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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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.
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Now with MORE Tiber!
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Fancy a Spa Day?
#oilmeup
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And On With the Bread and Circuses!
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