Rome Then and Now (Then & Now)
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781592232925
Subjects: Science; Pictorials; Description And Travel; Travel - Foreign; Science/Mathematics; Rome (Italy); Europe - Italy; History - General; Travel / Europe / Italy; Sale Books; Earth Sciences - Geography; History; Pictorial works
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.