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... return to Oxford to write ? Ireland may be the land nearest to the Saints in Heaven ; but Italy is nearest to the Englishman's heart . restless and pressing south is shown by the cities which THE CONQUEST OF ITALY 33.
... return to Oxford to write ? Ireland may be the land nearest to the Saints in Heaven ; but Italy is nearest to the Englishman's heart . restless and pressing south is shown by the cities which THE CONQUEST OF ITALY 33.
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... lands . Long before this a danger more grim had threatened from the north . From the heights beyond the Janiculum ... land the menacing clouds hung heavy in the north . To the Romans the Etruscans stayed for long years an enigma and a ...
... lands . Long before this a danger more grim had threatened from the north . From the heights beyond the Janiculum ... land the menacing clouds hung heavy in the north . To the Romans the Etruscans stayed for long years an enigma and a ...
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... land expressed the weirdness of their genius , its cold and grey - blue soil seamed with dead watercourse and lonely valley , hewn deep with rock - set tombs . For Etruria's story we forget smiling Tuscany of the Middle Ages , and many ...
... land expressed the weirdness of their genius , its cold and grey - blue soil seamed with dead watercourse and lonely valley , hewn deep with rock - set tombs . For Etruria's story we forget smiling Tuscany of the Middle Ages , and many ...
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... land the Romans drove their Great North Road , the Via Flaminia . This pene- trated the main Apennine chain by the " Furlo Pass , " reached the Adriatic at Fanum Fortunæ , and followed the coastline north to the small harbour and ...
... land the Romans drove their Great North Road , the Via Flaminia . This pene- trated the main Apennine chain by the " Furlo Pass , " reached the Adriatic at Fanum Fortunæ , and followed the coastline north to the small harbour and ...
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... land back over the Apennines , and partitioned the conquered land among their tribes . North of the Po were the Insubres , Cenomanni , and Veneti ; south of it the Boii and Lingones , the latter spreading down the Adriatic coast as far ...
... land back over the Apennines , and partitioned the conquered land among their tribes . North of the Po were the Insubres , Cenomanni , and Veneti ; south of it the Boii and Lingones , the latter spreading down the Adriatic coast as far ...
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