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Singerman ID#supp0322

The Land of the Forum and the Vatican; or, Thoughts and Sketches during an Easter Pilgrimage to Rome.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp0322

Hall, Newman. The Land of the Forum and the Vatican; or, Thoughts and Sketches during an Easter Pilgrimage to Rome. Boston: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1855. xv, [i], 463 p., [1] p. of adv.

Notes

The Arch of Titus and its details are described on pp. 204-7; for the "thousands of captive Jews" as the Coliseum’s construction builders, see pp. 223-24. Hall witnessed during Holy Week in Rome the annual baptism ceremony and a priest’s baptism of a Jewish woman from Constantinople (see pp. [305]-8, within the chapter, "Holy Saturday").