curiosity; cut; dark; day; days; dead; deal; deep; delightful; desire; difficulty; dining; dinner; distance; distinguished; doctor; don; door; doubt; dozen; drive; dry; dull; early; earth; easy; end; england; english; entrance; evening; eyes; face; fact; fall; familiar; fancy; far; features; feet; fellow; fever; figure; fine; folk; food; foot; form; friar; friend; fruit; garden; gaze; general; glad; glimpse; golden; good; graecia; grave; great; greek; grey; ground; guide; half; hand; harbour; hard; head; health; heart; heavy; heights; high; hills; history; hither; hold; hope; hostess; hotel; hour; houses; illness; imagination; importance; impossible; inland; inn; interest; interesting; ionian; italian; italy; journey; kind; known; labour; lad; landscape; large; latin; leave; left; length; lenormant; lie; life; like; line; little; long; longer; look; looking; luggage; magna; magnificent; man; manner; matter; meal; memory; mere; metaponto; middle; miles; mind; minutes; modern; moment; morning; morrow; moscius; mountain; museum; music; names; naples; narrow; native; natural; near; new; night; noble; north; note; o'clock; old; olive; open; orange; ordinary; paola; pasquale; past; peasants; people; picture; picturesque; place; pleasant; pleasure; point; poor; position; power; promontory; public; purpose; question; railway; rare; reggio; region; reply; respect; rich; river; road; rock; rome; room; rose; ruins; rule; save; scarce; scene; sculco; sea; search; season; sense; service; set; shore; sign; signore; sila; silence; sindaco; site; sky; small; smile; soft; soil; sorry; sort; sound; southern; spirit; spot; squalid; squillace; state; station; stay; stone; strange; stream; street; strength; striking; subject; sudden; summer; sun; sunny; sunshine; sure; surface; surprise; sybaris; table; talk; taranto; tarentum; temple; theodoric; thick; things; thought; time; town; train; traveller; trees; trouble; true; turn; ugly; valley; vast; vehicle; view; vision; visit; voices; walk; wall; water; waves; way; wayside; weather; white; wide; wild; wilderness; wind; wine; wish; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; years; young
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- 43607
- author: Holland, Rupert Sargent
- title: Builders of United Italy
- date: None
- words: 79687
- flesch: 66
- summary: Neither of these men understood the other; to Cavour Mazzini was the fanatic who would destroy any cause by lack of temperance, to Mazzini Cavour was the aristocrat who would inflict upon the poor of Italy simply a new yoke in place of the old. With the governing world of Piedmont Cavour was undeniably unpopular.
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- 43754
- author: Macquoid, Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah)
- title: Pictures in Umbria
- date: None
- words: 43856
- flesch: 71
- summary: Bernardino was deeply stirred by the evil report that reached him from all parts of the country; he had already been received into the Minor Conventual Order of San Francis, and had signalised his courage by nursing and ministering to the plague-stricken inmates of the hospital in Siena. St. Francis and St. Lawrence are on one side, St. Andrew and St. Gregory on the other; the embroidery on St. Lawrence's vestments is wonderfully painted, but as a whole this picture is not nearly so good as the frescoes by the same master in the cathedral.
- keywords: abbot; air; altar; ancient; angels; appia; arch; assisi; astorre; augusta; baglione; beautiful; beauty; bed; bernardino; best; bishop; bit; black; blood; blue; body; braccio; branch; brethren; brick; brilliant; brother; brown; building; cambio; campanile; carved; cathedral; century; chapel; chapter; charm; charming; chiara; chief; child; choir; church; churches; cimabue; citizens; city; clara; cloister; close; colour; companions; conspirators; convent; coral; cortona; country; covered; creatures; cross; curious; daily; damiano; dante; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; del; delightful; della; descent; difficult; distance; domenico; door; duomo; early; effect; end; english; entrance; etruscan; evil; exquisite; eyed; eyes; face; fair; family; famous; far; father; façade; feet; fellow; fertile; fierce; figures; fine; fioretti; flight; florence; flowers; foligno; foot; form; forte; fountain; francesco; francis; franciscan; frequent; frescoes; fresh; friends; garden; gate; gay; gentle; gianpaolo; giorgio; giotto; giovanni; girl; glory; god; golden; good; grace; grand; grass; great; green; grey; grifonetto; group; guido; hand; handsome; harmony; head; heart; help; high; hill; holy; home; hotel; house; huge; iii; illustration; initial; interesting; italy; journey; joy; juniper; kind; lake; large; later; lay; leaves; left; life; like; little; lofty; long; looking; lord; lorenzo; lovely; macquoid; madonna; man; margherita; maria; market; marriage; masseo; master; money; monte; morning; mother; narrow; nature; nave; near; new; nobles; nuova; oddi; old; old church; olive; open; opposite; order; original; outside; overhead; painter; palaces; palazzo; pale; past; paul; people; perfect; period; perugia; perugians; perugino; piazza; pictures; picturesque; pietro; pisano; place; point; pointed; poor; pope; porta; portioncula; pots; poverello; poverty; power; powerful; praise; prayer; preaching; present; priest; projecting; pubblico; purple; quaint; raffaelle; red; remains; remarkable; return; rich; right; road; roman; rome; rose; round; rule; saint; sala; san; san bernardino; san damiano; san francesco; san pietro; santa; scene; second; series; set; short; showing; siena; signore; sky; small; sole; son; sons; souls; space; special; spello; splendid; square; station; statue; steep; steps; stone; story; street; strength; striking; subasio; suffering; sunshine; sweet; tall; temple; thee; thou; thrasymene; time; tomb; town; trees; turning; umbria; upper; valley; varied; view; vines; visit; volumnii; walk; wall; way; white; wife; wild; window; wine; women; wonderful; wood; work; world; worth; years; young; youth
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- 44212
- author: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
- title: Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car
- date: None
- words: 74526
- flesch: 68
- summary: It is with respect to the grades on Italian roads, too, that one remarks a falling off from French standards. Putting these various classes of Italian roads aside for the moment there remains but one other variety to consider, that of the mountain roads of the high Alpine valleys and those crossing the Oberland and, further east, those in communication with the Austrian Tyrol.
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- 44235
- author: Dennistoun, James
- title: Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630.
- date: None
- words: 160803
- flesch: 60
- summary: Pilgrimage to Rome_, a work remarkable for accurate observation of facts, and the candid tone of its strictures. Recommended by military talent, as well as by diplomatic dexterity and business habits, he remained in the service of Duke Francesco Maria during his early campaigns; and in September, 1512, after reducing Bologna to obedience of the Pope, died there of an acute fever in the flower of his age.
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- 45469
- author: Villari, Pasquale
- title: The Two First Centuries of Florentine History The Republic and Parties at the Time of Dante. Fourth Impression.
- date: None
- words: 189526
- flesch: 62
- summary: Florence gradually extended as time went on, and _borghi_ were built outside the walls, the largest of these suburban quarters being the _Borgo_, connected with the city proper by the Ponte Vecchio. But _forensis_ does not signify an absent person, _i.e._, one who _extra civitatem manet_, but, on the contrary, signifies--according to the statute--one having no domicile either in the city, _contado_, or district.
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- 46092
- author: Potter, Olave M. (Olave Muriel)
- title: A Little Pilgrimage in Italy
- date: None
- words: 81040
- flesch: 70
- summary: Far away on the spur of the mountain is Assisi, where he laboured to bring love; and further away still, beyond the peaceful vales of Umbria, are great cities in which men worked, and hated, and struggled, ay, and loved unceasingly. 'The poor in great cities are not like the poor in Umbria,' said the Philosopher; 'here they suffer so.'
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- versions: original; plain text
- 46732
- author: Gordon, Lina Duff
- title: The Story of Perugia
- date: None
- words: 94702
- flesch: 70
- summary: The room which follows that devoted to the early schools, namely, the Cappella del Bonfigli, is to a student of history one of the most interesting points in the whole gallery, for here, through the frescoes of a most childlike and delightful painter, we live again the life of old Perugia; and here too we stand, face to face, with the authentic work of a man whose celebrity formerly centred round the fact that he was the first master of Perugino, but who, as the years go by, will, doubtless, ever more and more stand on his own feet, and shine because of some strange, subtle and ever-living charm, that of the individual, which clings to all his work. No great original work (with the exception of the missal workers, in which style of art Perugia is very rich) is left to us from the hand of a Perugian artist before the time of Bonfigli, and the early history of her art may be said to have been a great deal that of outside influences, for from very early times the best and greatest masters appear, like foreign tribes before them, to have climbed the hill and left some subtle marks upon her churches and her palaces.[94] As the School of Siena died, that of Umbria awoke to life.
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- versions: original; plain text
- 46954
- author: Gardner, Edmund G.
- title: The Story of Siena and San Gimignano
- date: None
- words: 117255
- flesch: 68
- summary: Cesare Paoli, Article on _Siena_ in the _ _ Siena, 1862.
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- 48762
- author: Gibbon, Edward
- title: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- date: None
- words: 1421
- flesch: 59
- summary: ======================================================================== Preface To The Initial Project Gutenberg Edition Of The Audio Reading Of Edward Gibbon's Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. ======================================================================= DIRECTIONS: DOUBLE CLICK ON THE More Files OPTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PG CATALOG PAGE LISTING TO FIND THE Files DIRECTORY.
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- versions: original; plain text
- 49831
- author: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
- title: Two Pilgrims' Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome
- date: None
- words: 33430
- flesch: 85
- summary: If, however, in their youthful curiosity they pressed upon us too closely, polite men and women, who had also come to look, drove them back with terrible cries of _Via, ragazzi!_ And Behold they wrought a Work on the Wheels._ _IER.18.3_
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- 50577
- author: Dennistoun, James
- title: Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630
- date: None
- words: 200456
- flesch: 63
- summary: Notizie_ ii, 138 note -- _Vittoria Colonna_, iii, 291 note Camuccini, Baron, picture gallery of, iii, 230, 374, 483 Camuscia, iii, 19 note Cancellaria, ii, 282, 286; iii, 17 Canepa, Church of the, Pavia, ii, 260 Canevazzi, iii, 271 note Canossa, Ludovico da, ii, 47 note, 67, 83, 363, 397 -- authorities for, ii, 70 note -- papal patronage of, ii, 70 -- at Urbino, ii, 78 Canova, i, xi Cantarini, Simon, iii, 369 Cantiano, i, 404; ii, 213 -- conquered by Count Antonio, i, 37 -- mutiny at, ii, 393-5 Cantù, C., _St. d. Italiani_, i, 6 Caoursin, Guglielmo, ii, 293 note Capaccio, Cardinal, iii, 421 Capasso, _ captain-general of the Church, iii, 104 -- death of, iii, 104 -- employs Paciotti, iii, 263 Justus of Alemania, ii, 267 Justus of Ghent, i, 205, 231; ii, 209 note, 218 -- at Urbino, ii, 267 Kestner, Commendatore, i, xliv; ii, 409 Kestner Museum, iii, 417 note, 420 Kirkmichael, i, xiii Knight, Mr. Gaily, _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy_, i, 79 note La Carda, palace of, i, 174 La Cattolica, ii, 349 La Colonella, monastery of, ii, 398 Ladislaus of Naples, i, 43 La Fratta, iii, 424 Lagno, Lucrezia del, i, 111 Lago di Guarda, ii, 409 Lago di Vico, ii, 293 L'Alemano, iii, 487 La Magione, diet of, i, 412, 413; ii, 8 La Magliana, ii, 384, 407, 411 La Marca, i, 33 -- defined, i, xl -- Church rule in, i, 5 -- Sforzan interest in, i, 80, 83 -- insecure tenure of, i, 92 -- danger of, i, 136 -- adventurers in, i, 306 Lamartine, on political progress, i, 8 Lamole, ii, 389; iii, 201 -- iron mines of, iii, 229 La Molinella, battle of, i, 187, 189 Lanci, Cornelio, iii, 295 Lancia, the, i, 335 Lancia, Baldassare, iii, 352 Landino, Cristoforo, i, 228; ii, 145 Landriano, ii, 424 Landriano, Ambrogio, iii, 78 Landriani, Francesco, iii, 131 Lanfranco, Giacomo, iii, 410, 411 Lanfranco, Girolamo, iii, 411, 421, 472 Lanfranco, Ludovico, iii, 421 Lannoy, Don Carlos de, iii, 427, 448 -- commands the allies, ii, 426 -- advances on Rome, ii, 448 -- treats with Bourbon, ii, 453 -- death of, ii, 23-5 Lansius, ii, 24 Lansquenets, the introduction of, i, 338; ii, 445-8 -- in Rome, iii, 437 Lante, Villa, ii, 240 Lanti, Marc Antonio, iii, 82 Lanz, _Correspondenz des Kaisers Carl V._, iii, 27 note Lanzani's _St. d. Communi Italiani_, i, 6 note Lanzi, ii, 184, 189, 200; iii, 350, 404 note -- on Francesca, ii, 203 -- refuted, ii, 216; iii, 377 Laocoon, ii, 306 La Pergola, i, 23, 92, 415; ii, 213, 389, 395-413; iii, 63, 123 -- given to Count Federigo, i, 119 Lapidusa, iii, 123 La Puglia, iii, 39 Lascaris, Constantine, ii, 62, 128 La Serra, i, 403 La Stellata, i, 51 note, 262, 264, 267 La Storta, ii, 420 Lateran, iii, 377 Laurana, Lorenzo, i, 171 note Lauranna, Luziano, i, 150; ii, 260 note -- architect of palace at Urbino, i, 155 -- patent in favour of, i, 156 -- death at Pesaro, i, 157 Laureani, Monsignore, i, xliii; ii, 460; iii, 176 note Laureo, Vincenzo, iii, 50 Lautrec, ii, 364, 409, 410, 412, 423; iii, 299 -- General, advances on Naples, iii, 38, 39 -- death of, iii, 39 La Vanosia, i, 320; ii, 168 note Laverna, ii, 178 Lawrence collection, the, ii, 259 Lazzaro, Maestro, i, 230 Lazzari, i, 226 -- on the palace at Urbino, i, 154 -- Italian patriotism of, ii, 108 -- on Bramante, ii, 260 -- _Uomini Illustri del Piceno_, iii, 265 -- _Dictionary of Artists_ iii, 346, 458 Lazzarini, _
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- 52619
- author: Sheldon, Anna R.
- title: The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany
- date: None
- words: 23317
- flesch: 65
- summary: _See_ Castruccio. The façade of the old palace is a mad eruption of various coats of arms, or _stemmi_, carved in stone or formed in reliefs of glazed terra-cotta, and no less than fourteen of these are products of the Della Robbia atelier, bearing the devices of great families of Tuscany; and here, if we were wise in heraldry, might the whole history of the Mugello be set forth as it transpired in those adventurous days before its rebels had been curbed!
- keywords: age; air; alinari; ancient; andrea; apennines; arched; arms; art; away; barga; bartolommeo; beatrice; beautiful; benozzo; best; black; blue; book; borgo; brancoli; bridge; bright; broken; bronze; brown; busy; campanile; carriage; castle; castracane; castruccio; cathedral; centuries; century; ceppo; certain; chapel; charming; chianti; child; choir; church; churches; cino; city; coat; colour; comfortable; corner; cotta; country; course; cross; d'arno; day; death; della; della robbia; detail; distance; distant; donatello; door; drive; duomo; early; end; excellent; family; famous; farm; feet; field; fiesole; fifteenth; figures; fine; florence; florentine; footnote; form; forteguerra; fortress; francesco; fresh; frieze; garden; garfagnana; general; giorgio; giotto; giovanni; girdle; gold; golden; good; gozzoli; great; green; greve; grey; half; hand; handsome; head; high; hill; holy; house; hung; illustration; impruneta; interesting; italian; italy; john; kindly; lady; leave; life; lines; little; loggia; long; lorenzo; love; lucca; m. m.; m. newell; madonna; magi; main; man; marble; maria; master; medici; mediæval; miles; modest; monument; morning; mountain; mugello; mugnone; near; newell; noble; old; olive; ospedale; padua; palace; palazzo; panzano; parish; pass; people; pepino; piazza; picturesque; piero; pisano; pistoja; plain; pleasant; ponte; prato; present; pretty; procession; proprietor; pubblico; pulpit; pure; red; region; renaissance; riccardi; river; road; robbia; roman; roof; round; royal; runs; sacred; saints; san; santa; scarperia; scene; sculptured; serchio; serravalle; shield; sieve; silver; small; songs; spring; square; statue; steep; stone; story; street; sweet; tabernacle; terra; time; tomb; tower; town; tradition; train; tram; trees; true; turn; tuscan; valley; varied; view; villa; vineyards; virgin; visit; walk; walls; war; watch; water; way; white; wife; wine; women; work; world; year; young
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- 54199
- author: Richards, Fred
- title: Florence: A Sketch-Book
- date: None
- words: 341
- flesch: 77
- summary: 'PONTE VECCHIO' FROM THE LUNGARNO ACCIAJOLI (title page) [Illustration: PONTE VECCHIO FROM THE LUNGARNO ACCIAJOLI (title page)]
- keywords: arno; boboli; illustration; piazza; ponte; vecchio
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- 6031
- author: Gibbon, Edward
- title: Memoirs of My Life and Writings
- date: None
- words: 54944
- flesch: 52
- summary: I spent many years in that illustrious society, in a well-regulated course of useful discipline and studies, and in the agreeable and improving commerce of gentlemen and of scholars; in a society where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, incited industry, and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a genuine freedom of thought, were raised, encouraged, and pushed forward by example, by commendation, and by authority. A composition of genius must be the offspring of one mind; but such works of industry, as may be divided among many hands, and must be continued during many years, are the peculiar province of a laborious community.
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- 6386
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar
- date: None
- words: 30488
- flesch: 59
- summary: This conjecture is rendered highly probable by Asinius Pollio, who informs us that Caesar, upon viewing the vanquished and slaughtered enemy in the field of Pharsalia, expressed himself in these very words: This was their intention: I, Caius Caesar, after all the great achievements I had performed, must have been condemned, had I not summoned the army to my aid! None of them, so far as appears, lost their lives but in battle, excepting only Afranius, Faustus, and young Lucius Caesar; and it is thought that even they were put to death without his consent.
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- 6387
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
- date: None
- words: 51758
- flesch: 59
- summary: During his consulships, he commonly walked the streets on foot; but at other times, rode in a close carriage. [214], but at other times, and upon all days, whether festivals or not.
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- 6388
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius
- date: None
- words: 24393
- flesch: 61
- summary: Next year he went again to Germany, where finding that the defeat of Varus was occasioned by the rashness and negligence of the commander, he thought proper to be guided in everything by the advice of a council of war; whereas, at other times, he used to follow the dictates of his own judgment, and considered himself alone as sufficiently qualified for the direction of affairs. Afterwards, addressing the senate in general, he said: Conscript Fathers, I have often said it both now and at other times, that a good (212) and useful prince, whom you have invested with so great and absolute power, ought to be a slave to the senate, to the whole body of the people, and often to individuals likewise: nor am I sorry that I have said it.
- keywords: a.u.c; account; act; acts; administration; adopted; affairs; age; agrippa; agrippina; ancient; appius; army; attendants; augustus; authority; body; brother; business; caesar; caius; campania; capital; capri; care; cause; celebrated; chariot; children; city; claudius; come; common; condition; conduct; consular; consulship; cruelty; custom; daughter; day; days; death; decree; design; destruction; different; disposition; distinction; distinguished; drusus; emperor; empire; enemy; execution; exercise; extraordinary; extreme; fall; family; fate; father; favour; fire; following; foreign; forum; friends; funeral; gaul; general; germanicus; germany; gods; good; government; grandsons; great; greek; guards; habit; hand; head; high; honours; hopes; horace; house; husband; ill; illyricum; intelligence; island; italy; julia; kind; large; latin; law; leave; left; legions; letters; liberty; life; little; livia; long; lucius; magistrates; man; manner; marcus; married; master; memory; military; mind; money; mother; naples; near; nero; new; night; number; object; occasion; office; old; opinion; order; party; people; period; person; place; pompey; power; practice; praetor; presence; present; pretext; prince; private; provinces; public; punishment; purpose; rank; reason; regard; reign; relations; remarkable; republic; request; resolution; respect; rest; return; rhodes; roman; rome; second; sejanus; senate; sentence; sesterces; set; short; slave; small; soldiers; son; sons; state; succession; suspicion; syria; table; temper; temple; things; thought; tiberius; time; title; town; tribunitian; tyrant; usual; view; violent; war; way; wife; wine; women; word; years; young
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- 6389
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
- date: None
- words: 18392
- flesch: 64
- summary: At other times, he would march so slow and luxuriously, that he was carried in a litter by eight men; ordering the roads to be swept by the people of the neighbouring towns, and sprinkled with water to lay the dust. XLIV. A soldier, who was an adept in the art of beheading, used at such times to take off the heads of prisoners, who were brought in for that purpose.
- keywords: a.u.c; account; act; age; agrippina; amphitheatre; ancient; antonia; army; augustus; beasts; bed; birth; body; boy; bridge; britain; brothers; caesar; caesonia; caius; calends; caligula; camp; capitol; cassius; celebrated; certain; chariot; child; children; circus; city; claudius; coast; common; consuls; country; court; daughter; day; days; death; design; different; distance; distinction; drusus; emperor; empire; enemy; equestrian; extraordinary; family; father; fit; form; friends; games; gaul; germanicus; gladiators; gods; gold; government; grandmother; great; greatest; guards; habit; hair; hand; head; high; honour; house; illustrious; julius; jupiter; kind; king; knights; law; left; life; little; livia; long; married; means; memory; men; miles; mind; money; months; mother; mourning; neck; new; night; number; occasion; opinion; order; palatium; party; people; person; place; pliny; power; present; pretorian; prince; private; public; purpose; rank; reason; regard; reign; rest; return; roman; rome; sacrifice; safe; sea; senate; sesterces; set; short; sisters; small; soldiers; stage; statue; sword; table; taking; temple; theatre; tiberius; time; triumph; troops; usual; victims; violent; way; wife; wild; women; words; work; world; years; young
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- 6390
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: Claudius
- date: None
- words: 17817
- flesch: 62
- summary: The principal were an aqueduct, which had been begun by Caius; an emissary for the discharge of the waters of the Fucine lake [507], and the harbour of Ostia; although he knew that Augustus had refused to comply with the repeated application of the Marsians for one of these; and that the other had been several times intended by Julius Caesar, but as often abandoned on account of the difficulty of its execution. He disgraced many, and some that little expected it, and for a reason entirely new, namely, for going out of Italy without his license; (308) and one likewise, for having in his province been the familiar companion of a king; observing, that, in former times, Rabirius Posthumus had been prosecuted for treason, although he only went after Ptolemy to Alexandria for the purpose of securing payment of a debt [496].
- keywords: a.u.c; account; act; age; agrippina; ancient; antonia; appearance; appius; arms; asinius; augustus; birth; body; books; britain; brother; caesar; caius; caligula; capitol; cause; celebrated; certain; character; children; cicero; circus; city; claudius; common; condition; conduct; consular; consuls; consulship; country; court; daughter; day; days; death; decree; defence; difficulty; drusus; emperor; empire; equestrian; family; father; favour; feet; felix; following; forum; freedmen; freedom; games; gaul; germanicus; gladiators; good; government; great; greek; hearing; high; history; honour; house; island; italy; judges; julius; king; lake; law; left; letter; liberty; life; little; livia; long; magistrates; marriage; married; mars; memory; messalina; military; mind; months; mother; mouth; near; nero; new; note; occasion; office; order; ornaments; ostia; people; period; person; place; pompey; presence; present; pretorian; priests; prince; private; procession; provinces; public; purpose; rank; regard; reign; roman; rome; second; senate; short; silanus; slaves; soldiers; sons; state; subject; suetonius; table; temple; theatre; tiberius; time; title; tribunal; triumphal; truth; usual; war; water; way; word; years
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- 6391
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero
- date: None
- words: 26687
- flesch: 61
- summary: The inimitable character of Trimalchio, which exhibits a person sunk in the most debauched effeminacy, was drawn for Nero; and we are assured, that there were formerly medals of that emperor, with these words, C. Nero August. It appears to me proper to give a short account of several of the family, to show that Nero so far degenerated from the noble qualities of his ancestors, that he retained only their vices; as if those alone had been transmitted to him by his descent. II.
- keywords: a.u.c; account; act; age; agrippina; ancient; annal; appearance; arms; army; augustus; author; beasts; bed; beginning; best; body; books; britannicus; britons; caesar; caius; caligula; case; celebrated; certain; character; charge; chariot; chief; circensian; circumstances; circus; city; civil; claudius; cneius; command; common; composition; conduct; conspiracy; consul; consulship; continued; contrary; country; court; crown; cruelty; custom; daughter; day; days; death; degree; desire; destruction; different; domitius; dress; emperor; empire; encouraged; equestrian; estate; eyes; family; fate; father; favour; fire; following; fortune; forum; freedman; friends; galba; games; gardens; general; gods; gold; golden; good; government; great; greece; greek; hair; hand; head; honour; hopes; horses; house; intended; island; joy; judges; king; language; late; latin; law; left; length; letters; life; like; little; living; long; lucius; manner; married; maximus; means; memory; men; mind; money; moral; mother; music; musical; natural; nature; near; nero; new; night; number; numerous; octavia; office; omens; opportunity; order; parts; passion; people; performance; period; person; petronius; philosopher; philosophical; pieces; piso; place; play; plot; poem; poet; poison; power; practice; preceptor; present; pretorian; prince; private; proper; property; provinces; public; purpose; rank; ready; reign; rest; retirement; return; roman; rome; room; satire; saying; sea; second; senate; senators; seneca; sesterces; short; slaves; soldiers; solemn; spectators; sporus; stage; statues; streets; suetonius; supper; table; tacitus; temples; theatre; thing; tiberius; time; town; treatise; triumph; troops; usual; variety; verses; vices; view; voice; wall; war; water; way; wife; wild; wise; words; work; world; wrestlers; writers; years; young; youth
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- 6392
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: Galba
- date: None
- words: 6478
- flesch: 64
- summary: Three sides of the Atrium were supported by pillars, which, in later times, were marble. The import of the verses was, That in time, Spain should give the world a lord and master.
- keywords: a.u.c; account; age; augustus; body; caesars; caius; camp; city; claudius; consulship; custom; day; death; dignity; emperor; empire; family; father; fortune; galba; gaul; germany; goddess; grandfather; great; guards; hand; head; imperial; laurel; law; left; lieutenant; livia; long; man; married; mother; nero; opportunity; order; otho; palace; people; person; pretorian; province; rome; sacrifice; senate; sergius; set; soldiers; spain; temple; tiberius; time; town; troops; use; villa; way; years; young
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- 6393
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 08: Otho
- date: None
- words: 4537
- flesch: 66
- summary: After his father's death, to make his court the more effectually to a freedwoman about the palace, who was in great favour, he pretended to be in love with her, though she was old, and almost decrepit. It was kept with great care in the sanctuary of his temple, as a symbol of the perpetuity of the Roman empire; and that it might not be stolen, eleven others were made exactly similar to it.
- keywords: army; battle; body; camp; claudius; court; day; death; design; door; emperor; empire; enterprise; father; favour; galba; general; goddess; great; guard; hands; hopes; house; life; lives; man; mother; nero; night; note; omens; order; otho; palace; person; present; pretended; roman; rome; senate; soldiers; son; suetonius; temple; time; troops; vitellius; war; words
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- 6394
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius
- date: None
- words: 5672
- flesch: 64
- summary: In the subsequent part of his life, being still most scandalously vicious, he rose to great favour at court; being upon a very intimate footing with Caius [Caligula], because of his fondness for chariot-driving, and with Claudius for his love of gaming. [713] The Chaldaeans also decree that Vitellius Germanicus shall be no more, by the day of the said calends.
- keywords: accounts; army; augustus; aulus; brother; caesar; calends; city; claudius; cognomen; day; death; different; emperor; enemy; expense; family; father; favour; freedman; galba; games; germanicus; government; great; hand; head; house; life; long; lucius; man; manner; mother; nero; office; order; otho; people; prince; province; public; quintus; rank; road; roman; rome; sea; senate; set; soldiers; son; sons; tiberius; time; troops; vitellius; way; wife; year
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- 6395
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian
- date: None
- words: 10346
- flesch: 61
- summary: He purified the senatorian and equestrian orders, which had been much reduced by the havoc made amongst them at several times, and was fallen into disrepute by neglect. At supper, and, indeed, at other times, he was extremely free and jocose.
- keywords: account; alexandria; ancient; army; augustus; author; authority; basilides; britain; brother; calends; celebrated; character; city; civil; claudius; command; consular; country; court; day; death; dignity; east; elevation; emperor; empire; family; father; flavius; following; fortune; friends; galba; germany; good; government; great; greek; hand; honour; island; jews; judaea; julius; knight; language; law; legions; length; lieutenant; life; little; lives; long; man; means; men; military; money; nay; nero; new; old; order; otho; parts; people; person; place; possession; present; province; public; rank; reate; reign; return; road; roman; rome; sabinus; sacred; senate; sesterces; state; success; suetonius; tacitus; tax; temple; time; titus; triumph; troops; vespasian; vitellius; war; wife; writers; years; young
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- 6396
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 11: Titus
- date: None
- words: 5999
- flesch: 60
- summary: Of Pliny's talents as a writer, it might be deemed presumptuous to form a decided opinion from his Natural History, which is avowedly a compilation from various authors, and executed with greater regard to the matter of the work, than to the elegance of composition. In every public character, he acquitted himself with great reputation, and enjoyed the esteem of the several emperors under whom he lived.
- keywords: a.d; a.u.c; account; ancient; animals; attachment; author; baths; beasts; berenice; books; britannicus; claudius; country; daughter; day; death; different; emperor; empire; eruption; extraordinary; father; general; gladiators; great; hand; history; human; jerusalem; life; man; natural; nature; near; number; observations; opinion; palace; people; pliny; power; prince; public; rank; reign; relative; rome; second; son; state; strong; subject; theatre; time; titus; treats; trees; vespasian; vesuvius; vii; way; wild; work; world; writing; years
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- 6397
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian
- date: None
- words: 11078
- flesch: 62
- summary: He came at an early age to Rome, where he declaimed for many years, and, pleaded causes in the forum with great applause; but at last he betook himself to the writing of satires, in which he acquired great fame. Not to go into details, after he had made free with the wives of many men of distinction, he took Domitia Longina from her husband, Aelias Lamia, and married her; and in one day disposed of above twenty offices in the city and the provinces; upon which Vespasian said several times, he wondered he did not send him a successor too.
- keywords: achilles; age; ancient; antonius; augustus; author; authority; bed; blood; books; boy; brother; capitol; care; celebrated; certain; chamber; character; christian; city; clemens; common; composition; consular; consulship; court; daughter; day; days; death; domitian; emperor; empire; equestrian; extraordinary; eyes; family; fate; father; favour; fire; flavian; flavius; forum; friends; games; general; gladiators; gods; gold; good; great; hair; hand; head; horse; hour; imperial; insomuch; judges; jupiter; justice; juvenal; large; law; left; life; little; long; man; manner; martial; men; mind; nerva; new; occasions; office; order; paris; people; person; pieces; pliny; poem; poet; poetry; practice; present; private; public; quintilian; races; rank; ready; reign; rome; saying; senate; set; small; soldiers; sons; statius; subject; supper; temple; thebais; thought; tiber; time; title; titus; vespasian; view; war; wife; words; world; writing; xiv; years; young
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- 6398
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 13: Grammarians and Rhetoricians
- date: None
- words: 9374
- flesch: 67
- summary: For he says that in old times, when a company of slaves was offered for sale by any person, it was not customary, without good reason, to describe either of them in the catalogue as a literati, but only as a literator, meaning that he was not a proficient in letters, but had a smattering of knowledge. For they were accustomed, in stating their argument with the utmost clearness, to use figures and apologies, to put cases, as circumstances required, and to relate facts, sometimes briefly and succinctly, and, at other times, more at large and with greater feeling.
- keywords: a.u.c; account; age; ancient; antony; asinius; atteius; augustus; book; boy; caesar; caius; care; cato; certain; character; cicero; city; claudius; cognomen; consequence; consul; consulship; cornelius; custom; days; death; domitius; eminent; ennius; epidius; father; following; freedman; freedom; friends; gallus; gnipho; grammarian; great; greek; highest; history; house; iii; julius; latin; learning; left; lenaeus; letters; life; like; little; lives; long; lucius; marcus; master; men; native; nicias; number; occasion; old; orbilius; order; parents; patron; period; place; poets; pompey; practice; province; public; pupils; quintus; rank; rhetoricians; roman; rome; saevius; sallust; scholars; school; society; son; speaking; speech; state; study; subject; suetonius; sylla; teaching; tiberius; time; valerius; war; works; young
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- 6399
- author: Suetonius
- title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 14: Lives of the Poets
- date: None
- words: 6454
- flesch: 72
- summary: A Caius Persius is mentioned with distinction by Livy in the second Punic war, Hist. ii. i. While you alone sustain the important weight Of Rome's affairs, so various and so great; While you the public weal with arms defend, Adorn with morals, and with laws amend; Shall not the tedious letter prove a crime, That steals one moment of our Caesar's time.--Francis.
- keywords: a.d; a.u.c; account; africanus; age; andria; annaeus; augustus; author; book; caecilius; caius; calends; cicero; consulship; cornutus; cum; death; december; emperor; father; favour; flaccus; following; friendship; gallus; great; ground; high; horace; juvenal; knight; laelius; letters; life; little; lives; long; lucan; married; means; mecaenas; menander; mother; native; natural; nero; non; old; persius; person; philomela; plays; pliny; poets; present; public; purpose; rank; reason; roman; rome; satires; scipio; short; sister; slave; small; style; suetonius; suspicion; terence; terms; thomson; time; verses; war; way; works; world; writers; writing; years; younger
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- 6427
- author: Gilman, Arthur
- title: The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
- date: None
- words: 85102
- flesch: 62
- summary: When the news of this final victory reached Rome Cæsar was appointed dictator for ten years, and a thanksgiving lasting forty days was decreed. There, too, were Cumæ and Capua, of which we have had occasion to speak, and Herculaneum and Pompeii; there was Naples on its beautiful bay, and there was Palæopolis, the old city, not far distant (_Nea,_ new, _polis,_ city; _palaios,_ old, _polis,_ city).
- keywords: able; accomplished; account; action; acts; actual; advantage; affairs; africa; africanus; ages; agriculture; agrippa; aid; allies; altar; ambition; ancient; ancus; antony; appearance; appius; aristocrats; armies; armor; arms; army; asia; attention; authority; aventine; b.c; banks; barbarians; battle; beautiful; beginning; best; better; blood; body; books; boy; brave; bridge; brother; brundusium; brutus; business; caius; camillus; camp; campaign; campus; capital; capitoline; capua; care; career; carrying; carthage; carthaginians; cassius; cato; catulus; cause; celebrated; census; centuries; century; certain; character; chief; children; cicero; cinna; circus; cities; citizens; city; civil; civilization; class; classes; claudius; cleopatra; closed; coast; colonies; coming; comitia; command; commander; commons; complete; condition; conquered; conqueror; conquest; considerable; consul; control; corinth; coriolanus; country; countrymen; course; crassus; crown; curio; curtius; customs; cæsar; daughter; day; days; death; debts; decided; defeated; determined; dictator; different; difficult; direction; distant; distinction; dressed; early; earth; east; effect; effort; empire; end; enemies; enemy; england; entire; etruria; etruscans; events; expected; extent; fabius; face; fact; fall; familiar; family; father; favor; festivals; field; fight; fighting; fire; fleet; following; footnote; force; foreign; fortune; forum; foundation; friends; funeral; gain; games; gauls; gay; general; gladiators; goddess; gods; gold; good; government; gracchus; grand; great; greater; greatest; greece; greek; ground; hands; hannibal; head; help; hero; heroes; high; highest; hill; historian; history; hold; home; honor; hope; horace; house; household; husband; illustration; important; influence; inhabitants; interest; island; italian; italy; jugurtha; julius; jupiter; king; lake; land; language; large; later; latin; law; laws; leader; league; learned; left; lepidus; letters; life; like; list; literature; little; live; livy; long; long time; love; lucius; lucretia; luxury; magistrates; manner; march; marius; marked; married; master; matrons; means; meantime; members; memory; men; midst; miles; military; mind; mithridates; modern; moment; money; months; mother; mount; mountains; mæcenas; narrative; nation; national; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; neighbors; new; noble; north; northern; numa; number; occasion; octavius; office; officers; old; open; opportunity; opposed; optimates; oracle; orator; order; origin; page; palatine; party; pass; patricians; pay; people; period; personal; persons; philip; place; plain; plans; plebeians; poet; political; pompey; poor; popular; popularity; portion; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; prepared; present; priests; principal; prison; private; procession; progress; prominent; property; proscription; proud; public; punic; purpose; pyrrhus; queen; rank; ready; reason; region; religion; religious; remarkable; remus; republic; reputation; respect; result; return; rich; rights; rise; rival; river; roman; roman people; rome; romulus; room; royal; ruler; sabines; sacred; sacrifices; safety; samnites; school; scipio; sea; second; senate; senators; september; services; servius; share; shepherds; ships; shows; sicily; siege; simple; single; skill; slaves; small; social; soldiers; solemn; son; sort; southern; spain; spirit; spite; spot; spring; stand; state; stone; stories; streets; strength; strong; struggle; success; successful; sulla; sun; support; supreme; system; tables; taking; tarentum; tarquinius; temple; terms; terrible; territory; thing; thought; thousands; throne; tiber; tiberius; time; toga; town; tribes; tribunes; triumph; triumvirs; troy; true; tullius; tyrant; united; usual; vain; valerius; value; variety; varro; vast; veii; vengeance; verres; vessels; victory; villa; virgil; walls; war; wars; way; wealth; west; white; wife; wild; winter; wives; women; words; work; world; writing; years; young; youth; æneas
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- 6839
- author: Lord, John
- title: The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
- date: None
- words: 200112
- flesch: 64
- summary: But out of the ashes a new creation arose, not what any of the leaders of those movements ever contemplated--infinitely removed from the thoughts of Bernard, Urban, Philip, and Richard, great men as they were, far-sighted statesmen, who expected other results. The kings of Rome are all great men--wise and statesmanlike, patrons of civilization among a rude and primitive people.
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business; caesar; calamity; camp; campus; capable; capital; capitoline; captives; caracalla; care; career; carthage; cato; cause; cavalry; celebrated; central; centre; centuries; century; certain; change; chapter; character; characterized; chief; children; christianity; christians; church; churches; cicero; circle; circumference; circumstances; circus; cities; citizens; city; civilization; civilized; claim; classes; classical; claudius; clergy; close; code; cold; colors; colossal; columns; comedy; comitia; command; commerce; commercial; common; complete; complicated; composition; conception; condition; conquered; conquering; conquerors; conquest; consecrated; consequence; conservative; considerable; consideration; constantine; constantinople; constitution; consuls; contemplation; contemporaries; contemporary; continued; control; converts; corinth; corn; corrupt; corrupted; corruption; costly; countries; country; courage; course; courts; creation; crimes; critics; cross; crowded; cruel; cruelty; cultivated; culture; curule; customs; danger; dangerous; danube; day; days; death; debt; decline; defeated; defense; degeneracy; degradation; degraded; degree; deity; demoralizing; demosthenes; department; descendants; description; despair; despised; despotism; destruction; determined; developed; development; devoted; diameter; dictionary; different; difficult; dignity; diocletian; diogenes; discipline; discoveries; distant; distinction; distinguished; divided; divine; doctrines; dollars; domestic; dominant; dominion; doric; doubtless; duties; duty; earlier; earliest; early; earth; east; eastern; easy; edifices; education; effect; efforts; egypt; egyptian; elaborate; elegance; elegant; elements; elevated; elevation; eloquence; eminent; emperors; empire; end; enemies; energies; energy; enervated; england; english; enlightened; enormous; entablature; enthusiasm; ephesus; epictetus; equal; equality; errors; established; estimate; eternal; ethical; europe; european; evil; exalted; examples; excellence; excite; existence; expense; experience; expression; expulsion; extended; extensive; extent; extraordinary; eye; eyes; face; fact; factions; failure; faith; fall; false; fame; families; family; famine; famous; far; fashion; fatal; fate; father; favorable; favored; favorite; fear; feeble; feeling; feet; female; fertile; festivals; field; fierce; figures; finest; fire; follies; folly; footnote; force; foreign; form; fortified; fortunate; fortunes; foundation; founder; fourth; france; franks; free; freedom; fresh; friend; friendship; frivolous; fruits; furnished; future; gain; gaius; gardens; gates; gaul; general; generation; genius; geography; geometry; germanic; germans; gibbon; glories; glorious; glory; god; gods; gold; golden; good; gothic; goths; government; governors; grace; grand; grandest; grandeur; great; great artists; great cities; great city; great empire; great generals; great influence; great men; great military; great moral; great names; great offices; great power; great public; great roman; great work; greater; greatest; greatness; grecian; greece; greeks; ground; habits; hadrian; hair; half; hands; happiness; harmony; haughty; head; heart; heaven; heavenly; heavy; height; hercules; herodotus; heroes; heroic; high; higher; highest; hill; hipparchus; historians; historical; history; hold; homer; honor; honored; hope; horace; horse; hour; houses; human; humanity; huns; husband; ideas; ignorance; ignorant; iii; illustrious; imitation; immense; immortal; immortality; imperial; important; imposing; impossible; impressive; improved; improvement; impulse; incapable; indebted; independent; individual; infantry; inferior; influence; inhabitants; inquiries; inquiry; institutes; institutions; instruments; intellectual; intelligence; interest; interesting; internal; introduction; invasion; invention; iron; irresistible; italy; ivory; jerusalem; judges; judgment; judicial; julius; jupiter; jurisprudence; jurists; justice; justinian; juvenal; kingdom; kings; knowledge; known; labors; language; large; largest; late; latin; law; laws; lawyers; lay; leaders; learned; learning; left; legal; legions; legislation; length; liberties; liberty; life; light; like; limited; limits; literary; literature; little; lives; living; livy; loftiest; lofty; logical; london; long; longer; look; lord; louis; love; low; luxurious; luxury; lysippus; macedonian; magistrates; magnificent; majestic; majesty; making; mankind; manners; marble; marius; marked; marriage; martial; martyrs; masterpieces; masters; material; mathematical; matter; maximus; means; measure; mechanical; mechanism; medicine; mediterranean; melancholy; members; memorable; men; mere; merit; method; michael; middle; mighty; miles; military; millions; mind; minor; miserable; misery; mission; models; modern; mommsen; monarchies; monarchy; money; months; monuments; moon; moral; morality; mother; motion; mountains; mournful; muller; music; names; napoleon; national; nations; native; natural; nature; 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- 6989
- author: Pennell, Robert F.
- title: Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
- date: None
- words: 68001
- flesch: 73
- summary: It is hoped that it may fill a want, now felt in many high schools and academies, of a short and clear statement of the rise and fall of Rome, with a biography of her chief men, and an outline of her institutions, manners, and religion. The cities of Latium were Rome, on the Tiber, and its seaport, Ostia, near the mouth of the same river.
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- 7380
- author: Douglas, Norman
- title: Alone
- date: None
- words: 77990
- flesch: 76
- summary: He adds that older men like ourselves may indulge therein as an ally against the austerity of their years--agreeing, therefore, with Theophrastus who likewise recommends it for the natural moroseness of age. Sicilians, because they learn good Italian at their schools, think themselves indistinguishable from other men.
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- 7385
- author: Douglas, Norman
- title: Old Calabria
- date: None
- words: 131440
- flesch: 68
- summary: To bridle this runaway mountain is no mean task, for such _frane_ are like rodent ulcers, ever enlarging at the edges. You may visit the cathedral; there is a fine _verde antico_ column on either side of the sumptuous main portal.
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- 8425
- author: Froude, James Anthony
- title: Caesar: A Sketch
- date: None
- words: 162041
- flesch: 72
- summary: Cato Caesar was most anxious to save; but Cato's enmity was so ungovernable that he grudged Caesar the honor of forgiving him. Pompeius omnia pollicetur et Caesar, do quibus ita credo, ut nihil de meâ comparatione deminuam.
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storm; streets; strength; strong; stronger; struggle; subject; submission; success; successes; successful; suetonius; summer; sun; superior; supplies; support; supposed; supreme; surrender; suspicion; sword; sylla; syria; system; taking; temples; terms; territory; teutons; theory; things; thought; thousands; tiberius; time; time caesar; town; transports; treachery; treasury; trebonius; trial; tribes; tribunes; triumph; troops; true; trusted; truth; unable; united; universal; unknown; useful; usual; vain; value; vanity; vast; vercingetorix; verres; vessels; veto; victories; victory; vii; viii; violence; violent; vote; walls; want; war; watch; water; way; weak; weather; weeks; weight; wife; wild; willing; winter; wise; wish; women; woods; work; working; world; worst; wounded; years; young; young caesar; younger
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- 8945
- author: Trollope, Anthony
- title: The Life of Cicero, Volume One
- date: None
- words: 123251
- flesch: 72
- summary: In the conduct of the affair against Catiline Cicero seems to have been actuated by pure patriotism, and to have been supported by a fine courage; but he knew that in destroying Lentulus and Cethegus he subjected himself to certain dangers. In Rome men under afflictions, particularly if under accusation, showed themselves in soiled garments so as to attract pity, and the meaning here is that Rullus went about as though under grief at the condition of his poor fellow-citizens, who were distressed by the want of this agrarian law.
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- 900
- author: Gibbon, Edward
- title: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 — Folio format
- date: None
- words: 81
- flesch: 84
- summary: see #892 for HTML format, #733 for plain text. These files are being retained in the Project Gutenberg collection as examples of the obsolete formats of the early days.
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- 9497
- author: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
- title: Twilight in Italy
- date: None
- words: 57660
- flesch: 84
- summary: Women glanced down at me from the top of the flights of steps, old men stood, half-turning, half-crouching under the dark shadow of the walls, to stare. Paolo had deserted her, she had been betrayed to other men for five years.
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- 9781
- author: Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
- title: A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
- date: None
- words: 223386
- flesch: 68
- summary: [298] For the _lex Rupilia_ see Cic. _in Verr_. Bob. _in Milon_, l.c.
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