Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. [Illustration: MARBLE RELIEF OF THE AMBARVALIA SACRIFICE, IN THE FORUM The sacrifice of the _suovetaurilia_ took place at the confines of Rome and Alba Longa after the perlustration of the Roman _ager_. See pages 15, 70.] ROME . PAINTED BY ALBERTO PISA . TEXT BY M. A. R. TUKER AND HOPE MALLESON PUBLISHED BY ADAM & CHARLES BLACK . SOHO SQUARE . LONDON . W. _Published April 1905_ The twelve chapters in this book were all written for the present volume, but Chapters III., V., VIII., part of XI., and IX. have already been published in the _Monthly Review_, _Broad Views_, _Macmillan's Magazine_, and the _Hibbert Journal_. So much has been written about Rome and Roman subjects within the last decade, good bad and indifferent, that the task of avoiding as far as possible hackneyed ground is not an easy one. We have attempted to present some aspects of Rome as we have ourselves seen it, and we have drawn on our long acquaintance with the city and above all with its inhabitants of the old school and the new. Each chapter is the work of one writer. ROME, 1905. Contents PAGE CHAPTER I ROME 1 CHAPTER II ROMAN BUILDING AND DECORATION 17 CHAPTER III THE ROMAN CATACOMBS 41 CHAPTER IV ROMAN REGIONS AND GUILDS 52 CHAPTER V THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA 69 CHAPTER VI THE ROMAN MENAGE 93 CHAPTER VII THE ROMAN PEOPLE-- I. The Italians 112 II. The Romans 125 CHAPTER VIII ROMAN PRINCELY FAMILIES 159 CHAPTER IX ROMAN RELIGION 180 CHAPTER X THE ROMAN CARDINAL 200 CHAPTER XI ROME BEFORE 1870 212 CHAPTER XII THE ROMAN QUESTION-- I. Before 1870 235 II. Since 1870 245 List of Illustrations 1. Marble relief of the Ambarvalia Sacrifice, in the Forum _Frontispiece_ TO FACE PAGE 2. The Forum from the Arch of Septimius Severus 4 3. The Forum, looking towards the Capitol 8 4. Temple of Saturn from the Basilica Julia in the Forum 12