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Title: The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ly are mentioned, the Baths of Trajan and theBasilica of S. Pietro in Vincoli. Though in generalit is true that the modern streets mentioned above, deiBanchi, del Pellegrino, delle Botteghe Oscure, etc., followthe lines of ancient thoroughfares, the statement mustnot be accepted too literally. There is usually aslight deviation to the right or to the left, in conse-quence of which the old pavements of basalt have cometo light, as a rule, under the houses wliich flank themodern streets, ratlier than under the streets them-selves. The importance of the other section of this preciousdocument, in wliich are transcribed some of the monu-mental inscriptions of the City, is almost as great asof that containing the Itinerary. I do not refer toinscriptions from the edifices which are still in exist-ence, such as the arch of Claudius in the Via delNazzareno, the obelisk of the Vatican, the columnof Trajan, and the arch of Septimius Severus, but tothose from buildings which have partly or wholly
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c3 O&( o a o P5 O ITS .2 ^ CD aoPh ID SiH THE ROME OF THE EINSIEDLEN ITINERARY 151 disappeared. Following the order of the manuscriptwe find the first monument to be the bridge by whichthe Via Salaria crossed the river Anio, broken downfirst by Totila in 544, again by the Neapolitan armyin 1798, and for the third time by the Popes ownsoldiers in 1867 (Fig. 26). Next in order are inscriptions from the square baseof the mausoleum of Hadrian, the epitaphs of thegreat emperors of the second century buried within.The epitaphs were destroyed in July, 1579, by PopeGregory XIII., who made use of the marbles for thedecoration of the Cappella Gregoriana in St. Peters.The document mentions furthermore the triumphal archof Arcadius, Honorius, and Theodosius, which stood bythe church of S. Orso at the entrance of the bridgeof Nero (Pons Neronianus or Vaticanus); that of Gra-tian, Valentinian, and Theodosius, which stood by thechurch of S. Celso in Banchi, destroyed toward theend of the fifteen

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