Putnam (DD 757) - Naval Cruise Book

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if 1 Mmm? The splendid Renais- sance painting and sculp- ture, the timeless archi- tecture - surely Rome is an achievement of which Man may be proud! Yet nowhere are beauty and ugliness more sharply con- trasted than in modern Italy. Beneath the statues are filth and squalorg beg- '4 : fi fi 0' 1 .,.............. - ' .:.,1.a.a5,,1,'1.IS3Tu xi-all . , . 'LJ J - I JMS XX gars and urchins wander among the parks and villas. But if the smell of Death is in the air, it is over- powered by the breath of Life - gusty, earthy, and enchanting! --H... - 2 I