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Ashby,T.: The classical Topography of the roman campagna. The via latina. Introduction
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The British School at Rome.
(secondo conietturamo) furono i Gabii. Hor per questa strada Latina, ne
1’entrar de la selua de gli Agli e il Iago Regillo, c’ hoggi il chiamano di Santa
Seuera.’
Alberti’s account is similar.
To the right of the road is an osteria, no longer extant, and close to
it a road is marked as branching off to Cori. The road now traverses the
pass and forest of Algidus (‘ selva del aglio ’) and beyond it forks, a branch
going to Valmontone, and the main road straight on, passing below
‘ m(onte) fortino,’ Segni (with a branch across to ‘Adanagni’ (sic)) Supino
and Giuliano.
The Via Labicana was, we may note in passing, not in use between
Colonna and Valmontone, but travellers went from Colonna to
Palestrina, Paliano, and Anagni, this road not being in use for posting to
Naples.
(4) A road branching to the right from the Via Latina at the gate,
and leaving ‘ Cafareli ’ (the casale della Caffarella) on the left, then joining
the line of the Via Appia Nuova and leaving on the left the ‘ torre a meza
via d’albano,’ then passing through Marino and on the N. side of the Lake
of Albano and so to Velletri, as it is described by Biondo (ioov) and
Alberti (140).
(5) The Via Asinaria, which is not, however, carried northwestwards
beyond the Via Latina.
(6) The Via Appia proper, leading past ‘ Capo di boue ’ and ‘ Casal
ritondo’ to Albano. The prominence given to the ‘Lago di Turno ’ and
the omission of the lake of Nemi are noticeable.
At the Porta S. Giovanni the Vicolo dei Canneti diverges E.S.E.
from the Via Appia Nuova. Before the construction of the goods yard, it
joined the Via Labicana; whether it is ancient there is no evidence to
show, but from its line one might be inclined to infer it. Nor is there any
certainty as to the antiquity, or the reverse, of the road which runs parallel
to it on the N.
The sculptures in the Vigna Fiorelli to the left of the Vicolo dei Canneti
have mostly been transported thither from another Vigna Fiorelli outside
Porta S. Paolo, .where they were much damaged in the course of the siege
in 1849. A list of them is given in the Index to Matz-Duhn, to which ibid.
no. 3865 may be added, as it was in the latter until about 1880, when it
passed by purchase to the Villa Wolkonsky. Here also are the inscriptions
The British School at Rome.
(secondo conietturamo) furono i Gabii. Hor per questa strada Latina, ne
1’entrar de la selua de gli Agli e il Iago Regillo, c’ hoggi il chiamano di Santa
Seuera.’
Alberti’s account is similar.
To the right of the road is an osteria, no longer extant, and close to
it a road is marked as branching off to Cori. The road now traverses the
pass and forest of Algidus (‘ selva del aglio ’) and beyond it forks, a branch
going to Valmontone, and the main road straight on, passing below
‘ m(onte) fortino,’ Segni (with a branch across to ‘Adanagni’ (sic)) Supino
and Giuliano.
The Via Labicana was, we may note in passing, not in use between
Colonna and Valmontone, but travellers went from Colonna to
Palestrina, Paliano, and Anagni, this road not being in use for posting to
Naples.
(4) A road branching to the right from the Via Latina at the gate,
and leaving ‘ Cafareli ’ (the casale della Caffarella) on the left, then joining
the line of the Via Appia Nuova and leaving on the left the ‘ torre a meza
via d’albano,’ then passing through Marino and on the N. side of the Lake
of Albano and so to Velletri, as it is described by Biondo (ioov) and
Alberti (140).
(5) The Via Asinaria, which is not, however, carried northwestwards
beyond the Via Latina.
(6) The Via Appia proper, leading past ‘ Capo di boue ’ and ‘ Casal
ritondo’ to Albano. The prominence given to the ‘Lago di Turno ’ and
the omission of the lake of Nemi are noticeable.
At the Porta S. Giovanni the Vicolo dei Canneti diverges E.S.E.
from the Via Appia Nuova. Before the construction of the goods yard, it
joined the Via Labicana; whether it is ancient there is no evidence to
show, but from its line one might be inclined to infer it. Nor is there any
certainty as to the antiquity, or the reverse, of the road which runs parallel
to it on the N.
The sculptures in the Vigna Fiorelli to the left of the Vicolo dei Canneti
have mostly been transported thither from another Vigna Fiorelli outside
Porta S. Paolo, .where they were much damaged in the course of the siege
in 1849. A list of them is given in the Index to Matz-Duhn, to which ibid.
no. 3865 may be added, as it was in the latter until about 1880, when it
passed by purchase to the Villa Wolkonsky. Here also are the inscriptions