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Ch. I. THROUGH ITALY. 31
magnificence with surprise and delight, but he
learns with regret that it is founded upon wanton
depredation : the Farnesian palace shines with
the plundered fragments of the Coliseum.
The Palazzo Costaguti indifferent in every
other respect, has the walls of its apartments
adorned by the hands of the first masters; Al-
bano, Domenichino, Guercino, &c. have all dis-
played their matchless powers in its decorations,
and thus given it a reputation to which its size
and architecture could never have raised it.
Some share in a similar advantage added to
great magnitude, distinguishes the Palazzo
Mattei.
The Palazzo Borghese is a superb edifice, re-
markable for its extent, its porticos, its granite
columns, its long suite of apartments, its paint-
ings and antiques; and std more distinguished
by a certain well-supported magnificence that
pervades every part, and gives the whole man-
sion from the ground floor to th attic, an ap-
pearance of neatness, order, and opulence. It
may be added with justice, that the illustrious
family to which the palace belongs, has been
long and deservedly celebrated for taste, and for
magnificence directed by order and regularity.
—Maneant ea fata Nepotes!”
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magnificence with surprise and delight, but he
learns with regret that it is founded upon wanton
depredation : the Farnesian palace shines with
the plundered fragments of the Coliseum.
The Palazzo Costaguti indifferent in every
other respect, has the walls of its apartments
adorned by the hands of the first masters; Al-
bano, Domenichino, Guercino, &c. have all dis-
played their matchless powers in its decorations,
and thus given it a reputation to which its size
and architecture could never have raised it.
Some share in a similar advantage added to
great magnitude, distinguishes the Palazzo
Mattei.
The Palazzo Borghese is a superb edifice, re-
markable for its extent, its porticos, its granite
columns, its long suite of apartments, its paint-
ings and antiques; and std more distinguished
by a certain well-supported magnificence that
pervades every part, and gives the whole man-
sion from the ground floor to th attic, an ap-
pearance of neatness, order, and opulence. It
may be added with justice, that the illustrious
family to which the palace belongs, has been
long and deservedly celebrated for taste, and for
magnificence directed by order and regularity.
—Maneant ea fata Nepotes!”
5