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with its mouth wide open and on whose upper lip it is inscribed "OGNI PENSIERO VOLA" ("All
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Vercelloni, Virgilio Vercelloni Inventing the Garden 2010 - Page 73 "The Sacro Bosco (Sacred Wood) of Bomarzo, in Lazio, is a mysterious park full of curiosities, and monsters, located in what may once have been a ...
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