Paris est digne de Rome; seule Rome est digne de Paris. (in French) "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris." Rome's other partner cities...
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In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of...
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Camillo Orsini, founding the Collegio Romano. She had previously intended to donate it to the Poor Clares for the founding of a monastery. The nuns had already...
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SPQR (redirect from Senate and People of Rome)
[s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ʊs̠ pɔpʊˈɫ̪ʊs̠kʷɛ roːˈmäːnʊs̠]; transl. "The Senate and People of Rome"), is an emblematic phrase referring to the government of the Roman Republic...
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in the city. He donated the Lateran Palace to the Pope, and built the first great basilica, the old St. Peter's Basilica. Still Rome remained one of the...
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Augustus (redirect from Augustus, Emperor of Rome)
allowed Rome's armies to march swiftly and at an unprecedented pace across the country. In the year 6 Augustus established the aerarium militare, donating 170 million...
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Pope (redirect from Patriarch of Rome)
Ancient Greek: πάππας, romanized: páppas, lit. 'father') is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church. He is also known as...
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St. Peter's Basilica (redirect from Saint Peter's, Rome)
the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome (these equivalent titles being held by the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome), St. Peter's is regarded as one...
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of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry. In 2006, De Niro donated his collection of film-related materials...
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The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1,200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome. The term refers to the culture of the...
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Augustine is a Catholic titular minor basilica in the Campus Martius area of Rome, Italy. Dedicated to Saint Augustine of Hippo it serves as the motherhouse...
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Trevi Fountain (category Fountains in Rome)
(Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe...
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San Luigi dei Francesi (redirect from San Luigi de' Francesi)
personal intervention of Catherine de' Medici, who donated to it some property in the area. It is the national church in Rome of France. It is also a titular...
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parish and Cistercian conventual church located on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, Italy. There has been a titular church associated to its site as far back...
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The Palazzo Corsini is a prominent late-baroque palace in Rome, erected for the Corsini family between 1730 and 1740 as an elaboration of the prior building...
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List of popes (redirect from List of popes of Rome)
Kelly, Oxford University Press, 1986. Catholicism, Henri de Lubac, Ignatius Press, 1988. Rome and the Eastern Churches, Aidan Nichols, Ignatius Press,...
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Pope Julius II (redirect from Julien de la Rovère)
as an ideal prince. Pope Julius II allowed people seeking indulgences to donate money to the Church, which would be used for the construction of Saint Peter's...
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Saint Valentine (redirect from Saint Valentine of Rome)
Relics of him were kept in the Church and Catacombs of San Valentino in Rome, which "remained an important pilgrim site throughout the Middle Ages until...
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Capitoline Museums (redirect from Capitoline Museums Rome)
be traced to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of important ancient bronzes to the people of Rome and located them on the Capitoline Hill...
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The basilica of Santi Cosma e Damiano is a titular church in Rome, Italy. It is the conventual church of the General Curia of the Franciscan Third Order...
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Vestal Virgin (section Outside Rome)
antique. Actes de la table ronde de Rome (6–7 April 1978). Rome: École Française de Rome, 1981. (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 48). Tacitus...
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The following year, the Ateneo de San Pablo was again threatened by the same case of 1969. On February 26, 1977, the Rome Supreme Tribunal ordered the Jesuits...
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Venus (mythology) (category Sexuality in ancient Rome)
culte de la Fortuna à Rome et dans le monde romain des origines à la mort de César. II. Les Transformations de Fortuna sous le République. Rome: Ecole...
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San Pietro in Vincoli (redirect from St Peter ad Vincula, Rome)
Peter in Chains) is a Roman Catholic titular church and minor basilica in Rome, Italy. The church is on the Oppian Hill near Cavour metro station, a short...
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Pope Innocent III (redirect from Lotario de Conti)
mother, Clarissa Scotti (Romani de Scotti), was from the same noble Roman family. Lotario received his early education in Rome, probably at the Benedictine...
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Pope John XXIII (redirect from John XXIII of Rome)
"Pope John XXIII". Rome, IT: Vatican. Archived from the original on 4 August 2010. Retrieved 12 September 2010. Kerdreux, Michel de (1970). Jean XXIII...
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Julius Caesar (category Deaths by stabbing in ancient Rome)
Hinard, François (1985). Les proscriptions de la Rome républicaine (in French). Ecole française de Rome. p. 64. ISBN 978-2-7283-0094-5. OCLC 1006100534...
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Elections in the Roman Republic (redirect from Elections in ancient Rome)
could donate or how much, but there were several laws passed attempting to limit candidate spending on banquets and games. Public voting in Rome was originally...
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List of Capitoline Wolf statues (category Ancient Rome-related lists)
suckling the twins Romulus and Remus is a symbol of Rome, Italy. Copies of the statues have been donated by Italy to various places around the world. Below...
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Pope Pius IX (redirect from Pius IX of Rome)
American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. III, 1878. De Cesare, Raffaele (1909). The Last Days of Papal Rome. London: Archibald Constable & Co. p. 449. Hales...
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