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Pincian Hill: tags: [geography]

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Definition:

a hill in the northeast quadrant of the historical center of Rome.[...]
Several important families in Ancient Rome had villas and gardens (horti) on the south-facing slopes in the late Roman Republic, including the Horti Lucullani (created by Lucullus), the Horti Sallustiani (created by the historian Sallust), the Horti Pompeiani, and the Horti Aciliorum.

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"I am taking you to the Pincio Gardens, Arthur - the collis hortulorum of the emperors of Rome. This is where Nero fiddled of a summer evening and where Keats came to flirt with Napoleon's sister Pauline Borghese."

Gyles Brandreth. Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders, p.150 (2012)

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something that I might compare with the Alban Mountains or the sunset from the Pincian Hill;

George Eliot. Middlemarch