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Walks in Rome

Walks in Rome

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WALKS IN ROME

BY AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE
AUTHOR OF "MEMORIALS OF A QUIET LIFE," "WANDERINGS IN SPAIN," ETC.




TWO VOLUMES.—I.



FIFTH EDITION



LONDON
DALDY, ISBISTER & CO.
56, LUDGATE HILL
1875

[All rights reserved]

 

 

JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.

 

 

TO
HIS DEAR MOTHER

THE CONSTANT COMPANION OF MANY ROMAN WINTERS

These pages are Dedicated

BY THE AUTHOR.

 

 

ROME. Showing the more important streets and buildings. ROME. Showing the more important streets and buildings.

CONTENTS VOLUME I.

INTRODUCTORY.
PAGE
THE ARRIVAL IN ROME 9
CHAPTER I.
DULL-USEFUL INFORMATION 27
CHAPTER II.
THE CORSO AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD 36
CHAPTER III.
THE CAPITOLINE 109
CHAPTER IV.
THE FORUMS AND THE COLISEUM 159
CHAPTER V.
THE VELABRUM AND THE GHETTO 221
CHAPTER VI.
THE PALATINE 273
CHAPTER VII.
THE CŒLIAN 316
CHAPTER VIII.
THE AVENTINE 348
CHAPTER IX.
THE VIA APPIA 372
CHAPTER X.
THE QUIRINAL AND VIMINAL 433

INTRODUCTORY.

THE ARRIVAL IN ROME.

"AGAIN this date of Rome; the most solemn and interesting that my hand can ever write, and even now more interesting than when I saw it last," wrote Dr. Arnold to his wife in 1840—and how many thousands before and since have experienced the same feeling, who have looked forward to a visit to Rome as one of the great events of their lives, as the realization of the dreams and longings of many years.

An arrival in Rome is very different to that in any other town of Europe. It is coming to a place new and yet most familiar, strange and yet so well known. When travellers arrive at Verona, for instance, or at Arles, they generally go to the amphitheatres with a curiosity to know what they are like; but when they arrive at Rome and go to the Coliseum, it is to visit an object whose appearance has been familiar to them from childhood, and, long ere it is reached, from the heights of the distant Capitol, they can recognize the well-known form;—and as regards St. Peter's, who is not familiar with the aspect of the dome, of the wide-spreading piazza, and the foaming fountains, for long years before they come to gaze upon the reality?

"My presentiment of the

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