Days near Rome . Temple of Castor and Pollux, Cori. with smaller stones ; the second, near Santa Oliva, has poly-gonal blocks alone, very carefully fitted; and the third, atthe top of the hill, is still polygonal, but of ruder construc-tion. Behind some wretched houses are two columns stillstanding, with beautiful Corinthian capitals, a fragment of TEMPLES OF CORI. 229 the Temple of Castor and Pollux, as is proved by still legibleinscriptions. Another capital of the same temple is beforea house door a little further up the ascent. The adjoininghouse to this temple is called the Palace of Pilat
Days near Rome . Temple of Castor and Pollux, Cori. with smaller stones ; the second, near Santa Oliva, has poly-gonal blocks alone, very carefully fitted; and the third, atthe top of the hill, is still polygonal, but of ruder construc-tion. Behind some wretched houses are two columns stillstanding, with beautiful Corinthian capitals, a fragment of TEMPLES OF CORI. 229 the Temple of Castor and Pollux, as is proved by still legibleinscriptions. Another capital of the same temple is beforea house door a little further up the ascent. The adjoininghouse to this temple is called the Palace of Pilate. On thetop of the hill stands the church of S. Pietro, where the font(in the first chapel on the right) is sustained by a sculpturedmarble altar, adorned with rams heads. Behind the churchis a small garden, where we find entire the beautiful Doricperistyle of the Temple of Minerva, generally known here as. Temple of IVIiner\a, Con. the Temple of Hercules. Eight columns still remain, fourin the front. Here the figure of Minerva, which now standsunder the Senators palace on the Roman Capitol, wasfound. The ruin is most picturesque, and is grandly situatedon a terrace. 230 DA VS NEAR ROME. Whence Coras sentinels oerlookThe never-ending fen. Raphael made a sketch of it, which is still extant. As wesat to draw here, the children, who were vainly locked outby the Sacristan, and climbed after us over the wall, gotpieces of stone for blocks, and sticks for pencils, and imi-tated every line we made. Halfway up the hill is the beautiful old convent of SantaOliva, whose shrine is in the crypt at Anagni. She was aholy maiden of Cori, to whom the Virgin appeared in cloister, with a double row of arches, is most picturesque,and it contains an old well. The body of the church has aceiling whose intention is the same as that of the Sistine, re-presenting scenes of Old and New Testament story.
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