Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the CampagnaForbes, S. Russell
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Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Forbes, S. Russell
Art -- Rome; Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks; Rome -- Antiquities
FIRST GALLERY.--3. Magdalen, by Annibale Caracci. 9. Holy Family, by
Sassoferrato. 14. A Titian. 20. Three Ages of Man, by Titian. 25.
Flight into Egypt, by Claude Lorraine. 45. Madonna, by Guido Reni. 50.
Holy Family, by Giulio Romano.
SECOND GALLERY.--6. Madonna, by Francia. 14. Bartolo and Baldo, by
Raphael. 24. Calvin, Luther, and Catherine, by Giorgione. 40.
Herodias, by Pordenone. 50. Confessor, by Rubens. 53. Joanna of
Arragon, School of Leonardo da Vinci. Bust of Andrea Doria. 80. Wife
and Self, by Titian.
THIRD GALLERY.--5. Landscape, by Claude Lorraine. 12. The Mill, by
same, a most extraordinary complication. 18. Pietà, by Caracci.
CABINET OF GEMS.--1. Portrait of a Letterato, by Lucas van Leyden. 2.
Andrea Doria, by Sebastiano del Piombo. 3. Giannetto Doria, by
Bronzino. 4. S. Philip Neri, by Barocci. 5. Innocent X., by Velasquez.
6. Entombment, by John Emelingk. Bust of Lady Mary Talbot.
_Proceeding down the Corso, we reach the Piazza di Venezia. On the
left_ is the Tolonia Palace, and _on the right_ the Venetian Palace
(now the Austrian Embassy), a building of the middle ages. _On the
right-hand side of the narrow street, in a line with the Corso, Via
Morforio, is the_
TOMB OF ATTIA CLAUDIA,
converted into a house, the lower part being shops. By descending into
the vault, it will be seen that it is hewn out of the natural rock.
The Claudii family "received, from the state, lands beyond the Anio
for their followers, and a burying-place for themselves near the
Capitol" (Suetonius, "Claudius," i. 1).
Adjoining is the house where Giulio Romano was born.
_A few steps beyond, on the left-hand side of the same street, is the_
TOMB OF BIBULUS.
The inscription records the virtue and public honour of a Roman
magistrate of the time of the republic. It is supposed to be two
thousand years old.
C. PUBLICO . L. Q. F. BIBULO . AED . PL. HONORIS
VIRTUTISQUE . CAUSSA . SENATUS
CONSULTO . POPULIQUE . IUSSU . LOCUS.
MONUMENTO . QUO . IPSE . POSTEREIQUE
EIUS . INFERRENTUR . PUBLICE . DATUS . EST.
It is of travertine stone and plain Doric architecture. There is some
talk of pulling the house down, so that this interesting monument may
be better seen.
_Continuing our ramble down the street, we arrive, on the right, at
the Church of S. Giuseppe dei Falegnami. It is built over part of_
THE MAMERTINE PRISON,
erected, according to Livy (i. 33) by Ancus Martius. "In order to
suppress the terror, the boldness which the vicious assumed from hence
(A.U.C. 121),[1] and which gained ground continually, a prison was
built in the middle of the city, adjoining the Forum." Servius Tullius
added a lower cell, called the TULLIANUM, 6½ feet high and 19 feet by
9. Prisoners who were condemned to be strangled or to die of hunger
were thrust down the aperture; hence the phrase, "to cast into
prison." Sallust ("Catiline," lv.) thus describes it:--
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