The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . the Bevilacqua palace. * Suet., in Domit. 4, 5. f Lampridius, :|: Girol. Dalla Corte, Llst. di Ver., 1596.§ Zagata, Cronica, i, 191 Panvinius, Antiq. Ver., p. 187. O * 200 ON THE THEATRES OF VICENZA AND VERONA. It is now sixteen years ago since Sig. Monga commenced theexcavation of this theatre. It is much to be desired that hewiU not be content with exposing the parts to light, but thathe will cause that to be done which has been so ably carriedout in the neighbouring theatre of Vicenza, viz., the carefuldrawing o
The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . the Bevilacqua palace. * Suet., in Domit. 4, 5. f Lampridius, :|: Girol. Dalla Corte, Llst. di Ver., 1596.§ Zagata, Cronica, i, 191 Panvinius, Antiq. Ver., p. 187. O * 200 ON THE THEATRES OF VICENZA AND VERONA. It is now sixteen years ago since Sig. Monga commenced theexcavation of this theatre. It is much to be desired that hewiU not be content with exposing the parts to light, but thathe will cause that to be done which has been so ably carriedout in the neighbouring theatre of Vicenza, viz., the carefuldrawing of every portion of the ancient structure. We shallthen be enabled to form an estimate of the value of the draw-ings by Palladio, Caroto, and Cristofali; at the same time thatwe picture to ourselves the structure in its original state, andperhaps attain knowledge of many important details aifectingthe grandeur and beauty of the building, of which we are, atpresent, ignorant. Magna Verona, vale, valeas per secula, semperEt celebrent gentes nomen in orbe tuum. Edward Q CD ^ ^^^ 201 XII. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE THEATREOF VERONA. /~\N the slopes of the hill on which stood the Capitolium* of^-^ Verona, are prodigious remains of the ancient theatre,evidences of its former grandeur, and which cause us the moredeeply to deplore its present ruin. This theatre and the amphi-theatre, which, fortunately, is better preserved, shew the import-ance and power Avhich Verona possessed under the Romandominion; on which account it is praised by Livyf and Strabo;}:for its greatness, and by Tacitus § for its flourishing conditionand abundance. We are unable to determine the exact epochof the building of this theatre. Sig. Consigl. Gaetano Pinali,in his description of the excavation, adduces argument to showthat it was built in the Augustan age, supporting the conjec-ture by the inscription OCTAVIAE C. F .EXSORAT. The local historians who bring forward this inscription forgetto tell us t
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