The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . ities which he attaches to his work, give Miiller (I. 3, 3) cites Fresulaj as an in- widely different measurements, Faesula? stance of the quadrangular form, which being much superior in size to the last two, was usually given to Etruscan cities, and though smaller than the first. In fact his thence copied in the original city of Ro- plan represents it as about 8800 feet in mulus— Roma qaadrata—a custom based circumference, or just 1| English mile. on religious usages. Dion. Hal. I. p. 75. Niebuhr (I. p. 121, Eng. trans.) was there- Plutarch, llomul. 10.
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . ities which he attaches to his work, give Miiller (I. 3, 3) cites Fresulaj as an in- widely different measurements, Faesula? stance of the quadrangular form, which being much superior in size to the last two, was usually given to Etruscan cities, and though smaller than the first. In fact his thence copied in the original city of Ro- plan represents it as about 8800 feet in mulus— Roma qaadrata—a custom based circumference, or just 1| English mile. on religious usages. Dion. Hal. I. p. 75. Niebuhr (I. p. 121, Eng. trans.) was there- Plutarch, llomul. 10. Festus, r. Qaadrata. fore misinformed when he said that the Solinus, Polyh. cap. II. Cf. Varro, Ling, walls, theatre, and other ruins of Fgesulce Lat. V. 143. Miiller, III. 6, 7. 122 J7IES0LE. [chap. xli. the outer line of the ancient Nothing of the triplewall is now to be seen. In the Church of S. Alessandro, on thesame height, are some columns of cipollino, which probablybelonged to a Roman temple on this PERTICHE. OF \S TLORENTINZ BRACC/A eACHY* SO TD/SZS rRANCAISZS From Miculi. PLAN OP PIESOLE. a Line of the Etruscan Etruscan Ancient Archway outside the Steps of an ancient Roman Theatre. / Wall, commonly called the EtruscanPalace. g Piazza. h Cathedral. i San Francesco, on the site of the Fonte Sotterra. Though little of antiquity is to be seen on this height, thevisitor should not fail to ascend it for the sake of its all-gloriousview. No scene in Italy is better known, or has been more oftendescribed, than that from the top of Fesole. Poets, painters, 1 Inghirami, Ghiida di Fiesole, p. inner line of wall is not of frequentoccurrence in Etruscan towns ; more com-mon, however, in the northern thansouthern district. The same may he saidof double heights, or arces, within thecity-walls, of which Fiesulaj presents aspecimen. a On this height was discovered in 1814the only instance
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