Wanderings in the Roman campagna . mage through every coun-try in Europe, including Italy (the Vatican, Capitoline,National, Borghese, and Albani museums), France (theLouvre), England (the British Museum and Lans-downe House), Prussia (the Antiquarium, Berlin), Swe-den (Stockholm), Saxony (Dresden), and Russia ( and Pavlovsk). I have said that the largest and best section of thevilla was purchased about the year 1730 by Count Fede,to whose plantations of pines and cypresses the placeowes its present pictures(|ueness. In 1803 it was boughtby Pius VII for his nephew, Braschi-Onesti,
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . mage through every coun-try in Europe, including Italy (the Vatican, Capitoline,National, Borghese, and Albani museums), France (theLouvre), England (the British Museum and Lans-downe House), Prussia (the Antiquarium, Berlin), Swe-den (Stockholm), Saxony (Dresden), and Russia ( and Pavlovsk). I have said that the largest and best section of thevilla was purchased about the year 1730 by Count Fede,to whose plantations of pines and cypresses the placeowes its present pictures(|ueness. In 1803 it was boughtby Pius VII for his nephew, Braschi-Onesti, whom hehad endowed with a dukedom. Pietro Rosa, who wasappointed superintendent of antiquities for the pnn-inceof Rome at the revolution of 1870, acquired for the statethe Braschi property as well as the olive grove of Roc-cabruna, and l:)egan a systematic excavation. The workwas carried on from year to year until 1890, resulting in Die Villa ties Hadrian hei Tiroli, Berlin, lloiiiier, 1805, pp. 1,)0-1()8. THE LAND OF HADRIAN 149. A hall near the Greek and Latin libraries, excavated by the author in 1885 the laying bare of the most important buildings, exceptthe Canopus, the Thermae, and the Stadium, which stilllie buried under their cover of earth. Since 1890, how-ever, the villa has been practically abandoned, and itwill soon be deprived of the harmonious combinationof picturesqueness and archaeological interest unless achange takes place in the policy of the administration. I shall not accompany the visitor in his inspection ofthe single ruins; they are still beautiful, apart from theirclassic name and purpose, and they are so exquisitely setin their frame of green that archaeological informationabout them seems out of place. The information is sup-plied, at all events, by guidebooks, the latest of which isaccompanied by an excellent map, from the survey madein 1906 by the Royal School of Engineers. In beginning La villa Adriana, Guida e descrizione compilatadal Prof. R. La
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