 | RODOLFO LANCIANI - 1906 - 812 pages
...Baldassare Peruzzi by the accompanying illustration, from the designs of Baldassare Peruzzi. merits, and a few private houses which have not yet fallen...classic and the modern age. Tivoli, Corneto, Viterbo, Anagni, Orvieto, are far richer than Rome in monuments dating from the glorious period of municipal... | |
 | 1908 - 504 pages
...is that only "scanty vestiges of mediaeval Rome are left standing. If we except a few churches which have been spared the heinous transformations of the...connecting link between the classic and the modern age" (p. 47). The explanation of this condition of things (p. 49), however, is hardly adequate. As in all... | |
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If we except a few churches which by accident have been spared the heinous transformations of the seventeenth century, a few baronial towers not yet whitewashed or turned into tenements, and a few private houses which have not yet fallen into the hands... 