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Title: Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, S. Russell
Subjects: Art -- Rome Rome -- Guidebooks Rome -- Antiquities
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racalla. The palace is not now to be visited,as it is occupied by the French Embassy. Its architecture is moreadmired than that of any other palace in Rome; it was built byPope Paul III. with materials taken from the Colosseum. Its roomsare adorned with frescoes of Annibale Caracci, his finest works, con-sisting of mythological subjects. The centre piece represents theTriumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. Opening out of the square is the Piazza Campo di Fiore. Hereevery Wednesday is held a fair of curiosities, &c. At tlie left comer is THE CANCELLERIA PALACE,(Palazzo dclla CanceUeria,) one of the finest palaces in Rome, built out of the travertine takenfrom the Colosseum: the forty-four red granite columns which sup-port the portico came from Pompeys Theatre. At the foot of thestaircase Count Rossi was assassinated in November 1848. Adjoining the palace is the Church of SS. Lorenzo e Damaso,lately restored. A short lane, Vicolo Regii^, leads to the DraschlPalace, at the side of which is
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144 RAMBLE II. THE STATUE OF PASQUINO, a mutilated toiso found here in the sixteenth century. It took itsname from Pasquino, a tailor, who lived ojjposite, and whose shopwas the rendezvous of the wits of the city, who wrote their jokesand stuck them on the statue: these were replied to by the statueof Marforio, now in the Capitol Museum. Some of Pasquinos sayings were very witty, and have been pub-lished. Now, under a free government, he seldom speaks. PASQUINOS REPLIES IN REFERENCE TO THE What the barbarians did not, the Bar- Barberini family having destroyed theberini have done. antiquities. Public, thou liest; they were not public Inscription put up over the door of thevows, but were vows of thy vain despot- Sacristy of S. Peter s.ism. Canova has this time made a mistake: Statue of Italy by Canova exhibited dur-he has clotlied Italy, and she is stripped. ing the French invasion. The Most High above sends us the tem- Some decrees of Napoleons, and a severepest; the most high below t

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