Romanesque Architecture
a general term applied to the styles of architecture which prevailed from the 5th to the 12th centuries. Of these there are two divisions: (1) The debased Roman, prevalent from the 5th to the 11th centuries, and including the Byzantine modifications of the Romans, and (2) the neglect or misuse of grammatical the late or Gothic Romanesque of the 11th and 12th centuries, comprising the later Byzantine, the Lombard, and the Rhenish, Saxon, and Norman styles. The former is a pretty close imitation of the Roman, with modifications in the application and distribution of the peculiar features; the latter is Gothic in spirit, having a predominance of vertical lines, and various other new features.
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Romans
EPISTLE TO THE, one of the books of the New Testament, written by the Apostle Paul, and addressed to the Christian Church at Rome. It is the 5th in order of time, though placed first among the epistles, either from the predominance of Rome, or because it is the longest and most comprehensive of the apostle's epistles. It is generally agreed to have been written about A. D. 58. That it is the genuine and authentic production is supported by the strongest evidence. It was written from Corinth, and sent to Rome by one Phœbe, a servant or deaconess of the Church at Corinth. The occasion of it was, doubtless, the disputes that began to prevail among the Christians at Rome. The Church there was composed of both converted Jews and Gentiles. The Jews wished to impose on their Gentile fellow-worshipers many of the Mosaic rites and ceremonies. The Gentiles, on the other hand, despised the prejudices of the Jews; hence trouble arose.
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Romansch
ROMANSH, or ROU- MANSCH, a dialect spoken in the Grisons of Switzerland. It is based on or corrupted from the Latin.
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Rome (City and county-seat of Floyd)
a city and county-seat of Floyd co., Ga.; on the Coosa river, and on the Southern, the Central of Georgia, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Rome and Northern and the Western and Atlantic railroads; 72 miles N. W. of Atlanta. Here are a high school, Shorter College for Women (Bapt.); hospitals, parks, waterworks, electric lights, street railroads, National and State banks, and daily and weekly periodicals. The There is a large trade in cotton and general merchandise. The city has plow works, sewer pipe works, foundries, a rolling mill, stove works, furniture factory, planing mills, cotton mills, hosiery works, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,099; (1920) 13,252.
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Rome (City in Oneida co N Y)
a city in Oneida co., N. Y.; on the Mohawk river, the Erie and Black River canals, and the New York, Yon On- Central and Hudson River railroads; 15 miles N. W. of Utica. Here are St. Peter's Academy for Young Ladies, the State. Custodial Asylum, the Central New York Institute for Deaf Mutes, County Court House, County Home, city hospital, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks, the Jervis Library, National and savings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city has locomotive and farming implement works, factories, machine shops, and cigar cigar factories, and copper manufactures of brass products, canned goods, wire, bedsteads, etc. Pop. (1910) 20,497; (1920) 26,341.
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Rome (II)
AMERICAN COLLEGE IN, a Catholic institution in Rome, Italy, established in 1859, for the education of American ecclesiastics. The prime mov- Ar Archbishop in the project were ers Hughes of New York and Archbishop Kenrick of Baltimore, and the first president was the Rev. William George Mc- Closkey, later Bishop of Louisville. The money required for the establishment and conduct of the college was mainly contributed from the Un United States, though Pope Pius IX. bought and presented to the American bishops as the nucleus of the foundation the old Visitation Convent of the Umilta, then occupied by the soldiers of the French garrison in Rome. The college was formally opened with thirteen students who had for some time been waiting in the College of the Propaganda for the event. The first ordination of an alumnus was in 1862, in the Church of St. John Lateran by Cardinal Patuzzi. During the Vatican Council the American prelates in Rome decided that the property of the college should remain in the hands of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda. There are thirty-five purses or scholarships founded in the colleges. The number of students is about one hundred and forty. In 1884 the college was exempted from the effect of the Italian statutes of confiscation.
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Rome (III)
UNIVERSITY OF, a governeducational institution situated in ment Rome, Italy, and now known as the Royal University. In former times it was known as the Studium Urbis. The University of Rome was founded at the beginning of the 14th century by Pope Boniface VIII. During the political and social upheavals which accompanied the Great Schism and so violently affected the more temporal aspects of the Church of Rome, the University ceased for a exist. It was revived reorganized under its former name by Eugenius IV. in 1431. From then on it maintained its existence as a papal in- King of Alba, but deprived by his brothstitution until the year 1870, when in the political upheaval of that period, it was brought under the control of the Italian Government. The Royal Uni- shepherd. Their parentage was discovversity has a registration of between four and five thousand students. Although handicapped, as other educational institutions have been by the recent World War, it has continued to on its activities in the several schools of engineering, pharmacy, agriculture, diplomacy, philosophy, science, medicine, and law. Its manuscript, pamphlet, and book collections, known as the Biblioteca Alessandrina, have been credited with about 250,000 volumes.
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Romeo and Juliet
a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first published surreptitiously in 1597, and had been written probably several years before, perhaps as early as 1591. The story is of two noble Italian families, the Capulets and Montagues, who From ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Juliet, the daughter of Capulet, and Romeo, son of Montague, meet and fall in love. Their secret marriage, the command of Juliet's parents that she wed another, her plot to escape, the tragic death of both lovers leading to the reconciliation of the two families, are the events which follow one another in rapid succession. The plot is an old one. It has been used by many authors and playwrights and has been chosen often for operatic purposes. Shakespeare's version, however, is and will remain the most celebrated.
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