Rambles in Rome

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Forbes, S. Russell

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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

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DG: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Italy, Vatican City, Malta

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Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks

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43416

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August 7, 2013

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.RAMBLES IN ROME.
2. 2.Preface.
3. 3.List of Illustrations.
4. 4.Contents.
5. 5.FIRST IMPRESSIONS. — THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ROME. — THE PLAN OF OUR RAMBLES. — HEALTH AND CLIMATE. — USEFUL HINTS. — THE TIBER. — HOW ROME BECAME RUINS. — THE WALLS OF ROME.
6. 6.ROMAN CONSTRUCTION. — TABLE OF CONSTRUCTION.
7. 7.RAMBLE I. — THE PIAZZA DEL POPOLO — THE EGYPTIAN OBELISK — CHURCH OF S. MARIA DEL POPOLO, — THE CORSO (Il Corso). — CHURCH OF S. LORENZO IN LUCINA, — THE GENERAL POST OFFICE (La Posta), — THE ENGLISH CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, — THE COLUMN OF MARCUS AURELIUS. — THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE, — EGYPTIAN OBELISK. — THE TEMPLE OF NEPTUNE. — THE CHURCH OF S. MARIA IN VIA LATA — THE SEPTA. — THE DORIA PALACE GALLERY (Palazzo Doria), — TOMB OF ATTIA CLAUDIA, — TOMB OF BIBULUS. — THE MAMERTINE PRISON, — THE SCALÆ GEMONIÆ, — "STATIONES MUNICIPIORUM" AND FORUM OF JULIUS CÆSAR. — THE ROMAN FORUM (Il Foro). — TEMPLE OF CASTOR AND POLLUX. — THE REGIA NUMÆ. — THE TEMPLE OF VESTA. — THE TEMPLE OF ANTONINUS AND FAUSTINA. — THE TEMPLE-TOMB OF JULIUS CÆSAR. — THE BASILICA ÆMILIA. — THE BASILICA PORCIA. — THE FORUM PISCATORIUM, — THE LAUTUMIÆ. — THE SENATE HOUSE, — THE GRÆCOSTASIS AND SENACULUM. — THE ARGILETUM, — THE BRONZE SHRINE OF JANUS. — THE ARCH OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, — THE DUILIAN COLUMN, — THE MÆNIA COLUMN — OPIMIUS'S TEMPLE OF CONCORD. — THE BASILICA OPIMIA. — THE TEMPLE OF VESPASIAN. — THE TEMPLE OF SATURN. — THE MILLIARIUM AUREUM, — THE PORTICO OF THE TWELVE GODS, — THE TABULARIUM. — THE COLUMN OF PHOCAS, — THE BASILICA JULIA, — THE VIA SACRA. — THE VICUS TUSCUS — THE VICUS JUGARIUS — THE STREET OF THE OX-HEADS. — MINOR STREETS. — THE COMITIUM. — THE JANUS. — SHRINE OF VENUS. — THE DEATH OF VIRGINIA. — THE FOUNTAIN OF JUTURNA. — THE FORNIX FABIUS — THE ARCH OF AUGUSTUS. — THE ROSTRA JULIA. — MARK ANTONY'S SPEECH. — THE CURTIAN LAKE. — THE PEDESTAL OF THE STATUE OF DOMITIAN. — THE STATUE OF MARSYAS. — THE PUTEAL SCRIBONIUS LIBO, — THE STATUE OF ATTUS NAVIUS. — THE FICUS NAVIA — THE ROSTRA. — THE MONUMENT OF MARCUS AURELIUS. [5] — THE SUOVETAURILIA. — THE ROSTRA AD PALMAM. — THE UMBILICUS — THE ASYLUM OF ROMULUS. — THE CLOACA MAXIMA, — FRAGMENTS — THE SCALÆ ANNULARIÆ. — HOUSE OF THE VIRGINS. — VESTA'S DUST-BIN. — THE SHRINE OF MERCURY. — THE ATRIUM VESTÆ. — THE PALLADIUM. — THE VICUS VESTÆ. — CHURCH OF SS. COSMO AND DAMIANO, — THE TEMPLE OF ROMULUS, — THE TEMPLE OF VICAPORTA, VICTORY. — TEMPLE OF VENUS AND ROMA, — TEMPLE OF THE PENATES. — THE HOUSE OF JULIUS CÆSAR. — THE PORTICUS MARGARITARIA. — THE SACRA CLIVUS. — THE VICUS SANDALIARIUS. — BASILICA OF CONSTANTINE, — CHURCH OF S. FRANCISCA ROMANA. — THE PALATINE HILL AND THE PALACE OF THE CÆSARS. — ROMA QUADRATA. — THE TEMPLE OF ROMA QUADRATA (6). — ALTAR OF APOLLO RHAMNUSII (5), — THE CURIÆ VETERES (19). — THE HOUSE OF ROMULUS — THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER STATOR (13), — UNDER THE REPUBLIC. — THE TEMPLE OF CYBELE (4). — THE TEMPLE OF VICTORY (9). — THE SHRINE OF MAIDEN VICTORY (9 A ). — ALTAR TO AIUS LOQUENS (35). — TEMPLE OF JUPITER VICTOR (21). — THE HOUSE OF GERMANICUS (10), — THE PALACES OF THE CÆSARS — THE HOUSE OF AUGUSTUS (18). — THE GELOTIANA (32), — THE HOUSE OF TIBERIUS (3). — THE PALACE OF CALIGULA AND HADRIAN (2). — THE PALACE OF DOMITIAN (17). — THE BASILICA (16). — THE STADIUM (26). — THE EXEDRA, OR ODEUM (27). — THE NYMPHÆUM OF MARCUS AURELIUS (30). — THE PALACE OF COMMODUS (25, 29) — THE PALACE OF THE CÆSARS. — THE ARCH OF TITUS. — TEMPLE OF THE SUN, — THE FORUM OF CUPID AND ITS BASILICÆ, — PEDESTAL OF NERO'S COLOSSUS, — META SUDANS, — THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE, — THE COLOSSEUM.
8. 8.RAMBLE II. — THE ROUTE. — THE BRIDGE OF S. ANGELO, — TOMB OF HADRIAN, NOW THE CASTLE OF S. ANGELO. — S. PETER'S. — THE VATICAN. — THE SCALA REGIA, — THE SISTINE CHAPEL, — SALA REGIA, — THE PAULINE CHAPEL — GALLERY OF MODERN PAINTINGS. — STANZE OR CAMERE OF RAPHAEL, — THE CHAPEL OF S. LORENZO. — THE LOGGIE OF RAPHAEL, — THE PICTURE GALLERY. — THE MOSAIC MANUFACTORY. — THE VATICAN MUSEUM. — THE LIBRARY. — THE CHRISTIAN MUSEUM. — THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM. — THE HALL OF THE BIGA, — THE GALLERY OF THE CANDELABRA, — THE GALLERY OF TAPESTRIES — THE ETRUSCAN MUSEUM, — THE INQUISITION. — THE PORTA S. SPIRITO, — S. ONOFRIO—TASSO'S TOMB. — PALAZZO DEI LINCEI. — THE FARNESINA PALACE. — TORLONIA MUSEUM. — THE PORTA SETTIMIANA, — S. PIETRO IN MONTORIO, — MARTIAL'S VILLA. — THE JANICULUM. — THE PAULINE FOUNTAIN, — VILLA PAMPHILI DORIA. — CHURCH OF S. CECILIA, — CHURCH OF S. CHRISOGONO. — STAZIONE VII COHORTI DEI VIGILI — CHURCH OF S. MARIA. — THE PONTE SISTO. — THE FARNESE PALACE. — THE CANCELLERIA PALACE, — THE STATUE OF PASQUINO, — CHURCH OF S. MARIA IN VALLICELLA, — CIRCO AGONALE, — THE OBELISK. — THE CHURCH OF S. AGNESE, — CHURCH OF S. MARIA DELLA PACE, — CHURCH OF S. AGOSTINO.
9. 9.RAMBLE III. — THE VIA RIPETTA. — THE MAUSOLEUM OF AUGUSTUS. — THE CAMPUS MARTIUS, — THE BORGHESE GALLERY, — HILDA'S TOWER. — THE OBELISK — THE PANTHEON. — THE BATHS OF AGRIPPA. — THE OBELISK, — CHURCH OF S. MARIA SOPRA MINERVA, — THE TEMPLE OF MINERVA CAMPENSIS — THE KIRCHERIAN MUSEUM. — THE PRE-HISTORIC MUSEUM — CHURCH OF THE JESUITS (Il Gesu), — THE TEMPLE OF CASTOR. — THE CAPITOLINE HILL. — THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MARCUS AURELIUS, — THE CHURCH OF ARA CŒLI. — THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER CAPITOLINUS. — TEMPLE OF JUPITER FERETRIUS (The Trophy-Bearer). — THE TARPEIAN ROCK. — CAMILLUS'S TEMPLES TO CONCORD AND JUNO. — THE TABULARIUM. — THE TOWER OF THE CAPITOL, — THE SEVEN HILLS OF ROME. — PALAZZO DEI CONSERVATORI. — THE MUSEUM OF THE CAPITOL. — THE TRAITORS' LEAP. — THE TEMPLE OF OPS. — THE THEATRE OF MARCELLUS. — THE DECEMVIRAL PRISONS. — THE PORTICO OF OCTAVIA. — THE GHETTO, — THE CENCI PALACE, — THE THEATRE OF BALBUS. — THE THEATRE OF POMPEY. — THE SPOT WHERE CÆSAR FELL. — THE STATUE OF POMPEY, — THE SPADA PALACE GALLERY. — THE HIRED HOUSE OF S. PAUL. — PONS FABRICIUS, — THE ISLAND OF THE TIBER. — THE PONS CESTIUS, — THE TEMPLES OF JUNO SOSPITA, PIETY, AND HOPE. — THE HOUSE OF RIENZI. — THE PONTE ROTTO, — THE SUBLICIAN BRIDGE, — THE TEMPLE OF PUDICITIA PATRICIA. — THE ROUND TEMPLE OF HERCULES. — THE GRAND TEMPLE OF HERCULES. — THE CHURCH OF S. MARIA IN COSMEDIN — THE EMPORIUM, — MONS TESTACCIO, — PROTESTANT CEMETERY. — IL PRIORATO. — CHURCH OF S. ALEXIUS, — CHURCH OF S. SABINA, — CHURCH OF S. PRISCA, — CHURCH OF S. SABA, — CAVE OF AQUEDUCTS, — WALL OF THE LATINS, — THE BATHS OF SURA, — HOUSE OF AQUILA AND PRISCILLA. — THE CIRCUS MAXIMUS. — CHURCH OF S. ANASTASIA, — THE LUPERCAL — THE ARCH OF JANUS (?), — THE ARCH OF THE SILVERSMITHS AND CATTLE-DEALERS. — CHURCH OF S. GIORGIO IN VELABRO, — THE CLOACA MAXIMA, — CHURCH OF S. TEODORO,
10. 10.RAMBLE IV. — THE ROUTE. — THE PIAZZA DI SPAGNA. — THE FOUNTAIN OF TREVI, — THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES (SS. Apostoli). — THE COLONNA PALACE. — THE FORUM OF TRAJAN. — THE COLUMN OF TRAJAN. — THE FORUM OF AUGUSTUS. — THE TEMPLE OF MARS ULTOR, — THE ACADEMY OF S. LUCA. — THE FORUM OF NERVA. — THE ALTAR OF MINERVA, — SITE OF THE HOUSE OF POMPEY. — HOUSE OF LUCREZIA BORGIA. — CHURCH OF S. PETER IN VINCOLI. — NERO'S GOLDEN HOUSE. — THE BATHS OF HADRIAN. — CHURCH OF S. CLEMENT, — THE ORATORY OF S. CLEMENT, — TEMPLE OF MITHRAS, — EGYPTIAN OBELISK — THE BAPTISTERY, — THE LATERAN PALACE. — THE LATERAN MUSEUM. — THE CHRISTIAN MUSEUM. — PICTURE GALLERY. — S. GIOVANNI IN LATERANO. — THE GATES, — BARRACKS OF THE EQUITES SINGULARES. — THE SCALA SANTA — THE VILLA WOLKONSKY. — THE AMPHITHEATRUM CASTRENSE, — CHURCH OF S. CROCE IN GERUSALEMME, — THE SESSORIUM PALACE, — CHURCH OF S. STEFANO ROTONDO, — NERO'S MEAT-MARKET. — S. MARIA DELLA NAVICELLA, — S. TOMMASO IN FORMIS, — ARCH OF DOLABELLA AND SILANUS. — THE VILLA CŒLIMONTANA, — THE OBELISK — CHURCH OF SS. GIOVANNI E PAOLO, — THE TEMPLE OF CLAUDIUS. — THE VIVARIUM, — THE SPOLIARIUM, — THE RESERVOIR OF NERO. — THE CHURCH OF S. GREGORIO, — MUSEO URBINO.
11. 11.RAMBLE V. — THE PINCIO. — THE EGYPTIAN OBELISK, — THE FRENCH ACADEMY, — CHURCH OF TRINITA DEI MONTI, — THE EGYPTIAN OBELISK — PIAZZA BARBERINI. — BARBERINI GALLERY. — S. ANDREW'S, — MONTE CAVALLO. — QUIRINAL PALACE. — ROSPIGLIOSI PALACE. — THE COLONNA GARDENS. — THE CAPITOLIUM VETUS. — THE TORRE DELLE MILIZIE, — THE CHURCH OF S. AGATA IN SUBURRA, — THE CHURCH OF S. LORENZO, — HOUSE OF PUDENS. — THE SCENE OF TULLIA'S IMPIETY. — THE CHURCH OF S. MARIA MAGGIORE. — BORGHESE CHAPEL. — SIXTINE CHAPEL, — COLUMN OF HENRY IV. — THE CHURCH OF S. PRAXEDES, — A ROMAN VILLA, — PRIMITIVE TOMBS. — THE CHURCH OF S. MARTINO — THE SETTE SALE, — THE GARDENS OF MÆCENAS, — THE AUDITORIUM, — THE ARCH OF GALLIENUS, — CHURCH OF S. ANTONIO ABBATE, — THE NYMPHÆUM — THE TOMBS OF MÆCENAS AND HORACE. — THE BATHS OF GALLIENUS, — THE CHURCH OF S. BIBIANA, — THE PRÆTORIAN CAMP, — THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA. — PIAZZA DI TERMINI, — BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN, AND CHURCH OF S. MARIA DEGLI ANGELI. — THE VIA NAZIONALE — CHURCH OF S. PAUL'S WITHIN THE WALLS, — THE EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS. — NEW MUSEUM OF AGRICULTURE. — THE FELICE FOUNTAIN. — THE FLAVIAN TEMPLE, — THE UNFAITHFUL VESTAL'S TOMB. — THE VILLA SALLUSTIANA, — LUDOVISI MUSEUM. — THE CHURCH AND CEMETERY OF THE CAPPUCCINI. — TABLE OF EGYPTIAN OBELISKS IN ROME.
12. 12.RAMBLE VI. — THE PORTA CAPENA. — THE VALLEY OF THE MUSES, — BATHS OF CARACALLA. — CHURCH OF S. BALBINA, — CHURCH OF SS. NEREO E ACHILLEO, — TEMPLE OF MARS, — TEMPLE OF HONOUR AND VIRTUE. — THE HOUSE OF HADRIAN. — THE TEMPLE OF TEMPESTAS, — THE VIA LATINA, — PORTA LATINA. — S. GIOVANNI IN OLEO. — THE TOMB OF LUTATIUS CATULUS — THE COLUMBARIA OF HYLAS AND VITALINE. — CHAPEL OF THE SEVEN SLEEPERS, — TOMB OF THE SCIPIOS. — TOMB OF CORNELIUS TACITUS. — THE OFFICERS OF CÆSAR'S HOUSEHOLD. — THE ARCH OF DRUSUS — THE PORTA APPIA — THE SEPTIZONIA OF GETA, — TOMB OF PRISCILLA. — CHURCH OF DOMINE QUO VADIS. — THE TOMB OF ANNIA REGILLA. — TOMB OF THE CÆCILII, — CATACOMBS OF S. CALIXTUS. — TEMPLE OF CERES AND FAUSTINA, — VILLA OF HERODES ATTICUS. — CATACOMBS OF DOMITILLA. — BASILICA OF S. PETRONILLA, — CHURCH OF S. SEBASTIANO, — TOMB OF ROMULUS, SON OF MAXENTIUS. — CIRCUS OF MAXENTIUS, — THE TOMB OF CECILIA METELLA, — S. NICHOLAS OF BARI. — TOMBS ON THE VIA APPIA. — APPII FORUM AND THE THREE TAVERNS.
13. 13.RAMBLES IN THE CAMPAGNA. — PORTA FLAMINIA. — VILLA BORGHESE. — VILLA OF PAPA GIULIO. — ACQUA ACETOSA, — THE PONTE MOLLE — VILLA OF LIVIA, — VEII. — MONTE MARIO. — THE VILLA MADAMA. — PORTA SALARA. — VILLA ALBANI. — CATACOMB OF S. PRISCILLA. — ANTEMNÆ, — THE PONTE SALARA, — FIDENÆ, — PORTA PIA. — PORTA NOMENTANA, — VILLA TORLONIA, — CHURCH OF S. AGNESE, — THE CATACOMB OF S. AGNESE. — CHURCH OF S. COSTANZA — THE OSTORIAN CATACOMB. — PONTE NOMENTANA, — MONS SACER, — TOMB OF VIRGINIA. — ORATORY AND CATACOMB OF S. ALEXANDER, — PORTA TIBURTINA. — CHURCH OF S. LORENZO, — THE VIA TIBURTINA. — PONTE LUCANO, — TIVOLI. — THE VILLA D'ESTE, — THE ANCIENT TIBUR — HADRIAN'S VILLA — PORTA ESQUILINÆ. — THE BAKER'S TOMB. — VIA LABICANA — TOMB OF HELENA (?). — GABII, — PORTA S. GIOVANNI. — FIRST EXCURSION. — VIA APPIA NOVA. — THE PAINTED TOMBS. — THE BASILICA OF S. STEPHEN, — THE AQUEDUCTS. — THE ROUTE. — THE TOMB OF POMPEY THE GREAT. — ALBANO, — VALE OF ARICCIA. — TOMB OF ARUNS. — ARICCIA. — TEMPLE OF DIANA ARICINA, — FOUNTAIN OF EGERIA, — GENZANO. — LAKE NEMI, — NEMI, — THE TEMPLE OF DIANA NEMORENSE. — THE FOUNTAIN OF JUTURNA. — PALAZZOLO. — THE ALBAN LAKE — CASTEL GANDOLFO, — ALBA LONGA. — VALLIS FERENTINA, — MARINO, — GROTTA FERATTA, AND CICERO'S TUSCULAN VILLA, — SECOND EXCURSION. — FRASCATI, — TUSCULUM. — ROCCA DI PAPA — MONTE CAVO. — PORTA OSTIENSIS. — PYRAMID OF CAIUS CESTIUS, — THE CHAPEL OF SS. PETER AND PAUL. — THE CHURCH OF S. PAOLO. — THE REMURIA HILL. — TRE FONTANE, — THE VIA OSTIENSIS. — VIADUCT OF ANCUS MARTIUS, — OSTIA, — CASTEL FUSANO — PLINY'S VILLA. — LIST OF EMPERORS. — LIST OF KINGS OF ROME. — HISTORICAL PERIODS.
14. 14.VISITOR'S ROMAN DIRECTORY — GUIDE TO USEFUL INFORMATION. — ARTISTS IN ROME, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN. — ARTISTS, NATIVE AND FOREIGN. — CARRIAGE TARIFF. — GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, AND VILLAS OF ROME. — GALLERIES. — MUSEUMS. — VILLAS. — HOTELS RECOMMENDED. — PUBLIC LIBRARIES. — MASONIC. — ORDERS REQUIRED, AND WHERE OBTAINABLE. — OMNIBUS ROUTES IN ROME. — PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN ROME. — POSTAL NOTICES.
15. 15.Index.
16. 16.FOOTNOTES

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