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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: My Observations of Brixia. Julius Czsar Scaliger hath written this Hexastichon upon Brixia. QUae pingues scatebras specula despectat ab alta SeaSger'i Postulat imperii Brixia magna vices. Bm Coelum hilarum, frons laeta urbi, gens nescia fraudis. Atque modum ignorat divitis uber agri. Si regeret patrias animis concordibus oras, Tunc poterat Dominis ipsa jubere suis. This citie standeth in that part of Lombardy which is called Longobardia Transpadana, because it is beyond the river Po, and is situate in a plaine at the foote of a hill, being in compasse three miles. It was first founded by Brescia the auncient Gaules called Cenomani, though some doe fdedbythe write it was a Colony of the Romans. I heard that there are some notable antiquities and inscriptions in this citie, p. 334.] but I must intreat thee (gentle Reader) to pardon me although I doe not communicate them to thee. For I made so short aboad in the Citie, that I could not observe halfe so much as I would have done if I had remained there but one whole day. It is invironed with strong walles, wherein there are five gates, and fortified with a most impregnable Castle that standeth upon a hill, built all with free-stone. Also it is well watered with pleasant springs and sweete fountains, as any citie I saw in Italy, nay none the like. Which flow incessantly from many fine Conduits in sundry market-places, and it is moystened with a river called Garza, which indeed is but little, yet very commodious to the Citie. The Palace wherein the Venetian Praetor and Praefectus Palace of doe lie (for here both have but one Palace, though in Bresna. other cities they have two) is a sumptuous building, and furnished with great store of munition and artillery. At the west gate thereof, which is most commonly guar...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217777445 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217777449 |
| Weight | 1.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.93 In |
| List Price | $23.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 418 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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