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The Three Cities Trilogy, Rome, Volume 1

Part 3 — Introductory material

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly translation

VII PRINCE AND PONTIFF—The International Pilgrimage—The Papal Revenue—A Function at St. Peter's—The Pope-King—The Temporal Power

VIII THE POOR AND THE POPE—The Building Mania—The Financial Crash—The Horrors of the Castle Fields—The Roman Workman—May Christ's Vicar Gamble?—Hopes and Fears of the Papacy

IX TITO's WARNING—Aspects of Rome—The Via Giulia—The Tiber by Day—The Gardens—The Villa Medici—-The Squares—The Fountains—Poussin and the Campagna—The Campo Verano—The Trastevere—The "Palaces"—Aristocracy, Middle Class, Democracy—The Tiber by Night

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