Excerpt from Town Life in Ancient Italy The traveller in ancient Italy was made aware of his gradual approach to some city within his route by the appearance Of suburban villas, gardens, and the monuments erected to the memory of the dead. Since it was the custom of residents Of Rome to spend the heated portion of the year in the country if possible, it was but natural to find, in such regions as were unusually salubrious or famed for the beauty Of their location, not merely the villas of ordinary citizens of means, but also the. 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.