Wanderings in the Roman campagna . and engravers should have taken itas a favorite subject for their canvases and copper-plates. In tJie Lafreri collection of engravings, known I have in my collection of prints and drawings several unpublishedplans by Ligorio, drawn on parchment, such as the desiij^ns for the com-pletion of the Cortile di Belvedere, presented to Pius IV; the survey ofthe joint harbors of Claudius and Trajan at Porto; a sketch of the mauso-leum of Augustus, etc. Some of them will shortly be reproduced and illus-trated by the ].refect of the Vatican library, Father Ehrle, S. J.,
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . and engravers should have taken itas a favorite subject for their canvases and copper-plates. In tJie Lafreri collection of engravings, known I have in my collection of prints and drawings several unpublishedplans by Ligorio, drawn on parchment, such as the desiij^ns for the com-pletion of the Cortile di Belvedere, presented to Pius IV; the survey ofthe joint harbors of Claudius and Trajan at Porto; a sketch of the mauso-leum of Augustus, etc. Some of them will shortly be reproduced and illus-trated by the ].refect of the Vatican library, Father Ehrle, S. J., in his greatwork on the pontifical palace. THE LAND OF HORACE 113 by the name of Speculum Romanse magnificentise,there is a double sheet, printed in 1573 by the Frenchartist Etienne Duperac, at the request of the EmperorMaximilian. Besides a dedication to Queen CatherineMedici, mother of Charles IX, the sheet contains anindex of the principal fountains, which bore the names ofThetis, iEsculapius, Hygeia, Arethusa, Flora, Pomona,. Ligorios group of Rome and its founders, the frontispiece to his relief plan ofthe citv, in the Villa dEste and even of Venus Cloacina, not from antique statuesidentified as such, but from giant figures, modelled instucco or hewn out of the travertine, with which thefancy of Ligorio had peopled caves, grottoes, nym-phaeums, and waterfalls. Lafreri has also published aplate of the fountain of the Sibyl, but the best work onthis charming subject is the volume printed in the firstquarter of the seventeenth century by De Rossi, under 114 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA the title, Le fontane del giardino Estense in Tivolidisegnate et intagliate da Gianfrancesco Venturini. Cardinal Ippolito died in 1572, and was succeeded inthe ownership of the villa and in the governorship ofTivoli by his kinsmen and fellow princes of the church,Luigi and Alessandro. After the death of the latter in1624, villa and palace were despoiled of their valuablecontents. The antiq
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