[307] Donna Olympia soon after died of the plague at her villa near Viterbo.
[308] "Les maisons de la Place Navone sont assises sur la base des anciens gradins du cirque de Domitien. Sous ces gradins étaient les voûtes habitées par des femmes perdues."—Ampère, Emp. ii. 137.
[309] A corruption of "Epiphania"—Epiphany.
"Living, great nature feared he might outvie
Her works; and, dying, fears herself to die."
Pope's Translation (without acknowledgment) in
his Epitaph on Sir Godfrey Kneller.
[311] Raphael lay in state beneath his last great work, the Transfiguration.
[312] See Gregorovius, Grabmāler der Pāpste.
[313] Author of the "Rationale Divinorum Officiorum"—"A treasure of information on all points connected with the decorations and services of the mediæval church. Durandus was born in Provence about 1220, and died in 1290 at Rome."—Lord Lindsay.
[314] It is no honour to me to be like another Apelles, but rather, O Christ, that I gave all my gains to thy poor. One was a work for earth, the other for heaven—a city, the flower of Etruria, bare me, John.
[315] That part of the ancient Campus Martius which contains the Theatre of Marcellus and Portico of Octavia, is described in Chapter V.; that which belongs to the Via Flaminia in Chapter II.