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436 MUSIGNANO. [chap. xxn.
been removed to Rome, and is now in the possession of
Dr. Braun.4
As to the interior of this mansion, I may not satisfy
curiosity further than to remark, that it was rather French
than Italian, and that the drawing-room was hung with
pictures—principally family portraits. There was Lucien
himself at full length, the original of the well-known prints
—his lady, who still survives him—and their handsome
children, in family groups. There was the great Corsican
in various periods of his career—the venerable Madame
Letitia, whose remains lie at Corneto—her brother, the
Cardinal—the beautiful Pauline—and all, or nearly all, the
members of this renowned family. This portrait-gallery is
alone worthy of a visit to Musignano.
The grounds attached to the villa are laid out in the
English style; and the park-like scenery tempts the
traveller to linger. Here, among the scattered sarcophagi,
whose recumbent figures accord with the repose of the
scenery, is one which arrests the attention. It bears a
female figure, as large as life, rudely but boldly executed,
not reclining as usual on her elbow, but stretched on her
back, like the effigies on mediaeval monuments. The bas-
relief below, displays one of those scenes of domestic
bereavement, so frequently and touchingly represented on
the Etruscan urns of Volterra and Chiusi. Two winged
is argued that they were for mere show, XXVI. 39 ; cf. XXX. 10. Flor. II. 2.
and served no practical purpose. Yet Frontin. Strat. II. 3, 23. Lucan. III.
in all those I hare seen so blunted, i* 635. Dion Cass. XLIX. 3 ; L. 32, 34,)
has been clear that this was not their and figuratively " a wolf." Hesych.
original form, but that the prongs had v. Kims. They are said to have been
been broken off. These a-eagrce were an invention of Pericles. Plin. VII. 57,
called by the Romans harpagones; and ad fin.
it must have been a similar instrument 4 These articles have been described
on a larger scale which was used for grap- and illustrated in the last Chapter, under
pling ships, and was sometimes termed the head of « Grotta d' Iside."
an "iron hand"—ferrea inarms—(Liv.
been removed to Rome, and is now in the possession of
Dr. Braun.4
As to the interior of this mansion, I may not satisfy
curiosity further than to remark, that it was rather French
than Italian, and that the drawing-room was hung with
pictures—principally family portraits. There was Lucien
himself at full length, the original of the well-known prints
—his lady, who still survives him—and their handsome
children, in family groups. There was the great Corsican
in various periods of his career—the venerable Madame
Letitia, whose remains lie at Corneto—her brother, the
Cardinal—the beautiful Pauline—and all, or nearly all, the
members of this renowned family. This portrait-gallery is
alone worthy of a visit to Musignano.
The grounds attached to the villa are laid out in the
English style; and the park-like scenery tempts the
traveller to linger. Here, among the scattered sarcophagi,
whose recumbent figures accord with the repose of the
scenery, is one which arrests the attention. It bears a
female figure, as large as life, rudely but boldly executed,
not reclining as usual on her elbow, but stretched on her
back, like the effigies on mediaeval monuments. The bas-
relief below, displays one of those scenes of domestic
bereavement, so frequently and touchingly represented on
the Etruscan urns of Volterra and Chiusi. Two winged
is argued that they were for mere show, XXVI. 39 ; cf. XXX. 10. Flor. II. 2.
and served no practical purpose. Yet Frontin. Strat. II. 3, 23. Lucan. III.
in all those I hare seen so blunted, i* 635. Dion Cass. XLIX. 3 ; L. 32, 34,)
has been clear that this was not their and figuratively " a wolf." Hesych.
original form, but that the prongs had v. Kims. They are said to have been
been broken off. These a-eagrce were an invention of Pericles. Plin. VII. 57,
called by the Romans harpagones; and ad fin.
it must have been a similar instrument 4 These articles have been described
on a larger scale which was used for grap- and illustrated in the last Chapter, under
pling ships, and was sometimes termed the head of « Grotta d' Iside."
an "iron hand"—ferrea inarms—(Liv.