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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. XI.
394
eight pillars forty feet in height and five in dia-
meter, each of one vast piece of granite. The
raising of the pavement, by taking six feet from
the height of these pillars, has destroyed their
proportion, and given them a very massive ap-
pearance. The length of the hall is three hun-
dred and fifty feet, its breadth eighty, and its
height ninety-six. Notwithstanding its magni-
ficence, the mixture of Corinthian and com-
posite capital shews how much the genuine
taste of architecture was on the decline in the
time of Diocletian. The vestibulumor entrance
into this church, is a beautiful rotunda, conse-
crated by the monuments of Carlo Maratti and
Salvator Bosa. The cloister deserves atten-
tion : it forms a larg’e square supported by a
hundred pillars. In the centre, four towering
cypresses shade a fountain that pours a perpetual
supply of the purest waters into an immense
marble basin, and forms a scene of delicious
freshness and antique rural luxury.
The Viminal hill has no remnant of ancient
magnificence to arrest the traveller in his pro-
gress to the Quirinal once adorned with the
temple of Quirinus, whence it derived its name,
Titus Livius and Ovid both relate the Apotheosis
of Romulus; the historian in his sublime man°
Ch. XI.
394
eight pillars forty feet in height and five in dia-
meter, each of one vast piece of granite. The
raising of the pavement, by taking six feet from
the height of these pillars, has destroyed their
proportion, and given them a very massive ap-
pearance. The length of the hall is three hun-
dred and fifty feet, its breadth eighty, and its
height ninety-six. Notwithstanding its magni-
ficence, the mixture of Corinthian and com-
posite capital shews how much the genuine
taste of architecture was on the decline in the
time of Diocletian. The vestibulumor entrance
into this church, is a beautiful rotunda, conse-
crated by the monuments of Carlo Maratti and
Salvator Bosa. The cloister deserves atten-
tion : it forms a larg’e square supported by a
hundred pillars. In the centre, four towering
cypresses shade a fountain that pours a perpetual
supply of the purest waters into an immense
marble basin, and forms a scene of delicious
freshness and antique rural luxury.
The Viminal hill has no remnant of ancient
magnificence to arrest the traveller in his pro-
gress to the Quirinal once adorned with the
temple of Quirinus, whence it derived its name,
Titus Livius and Ovid both relate the Apotheosis
of Romulus; the historian in his sublime man°