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Lucretia Borgia

CHAPTER XVII
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The beholder is confronted by the facade of the castle, a two-storied structure in the style of the Renaissance, with windows whose casements are made of peperino (cement).

The inscription P.LOISIVS FAR DVX PRIMVS CASTRI on the door frame shows that this was also the work of the Farnese.
The interior is a mass of ruins, all the walls having fallen in.

This notable monument of the past has been suffered to go to decay; it was only eighty years ago that the walls of the last remaining salon fell in.

The only room left is an upper chamber, reached by climbing a ladder.

The place where the hearth was is still discernible, as is also the paneled ceiling found in so many of the buildings of the early Renaissance.


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