Wanderings in the Roman campagna . eighteenth century describe as stillextant in his private apartment at Mondragone picturesby Raphael, Zuccari, Uomenichino, Carafia, Guido, Mi-chelangelo, Diirer, Cav. d Arpino, and Lanfranco. One more interesting figure of a cardinal I shall in-troduce to the reader before bringing this chapter toa close, that of the last of the villa-builders at Fras-cati. In Domenico Passionei — born at Fossombrone inless, arclueologist, diplomatist, linguist, and man ofthe world, Archbishoj) of Ephesus, Papal Nuncio to theLow Countries, Baden, Switzerland, and Vienna (whe
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . eighteenth century describe as stillextant in his private apartment at Mondragone picturesby Raphael, Zuccari, Uomenichino, Carafia, Guido, Mi-chelangelo, Diirer, Cav. d Arpino, and Lanfranco. One more interesting figure of a cardinal I shall in-troduce to the reader before bringing this chapter toa close, that of the last of the villa-builders at Fras-cati. In Domenico Passionei — born at Fossombrone inless, arclueologist, diplomatist, linguist, and man ofthe world, Archbishoj) of Ephesus, Papal Nuncio to theLow Countries, Baden, Switzerland, and Vienna (wherehe brought into the fold of the church the Prince ofWurtemberg and Ekkart the historian), founder of thechurch of St. Edwige in Berlin, official orator at thefuneral of Prince Eugene of Savoy, a cardinal in 1738 —we find embodied the most perfect tvpe of the oentle-manly prelate of the eighteenth century. When, tiredof court life, he devoted himself to the enjoyment of theliterary and artistic treasures collected in Rome and. <1 d THE LAND OF CICERO 207 abroad, he could not find a happier retreat than theone offered by the Tusculan hihs; but why he shouklhave appHed to the rechises of CaniakloH for a ])iece ofland within their cloistral bounds, when he might havechosen a site much better timbered and watered, easierof access, and commanding a better view, has never beensatisfactorily explained. His application was acceptedby the startled cenobites, not without much grinding ofteeth and forebodings of trouble. The Camaldulese hermitage, offered to the disciplesof St. Romuald by Pope Paul V after his purchase ofMondragone, occupies the site of a Roman villa on theshoulder of the hill which descends due north fromTusculum in the direction of Matidias villa at LeCappellette. Here the white-robed and white-beardedanchorites lived in separate cells, remote from all inter-course with mankind and meeting their fellow hermitsonly in the dead of the night, whenever the tolling o
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