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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.”