Wanderings in the Roman campagna . The most successful excavations wereobviously those of the sixteenth century. These weremade in an almost virgin soil. Alexander VI is said tohave discovered in the Odeum the group of the NineMuses now in Madrid;^ Cardinal Alessandro Farnesea frieze with cupids riding on dolphins, in the RoundIsland (1535); Cardinal Ippolito dEste many hundredworks of art in the Xystus, the imperial palace, and thethermae (1550-157£); Cardinal Gianvincenzo Caraffa aDiana, an xVtalanta, and a Fortune, in the imperialpalace (1540); Cardinal Marcello Cervini a marblefrieze, in t
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . The most successful excavations wereobviously those of the sixteenth century. These weremade in an almost virgin soil. Alexander VI is said tohave discovered in the Odeum the group of the NineMuses now in Madrid;^ Cardinal Alessandro Farnesea frieze with cupids riding on dolphins, in the RoundIsland (1535); Cardinal Ippolito dEste many hundredworks of art in the Xystus, the imperial palace, and thethermae (1550-157£); Cardinal Gianvincenzo Caraffa aDiana, an xVtalanta, and a Fortune, in the imperialpalace (1540); Cardinal Marcello Cervini a marblefrieze, in the home garden (1550); and Marcantonio Commentaries, ed. l.)8-t, p. ^. group was first removed to the Belvedere Garden in the Vati-can; then to the museum of Cardinal Rodolfo Pio di Carpi on the was purchased at a later period by Queen Christina of Sweden, who com-missioned the sculptor Ercole Ferrata to restore the missing parts; and in1689 by Duke Livio Odescalchi, whose heirs sold it to King Philip V HO MO f^<j td Q td <!H J MH &:)55 o 6 a THE LAND OF HADRIAN 139 Palosi, a magistrate of great repute at the time of PopePaul III, a fragmentary group of horses on the westernslope of the Vale of Tempe. Ulisse Aldovrandi, theantiquarian from Bologna who examined this find in1551, after one of the horses had been almost completelyput together again, calls it a most beautiful steed, inhigh relief, which seems to stumble and fall forward —lavoro vieraviglioso e degno. The illustration on p. 140shows what the seventeenth century restorers were ca-pable of doing with the poor animal. The falling horsefrom a decorative c[uadriga has become a Quintus Cur-tius leaping into the chasm, one of the most admiredseventeenth-century impostures of the salone in theBorghese Museum. Under the pontificate of Urban VIII, in the year 1630,the Bulgarini family, who had purchased from the heirsof Bindo Altoviti the site of the Odeum and of theAcademy, discovered cer
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