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100 unusual facts about Rome


2009 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, with the men playing from April 25 through May 4, 2009, and the women from May 3 through May 9, 2009.

7th Infantry Division Lupi di Toscana

After the Italian surrender to the Allies in September 1943, it was tasked with the defence of the Furbara and Ceveteria airfields around Rome.

Alderson, West Virginia

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.

Alessandro Ferri

Alessandro Ferri (born February 25, 1921 in Rome; died in 2003 in Rome) was an Italian professional football player.

Alexander J. Menza

After a long history of cancer, Menza died on March 5, 2007, in Rome following a heart attack.

Alexandros Karapanos

Continuing his diplomatic activity, he was sent to Rome in 1923 to negotiate with Italy, after the Corfu incident.

Alfa Romeo 110AF

The cities which this trolleybus transported people were Rome, Milan, Naples, Genoa, Salerno and in the south part Salerno.

Alfred Moisiu

From 1995, Moisiu attended to the VIPs' courses of the NATO College in Rome.

Anchises

Julius Caesar and other prominent Romans claimed to be descended from Venus (the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite) and Anchises.

Andrea Aguyar

Andrea Aguyar, nicknamed Andrea il Moro, (?, Montevideo, Uruguay - June 30, 1849, Rome, Italy) was a former Black slave from Uruguay who became a follower of Garibaldi in both South America and Italy, and who died in defence of the revolutionary Roman Republic of 1849.

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo

During the final years of Isabel II, he served in a number of posts, including a diplomatic mission to Rome, governor of Cádiz, and director general of local administration.

Ariyankuppam

Ariyankuppam (Arikamedu) was an ancient Indian fishing village which was formerly a major port dedicated to bead making and trading with Roman traders.

Asmara International Airport

In April 2003, after improvements of the runways, Eritrean Airlines started regular services between Asmara and Frankfurt, Milan, Nairobi and Rome.

Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia

One son, Burgheard, predeceased his father, expiring while returning from Rome early in 1061 and was buried at Reims.

Basilica Fulvia

The Basilica Fulvia was a basilica built in ancient Rome.

Boris Iofan

Born in Odessa, Iofan graduated in 1916 from Italy's Regio Istituto Superiore di Belle Arti in Rome with a degree in architecture, initially following in the Neoclassical tradition.

Broad Hinton

The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in Chains") is one of only 15 churches in England with this dedication, which is in honour of the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.

Catone in Utica

Catone in Utica was the first opera that Metastasio wrote for the Roman public, and it was received with mixed feelings.

Cesare Correnti

He veered round to the political Right, and in 1867 and again in 1869 he held the portfolio of education; he played an important part in the events consequent upon the occupation of Rome by Italy and helped to draft the Law of Guarantees.

Charles III, Duke of Bourbon

The death of Duke Charles — the artist and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini claimed that he fired the shot that killed him — outside the walls removed the last restraints from the army, which resulted in the sack of Rome.

Christopher Lieven

Lieven died suddenly on January 10, 1839 at Rome as he escorted the future Alexander II of Russia on his Grand Tour.

Cicinho

He married longtime girlfriend, Reem Borriello in Rome; the two have one son, Heitor.

Clostridium botulinum

In Italy, a survey was conducted in the vicinity of Rome, and a low level of contamination was found; all strains were proteolytic C. botulinum type A or B.

Coma Divine II

Both tracks were later reissued on Coma Divine - Recorded Live in Rome expanded 2CD edition, though "The Moon Touches Your Shoulder / Always Never" was split into two individual tracks.

"Coma Divine II" is a single released by British psychedelic rock/progressive rock Porcupine Tree, consisting of further music from the March 1997 concerts in Rome.

Culture of Azerbaijan

The Roman Catholic Church in Azerbaijan is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.

Edward Szczepanik

While in Rome, Italy from 1963 to 1977, he was also the Polish representative to the Holy See - one of only three states that still continued its relations with the Polish Government in Exile.

Esme Vanderheusen

Esme later resurfaces in April 2006 when Fancy travels to Rome, serving the dual role as Fancy's confidante and comic relief.

Eucharistic Congress

The 26th International Eucharistic Congress was held in Rome, 24–29 May 1922.

Forty Hours' Devotion

"We have determined to establish publicly in this Mother City of Rome (in hac alma Urbe) an uninterrupted course of prayer in such wise that in the different churches (he specifies the various categories), on appointed days, there be observed the pious and salutary devotion of the Forty Hours, with such an arrangement of churches and times that, at every hour of the day and night, the whole year round, the incense of prayer shall ascend without intermission before the face of the Lord".

Forum of Theodosius

In 393 however it was renamed after Emperor Theodosius I, who rebuilt it after the model of Trajan's Forum in Rome, surrounded by civic buildings such as churches and baths and decorated with porticoes as well as a triumphal column at its center.

Fran Welch

In 1960, Welch was selected to coach field event participants of the United States Women's Track and Field Team for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Francesco Mimbelli

Francesco Mimbelli (16 April 1903 Livorno – 26 January 1978 in Rome) was an Italian Naval officer who fought in World War II.

François Gény

Two of his brothers became priests, and another one became a teacher in the University of Roma.

Frank Burton Ellis

The Presbyterian Ellis even vowed to go to Rome to plead with Pope Paul VI to order such shelters in the basement of every Catholic church.

General Directory for Catechesis

The General Directory for Catechesis is a document written by the Congregation for the Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, based in Rome.

George Hemming Mason

They reached Rome in the autumn of 1845, and George took a studio there.

Giacinto Auriti

He graduated in Rome, where he taught maritime, international, private and comparative law.

Gioconda de Vito

She then taught at Palermo and Rome, at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia.

Gottfried Dienst

In that game, a 1–1 draw between Italy and Yugoslavia which was played in Rome, Dienst came to be accused of favouring the home team.

Henry Paul

He won his first England cap as a replacement against France in the 2002 Six Nations Championship, but has only managed to win a handful of caps since then, mostly during the 2004 Six Nations Championship, coming off the bench in Rome and at Murrayfield.

Hermann von Thile

He became a diplomat in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1837, and was sent to Rome, Berne, Vienna and London, before he was appointed as the Envoy to Rome in 1854, succeeding Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen.

Horreum

A horreum (plural: horrea) was a type of public warehouse used during the ancient Roman period.

Hospital of St John the Baptist, High Wycombe

The earliest known Master was Brother Gilbert who, in 1236, wrote to Pope Gregory IX in Rome asking for permission to establish a chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist at the hospital.

House of Dampierre

While he was in Rome, Joan convinced Margaret to remarry, this time to William II of Dampierre, a nobleman from Champagne.

Hugh Delargy

Delargy was educated in England, Paris and Rome and worked as a teacher, journalist, labourer and insurance official.

Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu

After graduating from the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy, he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1980 and assigned to SHAPE in Mons, Belgium, where he served as the Chief of Operations Center from 1980 to 1983.

Hypaethros

In the conjectural restoration of the opaion or opening in the roof shown in Cockerells drawing, it has been made needessly large, having an area of about one quarter of the superficial area of the celia between the coltirnns, and since in the Pantheon at Rome the relative proportions of the central opening in the dome and the area of the Rotunda are I: 22, and the light there is ample, in the clearer atmosphere of Greece it might have been less.

International Collective in Support of Fishworkers

ICSF draws its mandate from the historic International Conference of Fishworkers and their Supporters (ICFWS), held in Rome in 1984, parallel to the World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

International History Bee and Bowl

In 2014, the European Championships will be held in Rome; the Asian Championships site is to be determined.

Italian Neoclassical and 19th-century art

It places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts as they are demonstrated in the architecture of Classical antiquity and in particular, the architecture of Ancient Rome, of which many examples remained.

Jean Webster

Webster spent a semester in her junior year in Europe, visiting France and the United Kingdom, but with Italy as her main destination, including visits to Rome, Naples, Venice and Florence.

Jean-Baptiste Cervoni

After putting down a revolt in Rome, he commanded a military division that included four departments in southwest France.

Joint Theater Level Simulation

NATO Modeling & Simulation Center of Excellence (COE); Rome, Italy

Joseph Franz von Allioli

From 1818 to 1820, he studied Oriental languages at Vienna, Rome, and Paris.

Kersti Bergroth

In the early 1950s, she moved to Rome, Italy, although still frequently visiting her homeland.

L'Absent

Interior scenes, and all exteriors of European cities, including Rome, Vienna, Budapest and Prague, as well as glimpses (footage) of old B&W photos of a family, were shot in 8 mm and blown up to 16 mm for effect.

Lawrence of Aquilegia

He began his teaching career in the early 1280s, where medieval scholars propose he traveled first to Bologna, then sojourned in Rome, Toulouse, and Orléans (Jensen 1973).

Loughrigg Tarn

Loughrigg Tarn was a favoured place of William Wordsworth, who, in his Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont Bart, likened it to “Diana’s Looking-glass...round clear and bright as heaven", a reference to Lake Nemi, the mirror of Diana in Rome.

Marino DOC

Marino is a DOC wine that is produced on the western edge of the Alban Hills, south of Rome, and next to the town of Marino.

Mascherata

Orlande de Lassus was considered the master of mascheratas, and he wrote many of his pieces (mostly madrigals) while in Rome, which saw the birth of madrigals, and more specifically mascheratas.

Michael Melford

From 1946 to 1950 he had been the athletics correspondent for The Observer, a position he subsequently held for a while at the Telegraph, covering the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 and in Rome four years later.

Mission Santa Inés

Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) is a Spanish mission in the present-day city of Solvang, California, and named after St. Agnes of Rome.

Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School

In 1908, he entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and began studying at the North American College in Rome.

Mount Sapo

Mount Sapo is a fictional mountain supposed to exist somewhere near Rome, presumably in Italy.

Nova Roma do Sul

Nova Roma do Sul (a Portuguese name meaning New Rome of the South) is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Parabolic loudspeaker

The Holophones loudspeaker system was designed in 1999 by composer Michelangelo Lupone and realized at CRM – Centro Ricerche Musicali in Rome, in order to realize a specific sound spatialization defined as "wavefront sculpture".

Poeticon astronomicon

During the Renaissance, the work was attributed to the Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus who lived during the 1st century BC However, the fact that the book lists most of the constellations north of the ecliptic in the same order as Ptolemy's Almagest (written in the 2nd century AD) has led many to believe that a more recent Hyginus created the text.

Pope John Paul II and Judaism

This concert, which was conceived and conducted by American Maestro Gilbert Levine, was attended by the Chief Rabbi of Rome, the President of Italy, and survivors of the Holocaust from around the world.

Pope Leo XIII and Russia

Relations improved further, when Pope Leo XIII, due to Italian considerations, distanced the Vatican from the Rome- Vienna, Berlin alliance and helped to facilitate a rapprochement between Paris and St. Petersburg.

Pozantı

Pozantı has successively passed though the hands of Hittites, Persians, Alexander the Great, Rome and Byzantium.

Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

On 17 May 1904, Pauline died suddenly of heart disease while on a train en route from Rome to Florence.

Qazim Mulleti


Mulleti died on August 28, 1956, in Vicolo delle Grotte, Rocca di Papa, near Rome.

Rome, Sweet Rome

It describes what might happen if a United States Marine Corps expeditionary unit were somehow transported back to the time of the Roman Empire under Augustus Caesar.

Rome: Pathway to Power

Rome: Pathway to Power used an isometric interface and was based on an engine developed by Steve Grand in 1979 called Microcosm.

Rome: Total Realism VII

RTR VII: TIC covers the conquest of Iberia by the Hamilcar Barca and his contemporaries in the name of the Carthaginian Republic in a uniquely close and story driven campaign .

Rome: Total War: Alexander

Persia: The Persian army of Darius III is made up of a variety of troops, from poorly equipped masses of infantry and archers, to quality cavalry and elite units like the Immortals, as well as mercenaries from Greece and Phrygia.

Sigurd Ibsen

Sigurd Ibsen got his doctorate in law in Rome in 1882 and was married to Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's daughter Bergliot.

St Aloysius Church, Glasgow

The church was unique amongst the Catholic churches of Glasgow in that it had a tower and is modelled on Namur Cathedral in Belgium and the Gesu in Rome.

St Peter-in-the-East

St Peter-in-the-East is believed to be named after the 5th-century church of S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, Italy.

Stephan Sinding

In 1883 he moved to Copenhagen, which he found a better working place, and had his breakthrough with the sculpture A barbarian woman carries her dead son home from the battle, created during a stay in Rome that same year.

Stoke Minster

The dedication to St. Peter ad Vincula ("Saint Peter in Chains") is an ancient and unusual one derived from the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.

Theatre of Balbus

Today what has been excavated can be seen at the Museo Nazionale Romano Crypta Balbi (National Museum of Rome), which is located at Via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31, (corner of Via M. Caetani).

Theatre of Marcellus

Today its ancient edifice in the rione of Sant'Angelo, Rome, once again provides one of the city's many popular spectacles or tourist sites.

Thomas Hardwick

He lived in Naples and then Rome for two years from 1776, filling his notebooks with sketches and measured drawings and gaining a grounding in classical architecture which was to influence his own neo-classical style.

Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth

Subsequently they visit Rome, where they are taken in by the Old Cats of Ceasar.

Tops Friendly Markets

Tops Friendly Markets was co-founded by Armand Castellani, who was born in 1917 in a village outside of Rome, Italy.

Transformers: The Veiled Threat

After an extended chase where Knockout proves he has what it takes, and Starscream challenges Prime to single combat inside Rome's Colosseum.

Upswept Hare

Bugs gets into the pool and realizes that he is not in his stream but thinks his surroundings are a mirage so he plays along by splashing around and singing "There's no place like home" but instead substituting Rome for home.

Vatican Radio lawsuit

Since this part of Rome is not under Italian jurisdiction, these transmitters are not subject to the Italian laws that limit the radiation that a radio station can emit.

Vatican Radio covers a large area of the Rome municipality, as set by the 'extraterritorial right' in Italian law.

Via Laurentina

The Via Laurentina was an ancient road of Italy, leading southwards from Rome.

Vincent Forlenza

Geraci personally executes Narducci while he is in hiding in Rome.

Voltone Airfield

Voltone Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield, located approximately 4 km west of Tarquinia (Provincia di Viterbo, Lazio), central Italy, about 70 km northwest of Rome.

Western thought

These two divisions of the Eastern and Western Empires were reflected in the administration of the Christian Church, with Rome and Constantinople debating and arguing over whether either city was the capital of Christianity (see Great Schism).

Wilbur Olin Atwater

Atwater also spent time traveling throughout Scotland, Rome, and Naples, where he reported his findings in local newspapers distributed where he lived back in the United States.

William Garbutt

On 22 July 1927 a new club was founded from the merger of numerous clubs in Italy's capital of Rome, the new club in question was A.S. Roma and Garbutt was brought in as their first ever manager.

Winslow Eliot

They lived in Rome, Italy for three years, where Eliot attended the Overseas School of Rome.

WKSY-LD

From its transmitter atop the Mack White Gap east of Summerville, in addition to cable coverage, WKSY-LD covers northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama, including Rome, Dalton and Ringgold, Georgia; as well as Fort Payne, Alabama.

Xtranormal

In 2010, the short film Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman by director J Roland Kelly, animated entirely with Xtranormal, premiered at the Little Rock Film Festival and was shown at The Rome International Film Festival in Rome, Georgia.


1635: The Dreeson Incident

The novel takes place after the events of 1635: The Cannon Law, in which French Huguenot extremist Michel Ducos came close to assassinating Pope Urban VIII and forced to flee with his followers from Rome.

ACP–EU development cooperation

The Treaty of Rome granted associated status to 31 overseas collectivities and territories (OCTs) and provided for the creation of a European Development Fund (EDF) intended to grant technical and financial assistance to the countries which were still under European rule at the time.

African bush elephant

The North African elephant (L. a. pharaohensis), also known as the Carthaginian elephant or Atlas elephant, was the animal famously used as a war elephant by Carthage in its long struggle against Rome.

Anastasius

Anastasius Bibliothecarius (c. 810–878) – librarian of the Church of Rome, scholar and statesman, sometimes identified as an Antipope

Antonio De Viti De Marco

Antonio De Viti De Marco (Lecce, 30 September 1858 – Rome, 1 December 1943) was an Italian economist.

Argentine legislative election, 1912

A visit to Rome in 1909 gave the scion of one of Argentina's most powerful families at the time, Roque Sáenz Peña, the opportunity to meet the governing party's nemesis - the exiled leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Benjamin W. Crowninshield

His health began to fail in 1891, and he died January 16, 1892, at age 55, in Rome, having travelled to Europe for a rest.

Bo Roberson

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy he won the silver medal in the long jump, a centimeter short of the Olympic record 8.12 m gold medal jump by Ralph Boston.

Cantacuzino family

Prince Mikhail Cantacuzène, Count Spiransky: Russian Representative to the U.S. 1892-1895; Russian representative to Rome 1895-1899; aide-de-camp to Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia 1900-1917

Christian Hülsen

In Florence he published studies on the historic drawings of Rome by Maarten van Heemskerck, Giuliano da Sangallo, Giovanni Antonio Dosio and other artists.

Dermot Ryan

He was ordained a bishop by Pope Paul VI in Rome assisted by Cardinals Bernard Alfrink and William Conway (Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland), on 13 February 1972.

Dušan Žanko

During his time as intendant, he led Zagreb's opera company on performances in Venice, Florence and Rome in April 1942 and to Vienne in 1943.

Fortunino Matania

Matania was also recommented to Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille and produced a number of paintings of Rome and Egypt from which authentic designs could be made for the movie The Ten Commandments.

Francesco Alciati

He died in office and was buried in Rome in the Carthusian Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Gaetano Perratone Armandi

In 1880, he exhibited at Turin Giorno che fu, and at the 1883 Exhibition of Rome, he exhibited a Veduta of Gressoney.

George B. Ward

The house was modeled on the circular Temple of Vesta in Rome and was surrounded by landscaped gardens and fountains.

Gerard la Pucelle

He was also with Peter of Blois for a time in Rome, where he represented Archbishop Richard before the Curia.

Guillaume Desautels

The Catholic knights won the field and thus saved Cluny, which had been (until St. Peter's in Rome just recently built) the greatest church in Western Christendom from the hands of the Protestants — only to be destroyed 200 years later by the republican mobs of the French Revolution.

Horace Thompson Carpenter

In 1904, he was a guest of American novelist Francis Marion Crawford in Rome, where he became acquainted with Italian sculptor Gaetano Chiaromonte and American artist Elihu Vedder among others, and filled several sketchbooks with drawings of local scenes.

Isabel Hampton Robb

After graduation, she worked briefly as a nurse in New York, then went to Rome, working for a hospital that served American and European travelers.

John Bathersby

His first seven years as a priest were spent as an assistant and administrator at Goondiwindi before being sent to Rome in 1969 for further studies where he completed a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and a diploma in spirituality at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum.

John Bemelmans Marciano

The grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the children's book series Madeline, he has continued the series with two books written and illustrated in his grandfather's style: Madeline and the Cats of Rome and Madeline at the White House.

Jovians and Herculians

The old-established Praetorian Guard was based at the Castra Praetoria in Rome, and had frequently proved disloyal, making and deposing emperors and even on one occasion in 193 putting the Imperial throne up for auction to the highest bidder (cf: Didius Julianus).

Kerschenbach

Furthermore, they came not from Rome, but rather from the Kannenbäckerland (“Jug Bakers’ Land”, a small region still known for its ceramics industry) in the Westerwaldkreis, also in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Leonaert Bramer

In 1614, at the age of 18, he left on a long trip eventually reaching Rome in 1616, via Atrecht, Amiens, Paris, Aix (February 1616), Marseille, Genoa, and Livorno.

Lex Cornelia de maiestate

The Law was designed to prevent both corruption and rebellion of governors, but was thwarted just 4 years later in 77 BC during the revolt of Lepidus, a rogue proconsul who left his province of Cisalpine Gaul with his army and marched towards Rome.

Mario Francesco Pompedda

He studied at seminaries in Sassari and Cuglieri and was ordained a priest in Rome on 23 December 1951.

Matthias Rettner

He continued with his model of blending and interpenetration of different styles and genres with productions for the RuhrTriennale in 2004, "Orpheus", a commissioned production for Gerard Mortier, and the German premiere of the Rome section of the Philip Glass opera "The CIVIL warS" in September 2004.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Music of the Trecento

Another late 14th-century composer, probably active in Rome, Abruzzo, and Teramo, was Antonio Zachara da Teramo.

Nri-Igbo

Historians have compared the significance of Nri, at its peak, to the religious cities of Rome or Mecca: it was the seat of a powerful and imperial state that influenced much of the territories inhabited by the Igbo of Awka and Onitsha to the east; the Efik, the Ibibio, and the Ijaw to the South; Nsukka and southern Igala to the north; and Asaba, and the Anioma to the west.

Oppido

Oppidum, a Latin word meaning the main settlement in any administrative area of ancient Rome

Palazzo Pio

Palazzo Orsini Pio Righetti, a building erected on parts of the remains of the Theater of Pompey in Rome

Pier Leoni

Ever a faithful ally of the pope, in 1117, he retook Rome for him, but was subsequently holed up in his tower by Ptolemy I of Tusculum.

Pope Clement IX

He embellished the city of Rome with famous works commissioned to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, including the angels of Ponte Sant'Angelo and the colonnade of Saint Peter's Basilica.

Pope John XV

The Pope's venality and nepotism made him very unpopular with the citizens of Rome, but to his credit, he was a patron and protector of the reforming monks of Cluny.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

On 8 May 2013, Pope Tawadros II, pope and patriarch of the See of St. Mark and leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church, met with Pope Francis, bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, in Vatican City.

Răzvan Florea

In the summer at the Mare Nostrum meets, he won 6 gold medals and 2 silver medals (in Monaco, Canet, Barcelona and Rome), which earned him second place in the general circuit ranking.

Renato Rascel

He also had a leading role in The Secret of Santa Vittoria with Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani, Seven Hills of Rome with Mario Lanza, Questi fantasmi with Eduardo De Filippo and Figaro qua Figaro là with Totò.

Riccardo Perpetuini

A native of Cisterna di Latina, just south of Rome, Perpetuini came through the successful youth academy at Lazio.

Ron Stein

Stein was part of the United States team that travelled to Rome, Italy, to take part in the 1960 Summer Paralympics, the first ever Paralympic Games.

Shyamlal Yadav

He attended 68th (1981) & 69th (1982) conferences held in Havana & Rome respectively.

Sir William Fitzherbert, 1st Baronet

After leaving Paris they visited the major cities of Italy, including Rome and Florence, where Fitzherbert commissioned portraits of himself and his companion from Thomas Patch and Pompeo Batoni respectively.

T. P. Wiseman

He has published numerous books and articles, primarily on the literature and the social and political history of the late Roman Republic, but also the mythography of early Rome and Roman theater.

The Martian General's Daughter

Pan-Polarian society is based on that of Imperial Rome, including an imperial cult and a variety of polytheistic and monolatric religions that have largely replaced the major religions of our time, including the cults of "El Bis" and the goddess Marilyn.

Ulubrae

Ulubrae was an ancient village about 50 kilometers (30 mi) from Rome, past the Three Taverns on the Appian Way, and at the start of the Pontine Marshes.

Vía de la Plata

After its establishment, the Via Delapidata crossed Hispania from Cádiz, through the Pyrenees, towards Gallia Narbonensis (southern France) and Rome in the Italian Peninsula.

Weilüe

Yu Huan also includes a brief description of "Zesan" which probably refers to the East African coast which was known to Greek and Roman authors as Azania, and what appears to be awareness of a route around Africa to the Roman Empire - "You can (also) travel (from Zesan) southwest to the capital of Da Qin (Rome), but the number of li is not known".