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

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phets underneath ’em. The Roof of
the Treasury is painted with the same
kind of Device. There (lands at the up-
per End of it a large Crucifix very much
esleem’d, the Figure of our Saviour re-
presents him in his last Agonies of Death,
and amidll all the Ghastliness of the Vi-
iage has something in it very amiable.
The Gates of the Church are saidto be
of Corinthian Brass, with many Scripture
Stories rising on ’em in Boffo Relievo:
The Pope’s Statue, and the Fountain
by it, would make a noble Show in a
Place less beautified with so many other
Productions of Art. The Spicery, the
Cellar and its Furniture, the great Re-
venues of the Convent, with the Story
of the Holy House, are too well known
to be here insilled upon.
Whoever were the first Inventors of
this Imposture, they seem to have taken
the hint of it from the Veneration that
the old Romans paid to the Cottage of
Romulus^ which slood on Mount Capitol^
and was repair’d from time to time as
it fell to decay. Virgil has given a pret-
ty Image of this little thatch’d Palace,
that represents it (landing in Manlius's
Time, 317 Years after the Death of
Romulus.

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