Wanderings in the Roman campagna . l)ility of a gift from theambitious prelate. The fact is that so long as Benedictruled in the Vatican Furietti did not obtain his promo-tion to cardinalship to which he was otherwise XIII, who gave him the much-coveted purplehat on September 24, 1759, scored no better Centaurs of Aristeus and Papias and the Doves ofSosus remained in the Furietti house until the death oftheir discoverer, when they were finally purchased fromthe heirs for the sum of sixteen thousand scudi andplaced in the Capitoline Museum. To come back to the chron
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . l)ility of a gift from theambitious prelate. The fact is that so long as Benedictruled in the Vatican Furietti did not obtain his promo-tion to cardinalship to which he was otherwise XIII, who gave him the much-coveted purplehat on September 24, 1759, scored no better Centaurs of Aristeus and Papias and the Doves ofSosus remained in the Furietti house until the death oftheir discoverer, when they were finally purchased fromthe heirs for the sum of sixteen thousand scudi andplaced in the Capitoline Museum. To come back to the chronological description of dis-coveries in the villa, I must mention those made in thetime of Innocent X (1644-1655) by a stone-cutter namedBaratta, who dug out, among other curiosities, a stair- 142 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA case having steps of alabaster and side walls ornamentedwith panels of tarsia-work in a metal frame. The name of Count Giuseppe Fede is the one mostoften mentioned in connection with the fate of the villa. A corner of the stadium in Hadrians villa in the eiohteenth century. Having purchased the north-ern section of it, which extends from the present en-trance gate to the Canopus, he explored in a desultoryway the Greek theatre, the Nym})hreum, and the Pales-
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