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Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ine of dazzling equipages were fiverude carts drawn by coarse horses, while in place ofthe chatting gallants and their ladies in silks and satins,as gay in colour as the bouquets they tossed to theirfriends, were five shabby, unshaven men in the garb offield labourers, whose lips muttered inaudibly, and whoseeyes were never lifted from the crucifix held beforethem. In this, the last stage of the journey, Count Guidowould pass the little church in which he was married,would pass the street in which his brother lived, andwould see before him the long, narrow lane, at the endof which was the closely shuttered house where he hadstabbed his wife and the mother of his boy to death. I found that to walk from the Carceri Nuove to thePiazza del Popolo by the route followed by the con-demned men occupied some thirty-five minutes. Theprocession left the prison at 2 oclock in the afternoon;so that, taking all things into consideration, it may beassumed that the piazza was reached about 3 p.m. i44
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10. THE PIAZZA DEL POPOLO FEW places in Rome are better known to the strangerthan the Piazza del Popolo. Few places figurewith more certainty in the diaries of the old-worldtraveller, for, before the railway came, this was the firstpart of the Eternal City that met the eye of the pilgrim,since all who journeyed to Rome from the north mustneeds enter the city through the Porta del Popolo. Manywho had been on the road for weeks must have haltedin this piazza and, looking round with an air of satis-faction, must have exclaimed, in any one of the lan-guages of Europe, And this is Rome ! The Piazza del Popolo can now claim to be the mostpicturesque open space in the city (Plate 23). It formsan oval area, with, on either side, to the west and east,rising ground, so that it has the general aspect of anamphitheatre possessing a level, oval-shaped arena. Thehigh ground to the east is the beautiful Monte Pincio,the Hill of Gardens, covered with trees, with firsand palms, plane trees and ilex, a

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