Wanderings in the Roman campagna . thos to both epitaphs. This happy state of things has not undergone seriouschange with the lapse of time. Each monastery, eachvilla, each cottage of the region, seems to be connectedwith the production of some literary or artistic work,from Cardinal Bessarion, the founder of the GreekRenaissance studies in the Grottaferrata Abbey, toCardinal Wiseman, who wrote Fabiola under thepergola of the English College at INIonteporzio; fromAnnibale Caro, who translated the .Eneid in the groveof the villa of Lucullus, to Biondi and Canina. whogathered materials for their
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . thos to both epitaphs. This happy state of things has not undergone seriouschange with the lapse of time. Each monastery, eachvilla, each cottage of the region, seems to be connectedwith the production of some literary or artistic work,from Cardinal Bessarion, the founder of the GreekRenaissance studies in the Grottaferrata Abbey, toCardinal Wiseman, who wrote Fabiola under thepergola of the English College at INIonteporzio; fromAnnibale Caro, who translated the .Eneid in the groveof the villa of Lucullus, to Biondi and Canina. whogathered materials for their illustrations of Tusculumwhile residing at La Ruffinella. Above the gate of the cottage now inclosed in theVilla Piccolomini-Lancellotti, where Cardinal Cesare I, Lucius Fabi\is Octavianus, have retired into tliis little possessionof mine. THE LAND OF CICERO ! Buronio spent forty seasons in writin seccdere is again most happily used:. Tlie gateway of the GrottaFerrata Aljbey fortified by Cardinal Giulianodella Rovere about 1485 CAESAR CARD. BARONIVS ANNALIBVS ECCLESIAE PERTEXENDIS HIC SECEDERE SOLITVS LOCVM MO- NVMENTO DiGNVM FECIT. Were similar inscriptions tobe affixed to every house or garden gate in the territoryof Frascati or Grottaferrata where illustrious men have 276 WAXDERIXCS IN THE KOMAX CA^NIPAGNA resided durino; the last four centuries, the whole country-side would become a Pantheon. I shall mention onlytwo names as representatives of their respective socialstate, those of Cardinal Bessarion among the earlyhumanists, and iinnibale Caro among the poets of thegolden age. Johannes Bessarion of Trebizond, Bishop of Nicsea,came to Italy in 1438 as theological adviser of the j^han-tom-emperor Constantine Paheologue, at the councilconvened at Ferrara by Pope Eugene IV for the reimionof the Greek and Latin churches. As a supporter of theChurch of Rome, and as a newly elected member of theSacred College, he fou
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