The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-10-02

tai Instance, brood
ing as It We're, over the CITY which
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Inc Campagna Of Rome" said
Gregoroyius, lis nothing else than
the land Of Latium, which is separa.
Ted from Tuscany by the Tiber
FROM the time Of Constantine the
Great the name of Latium has fallen
into disuse, and that Of Campania
has been used in its place; and in
the middle ages this name indicated
great part of the so-called Ducatus
Romanus.' Since the middle ages
the district has been divided into two
parts, the Campagna, which com
prtses the inland district, and the Mari
TINA, which extends along the sea
coast as far as Terracina. Nature
herself has divided it by mountain and
plain into distinct compartments. II
is divided into three plains First
the Campagna around the city, watered
by the Tiber and the Anio, and
hemmed in by the Alban and the Sa-
bine mountains, the hills about Ron
cigliOne, and the sea-coast; secondly,
the great plain in which the Pontine
Marshes are situated bounded on the
one side by the Alban and Volscian
Hills and on the other by the sea;
and, lastly. the valley of the Sacco,
which runs down between the Vols
clan and the Equian and Herman
hills.
A glance at any good map, such,
for instance. as even the one given
by Baedeker in his Central Italy
and Rome" page 3SO), will help us
to follow out the geographical divi-
sions given as above by the great
historian. We shall see there Brac-
ciano with its lake on the northwest,
Subiaco TO the far east, on the west
the sea line, and in the very cen.
ter Rome herself with the Tiber
winding down to her from the I'm
brian uplands. And the same identi-
fication Of the Campagna with the old |
Latium the Latina Tellus C'Latin !
Land"). extending along the front OF
With a superficial area Of 1,245 square /
miles. has been followed by Signor .
Cervesaro in his work on The Roman .
Campagna," though he uses the Argo |
and the Palude (the cultivable land
and the marshes) as expressing two /.
essential and very important divisions
of this vast area.
The general color Of the Cam
pagna," says this writer, ''is tawny
red, paler where it undulates over
the terraces of the slopes, greener in
the fats where it expands into broad
meadows, and the whole wide plain
from one horizon to another is bathed
in a glorious sea of light. 1t is that
wonderful. mysterious light, the color
of the air of Rome Of which foreign
writer's speak; overhead, depths OF
sapphire blue which towards the
horizon melt into a limpid opalescent
haze. where every color, every vapor
is etherealized and transmitted by the
dreamy transparency of this fairy
light Under it the silent plain, starred
by aSpuOuelsr " tHS blSSh eiuD4 LIS
of Hades. and flooded by pearly re-
Elections, seems an Elysian field,
where time is naught and where every
reality becomes only the feeting as
meet of an ever-vanishing illusion.
The sapphire light that enfolds It.
ennobles It indescribably, seeming
to widen the horizon, and to open
up mysterious, unfathomable distances
behind its transparent veil. Dreams
take shape and grow in this air"
Chateaubriand, too, had written of
this Campagna. From its barren soil
rises the shadow Of the great city
1t is more than difficult it
is impossible to describe what one
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