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Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino: Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, From 1440-1630, Volume 3

byJames Dennistoun

2018-12-10 20:07:50

OUR narrative of little interesting campaigns has now brought us to an event unparalleled in the horrors of modern warfare, by which the laws of nature, the dictates of humanity, the principles of civilisation were alike outraged. The sack of Rome in ... Read more
OUR narrative of little interesting campaigns has now brought us to an event unparalleled in the horrors of modern warfare, by which the laws of nature, the dictates of humanity, the principles of civilisation were alike outraged. The sack of Rome inflicted a dire retribution for the restless shuffling that had disgraced the temporal policy of recent pontiffs; it was the crowning mischief to a long agony of ultramontane aggression; and in it was spent one of the last mighty waves of barbarian aggression that broke upon the Italian Peninsula. Less

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File size2101.785 KB
Print pages514
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-01-08
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781143160585,
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James Dennistoun
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James Dennistoun of Dennistoun (1803–13 February 1855) was a Scottish advocate, antiquary and art collector.Dennistoun was born in Dumbartonshire in 1803, the eldest son of Mary Ramsay, daughter of ...

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