Wanderings in the Roman campagna . the following sentence: Giovanni Battista Pira-nesi has drawn over again these ruins, trying to makeout their plan, which is an almost impossible under-taking. These words were written by him in the thirty-fifth year of his age. It may interest the student of art to know that thewhite walls of this crypt are by no means the onlvalbum upon which architects and painters have signedtheir names, from the dawn of the Renaissance to theend of the eighteenth century. I have found several ofthese historical sheets: one at the uppermost turn ofthe spiral stairs of Tra
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . the following sentence: Giovanni Battista Pira-nesi has drawn over again these ruins, trying to makeout their plan, which is an almost impossible under-taking. These words were written by him in the thirty-fifth year of his age. It may interest the student of art to know that thewhite walls of this crypt are by no means the onlvalbum upon which architects and painters have signedtheir names, from the dawn of the Renaissance to theend of the eighteenth century. I have found several ofthese historical sheets: one at the uppermost turn ofthe spiral stairs of Trajans Column; a second in theLateran Baptistery; a third in the mausoleum of Con-stantina (S. Costanza), and a fourth in the cryptopor-ticus of Hadrians villa, which runs around three sides THE LAND OF HADRIAN 159 of the Frigidarium of the Therms. Many preciousautographs have been destroyed, or rendered illegible,by ignorant and vulgar tourists, but it is still easy tomake out the names of about thirty early explorers of UCSarhuCC. Map of the hill of S. Stefano, showing respective sites of thevillas of Hadrian, Zenobia, Maecenas, LoHia Paulina, andof the Vibii Varii the artistic charms of the villa, such as Henricus Bloe-maert Ultratrajectensis, 1627; David Kloker, 1627; Hen-ricus Corvinus Batavus, 1603; Mets, 1538 . . Maler;Robertus Willers Londinensis, 1647; A. de Holmale,1603; Carolus Albin, Parisiensis, 1641; Jacques Legrandpeintre Francois des Nations, 1662. IW WANDERINGS IN THE ROINIAN CAMPAGNA Since my first visit to the hills of Santo Stefano thetentacles of civilization have caught in their grip eventhese out-of-the-way lands, and many vestiges of thepast have been obliterated, not so much by the spadeor the plough as by the greed of the peasants to obtainmaterials for the building of their farmhouses free ofexpense. It seems that there were not one but twogreat villas adjoining that of Hadrian, both being acces-sible by an independent road from Tibur. This pic-turesque
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