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Rambles in Rome
An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Museums,
Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and
the Campagna

Rambles in Rome An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the Campagna

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RAMBLES IN ROME.

"If you are visiting Rome, you will find in this book a high-class companion and guide. Try it, and see the difference between the mere guide-book produced by the trade to sell, and the chatty, masterly production of a writer of ability and taste."—C. H. Spurgeon.

Rambles in Rome

An Archæological and Historical Guide

TO THE

MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, VILLAS, CHURCHES,
AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROME AND
THE CAMPAGNA.

By

S. RUSSELL FORBES,
Archæological and Historical Lecturer on Roman Antiquities.


Fifth Edition,
Revised and Enlarged; embracing all the Recent
Excavations and Discoveries.

WITH MAPS, PLANS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS.


LONDON: THOMAS NELSON AND SONS.
EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.


ROME: S. RUSSELL FORBES, 93 VIA BABUINO.
1887.

RAMBLES IN ROME.


CORRECTIONS, ALTERATIONS, AND DISCOVERIES
TO SEPTEMBER 1889.


Page 9. Some of the columns of the Temple of Neptune have been isolated.

Page 45. Plan.A is the Shrine of Janus. B, Inscription to Constantinus II., 357 A.D. C, Pedestal to Statue of Constantine (Eusebius, E. H., ix. 9, "Life of Constantine I.," 40 and 48). D, Inscription to Arcadius, Honorius, and Theodosius.

Page 56, sixth line from bottom, for at the same time read in 1503.

Page 60, sixth line from bottom, for S. Bonaventura read the Ædem Larum.

Page 72, line 19, for inside read outside.

Page 76, line 23, for Scipio read Regulus.

Page 77, sixth line from bottom, for second read third, 299–296.

Page 103. The Apollo Theatre is pulled down.

Page 118, line 21, for Monsignor Macchi read the Maggiordomo; also at page 124, third line from bottom.

Page 121. Vatican Galleries.—Second line, for 3rd and 4th objects read—3. S. Giovanni della Salle, founder of the Christian Brothers Schools, by C. Manani, 1888. 4. Jesuits Martyred in Japan, by Peter Gagliardi.

Second Room.—No. 12, read S. Grata of Bergamo, with the head of her lover, S. Alexander of the Theban legion, by Peter Loverini, 1887.

Page 126. Hall of Busts.For 280 read 273, the young Augustus. For 282 read 272, and for 285 read 292.

Page 127. Cabinet of Masks.For 427 read 425. For 428 read 427. After Alcamenes, line 10, read 436, Venus of Cnidos, by Praxiteles. For 436 read 441. Omit 441, Ganymedes, and for 442 read 443.

Page 129. Chiaramonti Corridor.For 635 read 636. Omit 416, Augustus as a Youth. Insert 372a, A Fragment from the Parthenon, by Phidias. Omit 112, Venus of Cnidos. For 484 read 483, Cupid. 639 read Sœmia.

Page 130. Braccio Nuovo.For 92 read 38B. For 96A read 97A. Insert 112, a fine bust of Juno as queen of heaven.

Page 136. Torlonia Museum closed to the public.

Page 140, line 19, for by the new road read Via Luciano Manara.

Page 147. Borghese Gallery.—Permission necessary. To be obtained at the palace, on the days the gallery is opened, before 1 P.M.

Page 160. Kircherian Museum.—The objects have been arranged in cases on the walls instead of down the centre of the rooms. Third Room.For at end on left read in front of the window.

Page 175. Capitoline Museum.—36. Omit whose bust it now supports; insert a porphyry fragment. 41. For Antoninus Pius read Claudius. 49, 50. After Pius read destroyed in 1665 by Alexander VI.

Page 179. Omit 23. Mercury.

Page 180. Terra-cotta Room.Omit a large jar, down to urn.

Page 181. Omit the case, line 21, down to Pia.

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