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"Englishmen are rare in winter, and don't like being mobbed," said the woman. Nodding to her urgent petition, he deferred the lighting of his cigar. The vetturino requested him to jump up quickly, and a howl of "No smoking in Milan fuori! down with tobacco-smokers!" beset the carriage. He tossed half-a-dozen cigars on the pavement derisively.
The Basilica San Paolo fuori le Mura surpasses every thing in splendor of marble and costly stone porphyry, malachite, alabaster and luxury of gilding that is to be seen at Rome. But I chiefly remember it because on the road that leads to it, through scenes as quiet and peaceful as if history had never known them, lies the Protestant graveyard in which Keats is buried.
Thomas's Day in the year of Christ 1006, and was buried with great honour in the Badia of Florence. Tronci says, that beside the Badia di S. Michele di Verruca outside Pisa, "this most pious Marquis" founded also the Church of S. Niccolò, for the use of the Monks of S. Michele Fuori. The Church of S. Niccolò has been altogether restored.
S. Maria in Porto fuori is undoubtedly the greatest monument that remains to Ravenna of the Middle Age; nothing really comparable with it is to be found in the city itself. This convent, which dates certainly from 1255, was founded by Chiara da Polenta and was rebuilt in 1794.
He went by the Porta Pia, remembering Ruspardi's hurried description of the route taken by the runaway actor, and felt, rather than saw the outline of the Villa Torlonia, as he rushed past, and the Basilica of St. Agnese Fuori le Mura, which is supposed to cover the tomb of the child-martyr St.
Trajan's Gate The Appian Way The English Cemetery Catacombs of St. Calixtus Reflections on the Italian seat of government Churches S. Paolo Fuori le Mura Santa Maria Maggiore S. Pietro in Vincoli "Was St. Peter ever in Rome?" Fountains of Rome Dell' Aqua Felice Paulina Trevi Rome's famous Aqueducts Beggars Priests. Trajan's Gate, near the Coliseum, is a beautiful piece of architecture.
Very possibly I had seen both of these memorable towers in my former Roman sojourn, but I did not remember them, whereas I renewed my old impressions of San Paolo fuori le Mura in almost every detail. That is the most majestic church in Rome, I think, and I suppose it is, for a cold splendor, unequalled anywhere.
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