Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858
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Title: Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858
Author: Various
Release Date: May 18, 2004 [EBook #12373]
Language: English
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
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VOL. I--MARCH, 1858.--NO. V.
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THE CATACOMBS OF ROME.
--------parti elette Di Roma, che son state cimitero Alla milizia che Pietro seguette.
PARADISO, c. ix.
"Roma Sotterranea,"--the underground Rome of the dead,--the buried city of graves. Sacred is the dust of its narrow streets. Blessed were those who, having died for their faith, were laid to rest in its chambers. In pace is the epitaph that marks the places where they lie. In pace is the inscription which the imagination reads over the entrance to the Christian Catacombs.
Full as the upper city is of great and precious memories, it possesses none greater and more precious than those which belong to the city under ground. Republican Rome had no braver heroes than Christian Rome. The ground and motives of action were changed, but the courage and devotion of earlier times did not