Rome – Early 1400s
The walls of the ____________________blank were crumbling. The once-magnificent stadium housed scores of ____________________blank. ____________________blank lurked in the ancient baths. On Capitoline HIll, the old center of Roman government, ____________________blank. One humanist lamented that the ____________________blank, once the heart of an empire, had turned into “____________________blank, here the home of ____________________blank.”
The
walls of the Colosseum were crumbling. The
once-magnificent stadium housed scores of filthy taverns. Thieves lurked in the ancient baths. On Capitoline
Hill, the old center of Roman government, vines grew over the benches of the senators. One
humanist lamented that the Roman Forum once the heart of
an empire, had turned into “a neglected desert here the home of pigs and wild deer, and there a vegetable garden.”
