Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1
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On the pedestal of one of them are the words, 'Opus Phidiae, ' 'the work of Phidias, ' A punning placard was at oncestuck upon the inscription with the legend, 'Opus Perfidiae PiiSexti'--'the work of perfidy of Pius the Sixth. ' The Quirinal palace cannot be said to have played a part in the historyof Rome. Its existence is largely due to the common sense of Sixtus theFifth, and to his love of good air. He was a shepherd by birth, and itis recorded that the first of his bitter disappointments w...as that thefarmer whom he served set him to feed the pigs because he could notlearn how to drive sheep to pasture; a disgrace which ultimately madehim run away, when he fell in with a monk whose face he liked. Heinformed the astonished father that he meant to follow him everywhere, 'to Hell, if he chose, '--which was a forcible if not a piousresolution, --and explained that the pigs would find their way homealone. Later, when he had quarrelled with all the monks in Naples, including his superiors, he came to Rome, and, being by that time verylearned, he was employed to expound the 'Formalities' of Scotus to the'Signor' Marcantonio Colonna, abbot of the Monastery of the Apostles;and there he resided as a guest for a long time till his brilliant pupilwas himself master of the subject, as well as a firm friend of thequarrelsome monk; and in their intercourse the seeds were no doubt sownof that implacable hatred against the Orsini which, under the great andjust provocation of a kinsman's murder, ended in the exile and temporaryruin of the Colonna's rivals.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
On the pedestal of one of them are the words, 'Opus Phidiae, ' 'the work of Phidias, ' A punning placard was at oncestuck upon the inscription with the legend, 'Opus Perfidiae PiiSexti'--'the work of perfidy of Pius the Sixth. ' The Quirinal palace cannot be said to have played a part in the historyof Rome. Its existence is largely due to the common sense of Sixtus theFifth, and to his love of good air. He was a shepherd by birth, and itis recorded that the first of his bitter disappointments w...as that thefarmer whom he served set him to feed the pigs because he could notlearn how to drive sheep to pasture; a disgrace which ultimately madehim run away, when he fell in with a monk whose face he liked. Heinformed the astonished father that he meant to follow him everywhere, 'to Hell, if he chose, '--which was a forcible if not a piousresolution, --and explained that the pigs would find their way homealone. Later, when he had quarrelled with all the monks in Naples, including his superiors, he came to Rome, and, being by that time verylearned, he was employed to expound the 'Formalities' of Scotus to the'Signor' Marcantonio Colonna, abbot of the Monastery of the Apostles;and there he resided as a guest for a long time till his brilliant pupilwas himself master of the subject, as well as a firm friend of thequarrelsome monk; and in their intercourse the seeds were no doubt sownof that implacable hatred against the Orsini which, under the great andjust provocation of a kinsman's murder, ended in the exile and temporaryruin of the Colonna's rivals.
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