Word: hadrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HADRIAN THE SEVENTH (350 pp.)-Frederick Rolfe-Knopf...
...French cathedrals, feels his mind threatened like a lump of sugar in a cup of tea"). She also has a lot to say about the modern Romans ("Their voices carry like rockets .. . An American ... feels exposed . .."). And she tries very hard to evoke the past in her description of Hadrian's ruined villa at Tivoli...