"Ave Roma Immortalis - Volume II" from Francis Marion Crawford. American writer noted for his many novels (1854-1909).
Book Excerptysterious nature of the destined man, the pure spirit of the Christian knight suddenly stood forth in domination of his soul, and he consecrated himself to the liberation of his country by the solemn office of the Holy Ghost. All night he kneeled in the little church,...
'Arenula'-'fine sand'-'Renula, ' 'Regola'-such is the derivation of the name of the Seventh Region, which was bounded on one side by the sandy bank of the Tiber from Ponte Sisto to the island of Saint Bartholomew, and which Gibbon designates as a 'quarter of the city inhabited...