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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A low-lying region surrounding Rome, Italy. It was a favorite residential area during ancient times but was largely abandoned for centuries because of the prevalence of malaria. Much of the region was reclaimed and repopulated in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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[109] Now Laricia, or Riccia, a town of the Campagna di Roma, on the
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Terracina, in the Campagna di Roma, for the benefit of sea-bathing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Born at Genazzano in the Campagna di Roma, 1368; died at Rome, 20
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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There are only two things which inspire me with an equal horror: that the Campagna di Roma should be built up, and that Rome should become a well policed city, in which no man any longer carried a knife.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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The gate was flung open; and there lay before us a blackened expanse, stretching far and wide, dreary and death-like, terminated here by the sea, and there by the horizon, -- the Campagna di Roma.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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The wide waste of the Campagna di Roma is of the richest soil, and, spread out beneath the warm sun, might mingle on its surface the fruits of the torrid with those of the temperate zones.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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* The cattle in this part of the country are, in general, large and handsome: there are oxen with immense horns, almost as in the Campagna di Roma, in Italy; and they are also large and fat.
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Terracina, in the Campagna di Roma, for the benefit of sea-bathing.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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"Synthetically, I opine, that we may conclude that malaria does exist, and to a great degree, in the Campagna di Roma.
A Love Story A Bushman
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