Identifier: destructionofan00lanc (find matches)
Title: The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hose of theFrangipani the island of S, Bartolomeo (Fig. 34). The ruins of the amphitheatre of Statilius Taurus(Monte Giordano), and of Pompeys theatre (Campo diFiori), were in the hands of the Orsini. The Savellihad supplanted the Pierleoni in the possession of thetheatre of Marcellus (Monte Savello). The Colonnafamily occupied a fortified enclosure in the abandonedquarter about Trajans Forum, with the centre of theirstronghold at the temple of the Sun on the Quirinal(Villa Colonna), while the mausoleum of Augustus andthe hill of Monte Citorio, strongly garrisoned, were util-ised by them as detached forts. One of their towers,at the corner of the Via Tre Cannelli and Via Nazionale,is still standing; there are also towers of the Melliniand Sanguigni near the Stadium, of the Sinibaldi and 200 • DESTRUCTION OF ANCIENT ROME Crescenzi near the Pantheon. These ugly square struc-tures were raised to protect the residences of the barons,which had not the aspect of a palace, hut of a cluster
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Fig. 34. — House and tower of the Margani. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MODERN CITY 201 of low, narrow dwellings, enclosed by a battlementedwall. Around them lived the vassals and partisans,who every night barred with chains the surroundinglanes. The great fortress of the Frangipani coveredthe southern half of the Palatine, the core of the forti-fication being the Septizonium ; and this family had out-posts also at the Coliseum, at the Turris Cartularia, atthe Janus Quadrifrons of the Forum Boarium, and atthe arches of Titus and Constantine. The great Torre de Conti, erected by Nicholas I.about 858, and rebuilt by Innocent III. in 1216, wascalled by Petrarch Turris toto orbe unica from its pro-digious height and strength. It commanded the districtof the Carinae and of the Subura. The upper parthaving collapsed during the earthquake of 1348, PopeUrban VIII. pulled down the rest, as far as the top ofthe lowest of the three stories. Much better preservedis the Torre delle Milizie, the constru

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