Crossword-Solution: URBI 4 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The position and influence of Italian culture throughout the world depended on the fact that certain subjects were treated in Latin[588]--‘urbi et orbi’--while Italian prose was written best of all by those to whom it cost an inward struggle not to write in Latin.

Whatever country had the happiness of being included between those limits belonged to "the city and the world" -_urbi et orbi_; beyond was Cimmerian darkness in the North, or burning deserts in the South.

Yet one finds even the immortal Punch citing recently as a very funny thing a newspaper misquotation of "urbis et orbis" instead of "urbi et orbos," or the other way round.

Praeterea decernit, uti consules delectum habeant, Antonius cum exercitu Catilinam persequi maturet, Cicero urbi praesidio sit.

You remember the North wall, apotheosis of Saint Thomas and what-not, for all the world like a paradigm of the irregular verb "Aquinizo." What are we to suppose Lippo Memmi (or whoever else it was) to have been about when he hung in mid-air on his swinging bridge and stained the wet square red and green? To read Ruskin you would think he was fulminating _urbi et orbi_ with the _Summa_ or _Cur Deus homo_ at his fingers' ends.