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 365
they were filled with the finest statuary, palaces, temples,theatres, circuses, and academies. Some of the finest antique statueswere found here under tlio popes. All this sumptuousness wa.sdestroyed in the sixtli century by the Goths, Extensive ruins stillexist It is thus described by Pope Pius… … RAMBLES IN THE CAMPAGNA. 323 peristyles and sublime porticoes may yet be gazed at with admiration.There are still the remains of the piscinas and baths, ^Yhere a canalderived from the Anio once cooled the summer heats. Age deforms all things: the ivy now drapes those walls oncecovered with painted…
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