File:Italian castles and country seats (1911) (14591138127).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,384 × 1,668 pixels, file size: 566 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English:

Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Latium, and stretched from the VolscianMountains across the marshes with its towers, itscountry houses, its lakes and woods, down to the shore,and even into the ocean for a hundred miles. Not onlydid this great barony extend far out into the sea fromNinfa to the Cape Circeo, but from Ceprano acrossthe mountains to Jenne and Subiaco. The name of Caetani, before the celebrated Popeof the family, is scarcely mentioned in Roman history.With the death of their relative and Papal protector,trouble and misfortune was hurled at the Caetanifamily by succeeding Popes. Alexander VI (Borgia)not only confiscated the property of the Colonna andthe Savelli, but began the establishment and aggran-dizement of the Borgia house largely by means of theCaetani properties. In 1499 Alexander, by a stratagem,entrapped Giacomo Caetani, then the head of thehouse, and by false sentence caused him to be pro-nounced guilty of treason, when he promptly confis-cated all the Caetani estates. Protestations were(428)
Text Appearing After Image:
AND COUNTRY SEATS useless, and the unfortunate man was poisoned in thecastle Sant Angelo the next year. Bernadino, theyouthful son of Niccolo Caetani, was murdered byCaesar Borgias bailiffs at Sermoneta, and it was onlywith difficulty that the other son, Guglielmo, escapedto Mantua. Papal troops occupied Sermoneta, whichafterwards became the property of Lucrezia Borgia,and was given by the Pope to Roderigo, her two-year-old son by the murdered Alfonso of Naples. LaterCaesar, her fearful brother, seized Sermoneta, saying:She is a woman and cannot defend it. In 1504, how-ever, the wheel of fortune turned again. Julius IIbecame Pope, and hastened to annul the sentencespronounced against the Caetani by Alexander VI, in aspecial bull of restitution, January 24, 1504. Conserva-tive Europe seems to marvel at the sudden rise and fallof many of our American fortunes; but one has only toturn the pages of Roman history from twelve to sixteenhundred to find that the greatest names in the land,the

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14591138127/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:italiancastlesco00batcrich
  • bookyear:1911
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Batcheller__Tryphosa_Bates__1878_
  • booksubject:Castles____Italy
  • booksubject:Historic_buildings____Italy
  • booksubject:Italy____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Longmans__Green__and_Co_
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Internet_Archive
  • bookleafnumber:586
  • bookcollection:cdl
  • bookcollection:americana
Flickr posted date
InfoField
29 July 2014

Licensing[edit]

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14591138127. It was reviewed on 1 October 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

1 October 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current12:01, 18 October 2015Thumbnail for version as of 12:01, 18 October 20152,384 × 1,668 (566 KB)SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs)Bot: Image rotated by 90°
23:30, 1 October 2015Thumbnail for version as of 23:30, 1 October 20151,668 × 2,384 (568 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': italiancastlesco00batcrich ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fitaliancastlesco00batcric...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Italian_castles_and_country_seats_(1911)_(14591138127).jpg&oldid=645175511"