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Don't Want To Go Back To Work Today?

How about a trip to Ancient Rome instead? (Via the Renaissance, of course! This book's from 1532.) Pick a gate, any gate; there are 16, 1 per pizza-shaped slice, each with a monumental topping...
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#NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA… Woodcut view of the round ancient walls of Rome with 16 gate
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Even the title page is channeling antique monument fonts... Note the crowned SPQR on the left-most crest, the St Peter Papal keys and headgear on the center one (actually Pope Clement the 7th's arms who died two years later in 1534), and a cardinal hat at right.
2/? Sparely filled title page saying  "ANTIQVAE VRBIS ROMAE
Now with MORE Tiber!

3/? Rome, now with the river running through it ...
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