The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . hrough the hill ofTivoli, to give a different direction to the river Anio, and thus free the cityfrom threatened ruin, will be a perpetual monument of his added to the beauty of Home by the construction of various edificesand marble embellishments, and gave to the school of the fine arts, at-tached to the pontifical academy of Saint Luke, a new and magnificentsite. He opened, in the neighborhood of the capital, one of the celebratedsea-ports of ancient Kome ; he promoted the interests^jof agriculture, andparticu
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . hrough the hill ofTivoli, to give a different direction to the river Anio, and thus free the cityfrom threatened ruin, will be a perpetual monument of his added to the beauty of Home by the construction of various edificesand marble embellishments, and gave to the school of the fine arts, at-tached to the pontifical academy of Saint Luke, a new and magnificentsite. He opened, in the neighborhood of the capital, one of the celebratedsea-ports of ancient Kome ; he promoted the interests^jof agriculture, andparticularly had determined that a part of the youths of the asylum ofSta. Maria degli Angeli should apply themselves to pasturage and agri-culture. His person was tall, his aspect venerable. His life was always innocent,spotless, and regular. He was pious, learned, and Kberal—the Maecenas ofthe arts and sciences—the firm defender of ecclesiastical rights. Full offaith, he governed the Church for fifteen years with the charity of anapostle and the heart of a
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