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Identifier: handbookofromeca00john (find matches)
Title: A handbook of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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us, and Caligula; of Drusus theson of Tiberius, Antonia, ChiUidius,Britannicus, and Nerva. The firstmember of the imperial family whoseashes were deposited here was theyoung Marcellus, who died a,d. 22 ;and to whose memory Virgil touchinglyalludes (Acneid, vi. 873). The Mauso-leum was first devastated by Alaric inilO, and afterwards by Robert Guis-card; it was converted into a fortressin the 12th cent, by the Colonua family,who were dislodged by Frederick Bar-barossa, in 1107, when the tomb wasreduced to ruin. Here was burnt in abonfire the body of Cola di Rienzo,after being dragged along the Corsoand exposed to insult for two daysand a night on the steps of S. Mar-cello (1347). The Mausoleum was converted intoan amphitheatre for bull-fights untilthe time of Pius VIII., by whom allcruel representations of that kindwere forbidden; it is now a coveredcircus and theatre, named from Hum-bert I. The outer circular wall ofconcrete, faced with 02)us reticulatum, f>Jl ^^ A Pla^ii.9. IU-16.
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The CiTV. Boute 16.—Palazzo Borghese. 151 is still visible from tho court of thePal. Valdambriui, in the Via diEipetta. A. cellar-like chamber,said to be the tomb of Augustus, isstill shown. Connected with the Mau-soleum, and corresponding to thoVicolo degli Otto Cantoni, was theUstrumm, where the bodies of theimperial family were burned. Thesite of this was discovered in 1777,between S. Carlo and the end of theVia della Croce. vSome blocks of tra-vertine, bearing the names of membersof the family of the Caesars, and alarge alabaster vase may still be seenin the Hall of Statues at the Vatican.A cippus, bearing the name of Agrip-piua, wife of Germanicus, is preservedin the courtyard of the Pal. del Con-servatori. A little further on, outside the Pal.Valdambrini, is a curious fountain,with a barrel. Adjacent is the Churchof S. Rocco (1657), with some hand-some marbles. Near the apse are someremains of a corridor which led to theMausoleum from the river. Adjacent is the Church of S. Gi

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