Rome Then and Now (Compact) (Then & Now Thunder Bay)
Edition: Compact edition
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Published: July 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781592238316
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel; Travel - Foreign; Italy; Europe - Italy; Travel / Europe / Italy; Sale Books
First sentence: On Easter Sunday, 1870, several months before Rome was captured and annexed to Italy by Giuseppe Garibaldi, all the wealthy families faithful to the pope met in the Piazza St. Peter for his last blessing and to pray for the uncertain future of the Vatican state.