. A tour through Italy : exhibiting a view of its scenery, its antiquities, and its monuments, particularly as they are objects of classical interest and elucidation : with an account of the present state of its cities and towns : and occasional observations on the recent spoliations of the French . a becoming monument as a duty andan honor peculiarly appropriated to himself, and though hefound himself obliged to defer the discharge of the friendlyoffice year after year, yet he never could be induced to allow anyother person to fulfil it in his stead. Death however deprivedhim of the honor of
. A tour through Italy : exhibiting a view of its scenery, its antiquities, and its monuments, particularly as they are objects of classical interest and elucidation : with an account of the present state of its cities and towns : and occasional observations on the recent spoliations of the French . a becoming monument as a duty andan honor peculiarly appropriated to himself, and though hefound himself obliged to defer the discharge of the friendlyoffice year after year, yet he never could be induced to allow anyother person to fulfil it in his stead. Death however deprivedhim of the honor of erecting a tomb to Tasso; and to theCardinal Bevilacqua alone, is the public indebted for the presentmonument, rather decent than magnificent, with a short inscrip-tion. Every English traveller who feels the sublimity of Milton,and knows how much the British bard owes to the Tuscan poet,will hasten to the church of St. Onofrio, and at the tomb of Tor-quato Tasso, hail the muse that inspired their rival strains. Che di caduchi alloriNon circonda la fronte in Helicona;Ma su ne Cielo infia i beati choriHa di stelle immortali aurea corona! S. Sebastiano, a church erected by Constantine in memory i::un MTLI^A. Of v^7 sSMJiAsSTIAIX,, : riiiiit lirus nwrk the, uddiVcns or liitrr Unu:.. Afti/rricu\ V CluTpdJenti-anL-f uuu r/u- Carueay cr CnKi-the^ Cata& TestibuJe :rul>li.\-hed bv 31itnh THROUGH ITALY. 319 of the celebrated martyr Avhose name it bears, lias a handsomeportico and contains some good pictures and paintings. It ishowever more remarkable for being the principal entrance intothe catacombs which lie in its neighbourhood. The catacombsare subterranean streets or galleries, fjoni four to eight feet inheight, from two to five in breadth, extending to an innnenseand almost unknown length, and branching out into variouswalks. The confusion occasioned by the intersection of thesegalleries resembles that of a labyrinth, and render
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