A HANDBOOK OF ROME AND ITS ENVIRONS. THIRTEENTH EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED ON THE SPOT. WITH MORE THAN 50 PLANS AND MAPS OF THE CITY AND ENVIRONS. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. PARIS: GALIGNANI; BOYVEAU. MILAN: SACCHI. TURIN: MAGGI; LOESCHER. ROME: SPITHÖVER; PIALE; MONALDINI; LOESCHER. 1881. The right of Translation is reserved. Murray PREFACE. THE Thirteenth Edition of the Handbook of Rome and its Environs is offered to the Public in the conscientious hope that it will be found a thoroughly practical and complete guide to the very many objects of interest which attract travellers to the Eternal City. The increased attention paid of late years to artistical, archæological, and scientific researches in Rome has led to a development of subjects requiring entirely new descriptions. In writing these it has been the Editor's aim to combine conciseness of wording with the most ample and recent information, in order that the limits of portability may not be transgressed in the present work, and he has endeavoured to render his descriptions as intelligible as possible by additional Plans, in which the original design of the ancient monuments, and the fragments of them still existing, are clearly indicated. Important additions and corrections will be found also in the Second Part of the Handbook-The Environs of Rome. The practical information is brought up to the present day, and the same may be said with respect to the latest archæological discoveries, the descriptions of which are chiefly due to the Editor's personal investigations, the official accounts of many not having yet been published. In renewing his acknowledgments to the distinguished sources of information alluded to in the Preface of the last Edition (1875), the Editor must now mention with gratitude the valuable |