The abbot Bartholomew of Grotta Ferrata urged him to the step, but he unblushingly sold the papacy for money like a piece of merchandise.

I told him the best way to drive off the blue devils would be to go with me and a few friends to the Grotta Azzura.

Il mesto Conte a piè quivi discese; E vide in su l'entrata de la grotta Parole assai, che di sua man distese Medoro avea, che parean scritte allotta.

On the Via Flaminia (near the grotta rossa).

One old wall like this I remember on the road from Grotta Ferrata to Frascati, which was to my eyes a constant delight.

"Very soon the shadow had gone again, and we were hastening to our bathing-place in the Grotta del Bovo Marino, where it was our custom to bathe every day.