Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain, Vol. 3 of 4: Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of ... and Political History (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

John George Keysler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332938434 ISBN 13: 9781332938438

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain, Vol. 3 of 4: Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of Those Countries; Their Natural, Literary, and Political History

III the road from Rome to Torre di mezza via, which is Ithe firi'r f'rage, are to be feerr the noble ruins of fome anéie'rit aquedué'rs. Velletri lies at the difiahce of three pofis or ftages from Rome, on a hill, and is celebrated by Pliny, lib. Xiv. C. 6. For the excellency Of its wine but at prefe'nt it is much degenerated, being lo rough as to be hardly drink able, unlefs it be boiled. T he vineyards or mountains near Setia, not far from, cafanuova, have degenerated In the fame manner for they are now almoi'c barren, whereas they pro duced a great quantity Of generous wine, for which Setia is celebrated by Martial, Strabo, Athenaeus, Statius, Juvenal, and Pliny. The author lai't mentioned fays, That Au guitus preferred the Setia wine to any other.' The princi pai, and indeed, the only palace now in Velletri, is that which formeiiy belonged to the family Of Ginetti; and fince dcvol\cd to prince Lancellotti. It was built by cardinal Ginetti, om a delign of the famous architec} Lunghi, and is {aid to have coli five hundred thoufand fcudz, or crowns. The great flair-cafe is built with white marble, and is (o magnificent and well contrived, that it paites for the finef't in all Italy. In the aparments are a great number of fine -ptatues, bufio' s Effo relzefvo' 5, and paintings. The mofi're markable among the firit are, a Venus with Cupid, and the fable of the imfortunate Dirce In little, after the manner Of the Toro Famefe; The profpeé'r from the gardens 13 ex tremely beautiful: they are alfo ornamented with fine pieces of (culpture, particularly four pillars, which were brought hither from the temple of Mars at Velletri, and feveral an tique farwplmgz, dug up in that neighbourhood; one Of which', from the naval ornaments car'ved 011 it, is thought to have belonged to a fea Officer. Plates of thefe antiques are to be feen In cardin'al Conadini' s Vetus Latium profanum Oz facrum, continued by Vulpi, alearned Jefuit.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332938434
• ISBN 13: 9781332938438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 462