The scene before you is indeed theatrical and often appears in movies about Rome.

Catullus appears to have spent most of his young adult years in Rome.

The third letter is extant, but no trace of an answer appears in St. Gregory's correspondence, owing probably to the fact that the pope died in 604, about the time it reached Rome.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

Lucretia appears to Dante in the section of Limbo reserved to the nobles of Rome and other " virtuous pagans " in Canto IV of the Inferno.

The cult appears to have had its centre in Rome.

The first record of the application of this title to a Bishop of Rome appears in a synod of 495 with reference to Pope Gelasius I.

One of his strongest passions appears to have been that of building, which somewhat strained his resources in contributing to the adornment of Rome ( including the new Porta Pia and Via Pia, named after him, and the northern extension ( Addizione ) of the rione of Borgo ), and in carrying on the work of restoration, erection, and fortification in various parts of the ecclesiastical states.

Innocent XII appears as one of the narrators in Robert Browning's long poem " The Ring and the Book " ( 1869 ), based on the true story of the Pope's intervention in a historical murder trial in Rome during his papacy.

Existing in various forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and China ; and, continues into the 21st century, where it is seen in works published in many languages.

* In Rome a severe form of malaria appears in the farm districts and will continue for the next 500 years, taking out of cultivation the fertile land of the Campagna, whose market gardens supply the city with fresh products.

Trajan appears before Isis and Horus, presenting them with votive offerings of wine, in a bas-relief on his triumphal arch in Rome.

Adam of Bremen's claim regarding Otto I and Harald appears to have been inspired by an attempt to manufacture a historical reason for the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen to claim jurisdiction over Denmark ( and thus the rest of Scandinavia ); in the 1070s, the Danish King was in Rome asking for Denmark to have its own arch-bishop, and Adam's account of Harald's supposed conversion ( and baptism of both him and his " little son " Sweyn, with Otto serving as Sweyn's godfather ) is followed by the unambiguous claim that " At that time Denmark on this side of the sea, which is called Jutland by the inhabitants, was divided into three dioceses and subjected to the bishopric of Hamburg.

Even incomplete, it was the most sophisticated villa design yet seen in Italy, and greatly influenced the later development of the genre ; it appears to be the only modern building in Rome of which Palladio made a measured drawing.

Contrary to other divinatory practices present in Rome ( e. g. haruspicina, consultation of the libri Sibyllini ) augury appears to be autochthonous and originally Latin or Italic.

In the early regal period of Rome, it appears that people were at first referred to by one name ( e. g., Romulus, Manius ).

35, the Atrebates, under Verica, regained some of their territory, but it appears Caratacus completed the conquest, as Dio tells us Verica was ousted, fled to Rome and appealed to the emperor Claudius for help.

He said the Roman consulate corresponded to Poitiers ' mayor, the senate to the town's peers and échevins, and the democratic element in Rome corresponded to the fact that most important matters " can not be decided except by the advice of the Mois et Cent ( broad council ).< sup > 1 </ sup > The mayor appears to have been an advocate of a mixed constitution ; not all Frenchmen in 1595 would have agreed with him, at least in public ; many spoke in favour of absolute monarchy.

He was born into the noble Borghese family of Siena which had recently fled to Rome, and appears in most of his inscriptions.

Having made his reputation as a sculptor he appears to have turned his attention to architecture, and to have studied at Rome, though the precise date is uncertain ; but at the beginning of the sixteenth century he was engaged with the architect Simone del Pollaiolo in restoring the Palazzo Vecchio, and in 1506 he was commissioned to complete the drum of the cupola of the church of Santa Maria del Fiore.

Another picture in the same collection appears to be a replica of his painting of the " Allegory of Calumny ", as suggested by Lucian's description of a celebrated work by Apelles ; the satire in the original painting, directed against some of his courtier enemies, was the immediate cause of Zuccari's temporary exile from Rome.

On the other hand, the general setting appears to be what Clifford Huffman describes as " late-Imperial Christian Rome ," possibly during the reign of Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ).

Section 11 ( 2 ) appears to implement Article 194 of the Treaty Establishing the European Atomic Energy Community done at Rome on 25 March 1957.

* First Acta Diurna appears in Rome around this time.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

( Along the way there, about one hundred yards on your right, you pass a simple restaurant, La Sacrestia, where you can have the best pizza in Rome.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

There are a great many bishops who have never had a cross on their bosom, nor a mitre on their head, who appeal not to the authority of the Pope at Rome, but to the Almighty Dollar, a pope much nearer home.

This letter would have got to me if she hadn't even put Rome, Italy, on it.

He is alleged to have founded an institution for virgins in Rome.

He built the last aqueduct of ancient Rome, the 22 km long Aqua Alexandrina to supply his enlargement of the Thermae of Nero which have been renamed after the emperor ( Thermae Alexandrinae ).

In 853, at the age of four, Alfred is said to have been sent to Rome where, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he was confirmed by Pope Leo IV who " anointed him as king ".

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

Scholars have often believed that Ammianus ' work was intended for public recitation for two reasons: the overwhelming presence of accentual clausulae, which implies that it was intended to be read aloud ; and epistle 1063 of Libanius to a Marcellinus of Rome which refers to public recitations.

Other monuments that have left almost nothing visible to the present day are the Chalkotheke, the Pandroseion, Pandion's sanctuary, Athena's altar, Zeus Polieus's sanctuary and, from Roman times, the circular temple of Augustus and Rome.

For some time Rome and Antioch have been in favor, and Blass combined both views in his theory of two editions.

Surprisingly, Acts does not record the outcome of Paul's legal troubles — some traditions hold that Paul was ultimately executed in Rome, while other traditions have him surviving the encounter and later traveling to Spain — see Paul-Imprisonment & Death.

The Ark of the Covenant was said to be have been kept in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, surviving the pillages of Rome by Genseric and Alaric I but lost when the basilica burned.

The See of Rome claims to have been founded by Saint Peter, traditionally called the " Prince of the Apostles " and the " Chief of the Apostles ".

The Emperor planned to have Felix and Liberius rule jointly, but when Liberius returned Felix was forced to retire to Porto, near Rome, where, after making an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself again in Rome, he died on 22 November 365.

Since Henry VIII broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the English ( British since the Act of Union in 1707 ) monarch.

In September 2011, it was announced that the new president, Thomas DiBenedetto, had reached an agreement with the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, to have the new stadium completed by 2016.

He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and some theorize that he had some connection with northern Italy because his early works seem to show the influence of Stradella and Legrenzi.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

Varro may have used the consular list with its mistakes, and called the year of the first consuls " 245 ab urbe condita ", accepting the 244-year interval from Dionysius of Halicarnassus for the kings after the foundation of Rome.

Erronius immediately determines to have a soothsayer come and banish the spirit from his house, and Pseudolus obligingly poses as one, telling Erronius that in order to banish the spirit, he must travel seven times around the seven hills of Rome ( thus keeping the old man occupied and out of the way for quite a while ).

Benedict does not seem to have left Rome for the purpose of becoming a hermit, but only to find some place away from the life of the great city.