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Title: The Spirit of Rome

Author: Vernon Lee

Release Date: January 22, 2009 [EBook #27873]

Language: English

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THE SPIRIT OF ROME

BY

VERNON LEE.

CONTENTS.

Explanatory and Apologetic

I. First Return to Rome
II. A Pontifical Mass at the Sixtine Chapel
III. Second Return to Rome
IV. Ara Coeli
V. Villa Caesia
VI. The Pantheon
VII. By the Cemetery

SPRING 1895.

I. Villa Livia
II. Colonna Gallery
III. San Saba
IV. S. Paolo Fuori
V. Pineta Torlonia

SPRING 1897.

I. Return at Midnight
II. Villa Madama
III. From Valmontone to Olevano
IV. From Olevano to Subiaco
V. Acqua Marcia
VI. The Sacra Speco
VII. The Valley of the Anio
VIII. Vicovaro
IX. Tor Pignattara
X. Villa Adriana
XI. S. Lorenzo Fuori
XII. On the Alban Hills
XIII. Maundy Thursday
XIV. Good Friday
XV. Asphodels
XVI. Nettuno
XVII. Torre Astura

SPRING 1899.

I. The Walls
II. Palazzo Cenci
III. Monte Cavo
IV. A River God
V. The Pantheon
VI. Santi Quattro Coronati
VII. Beyond Pont Molle

SPRING 1900.

I. Outside the Gates
II. Latter-Day Rome
III. Santa Balbina
IV. The Catacombs
V. The Rione Monti
VI. Amphorae
VII. Mass at the Lateran
VIII. Stage Illusion
IX. Santa Maria in Cosmedin
X. Inscriptions
XI. Palazzo Orsini, formerly Savelli

SPRING 1901.

I. Quomodo Sedet
II. Villa Falconieri
III. Porta Latina

SPRING 1902.

I. The Rubbish-Heap
II. The Excavations
III. The Meet
IV.
V. Monte Mario
VI. Via Ostiense
VII. Palace Yards

SPRING 1903.

I. Return to Rome
II. Palm Sunday
III. Mondragone
IV. San Saba
V. A Convent
VI. Colonna Gardens
VII. Palo