Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . an is to drink poison. ^ On the other hand, Alban wine, asto-day, was the favourite. Here is the entrance of the Val dInfemo, formerly a pleasantwinter walk, where, near the beginning of the Cork Woods, aresome picturesque remains of an ancient nymphaeum. The soil isrich in pteropodous molluscs. In this locality the ancients madetheir bricks and tiles. The fine Bastioue di Belvidere, erected by Antonio da Sangallo, isa great feature on the right, as we approach the walls. The Porta Angelica, built by Pius IV. (1559-()6), which led intoth
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . an is to drink poison. ^ On the other hand, Alban wine, asto-day, was the favourite. Here is the entrance of the Val dInfemo, formerly a pleasantwinter walk, where, near the beginning of the Cork Woods, aresome picturesque remains of an ancient nymphaeum. The soil isrich in pteropodous molluscs. In this locality the ancients madetheir bricks and tiles. The fine Bastioue di Belvidere, erected by Antonio da Sangallo, isa great feature on the right, as we approach the walls. The Porta Angelica, built by Pius IV. (1559-()6), which led intothe Borgo beneath the walls of the Vatican, was destroyed in wns called in the Middle Ages Porta Viridaria, from the Viri-darium or garden which was V)ehind the Vatican palace, and waswalled in by Nicholas III. in 1278. The tomb of the shoe merchantCaius Julius Helius was discovered in building one of the near this in 1887. Above the arch by wliich the walls of Leo IV. cross the Via • Martial, Ep. x. 45, 6.» Ibid. Ep. vi. 92, 3. •. iJr-^v/ The Grove opPurrinaK Syrias Temple (Janiculan HilO Walks in Borne 643 Angelica are inscriptions which record the work done for himby companies of men from Capracorum (Veii) and Saltisino underone Agatho, who may possibly have been the chief designer ofthe walls. Those who return from hence to the English quarter in the even-ing will realise the vividness of Miss Thackerays description:— They passed !;roup8 standing- round their doorways : a blaclisinith ham-meriu<4 with f;reiit straight blows at a copper pot, shouting to a friend, ayoung halier, naked almost, exce])t for a great sheet flung over his shoulders,and leaning against the door of his shop. The horses tramp on. Listen tothe flow of fountains gleaming white against the dark marbles—to the mur-mur of voices. An old lady, who has apparently hung all her wardrobe outof window in petticoats and silk handkerchiefs, is looking out fi-om beneaththese banners at
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