Famosi castelli e palazzi d'Italia . I Romani hanno investito la cittadella e pressedit hard. In una scaramuccia a outworks, essi captureda soldato, che si è offerto di omicidio del suo comandante andsurrender il posto per loro. Hanno accettato la sua termsand fu subito a tornare. Abbastanza sicuro in unadelle windows vi era visto appendere un figurethat sembrava Baldassare, mentre il soldato beckonedthe assedianti per entrare. I leader si precipitò in posizionesemi cancello aperto e sono state prontamente fatti prigionieri,mentre coloro che l hanno seguito vicino alle loro spalle weredecimated dal colpo di cannone. Per salvare i loro capi,le persone che abbiamo

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Famous castles and palaces of Italy . The Romans invested the citadel and pressedit hard. In a skirmish at the outworks, they captureda soldier, who offered to murder his commandant andsurrender the place to them. They accepted his termsand he was suffered to return, . Sure enough at oneof the windows there was seen hanging a figurethat looked like Baldassare, while the soldier beckonedthe besiegers to enter. The leaders rushed in at thehalf-opened gate, and were promptly made prisoners, while those who followed close behind them weredecimated by cannon shot. To rescue their chiefs, the people were obliged to submit to terms, and thesiege was raised. Antonio Ridio, probably the nextcastellan, struck down the governor of the city, whowas suspected of treason to the Holy See, while hewas visiting the fortress in the year 1440. The un-fortunate man died four days after. Eugene IV. is believed to have restored the wall onthe west side, connecting the fortress with the Tiber.His successor, Nicholas V., has left a deep and legible. ol-lwo << 3 U) c [I. CJ s ^ SANT ANGELO AND THE VATICAN 33 impress on the Castle of the Angel. He refaced thecentral tower with the wall which, much altered, remainsto-day, and built another wall on the outer edge of theold Roman basement, with a heavy machicolated parapetand round towers at three of the angles. Drawingsmade at a later date by Sangallo show a Roman pillarstill in position at the south-west angle of the basementwall, and some traces of the epitaph tablets on theside next the bridge. Two massive square towerswere added to defend the approach at this point.The tower has a machicolated parapet, two projectinggalleries that are sometimes called bartizans, and asmaller rectangular tower as its apex. An escutcheonof Pope Nicholas V., almost effaced, may still be seenon the eastern curtain between the bastions. Probablyall the popes were in such a way commemorated, butthe French, during their occupation in republican times, with infi

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1910
• booksubjectpalaces
• bookyear1912