The eminent German archeologist and hist after entering the City of the Popes, wished to endow their capital with modern come modities which would put the ancient ths abroust of the other capitals of the civilized world, and awoep away, inside and outside the walls, all the causes of malaria and public infection; which the foreign vi to the Eternal City always made their ch complaint, Allow me togive you a deecription of the Ghetto, the disappearance of so much lamented by not fail to rickey legacy of Tome, the Glthy houses of the poor a Lorael will be destroyed, and a wide, healthy imbaukment on the Tiber built, lined with " handsome, commodious arcade, and comfortable buildings, provided with modern improve mer In Rene, the part where the Jows were more or lees confined for so many cen was called the Ghetto. he name from the Hebrew word Ghet, separa tion, implying " thing of contamination, divided from all the triumphs of Old Rome, as well as from the luxuries of the Papal Court. The Ghetto, with its dark, dity, nar+ row, mal-odorous streets and houses, stands before us huked with the recollections of some of the darkest pages of Christianity.
This place, however, was extremely dear to these long-suffering people, who, tolerated at times, cruelly troated at others, always hated and despised, had but one tie to bind together their foclings—theie hatred towards their oppressors. It was in this place, under the ancient Portico of Octavia, that Titus Vespatianus, in hia purple robe, and crowned with Lane rels, avlemuized with mighty pomp hig
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