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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 186

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riosities, &c. At tlie left comer is THE CANCELLERIA PALACE,(Palazzo dclla CanceUeria,) one of the finest palaces in Rome, built out of the travertine takenfrom the Colosseum: the forty-four red granite columns which sup-port the portico came from Pompeys Theatre. At the foot of thestaircase… … 144 RAMBLE II. THE STATUE OF PASQUINO, a mutilated toiso found here in the sixteenth century. It took itsname from Pasquino, a tailor, who lived ojjposite, and whose shopwas the rendezvous of the wits of the city, who wrote their jokesand stuck them on the statue: these were replied to by the…

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