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THE LESSON OF ROME
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The lesson of Rome is for wise men, for those who know and can appreciate, who can resist and can verify. Rome is the damnation of the half-educated. To send architectural students to Rome is to cripple them for life. The Grand Prix de Rome and the Villa Medici are the cancer of French architecture.

THE ROME OF HORRORS

1. Renaissance Rome. The Castel Saint Angelo.

1. Modern Rome. The Palazzo di Guistizia.

2. Renaissance Rome. The Galleria Colonna

2. Renaissance Rome, The Palazzo Barberini.