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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BY MONTE CASSINO JL he principal and most frequented road to Naples is that by the marshes, Terra- cina and Mola di Gaeta, but another has been opened of late years which affords an opportunity of visiting the celebrated abbey of Monte Cassino. The first place of note is Valmontone situated on a hill at the foot of which flows the river Sacco; according to some antiquaries this town occupies the site of the ancient Labicum which by others is placed at Colonna. Valmontone is situated at the junction of the Labican and Latin ways. Ferentino, one of the cities of the ancient Hernici contains, with the adjoining village of Porciano, about 8000 souls. In the year 500 of Rome the consul Merula established this colony, and having remained faithful to Rome, the city preserved its own laws. It presents nothing of interest except the walls which are of a very ancient construction. At a distance of about eight miles is Frosinone, another town of the Hernici. It is situated on the top of a steep hill and contains about 7500 souls. On the right bank of the Liris which, after its junction with the Sacco is called the Garigliano and forms the frontier between the Papal and Neapolitan states, is the abbey of Monte Cassino Founded in 529 by S. Benedict it is the most ancient monastery of the Western world.In 589 it was plunderedby the Lombards, in 884 burnt by the Saracens. Having risen out of its ruins it suffered in after ages from the depredations of the -Crusaders and Normans; what remained of the venerable monument of S. Benedict was detroyed by the earthquakes of 1349 and 1649. The monastery was restored by several Popes and particularly by Urban V member of the Benedictine order. The literary world is indebted to this Abbey for the preservation of many l...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217260176
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 102
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217260179
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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