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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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emain. Thetufa blocks are arranged in courses two feet high 10 146 ROMAN CITIES in alternate lines of headers and stretchers.They are, perhaps, the most extensive ruins ina style analogous to the Servian wall in Rome,before the use of small units came into fashiontoward the close of the Republic. Just inside the Porta di Bove are the ruins ofa Cistercian monastery of the twelfth century,built with the materials from the walls. My firstvisit to this site was for the sake of this medievalruin, for the church had bold tunnel vaults, veryunusual in Italy, which fell less than a centuryago. The entire site is now owned by a gentle-man farmer who keeps a caretaker in the ruinedmonastery. The key to the church was not to befound and I remember applying my camera toa crack in the heavy wooden door; when the filmwas developed I saw the interior of the churchfor the first time, which I missed seeing with myown eyes. It is an additional incentive for avisit to the ancient city. i -J ^f^«Ut;;^ -
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Narni (near) Augustan and pre-Augustan Bridge for the Via Flaminia Plate xxviir The Umbrians and the Flaminian Way North of the Sabines and of Picenum, andeast of the Etruscans, was Umbria, reaching upthe Adriatic seaboard as far north as Ravennaand bisected, at the time we shall visit it, by theVia Flaminia. One has an instinctive sympathyfor the Umbrians because from the time we beginto know them, they are always the under dog inthe clash of races, the plaything of circumstances.In earlier centuries, before Rome was, they aresaid to have possessed a large part of Northernand Central Italy, from sea to sea, from Alps toApennines. Pliny remarks, with misty exagger-ation, that the Etruscans had annexed threehundred of their cities. The Ligurians to west-ward, and the Senonian Gauls and other tribes tothe eastward, had destroyed their supremacy inthe north; and the Etruscans had deprived themof their possession west of the Tiber, though theycontinued to live in the districts they had lo

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