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Title: Pagan and Christian Rome

Author: Rodolfo Lanciani

Release Date: July 26, 2007 [EBook #22153]

Language: English

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Transcriber's notes:

The following typographical errors have been corrected:
Page v, "Romana" changed to "Romano" (by Giulio Romano, Francesco
Penni,)
Page 59, "Bulletino" changed to "Bullettino" (in footnote [38]: See
Henzen, _Bullettino dell' Instituto_, 1863,)
Page 91, "Receuil" changed to "Recueil" (in footnote [51]: Leon Renier:
_Recueil des diplomes militaires_)
Page 120, "Ardentina" changed to "Ardeatina" (S. Petronilla on the Via
Ardeatina)
Page 131, "Venedetto" changed to "Benedetto" (the master-mason Benedetto
Drei, whose drawing,)
Page 147, "Winckelman" two times changed to "Winckelmann" (Fea and
Winckelmann assert and Winckelmann attributes their rapid
decay)
Page 185, "in" changed to "is" (the urn of Agrippina is kept in the
courtyard)
Page 208, "Emmanuele" changed to "Emanuele" (southwest corner of the
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele)
Page 273, "astrinum" changed to "ustrinum" (it was an _astrinum_ where
corpses were cremated)
Page 314, "Bulletino" changed to "Bullettino" (in footnote [148]:
_Bullettino di archeologia cristiana_)
Page 327, "Nicolas" changed to "Nicholas" (from the time of Pope
Nicholas I.)
Page 369, "Cerceo" changed to "Circeo" (defeats the Saracens off Cape
Circeo)
Page 373, "Guilio" changed to "Giulio" (di Papa Giulio, 254;)

[Illustration: BATTLE BETWEEN CONSTANTINE AND MAXENTIUS

(_From a painting by Giulio Romano, Francesco Penni and Raffaellino
del Colle_)]

PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN
ROME

BY

RODOLFO LANCIANI
AUTHOR OF "ANCIENT ROME IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT DISCOVERIES"

_PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED_