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JOHN EVELYN
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garden on the right hand are 16 vast conchas of
marble jetting out waters ; in the midst of these stands
a Janus quadrifrons, that cast forth 4 girandolas, call’d
from the resemblance [Jto a particular exhibition in
fireworks so named J the Fontana di Speccho pooking-
glassjj. Neere this is a place for tilting. Before the
ascent of the palace is the famous fountaine of Leda,
and not far from that 4 sweete and delicious gardens.
Descending thence are two pyramids of water, and in
a grove of trees neere it the fountaines of Tethys,
Esculapius, Arethusa, Pandora, Pomona, and Flora ;
then the prancing Pegasus, Bacchus, the Grott of
Venus, the two Colosses of Melicerta, and Sibylla
Tibertina, all of exquisite marble, coper, and other
suitable adornements. The Cupids pouring out water
are especialy most rare, and the urnes on which are
plac’d the 10 nymphs. The Grotts are richly pav’d
with Pietra Commessa, shells, corail, &c.
Towards Roma Triumphans leades a long and
spacious walk, full of fountaines, under which is
historized the whole Ovidian Metamorphosis in rarely
sculptur’d mezzo relievo. At the end of this, next the
wall, is the Cittie of Rome as it was in its beauty, of
small models, representing that Cittie, with its Amphi-
theaters, Naumachia, Thermae, Temples, Arches, Aque-
232
garden on the right hand are 16 vast conchas of
marble jetting out waters ; in the midst of these stands
a Janus quadrifrons, that cast forth 4 girandolas, call’d
from the resemblance [Jto a particular exhibition in
fireworks so named J the Fontana di Speccho pooking-
glassjj. Neere this is a place for tilting. Before the
ascent of the palace is the famous fountaine of Leda,
and not far from that 4 sweete and delicious gardens.
Descending thence are two pyramids of water, and in
a grove of trees neere it the fountaines of Tethys,
Esculapius, Arethusa, Pandora, Pomona, and Flora ;
then the prancing Pegasus, Bacchus, the Grott of
Venus, the two Colosses of Melicerta, and Sibylla
Tibertina, all of exquisite marble, coper, and other
suitable adornements. The Cupids pouring out water
are especialy most rare, and the urnes on which are
plac’d the 10 nymphs. The Grotts are richly pav’d
with Pietra Commessa, shells, corail, &c.
Towards Roma Triumphans leades a long and
spacious walk, full of fountaines, under which is
historized the whole Ovidian Metamorphosis in rarely
sculptur’d mezzo relievo. At the end of this, next the
wall, is the Cittie of Rome as it was in its beauty, of
small models, representing that Cittie, with its Amphi-
theaters, Naumachia, Thermae, Temples, Arches, Aque-