Studies of Travel: ItalyFreeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
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Studies of Travel: Italy
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Italy -- Description and travel
_Cora_ (Cori), its primæval walls, 129, 132, 166, 174; later
walls, 131; temple of Hercules, 132, 133, 166; supplanted by
church of St. Peter, 132, 134, 135; church of St. Oliva at,
135; its physical position contrasted with Norba, 140, 141
_Corinth_, later stage of her havens, 98; her colonies,
_ib._, 99
_Cortona_, its physical position compared with that of
Argos and Corinth, 13, 14; compared with Perugia, Laon, and
Girgenti, _ib._; owes its distinctive character to its walls,
15, 16, 19-21; its early greatness, 15; its decline, 16;
ecclesiastical and municipal buildings in, 17-19; Mykênaian
character of its Etruscan gate, 20; the Etruscan Muse, 21,
22; contrasted with Perugia, 23-28
_Cosmo de' Medici_, Duke of Florence and Siena, his
inscription at Arezzo, 6; his later title, _ib._
_Creighton_, M. (present Bishop of Peterborough), quoted, 123
D
_Documents_, official, errors in, 200, 201
E
_Eadmer_, at Bari, 305
_Emissarius_, the, of the Alban Lake, 117; contrasted with
that of the Fucine Lake, _ib._
_Etruscans_, their cities remain free until the days of
Sulla, 20; their analogy with Freemasons, 34, 35; their
tongue remains a riddle, 36; their sculpture derives more
force from the absence of literature, 37-40; analogy of
Etruscan and Roman change of nomenclature with English and
Norman, 43, 44; Christian and modern character of their
sculpture, 44, 45
F
_Felimna_, Avle, Etruscan tomb of, 42, 43, 197
_Ferentinum_ (Ferentino), whether a Thirty-city, 186, 187,
188; its position, 188; its walls and gateways, 189-192, 202;
monument of Aulus Quinctilius at, 193; question as to the
date of its walls, 194 _et seq._; inscriptions on the _arx_,
195, 197; alliance of with Rome, 198, 199, 205, 206; wrongly
called a _municipium_ by Aulus Gellius, 200, 201; cathedral
church at, 202, 205; inner buildings of the _arx_, 204;
church of Sta. Maria Maggiore, _ib._
_Fidenæ_, the ally of Veii, 78; destroyed by Rome, _ib._, 85;
position of its _arx_, 83, 84; desolation of, 85, 87
_Foggia_, the capital of Apulia, 282; palace of Frederick
_II._ at, 283; death of Empress Isabel at, _ib._; church at,
_ib._
_Frederick II._, Emperor, destroys Benevento, 274, 275;
remains of his palace at Foggia, 283
_Freemasons_, modern, their analogy with ancient Etruscans,
34, 35
_Frosinone_ (Frusino), 208
G
_Gavignano_, 155, 163, 172
_Gellius_, Aulus, his story about Ferentinum, 199
_Girgenti_, compared with Cortona, 14
_Gracchus_, Gaius, his speech quoted by Aulus Gellius, 199
_Gracchus_, Tiberius, his reception at Beneventum, 272, 273
_Gregoriopolis_, 105
_Gsell-fels_, guidebook of, referred to, 59, 152, 167, 283
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