Rome's Last Pageant (International) assertion single work   poetry   "Open thy gates, O Rome, let those that come,"
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Issue Details: First known date: 1867... 1867 Rome's Last Pageant
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Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Yesterday the entire city went out of Porta Pia in carriages and on foot to greet the captives, and were met by a long train of the wounded ... The melancholy procession was watched by 40,000 spectators ... But the vast crowd preserved an unbroken silence, only uncovering to the Garibaldians. – Pall Mall Gazette, Nov. 12, 1867.'
  • This poem appears in Frances E. Bowen-Graves's Verses (Spottiswoode & Co., London, 1875) with the title 'Rome's Last Pageant'. The date 'November, 1867' appears at the foot of the poem in this source.

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Alternative title: Rome's Last Pageant, November 1867
First known date: ca. 1867
Notes:
Reproduced from London Punch. Original publication date not yet known. [Probably November 1867.]
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australasian vol. 4 no. 96 (New Series) 1 February 1868 7772092 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 135
    Note: Published in the Australasian with the title: Rome's Last Pageant, November 1867.
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Subjects:
  • Rome,
    c
    Italy,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1867
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