[350] For a detailed account of this collection, see Dennis' "Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria," whence many of the quotations above are taken; also Mrs. Hamilton Gray's "Sepulchres of Etruria."
[351] Vasari calls it Palazzo nel Bosco del Belvedere.
[352] "This is perhaps the grandest of the whole series. Here the Almighty is seen rending like a thunderbolt the thick shroud of fiery clouds, letting in that light under which his works were to spring into life."—Lady Eastlake.
[353] The candle is ingeniously made crooked in the socket, not to interfere with the lines of the architecture, while the flame is straight.
[354] "According to the 'Spiritual Meadow' of John Moschus, who died A.D. 620, the lion is said to have pined away after Jerome's death, and to have died at last on his grave."
[355] See Stefano Infessura, Rev. Ital. Script, tom. iii.
[356] Corio, 1st mil. p. 876.
[357] Ampère, i. 436.
[358] See Hemans' Monuments in Rome.
[359] Piranesi's engraving shows that a hundred years ago there existed, in addition, a colossal bust, and a hand holding the serpent-twined rod of Æsculapius.