Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

Ferrara, Ravenna, Rimini.
which notwithstanding are upon a Level
with the Fields that lye about them,
tho’ ’tis probable they took the Advan-
tage of a riling Ground to set it upon;
It was a square Tower of about Twelve
Yards in Breadth, as appears by that
part of it which yet remains entire, so
that its Height must have been very con-
liderable to have preserved a Proportion.
It is made in the Form of the Venetian
Campanella, and is probably the high
Tower mentioned by Pliny, Lib. 36.
cap. 12.
On the side of the Town, where the
Sea is supposed to have lain formerly,
there is now a little Church called the
Rotonda. At the Entrance of it are Two
Stones, the one with an Inscription in
Gothic Characters, that has nothing in
it remarkable; the other is a square
Piece of Marble, that by the Inscription
appears ancient, and by the Ornaments
about it shows it self to have been a lit-
tle Pagan Monument of Two Persons
who were Shipwreck’d, perhaps in the
Place where now their Monument Hands.
The first Line and a half, that tells their
Names and Families in Prose, is not le-
gible; the rest runs thus,
•-Ranine domus bos produxit alumnos,
Li-