ROME, THE MAGNIFICENT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 11

ROME, THE MAGNIFICENT.

WHERE CAESAR'S ARMIES TROD. ■ THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY. [By Amuki Rutherford.] I From this diminutive hill emanated the thoughts and influences that at ono time governed the world. Here wero designed the architectural wonders that are yet the study and admiration of tho most accomplished members of that profession. From hero came forth tho virile energy that directed tho Roman legionary to victory wherever it went; that interlaced tho great Empire with enduring roads, and spanned its streams with massive bridges; that created tho giant aqueducts which still stretch their courses across the Campagna—the mighty relies of a mighty people. Here were gathered together the art treasures of tho world; Greece and the Orient were beggared of all that was great and beautiful to adorn tho palaces of the Emperors, who have gono down with their columned halls, sure victims of the equalising influences of Father Time. The Storied Past. One walks the silent pathways that wind among the fragments of centuries gone by, taking in the thousand charms of nature around him,.and scarcely realising that over these very stones. Horace arid Virgil and Caesar have trodden, and that the long list of kings and emperors looked out upon the very scenes you view to-day. . Here, too, are tho colossal remains of tho palace of Septimus ' Seyorus, which command a I'iew of the Appiau way, the renowned street of tombs, that stretches the perspective over the Campagna liko a white ribbon, but gigantic as they are, they arc but the substructures. Farther to tho north was the great tribunal hall of the Caesars, now completely excavated. Portions of mosaic pavement, constructed of bits of precious marble'also remain, and attest to the magnificence of tho walls that once rose above them. Just, below is tho house of Germanicus, which owes its more completo preservation to the fact that its lower situation caused it to be entirely buried beneath the ruins of other 'constructions." Its walls are still brilliant with decorations executed over ■ eighteen centuries ago, and thero aro even leaden pipes, yet preserved, that the damp of all these years has not corroded and destroyed. Though comparatively small, 'it is one of tho most important of the remains of tho Imperial period, in that it is the only example left in a state of preservation which gives complete idea of the interior of a Roman household. Wharo Every stons Speaks History. A portion of the area of the western half of the Palatine is devoted-to a pleasuie garden, and is adorned with shrubs and trees. Beneath lies a honeycomb of subterranean passages, arched and . paved with mosaic patterns, tho exits, from palaces, and often the refuge of their Imperial owners in the hour of. personal peril. From this delicious and shaded-height, which overlooks on one side "the half of Rome, the eye sweeps around over a magnificent panorama. The Forum lies at one's foot, and further is the Coliseum—the giant of ruins—whilo here and thero along tho Via Sacra are ..seen the triumphal, aA'ches,, under which tho armies of Rome passed when returning, laden with the spoils of war, from their victorious campaigns. Away-to the east .is the.long'range of the Sabino mountains, with Tiv.oli, the Tibur of antiquity,'nestling in its. midst and recalling a history that goes bad; thirteen centuries before the Christian era. At tho south aro the Albans, tho highest' peak, which ■ is Monte Cavo. onco crowned by the Temple of Jupiter. A Passionist convent exists o;i the summit, '. .partly; constructed from . the v re- ; mains of tho heathen temple. The sides' of theso mountains aro dotted with villages,, which gleam out from the deep bluish, -inist that forever hangs over them, while the long intervening Cam-pagna,-.'breaking up to tho foothills, sparkles with whitewashed, hamlets—the marks of modernism —which have invaded ever this gray and melancholy waste, once given over to tho shepherd and his flocks. They are pointed indications of tho great and growing capital near at hand, but they have no intorest to the antiquary in comparison with'tho ivy-covered towers and masses of decayed- .walls, which half lose themselves, by their very grayness in the breadths of tone that compose tho wonderful landscape. Where Keats and Shelley Sleep. Beyond, in the gate of San Paolo, the pyramid.of. Caiiis Cestius, aro tho silent avenues of the Protestant cemetery, where are-the remains of Keats am Sholley—a spot ever sought and revered by the English tourist. 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