Word: aurea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Posthume Poems", published in 1658 after the early death of the poet. On the fly page is an excellent woodcut production of the author fashioned as a bust and placed on an urn bearing the word "Posthume". Of Suckling's works on display, the most interesting is his "Fragmenta Aurea, A Collection of All the Incomparable Pieces Written by Sir John Suckling", which was published...
This year, the custom of giving the city birthday presents was inaugurated. The Government gave the city another hill, that of Monte Mario; part of the Esquiline Hill, adjoining the Domus Aurea and the Baths of Trajan; the historical Villa Celimantana. All these are to be turned into beautiful gardens, thus completing a cercle jardinier around the city...