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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 415 — Chapter II · ROME, THE CITY OF RUINS.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

See, nevertheless, his distichs in Voigt, Wiederbelebung des Alterthums, p. 275, note 2. He was the first Pope who published a Bull for the protection of old monuments (4 Kal. Maj. 1462), with penalties in case of disobedience. But these measures were ineffective. Comp. Gregorovius, vii. pp. 558 sqq.

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