Days near Rome . aly from the Alps to the African and Ionian opposite rise the Volscian hills, whose sunny heights areso distinctly seen that the windows in the houses can be Volscian towns catch the eye, as they follow one anotheralong the hills. Monte Fortino, the celebrated Segni, Gavignano,Rocca Gorga, Scurgola ; then Morolo, Supino, Patrica, behind whichthe tall pyramid of Monte Cacume rises blue and beautiful. Furtherstill are peak after peak ; then more towns ; here Ferentino on a hill;there Frosinone, whose citadel even is visible, and Arnara, P
Days near Rome . aly from the Alps to the African and Ionian opposite rise the Volscian hills, whose sunny heights areso distinctly seen that the windows in the houses can be Volscian towns catch the eye, as they follow one anotheralong the hills. Monte Fortino, the celebrated Segni, Gavignano,Rocca Gorga, Scurgola ; then Morolo, Supino, Patrica, behind whichthe tall pyramid of Monte Cacume rises blue and beautiful. Furtherstill are peak after peak ; then more towns ; here Ferentino on a hill;there Frosinone, whose citadel even is visible, and Arnara, Posi,Ceccano, and many other places which the eye can discover. TowardsRome extends a large plain bounded by the mountains of Palestrina,which is itself visible in the far distance. The Latin hills also appear,and thus the view embraces a large part of Latium.—Gregoravius. 26o DA YS NEAR ROME. Beyond the piazza, on the left, open the huge round archesof the portico of the old Papal palace. Little that is curious. Papal Palace, Anagni. remains in the interior; yet in these rooms William ofNogaret insulted the mighty Boniface VIII., and im-prisoned him in his own palace, when the fleur-de-lis wasseen in Anagni. Here, also, Innocent III., Gregory IX.,and Alexander IV., held their courts in the thirteenthcentury, all born here, and all sprung from native families,and once canons of the cathedral. Behind the palace afragment of a beautiful Gothic loggia of the time of Bonifaceremains; part of the interior is now used as a is not a book-shop in Anagni, and we could find noone, not even the sacristan of the cathedral, who knewanything whatever of its history. The utmost they couldtell, was that Bonifazio had lived there, that his statue CATHEDRAL OF A NAG NT. 261 Stood on their walls, and that Dante had written of him—what, or who he was, they were quite ignorant of.
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