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Identifier: cu31924028356396 (find matches)
Title: Ravenna, a study
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hutton, Edward, 1875-
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent New York, E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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isarius was recalled,in 548, he left things much as he had found them. He hadat least—and with what scarcity of men and money we maysee in his letters to the emperor—opposed and perhapsstemmed the overwhelming Gothic advance. At his de-parture the imperiahsts held Ravenna, Rome (but after thesack of 546), Rimini, Spoleto, Ancona, and Perugia. Butbefore he arrived in Constantinople, Perugia had fallen; inthe same year, 549, a mutiny in Rome gave the City to theGoths and Rimini was betrayed. In the year 551, the yearof Narses appointment as general-in-chief in Italy and theopening of the third period, only Ravenna and Ancona, withHydruntum (Otranto) and Crotona in southern Italy,remained to the empire. In that year, 551, however, everywhere the Gothic causebegan to fail. In a sea-fight off Sinigaglia the imperial forcesdisposed of the Gothic sea power and relieved Ancona, whichwas in grave danger. About the same time Sicily wasdelivered from the Gothic yoke, and in the spring of 552
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s:hAmfii.3m» . S. NlT.AIi; : THE GALLEkV. THE RECONQUEST 99 Crotona was relieved. Meanwhile, in Illyricum, Narsesgathered his army, in which Ardoin, King of the Lombards,rode at the head of two thousand of his people, and preparedfor the great march into Italy. He came through Venetia round the head of the Adriatic,close to the sea (for a formidable Frankish host held the greatroads), crossing with what anxiety we may guess, the mouthsof the Piave, the Brenta, the Adige, and the Po by means ofhis ships, and having thus turned the flank of the Frankisharmies he triumphantly marched into Ravenna. There heremained for nine days, as it were another Caesar about tocross the Rubicon. While he waited in Ravenna an insulting challenge reachedhim from the barbarian Usdrilas who held Rimini. Afteryour boasted preparations, which have kept all Italy in aferment, and after striking terror into our hearts by knittingyour brows and looking more awful than mortal men, youhave crept into Ravenna and

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