Category: History - European
About seven hundred and fifty years before the Christian era some Latian settlers founded a town on the banks of the Tiber and became the Roman people. Where did they come from? Had they come across what was later to be known as the _ager romanus_ from the Latin stronghold of...
About seven hundred and fifty years before the Christian era some Latian settlers founded a town on the banks of the Tiber and became the Roman people. Where did they come from?...
4. CHAPTER IIShepherds' huts clustered upon a hill top whose base is washed by a swift yellow river rushing to the sea not far distant. This is the first faint foreshadowing of the existence...
5. CHAPTER IIIFrom the catacombs, the subterranean burial-places of the first Roman Christians, to the basilica of S. Peter's, the greatest ecclesiastical building on earth, there is no break...
6. CHAPTER IVThe regions and the guilds of Rome illustrate two contradictory tendencies running parallel throughout the administrative history of the city, the one towards division and separ...
7. CHAPTER VRome is set in the _campagna romana_. The strange beauty of this "Roman country," the birth country of the Latin League, assails the very doors of the Roman citizen, intruding i...
8. CHAPTER VIAs in other European towns, the custom in Rome is to live in flats. The houses are high, of no particular style of architecture, and in the older portions of the city they overs...
9. CHAPTER VIIThere are four great movements which moulded the political intellectual and moral life of other European countries without leaving their impress on Italy. Feudalism and scholast...
10. CHAPTER VIIITo be a patrician of Rome is to possess one of the proudest of titles, and from the senator of the ancient city to the prince of to-day the aristocracy of Rome has been one of i...
11. CHAPTER IXWhen we think of Rome as the cradle of more than one civilisation, we should also recollect that the Roman has matured two great religions: the religion of ancient Rome and the...
12. CHAPTER XWhat is a cardinal? In the early days of the Church in Rome the presbyters and deacons of the city, the council and administrators of its bishop, were considerable personages--i...
13. CHAPTER XIA stranger who had found himself in Rome the week before September 20, 1870 would have noticed the strange expectation, and also the strange apathy in the Romans. "The Italians"...
14. CHAPTER XIIThe "Roman Question" represents the only "religious" question in Italy. The problems which agitate other lands leave the Italian unaffected, uninterested. He has no genius for r...