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Accessed 20 March 2013: "È infatti del 1867 l'invenzione dell'idrocronometro, dovuta al padre domenicano Giovanni Battista Embriaco, che attese ai suoi studi di meccanica applicata all'orologeria nella solitudine del convento della
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in September 1822 to provide an eye-catcher in the vistas; it is a Roman obelisk, not an Egyptian one, erected under the
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was built over at the turn of the 20th century, several villas and their gardens still occupy the hill, including the
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extends a garden axis of the Villa Medici to the obelisk placed at the center of radiating
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on the 1867 design of Gian Battista Embriaco, O.P. inventor and professor of the
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in 1802. The orchards of the Pincian were laid out with wide gravelled
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in Rome was built on the Pincian Hill in emulation of the one at the
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in the early 2nd century, as part of a memorial to his beloved
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The site held the Horti Domitii in ancient times. (TCI,
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Pinician Hill at Rome Reborn at University of Virginia
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in the northeast quadrant of the historical centre of
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The Pincio as seen today was laid out in 1809–14 by
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London: Oxford University Press, 1929: Pincius Mons
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IV Campo Marzio 560:Accessed 20 March. 2013 450:Viminal Hill (Viminale) 440:Vatican Hill (Vaticano) 505:"Obelisk of the World" 365:Villa Borghese gardens 339:Villa Borghese gardens 274:French Academy at Rome 265: 196: 151: 138: 70: 46: 633:41.91167°N 12.47972°E 405:Cispian Hill (Cispio) 335:College of St. Thomas 331:College of St. Thomas 263: 191: 185:between 270 and 273. 395:Caelian Hill (Celio) 629: /  445:Velian Hill (Velia) 425:Oppian Hill (Oppio) 276:had moved into the 264:The Pincian Obelisk 172:Seven hills of Rome 16:Hill in Rome, Italy 638:41.91167; 12.47972 266: 200:Villas and gardens 197: 166:, overlooking the 554:it:Idrocronometro 375:, pierced by the 320:Piazza del Popolo 270:Giuseppe Valadier 234:Horti Sallustiani 194:piazza del Popolo 143:[ˈpintʃo] 127: 126: 122:Scipione Borghese 111:Piazza del Popolo 107:Horti Sallustiani 95:Galleria Borghese 669: 644: 643: 641: 640: 639: 634: 630: 627: 626: 625: 622: 610:11 December 2014 574: 567: 561: 551: 545: 542: 540: 539: 530:. 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Index

Hill
Rome
Latin
Italian
Rione
Campo Marzio
Galleria Borghese
Borghese gardens
Horti Lucullani
Horti Sallustiani
Piazza del Popolo
Scipione Borghese
Italian
[ˈpintʃo]
Latin
hill
Rome
Quirinal
Campus Martius
Seven hills of Rome
wall
Roman Emperor
Aurelian

piazza del Popolo
Ancient Rome
villas
gardens
Roman Republic
Horti Lucullani

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