Campagne di Roma

the coast region of Middle Italy, in which Rome is situated, from 30 to 40 miles wide and 100 long, and forming the unduwlating mostly uncultivated plain which extends from near Civita Vecchia o1 Viterbo to Terracina, and includes the Pontine Marshes. The soil is very fertile in the lower parts, though its cultivation is much neglected, owing to the malaria which makes residence there during midsummer dangerous In ancient times the Campagna was well cultivated and populated, Nothing of its former prosperity being visible but the ruins of great temples circuses, and monuments, and long rows of crumbling aqueducts overgrown with ivy and other creeping plants, Camp an i a, anciently a province on the W. coast of Italy, having Capua as its capital, lying between Latium.