[82] Ubaldo conveyed hither fifty-three ship-loads of earth from Mount Calvary, in the Holy Land, in order that the dead might repose in holy ground.--ED. [83] The Baptistery in Pisa was begun in 1153 by Diotisalvi, and completed in 1278. It is a circular structure, covered by a conical dome, 190 feet high.--ED. [84] The Cathedral of Pisa is a basilica, built in 1063, in the Tuscan style, and has an elliptical dome.--ED. [85] The Campanile, or Clock-Tower, rises in eight stories to the height of 179 feet, and (from its oblique position) is known as the Leaning-Tower.--ED. [86] 1845. Not … 1842. [87] See the Fenwick note to this poem. Savona is a town on the Gulf of Genoa, capital of the Montenotte Department under Napoleon.--ED. [88] The theatre in Savona is dedicated to Chiabrera, who was a native of the place.--ED. [89] If any English reader should be desirous of knowing how far I am justified in thus describing the epitaphs of Chiabrera, he will find translated specimens of them in this Volume, under the head of “Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces.”--W.W. 1842. [90] Tusculum was the birthplace of the elder Cato, and the residence of Cicero.--ED. [91] “Satis beatus unicis Sabinis.” _Odes_, ii. 18, 14.--ED. [92] See Horace, _Odes_, iii. 13.--ED. [93] See Horace, _Epistles_, i. 10, 49-- Haec tibi dictabam post fanum putre Vacunae. Vacuna was a Sabine divinity. She had a sanctuary near Horace’s Villa. (Compare Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ iii. 42, 47.) A traveller in Italy writes: “Following a path along the brink of the torrent Digentia, we passed a towering rock, on which once stood Vacuna’s shrine.” See also Ovid, _Fasti_, vi. 307.--ED. [94] The Bay of Naples. Neapolis (the new city) received its ancient name of Parthenope from one of the Sirens, whose body was said to have been washed ashore in that bay. Sil. 12, 33.--ED. [95] See _Georgics_, iv. 564.--ED. [96] Virgil died at Brundusium, but his remains were carried to his favourite residence, Naples, and were buried by the side of the road leading to Puteoli--the Via Puteolana. His tomb is still pointed out near Posilipo,--close to the sea, and about half way from Naples to Puteoli, the _Scuola di Virgilio_. “The monument, now called the tomb of Virgil, is not on the road which passes through the tunnel of Posilipo; but if the Via Puteolana ascended the hill of Posilipo, as it may have done, the situation of the monument would agree very well with the description of Donatus.” (George Long, in Smith’s _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography_.) The inscription said to have been placed on the tomb was as follows:-- Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. ED. [97] The catacombs were subterranean chambers and passages, usually cut out of the solid rock, and used as places of burial, or of refuge. The early Christians made use of the catacombs in the Appian Way for worship, as well as for sepulture.--ED.