Studies of Travel: ItalyFreeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
History
Studies of Travel: Italy
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Italy -- Description and travel
_Anagni_ (Anagnia), its position beyond Rome, 167; the city
of Boniface VIII., 168; the halting-place of Pyrrhos and
Hannibal, 169; head of the Hernican confederation, _ib._,
172; joins the Triple League, 172; physical position of, 173;
its ancient walls, _ib._; how they differ from those at Cori
and Segni, 174, 175, 179; Hernican Anagnia not in Macaulay's
catalogues, 174; variety of construction in its walls,
175-177; question as to their earliest date, 177-180; decline
of its power, 179; separate wall of the _arx_, 180; special
character of derived from its walls, _ib._, 181; historically
famous for its mediæval Popes, 181; rich mediæval remains in,
_ib._, 182; compared with Avignon, 181; cathedral church at,
183; the _Locanda d'Italia_ no longer exists at, 219
_Ancona_, triumphal arch of Trajan at, 268
_Anselm_, at Telesia, 256; defends the _Filioque_ at the
Council of Bari, 305; sheltered at _Schiavia_, 307
_Antemnæ_, lack of remains at, 88, 94-96; its legendary
story, 92; derivation of its name, 93
_Antivari_, Eastern Bari, 280, 295
_Anxur_ (Terracina), 120, 121, 128
_Appian Way_, the, its namesake at Perugia, 28; remains of,
115; arch of Trajan at Beneventum commemorates the repair of,
269
_Apulia_, plain of, 251, 282; mixture of architectural styles
in, 293, 294
_Aquileia_, its special position in history, 239, 240
_Arch_, the, early striving after, at Norba, 145; at Signia,
160-162; its principle known at Anagni, 175, 179, 180; the
true form not found at Alatri, 215; the pointed arch in
Southern Italy, Sicily, and Aquitaine Romanesque, not Gothic,
243
_Arches_, triumphal, their purely monumental character, 268,
269
_Arco Gotico_, at Tusculum, origin of the name, 161, 162
_Arezzo_, its historical and physical position, 1-7, 13; its
Medicean walls, 4, 5; lack of domestic architecture in, 8;
the _Duomo_ and church of Sta. Maria della Pieve, 6, 7, 9-11
_Aricia_, old and new, 114, 115, 126, 165
_Arles_, Roman theatre at, compared with that at Ostia, 103
_Assisi_, præ-Franciscan, its analogy with præ-academic
Oxford, 48; the birth-place of Propertius and Metastasio, 48,
49; Roman and mediæval remains in, 49, 52-57; its physical
position, 50-52; so-called temple of Minerva at, 52-54; its
dedication to Castor and Pollux, _ib._; Roman inscriptions,
54
_Athens_, her sea-port of later origin than Ostia, 99
_Aurelius_, Marcus, Emperor, at Anagnia, 178
_Aversa_, Norman county of, 241
_Avignon_, its papal buildings compared with those of Anagni,
181
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