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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 367

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, belonged to the French sculptor, EtienneMonnot, in whose studio it was transformed into aDying Warrior and then sold to the Capitoline Museum.Helbig considers Monnots torso the most admirable ofall and the one which comes nearest to the perfection ofMyrons original. Ill luck seems to have… … The Discobolus found by Queen Elena at Laurentura in afragmentary state Disco])olus, found by Gavin Hamilton in 1781, wasrestored as a Diomedes stealing the Palladium; and afifth, of the Uffizi, was transformed first into an En-dymion, later into a son of Niol)e. No such fate has THE LAND OF PLINY…

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