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 appearance. If Scott or Dickens hadonly made it the scene of one of their tales, it might have becomehistorical. If your time he limited, omit this villa, THE ANCIENT TIBUR was delightfully situated on the Sabine Hills. The modern… … GROTTO OF THE SIBVL, TIVOLI. villas there, among which were those of Augustus himself, Maecenas,and the Empeior Hadrian. The beauties of Tivoli and the suri-ound-ing country were recorded in undying verse by Horace, whose Sabinefarm was not far distant, and who seems to have delighted to dwellin…
