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Rome (1887)

Wey, Francis, 1812-1882 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 349

An illustration from Rome, 1887, leaf 349
the Capitol, and the Adonis of the VillaAlbani, have slumbered amid these thickets. By the reign of Caracalla, this sublime madness of Adrian was onlya storeroom; after Totila, who besieged Tivoli, the villa became aquarry. Its gardens, in turn abandoned and restored to cultivation,owe to these… … REMAINS OF THE VILLA ADRIANA, CHAPTER XXIII.

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