Italian castles and country seats . rilMy dear M: This morning we have gone in still another direc-tion over this ever increasingly interesting and wonder-ful country surrounding Rome. We asked MonsieurOlle-La-Prune of the French Embassy and a friend ofhis to go with us. For some distance we followed theAppian Way, passing through Albano and Genzanoagain, going through Velletri, and on over the straightVia Appia, leaving the picturesque mountain town ofCori on our left and turning off a little beyond thetown of Cisterna di Roma. Princess Teano had kindlyprovided me with permits for the great c
Italian castles and country seats . rilMy dear M: This morning we have gone in still another direc-tion over this ever increasingly interesting and wonder-ful country surrounding Rome. We asked MonsieurOlle-La-Prune of the French Embassy and a friend ofhis to go with us. For some distance we followed theAppian Way, passing through Albano and Genzanoagain, going through Velletri, and on over the straightVia Appia, leaving the picturesque mountain town ofCori on our left and turning off a little beyond thetown of Cisterna di Roma. Princess Teano had kindlyprovided me with permits for the great castle of Ser-moneta, but we were so enchanted with the ruins ofthe towers of Ninfa, that rise amidst a watery marsh,which might almost be called a lake, that we deter-mined to have luncheon where we could feast our eyes,as well as satisfy our appetites. Then, too, we feltthat we should have the whole afternoon for a climbto the great castle of the Caetani, which stands outboldly on the top of a high hill directly behind Ninfa,[426]. zi::>rJ2^ ^-fflMi^ MARCHESA DI RUDINI AND COUNTRY SEATS and I was most desirous of going, also, to the littletown of Norma (famed in opera) perched on the sideof the high mountain near Ninfas ruins. The historyof Sermoneta is most interesting. That despotic and passionate Caetani Pope, Boni-face VIII, was undoubtedly a highly gifted man, andhis nepotism was managed with extraordinary success,for he left no stone unturned to found his familydynasty. There was fierce indignation among theRoman barons against the overbearing aggressions ofthis Pope, whose family became suddenly and rapidlyso rich, and with riches, so powerful. He was contin-ually at war with the powerful Colonna, who headedthe injured nobles of Rome in an attack against had taken advantage of the misfortunes of thisfamily, and though previous Popes had prohibitedthe sale of estates on the Campagna to nobles of Rome,he revoked this law in favor of his nephew Peter, andSermonet
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