Crossword-Solution: ORBI 4 letters, 2 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.

This motto was simply founded on the five vowels, a, e, i, o, u, the initial letters of these five words "AUSTRIAE EST IMPERARE ORBI UNIVERSO." This means "It is the destiny of Austria to rule over the whole world." So much for Germany.

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.

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.

Sarracenorum autem turmæ, videntes quia Christianorum virtus audactur facie ad faciem vicini sibi hospitio proximè iungebatur, media nocte orbi incumbente, amotis tentorijs amplius milliari subtractæ consederunt, dum luce exorta consilium inirent, vtrum Ascalonem redirent, aut ciues Iaphet crebris assultibus vexarent.