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Identifier: handbookofromeca00john (find matches)
Title: A handbook of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nry V. to Paschal II. were placedin it for security. In the I-ith cent,it was held by the Orsini, and in 1-485was captured by Prospero Colonna.In the contests of Alexander VI. withtlie Orsini, Isola was besieged byCaesar Borgia, and captured aftertwelve days siege, when the greaterportion of the castle was destroyed.It appears at a later period to havebeen incorporated with the duchies ofCastro and Eonciglioiie. from whosepossessors it derived the name ofFarnese. In the 17th cent, it passedto the Papal Government, and wassold in 1820 to the duchess of Cliablais,from whom it descended to the Queenof Sardinia, and from her to the lateEmpress of Brazil. Although Nardini and Holsteniushad both fixed the site of Veii at I»olaFarnese, Sir William Gell was thefirst antiquary who examined andtraced the ancient walls throughoutthe greater part of their circuit, provingthat the account of Diouysius, describ-ing the city as being as large as Athens,wi.s not exaggerated. The few frag- ETRUSCAN V
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