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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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C/3 cO riate V ROMAN CITIES 39 not changed for me since then. For a combina-tion of unspoiled antique flavors one would haveto go far to find their equals.^ You pass throughthe pre-Roman city gate, up a winding streetwith long lines of Gothic windows set in themellow stone walls, with all the patina of agestill lingering on them like the burr on an un-rubbed etching, and as you look approvingly atthe mullioned casement to catch the dark eye ofa maid with coal-black hair and pure Greek pro-file, you have a picture untouched by moderncontrasts, for her costume, even, is centuriesolder than the Gothic house, in its heavy textures,its simple patterns and bold broad colors,—thecostume of the Ciocieria, of which the models inRome give a sadly freshened and de luxe edition.For over two thousand fiYe hundred years—perhaps for two or three centuries longer,—thepeople with the strong straight figure, the freecarriage and proud Greek head have lived herein their own town, surrounded by the

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