Identifier: romancapitolinan00rodo (find matches)
Title: The Roman Capitol in ancient and modern times
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Rodocanachi, Emmanuel Pierre, 1859-1934. (from old catalog) Lawton, Frederick, (from old catalog) tr
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Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & company (London printed)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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aelis, Coll. CaJ>lt., note 184. Cf. H. Dessau,Intorno la Colona Milliaria del Cainpidoglio, Rome, 1882. 7 Inscriptions were placed on the base of the first column. Forcella, I. n. 81,n. 82. 8 Sitting of the Communal Council of the 23rd June, 1653. There were 28 crownspaid for the work. Archiv. Stor. Capit., Cred. VI. vol. I. fol. 138. Inscriptionsplaced on the socles of the statues: Forcella, I. n. 102, n. 150. See further, p. 214. 9 See p. 214. 10 Obeliscu7n circa Aracoeli monasteriutn ad ornanduinplateain transtuleruntjusso suo (of Pope Paul III.). Silvagio, De trib. Pereg:, p. 306. Cf. L. Mauro,p. 8. The entrance to the monastery was altered about this time. Camillo Re,p. 114. 11 Boissard, I. 46 ; Michaelis, p. 31. Below the church was a small cemetery. THE COMPLETION OF THE SQUARE 147 hand it over to Ciriaco Mattel, who asked for it^ and transportedit to his villa, the Mattel Villa, situated on the Caelian hill.^ Themarble pillars which were also found in the neighbourhood, and
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FIG. 30.—THE DIOSCURI. CEREMONY OF THE BLESSING OF THE BAMBINO. which appear in Heemskercks reproductions, wxre successivelygiven either to the church of S. Maria del Monti, which the 1 Sitting of the nth of Sept., 1582. Archiv. Stor. Capit., Cred. I. vol. 28, fol. 118 ;cf. fol. 120. ^ Cancellieri, II Mercato, p. 164 ; C. Maes, Curiosita romane, 1885, I. 89. L 2 148 THE ROMAN CAPITOL Pope was having built in the Monti quarter,^ or to theConsolation hospital.^ In 1592, it was decided that the new road having its issue inthe Square, the strada CapitoU7ia^ should be paved, at theexpense of the owners of property on the river-bank and of thepeople.^ The triangular space between the two staircases, that of theAracoeli and that of the Capitol, remained for a long time a sortof rubbish heap, as in the days of Giacomo della Porta. It wastransformed into a garden only in 1818,^ and was, at a posteriordate, adorned with a poor statue of Cola di Rienzo by Maziniand a cage containing a she-wolf

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