Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 'Arenula' – 'fine sand' – 'Renula,' 'Regola' – such is the derivation of the name of the Seventh Region, which was bounded on one side by the sandy bank of the Tiber from Ponte Sisto to the island of Saint Bartholomew, and which Gibbon designates as a 'quarter of the city inhabited only by mechanics and Jews.' The mechanics were chiefly tanners, who have always been unquiet and revolutionary folk, but a