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Desirous that our venerable city be preserved in its dignity and splendor, we must attend to its care with the greatest vigilance.
— Cum almam nostram urbem (28 April 1462), quoted in David Karmon, The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance
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