All that Palladio learned from Vitruvius and from two later trips to Rome in the 1540s became the basis of the most influential books on architecture ever written, his Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, published in Venice in 1570.

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Rome later decided to not uphold the agreement, before reversing that decision and returning the two men.

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Peter's Basilica Friday, and later will head to one of Rome's most famous landmarks, the Colosseum, to lead the Way of the Cross ceremony.

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John Paul's pilgrimage retraces the steps of St Paul, the Jew who converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus and later preached in Athens and Malta on his way to Rome.

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Herod's political skill in transferring his loyalty from the dead Mark Antony to his archrival, and later securing Rome's defense for embattled diaspora Jews, calls into question his reputed insanity.

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He does not skate over the conduct of Allied troops who apparently looted more freely than the Germans, or the appalling record of French Moroccan troops, who raped their way through the mountains south of Rome without being held to account then or later.

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The 27-year-old will now head to the Rome Masters as he prepares for the French Open later this month.

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Only in the later Imperial period, when Rome became an autarky, did rulers begin to build the monumental structures that Malone admires.

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Even before it was formally established earlier this year, the nearby Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company had commissioned Mr Fuksas in Rome to draw up a regeneration framework, due to be presented later this month.

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