Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)
Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London, J. and A. Arch · leaf 224
which isbelow the usual level of the sea, and it is this circumstance probably whichhas obtained for it the popular name of the bridge of Caligola. It musthave been a noble work, and is evidently a Roman one; once consisting,as we are told, of twenty-five arches, of which we may perhaps now makeout… … VOL. II. 2 D •202 LA MERGELLINA. many of the urns remain, because they are in such abundance that noone has thought proper to take them away: they are entirely plain.Much of the stucco ornament and of the colours which enriched it, exist,as fresh apparently as when first executed. Instead of…
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