Wanderings in the Roman campagna . 20, 1437, and for fortydays pursued it so unmercifully that not even the graveof St. Agapitus and the cathedral church were spared,its bells, its doors, and its relics having been first removedto Corneto, the home of the Vitelleschi. Three yearslater, on April 2, 1440, Palestrina was revenged, the car-dinal having been strangled in the dungeons of CastelSant Angelo, by order of the same Pope Eugene IVwhose legate he had been in the campaign against theColonna. The anonymous author of the Description of La-tium, who visited the city at the beginning of the nin
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . 20, 1437, and for fortydays pursued it so unmercifully that not even the graveof St. Agapitus and the cathedral church were spared,its bells, its doors, and its relics having been first removedto Corneto, the home of the Vitelleschi. Three yearslater, on April 2, 1440, Palestrina was revenged, the car-dinal having been strangled in the dungeons of CastelSant Angelo, by order of the same Pope Eugene IVwhose legate he had been in the campaign against theColonna. The anonymous author of the Description of La-tium, who visited the city at the beginning of the nine-teenth century, after it had enjoyed a period of peaceand prosperity under the rule of the Barberini, givesa very interesting account of the baronial palace andcourt, just before the Napoleonic law abolishing feudalrights brought about a new era in the history of the Cam-pagna. The princes power, he says, is even nowvery little inferior to that of the sovereign; he has theright of life and death, and administers justice without. A SECTION OF THE MOSAl
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