Excerpt from The Life of Pope Leo XIII: Containing a Full and Authentic Account of the Illustrious Pontiff's Life and Work One of the first places visited was Carpineto, an ancient town of the Volscians, the Pope's birthplace. Carpineto is an hour's railway journey from Rome and three hours in a pre-historic dili gence, or stage of antiquated build. A visit was made to the quaint house where Gioacchino Vin cenzo Raffaello Luigi Pecci (pope Leo XIII) and his six brothers and sisters were born. No member of his immediate family survives him, but some of his nephews, bearing the name of Pecci, still live in the simple and quaint little town, and some of these were interviewed and photographed for this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.