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Title: Castle St. Angelo ; and, The evil eye : being additional chapters to "Roba di Roma"
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895
Subjects: Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo Evil eye Castles
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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attack them,but only rang the bells of the Capitol,and recounted his dreams of good augury. The Colonne, find-ing the gates shut and hearing the bells ring, supposed theEomans were prepared to resist, and determined to withdrawfor a space. They were in three divisions, and each defiledbefore the gate ; as the third passed, at the head of whichwas young Giovanni Colonna, the gate opened, and he, sup-posing his friends had command of it, spurred his horseand rode into the city. His followers, however, remainedbehind, not daring to enter, and on he went alone. Findinghimself, however, unsupported, he turned his horse to fly,when he was thrown to the ground, and the people rushingupon him killed him on the spot. His father Stefano, hearingthe noise, now rushed in, hoping to save his son ; but healso lost his life in the attempt, and his companions thentook flight, pursued by the Eomans. Many of the Colonnatroop were slain ; among others, Agapito Colonna, who wasfound hiding in a vineyard.
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FALL AND FLIGHT OF RIENZI. 63 The Tribune celebrated this victoiy with great vainglory.He returned in triumph to the Capitol, harangued thepeople, boasted loudly and without decency of what he haddone, occupied himself with idle shows and ceremonies, andso conducted himself as finally to disgust his own followers.His power soon began to crumble away under him ; andwhen, shortly afterwards, he endeavoured to prevail uponthe people to rise and drive out the Count of Minorbino,who had set his authority at defiance, he found that his daywas past. They listened passively to his eloquent words, andwhen he cried to them, tc after having governed you for sevenmonths, I now renounce my authority, no voice was raisedto dissuade him. He then ordered the trumpets of silver tosound, and, clothed in all his pomp, he marched throughRome, accompanied by his small band of soldiers, and onthe 15th October, 1347, intrenched himself in the Castle St.Angelo. Still the influence of his name and his powTer

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