Excerpt from The Renaissance of Roman Architecture, Vol. 1: Italy Patriotic feeling too came in to play its part. The same national pride with which the Italian, when he came to know them, remembered that Virgil and Cicero had been his fellow-countrymen reminded him also that the arts Of ancient Rome were the work Of his ancestors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.