Word: hadrian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Medici, for a time, had apartments. The tower of this building dominates the city, and is the most prominent feature in every picture. Near this is the Uffizzi palace with its famous picture gallery. Here are many art treasures, including the Venus di Medici, found in the villa of Hadrian at Rome, the statue of Niobe, and numerous others. The great glory of Florence is the Duomo, or cathedral, built of black and white marble, with a tower, said to be the handsomest in the world. The baptistry of this church contains a number of famous bronze doors, one pair...
...Morals of Plutarch, author of a Greek grammar, of a most excellent work on the Syntax of the Greek Moods and Tenses, and of many other philological treatises.... The school, for the present, until it shall have erected its own building, has rented a newly repaired house near Hadrian's Gate and the Pillars of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. We heartily welcome the coming of this new school of the Americans, and sincerely hope that the results of its work will be worthy of the great expectations which it has aroused, and of the high scholarship of its members...