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

Neighbourhood of Rome. 185-
Time, the whole Surface of it may be
crusted over, as the lilands enlarge them-
selves,and the Banks clofe in upon them.
All about the Lake, where the Ground
is dry, we found it to be hollow by the
Trampling of our Horses Feet. I could
not discover the least Traces of the 67-
byls Temple and Grove, which stood on
the Borders of this Lake. Pivoli is seen
at a distance lying along the Brow of
a Hill. Its Situation has given Horace
occasion to call it Tibur Supinum^ as Vir-
erhaps for the same Reason entitles
it Superbum. The Villa de Me dicis with
its Water-Works, the Cascade of the
Tand the Ruins of the SibylsTera-
ple (of which Vignola has made a little
Copy at Peters de Montorid) are descri-
bed in every Itinerary. I must confess
I was most pleased with a beautiful Pro-
spedt that none of them have mentio-
ned, which lyes at about a Mile di-
stance from the Town. It opens on one
Side into the Roman Campania^ where
the Eye loses it felf on a smooth spaci-
ous Plain. On the other Side is a more
broken and interrupted Scene, made up
pf; an infinite Variety of Inequalities and
Shadowings, that naturally arise from art
agreeable Mixture of Hills, Gr -.-s and
Vallies. But the most enlivening Part
of