THE BORGHESE PALACE.

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passed on both sides by a fair demicircle of statues., which
stand before the two doors, like old Penates and Lares.
The wall of the house is overcrusted with a world of anti-
callie. or old marble pieces of antiquity; as that of Curtius
spurring into the vorago, that of Europa hurried aw'ay by
Jupiter become a bull, with a world of such like fables.
Entering into the house, I saw divers rooms full of
curiosities.
“ In the great hall stands the statue of Diana in
oriental alabaster, which was once a deity adored by
Augustus Ceesar. Here also hang two great pictures :
the one representing a cavalcata, when the pope goeth
abroad in ceremony; the other a cavalcata, when the
great Turk goeth abroad in pomp.
“ 2. In another room stands the statue of one of the
famous gladiators anciently, who fought alone against
twenty others, and being wounded to death seems to
threaten with his looks all his beholders. It is terribly
well made.
“ 3. In one of the chambers above is the head in
profile of Alexander the Great cut in marble.
“ 4. In another room below I saw the statue of
Seneca bleeding to death. It is of a black stone like jet;
than which nothing can be blacker but the crimes of
Nero the magistricide, who put this rare man his master
to death.
“ 5. The statue also of Daphne and Apollo in ala-
baster ; Apollo running after Daphne, and she stiffening
into a tree, being overtaken ;—her fingers shooting into
branches, and her toes into roots, are admirably well
done. It must be Bernini’s work.