Days near Rome . Bishops Staircase, Ferentino. town. The stone used as the font in the little church of StGiovanni Evangelista has an inscription from the inhabitantsof Ferentinum to Cornelia Salonina, wife of the unconqueredGallienus. From the piazza, where a number of Romanaltars are collected, we have a magnificent view over moun-tain and plain. Hence, also, one may learn, by lookingdown, to find ones way through the intricate maze of filthyalleys, many of which have such stately names as Via dellAtreo, Vicolo dei Bagni de Flavio, Vicolo del Calidario,&c., to the finest of the churches, Sta
Days near Rome . Bishops Staircase, Ferentino. town. The stone used as the font in the little church of StGiovanni Evangelista has an inscription from the inhabitantsof Ferentinum to Cornelia Salonina, wife of the unconqueredGallienus. From the piazza, where a number of Romanaltars are collected, we have a magnificent view over moun-tain and plain. Hence, also, one may learn, by lookingdown, to find ones way through the intricate maze of filthyalleys, many of which have such stately names as Via dellAtreo, Vicolo dei Bagni de Flavio, Vicolo del Calidario,&c., to the finest of the churches, Sta. Maria Maggiore,which, in its beautiful west front, has a door with detachedred marble columns banded together, and above it the VOL. I. 17 258 DA YS NEAR ROME. emblems of the Evangelists on either side of the Lamb ofGod, and a grand rose S. Maria Maggiore, Ferentino. Old Italian histories assert that S. Maria Salome, thereputed mother of S. John the Evangelist, was buried atFerentino, as is attested by the archives in the cathedralof Veroli. Near the gate close to this church an inscription hewn in the solid rock records the erection of a statue by the grateful people of Ferentinum to Quinctilius Priscus, who, amongst other largesses, gave them cnistula and mulsum (cakes and mead) upon his birth-day, with sportulce (presents of money) for the decurions, and niccuin sparsiones (scrambles of nuts) for the boys. The pride of Ferentino, amongst its antiquities, is the so-called Testament. With difficulty I climbed over rocks and through thebrambles in a vineyard to reach this curiosity, and at last I saw beforeme a gi-eat table hewn in the living rock. A long inscription in well-cut characters tells here that Aulus Quinctilius, Quatuorvir and Jidile,was the benefactor of his native town, bequeathing to it all hisproperty
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