Excerpt from The Wheat PrincessIF you leave the city by the Porta Maggiore and take the Via Prenestina, which leads east into the Sabine hills, at some thirty-six kilometers' distance from Rome you will pass on your left a gray-walled village climbing up the hillside. This is Palestrina, the old Roman Pra neste, and a short distance beyond - also on the left - you will find branching off from the straight Roman high way a steep mountain road, which, if you stick to it long enough, will take you, after many windings, to Caste] Madama and Tivoli.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.