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In committing the following pages to the press, it is felt that some few words of introduction are required, to account for their origin, and to explain their nature. Having visited Rome, not only to gratify and indulge my taste for the arts among the most exquisite sculptures and the most beautiful pictures, the greatest miracles of art in the world, having visited that city, not only that I might look at the ruins, the glorious ruins, of the temples and baths and palaces of the conquerors of the world, and to wander among those scenes where lived and walked the heroes of the past; but also and chiefly that,I might see and study the true genius of the Church of Rome, and judge for myself as to her nature and character, I felt it to be my duty to avail myself of every means in my power to obtain information on the subject. Two sources of information immediately presented themselves.
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