. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. arian in-vaders, and a capital of their kingdoms. As Ruskinhas well said, There are no tragedies like the tra-gedies of Verona under the Gothic and LombardKings.^ Alaric was retreating from Italy after thedisastrous battle of PoUentia, when the fairness ofVerona tempted him to turn aside and seize her; butthe great Stilicho was on hand with his pursuing le-gions, and under the very walls of the city inflicted aterrific beating upon the Goths which permitted buta portion of their host to ascend the valley. UnderAttila, fifty years later, Veron
. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. arian in-vaders, and a capital of their kingdoms. As Ruskinhas well said, There are no tragedies like the tra-gedies of Verona under the Gothic and LombardKings.^ Alaric was retreating from Italy after thedisastrous battle of PoUentia, when the fairness ofVerona tempted him to turn aside and seize her; butthe great Stilicho was on hand with his pursuing le-gions, and under the very walls of the city inflicted aterrific beating upon the Goths which permitted buta portion of their host to ascend the valley. UnderAttila, fifty years later, Verona was not so fortunate:the magnificent Roman city, with her countless marblepalaces, baths, temples, theatres, which we can onlyimagine now from the size of the relics, was left sackedand burning by the Huns when they marched , however, was not destroyed, and the ruins weresoon rebuilt in a baser style. Then came Odoacer, King of the Visigoths remain-ing in Italy, who displaced the last Emperor of the ^ Ruskin, Verona, and other VERONA, OLD CASTLE BRIDGE.
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