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Usage examples of piazzas.

Here half a dozen young architects who had apprenticed themselves to Sangallo were working on plans for broadening the piazzas, building bridges over the Tiber, constructing new academies, hospitals, churches: the plans originally conceived by Sixtus IV, who had built the Sistine Chapel, neglected by Alexander VI, now revived and expanded by Julius, nephew of Sixtus.

The wider streets and the piazzas were lined with arches of orange brick to protect the people from snow, rain and the intense summer heat, so that the Bolognese could traverse his town from any direction and never be exposed.

He knew Rome's piazzas, fountains, forums, triumphal arches, temples, not for their historical background but for the nationality of the women who made these areas their headquarters.

The crowd still poured through the main gate, jamming the courtyard, individual faces that he had seen all his life on the streets and in the piazzas, quiet, good-natured people, suddenly inflamed, bent on destruction, with the faceless irresponsibility of the mob.

This church, far more than the paved streets and enlarged piazzas, could be the beginning of a new and glorious Rome.

A hundred persons could have slept there, and twice as many could have found shade in the wide piazzas which stretched the full length of the four sides.

The men will spread their blankets on the piazzas, and the horses will be tethered in the grounds.

Dick looked back at the broad roof and the great piazzas, and then he thought of young Woodville with a certain sympathy.

Night and day the piazzas were crowded with acrobats and astrologers, jugglers and tooth drawers.

We played ball games and had battles in the piazzas, and the priests ran us off with switches and threats.