Wanderings in the Roman campagna . 781, and now preservedin the Lancellotti palace under lock and key, so that nostudent has been able to examine it. Such an idiosyn-crasy is the more surprising when we remember thatkindness and generosity to others has always beencharacteristic of the Roman aristocracy. The secondreplica, now in the Sala della Biga, n. 618, was foundby Count Giuseppe Fede in 1791 near the so-calledNymphseum of Hadrians villa, stolen by Napoleon, andbrought back to Rome after the peace of 1815. Thethird, a torso, belonged to the French sculptor, EtienneMonnot, in whose studio
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . 781, and now preservedin the Lancellotti palace under lock and key, so that nostudent has been able to examine it. Such an idiosyn-crasy is the more surprising when we remember thatkindness and generosity to others has always beencharacteristic of the Roman aristocracy. The secondreplica, now in the Sala della Biga, n. 618, was foundby Count Giuseppe Fede in 1791 near the so-calledNymphseum of Hadrians villa, stolen by Napoleon, andbrought back to Rome after the peace of 1815. Thethird, a torso, belonged to the French sculptor, EtienneMonnot, in whose studio it was transformed into aDying Warrior and then sold to the Capitoline considers Monnots torso the most admirable ofall and the one which comes nearest to the perfection ofMyrons original. Ill luck seems to have followed theseDiscoboli; they all have met with unfair treatment. In 322 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA the restoration of the Fede replica made by Albacinithe poise of the head is decidedly wrong. A fourth. The Discobolus found by Queen Elena at Laurentura in afragmentary state Disco])olus, found by Gavin Hamilton in 1781, wasrestored as a Diomedes stealing the Palladium; and afifth, of the Uffizi, was transformed first into an En-dymion, later into a son of Niol)e. No such fate has THE LAND OF PLINY THE YOUNGER 323 befallen the one discovered at Laurentum; no restora-tion of the original marble has been attempted; but side
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