Chapter I: Front Matter

AVE ROMA IMMORTALIS

STUDIES FROM THE CHRONICLES OF ROME

BY

FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1899

_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1898, By The Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped October, 1898. Reprinted November, December, 1898.

_Norwood Press_ _J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith_ _Norwood, Mass., U.S.A._

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME I

PAGE

THE MAKING OF THE CITY 1

THE EMPIRE 22

THE CITY OF AUGUSTUS 57

THE MIDDLE AGE 78

THE FOURTEEN REGIONS 100

REGION I MONTI 106

REGION II TREVI 155

REGION III COLONNA 190

REGION IV CAMPO MARZO 243

REGION V PONTE 274

REGION VI PARIONE 297

LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES

VOLUME I

Map of Rome _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

The Wall of Romulus 4

Palace of the Cæsars 30

The Campagna and Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct 50

Temple of Castor and Pollux 70

Basilica Constantine 90

Basilica of Saint John Lateran 114

Baths of Diocletian 140

Fountain of Trevi 158

Piazza Barberini 188

Porta San Lorenzo 214

Villa Borghese 230

Piazza del Popolo 256

Island in the Tiber 280

Palazzo Massimo alle Colonna 306

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

VOLUME I PAGE Palatine Hill and Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima 1

Ruins of the Servian Wall 8

Etruscan Bridge at Veii 16

Tombs on the Appian Way 22

Brass of Tiberius, showing the Temple of Concord 24

The Tarpeian Rock 28

Caius Julius Cæsar 36

Octavius Augustus Cæsar 45

Brass of Trajan, showing the Circus Maximus 56

Brass of Antoninus Pius, in Honour of Faustina, with Reverse showing Vesta bearing the Palladium 57

Ponte Rotto, now destroyed 67

Atrium of Vesta 72

Brass of Gordian, showing the Colosseum 78

The Colosseum 87

Ruins of the Temple of Saturn 92

Brass of Gordian, showing Roman Games 99

Ruins of the Julian Basilica 100

Brass of Titus, showing the Colosseum 105

Region I Monti, Device of 106

Santa Francesca Romana 111

San Giovanni in Laterano 116

Piazza Colonna 119

Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano 126

Santa Maria Maggiore 134

Porta Maggiore, supporting the Channels of the Aqueduct of Claudius and the Anio Novus 145

Interior of the Colosseum 152

Region II Trevi, Device of 155

Grand Hall of the Colonna Palace 162

Interior of the Mausoleum of Augustus 169

Forum of Trajan 171

Ruins of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli 180

Palazzo del Quirinale 185

Region III Colonna, Device of 190

Arch of Titus 191

Twin Churches at the Entrance of the Corso 197

San Lorenzo in Lucina 204

Palazzo Doria-Pamfili 208

Palazzo di Monte Citorio 223

Palazzo di Venezia 234

Region IV Campo Marzo, Device of 248

Piazza di Spagna 251

Trinità de Monti 257

Villa Medici 265

Region V Ponte 274

Bridge of Sant' Angelo 285

Villa Negroni 292

Region VI Parione, Device of 297

Piazza Navona 303

Ponte Sisto 307

The Cancelleria 316

WORKS CONSULTED

NOT INCLUDING CLASSIC WRITERS NOR ENCYCLOPÆDIAS

1. AMPÈRE--Histoire Romaine à Rome.
AMPÈRE--L'Empire Remain à Rome.

2. BARACCONI--I Rioni di Roma.

3. BOISSIER--Promenades Archéologiques.

4. BRYCE--The Holy Roman Empire.

5. CELLINI--Memoirs.

6. COPPI--Memoire Colonnesi.

7. FORTUNATO--Storia delle vite delle Imperatrici Romane.

8. GIBBON--Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

9. GNOLI--Vittoria Accoramboni.

10. GREGOROVIUS--Geschichte der Stadt Rom.

11. HARE--Walks in Rome.

12. JOSEPHUS--Life of.

13. LANCIANI--Ancient Rome.

14. LETI--Vita di Sisto V.

15. MURATORI--Scriptores Rerum Italicarum.
MURATORI--Annali d'Italia.
MURATORI--Antichità Italiane.

16. RAMSAY AND LANCIANI--A Manual of Roman Antiquities.

17. SCHNEIDER--Das Alte Rom.

18. SILVAGNI--La Corte e la Società Romana.

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