Rambles in Rome; an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna (1887)
Forbes, S. Russell · London, New York, T.Nelson · leaf 362
to ruin and decay : this rather addsto its picturesque and haunted appeaiance. If Scott or Dickens hadonly made it the scene of one of their tales, it might have becomehistorical. Jf your time he limited^ omit this villa. THE ANCIENT TIBUR was delightfully situated on the Sabine Hills. The modern… … rjROTTO OF THE SIBYf-, TTVOLI. villas there, among which were those of Augustus himself, Maecenas,and the Emperor Hadrian. The beauties of Tivoli and the suiTOund-ing country were recorded in undying verse by Horace, whose Sabinefarm was not far ilistant, and wjio seems to have delighted to dwellin…
Art
Internet Archive · Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
