Talk:Hildebert of Lavardin

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• Nothing is equal to you, o Rome even in your almost complete ruin; | what you were, intact, your ruins reveal it | [...] The city has fallen. As I look at its ruins | and I consider its state I keep repeating: Rome was. | However, neither the succession of wars nor the fires | nor could the massacres completely erase | her beauty. Much still remains, as much as was ruined; | nor is there anything that could equal what remains | nor could what has been destroyed be rebuilt.
  • Quoted in AA.VV., The idea of ​​Rome. A city in history: 140th anniversary of Rome Capitale, Cangemi, Rome, =false p. 82. ISBN 978-88-492-9256-5