. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. sting ;the native place of Saint Franceso of Assisi, and ofMetastasio. Some remarkable tables with Etruscaninscriptions have been found here. It will occupyhalf a day, with a good guide. The church ofSanta Maria Filipini was the temple of are many antiquities of which my notesare too brief to give any adequate should see the church of S. Francesco,and the monastery of Santa Clara, and they shouldvisit at the bottom of the hill the magnificent con-vent of Santa Maria dei Angeli, which containsmany fine paintings,
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. sting ;the native place of Saint Franceso of Assisi, and ofMetastasio. Some remarkable tables with Etruscaninscriptions have been found here. It will occupyhalf a day, with a good guide. The church ofSanta Maria Filipini was the temple of are many antiquities of which my notesare too brief to give any adequate should see the church of S. Francesco,and the monastery of Santa Clara, and they shouldvisit at the bottom of the hill the magnificent con-vent of Santa Maria dei Angeli, which containsmany fine paintings, and particularly one latelypresented by Overbeck, perhaps the artist of highestgenius now in Italy. 518 CONCLUSION. TODI AND NORCIA. These places we were unable to visit.* In an ex-cavation at the former, the bronze warrior of theVatican was found, and a great deal of finely builtwall remains. At the latter there are lines of tombs,which once had sculptured fronts ; a specimen ofwhich I subjoin from Sir W. Gells work on thevicinity of All these fronts are now destroyed, and the sepul-chres are not nearly so well worth seeing as those ofCastel dAsso ; but Norcia was described to me as a very curious and interesting Etruscan city, whichevery one ought to see. TERNI. Three miles from Terni, on the site of the ancientInteramna, is a mass of Etruscan wall, curious to * Since writing the above, I have seen the drawings of two remark-able tombs at Norcia, with temple fronts, and sculpture, which appear to mo more striking than anything even nt Tanpiinia, and so differentfrom all other parts of Ktrnria, as it now exists, that no travellerihould neglect to visit them. They are the only monuments remain-ing of the architecture of ancient Italy. CONCLUSION. 519 the antiquary. The little town of Terni containsthe ruins of an amphitheatre in the bishops garden,and of a temple in the church of San Salvadore,called the temple of the sun. In the cellars of thecollege are the remains of
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